Molecular imprints as sorbents for solid phase extraction: potential and applications
Molecular imprints as sorbents for solid phase extraction: potential and applications
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10.1039/a806379f
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1998
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J. Olsen;Paul D. Martin;I. Wilson
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J. Olsen;Paul D. Martin;I. Wilson
Solid phase extraction (SPE) is routinely used in many different areas of analytical chemistry. Some of the main fields are environmental and pharmaceutical analysis where cleaning and concentration of the sample are important steps in the analytical protocol. The growth of SPE has largely been at the expense of liquid–liquid extraction (LLE) where the perceived advantages of SPE over LLE are that it consumes less organic solvents and that a wider range of extraction mechanisms can be utilised. Conventionally, solid phase materials have included reversedphase sorbents, such as C18, C8, normal phases such as silica gel and diol and ion exchange sorbents such as SCX and SAX. For a sorbent to be useful it must enable selective extractions to be achieved. Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) potentially offer a higher degree of selectivity than conventional materials which may give an advantage in sample preparation. Although a new concept for analytical chemistry molecular imprinting was introduced nearly 50 years ago by Dickey1 and others. Reviewing the more recent literature reveals, however, that it is only in the last decade, and especially in the last five years, that the use of molecular imprinting has become established. Molecular imprinting involves the preparation of a polymer with specific recognition sites for certain molecules. The synthesis of MIPs take place by assembly of monomers around a template molecule and subsequent polymerisation using a suitable cross-linker, giving a rigid and robust material. Subsequent removal of template molecules provides a polymer with recognition sites (cavities) allowing specific rebinding of template molecule. The recognition is due to shape and physicochemical properties such as hydrogen bonding, ionic interactions and hydrophobic interactions. 2 Due to the specific recognition offered by MIPs these materials should be applicable in fields where binding with high selectivity and affinity is required.The binding ability of MIPs can be likened to that of antibodies in that shape plays an important role in binding. However, at least potentially, MIPs present a number of advantages compared to antibodies. Thus MIPs are easily and rapidly prepared using standard (and well understood) chemical methods, and are stable at high temperatures and in organic solvents. By comparison, immune responses are by nature unpredictable, irreproducible and can require long periods of time to achieve. 3 Due to their antibody-like behaviour one of the areas of analysis where molecular imprints have been explored is in immunoassay as antibody substitutes. 4–6 Another area where the applicability of MIPs extensively have been investigated is in HPLC as chiral stationary phases. 7 However, the features of molecular imprints are also attractive as sorbents for solid phase extraction (MIP-SPE) as discussed here.