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Enrichment of steroid hormones in water with porous and hydrophobic polymer‐based SPE followed by HPLC – UV determination
Author(s) -
Hu Yinfen,
Zhang Man,
Tong Changlun,
Wu Jianmin,
Liu Weiping
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of separation science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.72
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1615-9314
pISSN - 1615-9306
DOI - 10.1002/jssc.201300663
Subject(s) - steroid , chromatography , chemistry , high performance liquid chromatography , sorbent , estrone , steroid hormone , solvent , polymer , hormone , androstenedione , adsorption , organic chemistry , androgen , biochemistry
There have been great concerns about the persistence of steroid hormones in surface water. Since the concentrations of these compounds in water samples are usually at a trace level, the efficient enrichment of steroid hormones is vital for further analysis. In this work, a porous and hydrophobic polymer was synthesized and characterized. The composition of solvent used as porogen in the synthetic process was shown to have an effect on the morphology of the polymer, which was successfully used as an SPE sorbent for simultaneously enriching steroid hormones in surface water samples. The recoveries of the steroid hormones on the custom‐made polymer ranged from 93.4 to 106.2%, whereas those on commercialized ENVI ‐18, LC ‐18, and O asis HLB ranged from 54.8 to 104.9, 66 to 93.6, and 77.2 to 106%, respectively. Five types of steroid hormones were simultaneously measured using HPLC – UV after they were enriched by the custom‐made sorbent. Based on these findings, the SPE – HPLC method was developed. The LOD s of this method for estriol, estradiol, estrone, androstenedione, progesterone were 0.07, 0.43, 0.61, 0.27, and 0.42 μg/L, respectively, while precision and reproducibility RSD s were <6.40 and 7.49%, respectively.