Preparation of monolith-based adsorbent containing abundant functional groups for field entrapment of nitrogen and sulfur containing aromatic compounds in environmental aqueous samples with portable multichannel in-tip microextraction device

Field sample preparation is important and interesting for analysis of nitrogen and sulfur containing aromatic compounds (N,S-CACs) in environmental aqueous samples. In this connection, a new functional groups-rich adsorbent based on porous monolith (ABM) was fabricated by in-situ copolymerization of allylaminocarbonylphenyl boronic acid/styrene and ethylene glycol dimethacrylate. The prepared ABM was employed as the extraction medium of homemade portable multichannel in-tip microextraction device (PMMD) for on-site entrapment of N,S-CACs in various waters. Because of the abundant functional groups, the obtained ABM/PMMD exhibited satisfactory capture capability towards studied N,S-CACs, and the enrichment factors varied from 454 to 491. Under the optimized fabrication conditions, adsorption and desorption parameters, the developed ABM/PMMD was used to field capture investigated N,S-CACs and followed by quantification with high performance liquid chromatography. The limits of detection were in the ranges of 0.00030–0.0016 µg/L. Recoveries with low, medium and high spiked contents located in the range of 82.1–118% with good repeatability (RSDs<9%). In addition, traditional laboratory sample pretreatment approach was employed to verify the reliability of the established method. Results well evidenced that the practicability of introduced ABM/PMMD in the field sample preparation of N,S-CACs in environmental waters.