In this study, a highly sensitive and selective sample pretreatment procedure using molecularly imprinted silica nanoparticles was developed for the extraction and determination of quercetin in red wine samples coupled with high-performance liquid chromatography with ultraviolet detection. The imprinted silica nanoparticles were prepared in the presence of N-acryoyl-l-aspartic acid (functional monomer), quercetin (template), azobisisobutyronitrile (initiator) and methylene bisacrylamide (cross-linker) and methanol/water (porogen) via surface-initiated reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer polymerization. Surface characterization was performed and several imprinting parameters were investigated, and the results indicated that adsorption of quercetin on the imprinted silica nanoparticles followed a pseudo-first-order adsorption isotherm with a maximum adsorption capacity at 26.4 mg/g within 60 min. The imprinted silica nanoparticles also showed satisfactory selectivity towards quercetin as compared with its structural analogues. Moreover, the imprinted nanoparticles preserved their recognition ability even after five adsorption-desorption cycles. Meanwhile, the nanoparticles were successfully applied to selective extraction of quercetin from red wine with a high recovery (99.7-100.4%). The limit of detection was calculated to be 0.058 μg/mL with a correlation coefficient 0.9996 in the range of 0.2-50 μg/mL. As a result, the developed selective extraction method using molecular imprinting technology simplifies the sample pretreatment procedure before determination of quercetin in real samples.
Streptomycin is a type of aminoglycoside used in treatment of several infections and with serious side effects in humans and animals, such as ototoxicity and nephrotoxicity. In the present study, we focused on the preparation of streptomycin‐imprinted cotton fiber for rapid, sensitive and selective quantification of streptomycin in honey samples. The imprinted cotton fibers were characterized by attenuated total reflectance‐Fourier transform spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and x‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy. In addition, the imprinted cotton fibers showed high adsorption capacity (95.4 mg/g) with an imprinting factor of 3.69 and had satisfactory regeneration ability of up to 10 regenerations without significant change in adsorption capacity. The imprinted cotton fibers showed good linearity with a correlation coefficient of 0.9989 and limit of detection was determined to be 0.29 ng/mL for streptomycin in honey samples. The proposed method showed acceptable recovery ranges (98.0%–100.3%) with lower inter‐day and intra‐day precisions. Moreover, the performance of the proposed method was compared to the ELISA method. The results showed that the present method is as sensitive and selective as ELISA. It is concluded that the imprinted cotton fibers could be a potential alternative to antibiotic quantification based on traditional immunoassays or chromatographic techniques.
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