Evaluation of strong cation-exchange polymers for the determination of drugs by solid-phase extraction-liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry

Fontanals Torroja, Nuria and Miralles, Núria and Abdullah, Norhayati and Davies, Arlene and Gilart, Núria and Cormack, Peter A.G. (2014) Evaluation of strong cation-exchange polymers for the determination of drugs by solid-phase extraction-liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. Journal of Chromatography A, 1343. pp. 55-62. ISSN 0021-9673 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2014.03.068)

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Abstract

This paper presents eight distinct strong cation-exchange resins, all of which were derived from precursor resins that had been synthesised using either precipitation polymerisation or non-aqueous dispersion polymerisation. The precursor resins were transformed into the corresponding strong cation-exchange resins by hypercrosslinking followed by polymer analogous reactions, to yield materials with high specific surface areas and strong cation-exchange character. These novel resins were then evaluated as strong cation-exchange (SCX) sorbents in the solid-phase extraction (SPE) of a group of drugs from aqueous samples. Following preliminary experiments, the two best-performing resins were then evaluated in solid-phase extraction-liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (SPE/LC-MS/MS) to determine a group of drugs from sewage samples. In general, use of these sorbents led to excellent recovery values (75% - 100%) for most of the target drugs and negligible matrix effects (ME) (< 20% ion suppression/enhancement of the analyte signal), when 50 mL and 25 mL of effluent and influent sewage water samples, respectively, were percolated through the resins. Finally, a validated method based on SPE/LC-MS/MS was used to quantify the target drugs present in different sewage samples

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Fontanals Torroja, Nuria, Miralles, Núria, Abdullah, Norhayati, Davies, Arlene, Gilart, Núria and Cormack, Peter A.G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3390-8176;
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