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Grupo de Investigacio ecnicas Afines GICTA, Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de
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Química de Plantas Colombianas, Instituto de Química, Escuela de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Antioquia, Calle 70 No. 52-21, A.A, 1226,
Medellín, Colombia
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Departamento de Química Inorga nica y Analítica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmaceuticas, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 233, Santiago, Chile
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Article history: Montmorillonite (MMT) clays were modified by the intercalation into their galleries of ionic liquids (IL)
Received 10 August 2016 based on imidazolium quaternary ammonium salts. This new eco-materials exhibited good features for
Received in revised form use as a sorptive phase in the extraction of low-polarity analytes from aqueous samples. Spectroscopic
26 October 2016
analyses of the modified clays were conducted and revealed an increase in the basal spacing and a
Accepted 24 November 2016
shifting of the reflection plane towards lower values as a consequence of the effective intercalation of
Available online 3 December 2016
organic cations into the MMT structure. The novel sorbent developed herein was assayed as the sorptive
phase in rotating-disk sorptive extraction (RDSE), using polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), representative
Keywords:
Montmorillonite
of low-polarity pollutants, as model analytes. The final determination was made by gas chromatography
Ionic liquid with electron capture detection. Among the synthetized sorptive phases, the selected system for
Rotating-disk sorptive extraction analytical purposes consisted of MMT modified with the 1-hexadecyl-3-methylimidazolium bromide
PCBs (HDMIM-Br) IL. Satisfactory analytical features were achieved using a sample volume of 5 mL: the
GC-ECD relative recoveries from a wastewater sample were higher than 80%, the detection limits were between
3 ng L1 and 43 ng L1, the precision (within-run precision) expressed as the relative standard deviation
ranged from 2% to 24%, and the enrichment factors ranged between 18 and 28. Using RDSE, the extraction
efficiency achieved for the selected MMT-HDMIM-Br phase was compared with other commercial solid
* Corresponding author.
E-mail address: prichter@ciq.uchile.cl (P. Richter).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aca.2016.11.067
0003-2670/© 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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phases/supports, such as polypropylene, polypropylene with 1-octanol (as a supported liquid mem-
brane), octadecyl (C18) and octyl (C8), and showed the highest response for all the studied analytes.
Under the optimized extraction conditions, this new device was applied in the analysis of the influent
of a wastewater treatment plant in Santiago (Chile), demonstrating its applicability through the good
recoveries and precision achieved with real samples.
© 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
bromohexadecane (97%), ethyl acetate, sodium hydroxide, extract was injected into the gas chromatograph in splitless mode.
dichloromethane, sodium tetrafluoroborate and ethanol were all of The injector and detector temperatures were 225 C and 310 C,
reagent grade, obtained from Sigma Chemical Co. (St. Louis, MO, respectively. The initial oven temperature was 100 C, which was
USA) and used for the synthesis of the ionic liquids (ILs): the 1- maintained for 2 min, followed by heating to 300 C at a rate of
hexadecyl-3-methylimidazolium series (1-hexadecyl-3- 20 C min1 (7 min). The chromatographic run required a total time
methylimidazolium bromide (HDMIM-Br), 1-hexadecyl-3- of 19 min using a carrier gas flow rate of 1.5 mL min1.
methylimidazolium hydroxide (HDMIM-OH) and 1-hexadecyl-3-
methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate (HDMIM-BF4)), 1-butyl-3- 2.3. Preparation of the sorbent material
methylimidazolium series (BMIM-Br, BMIM-OH and BMIM-BF4)
and 1-octyl-3-methylimidazolium series (OMIM-Br, OMIM-OH and 2.3.1. Clay material and purification
OMIM-BF4). Methanol (Merck, Darmstadt, Germany) and hydro- The MMT used in this work was treated with water to eliminate
chloric acid (Merck) were used for the intercalation of MMT with the quartz fraction. A portion of 10 g of MMT was treated with
the ILs. Methanol was also used in the rotating-disk sorptive 200 mL of water and 150 mL of 5% (w/w) sodium polyphosphate.
extraction experiments as a matrix modifier and desorption agent. The mixture was vigorously stirred for 2 h, and after this time, the
The hollow-fiber (HF) phase used in comparative studies was made suspended fraction was separated. After this treatment, the clay
of polypropylene, Accurel PP 300/1200 acquired from Membrana was dried in an oven at 60 C for 12 h. The clay used in this study
GmbH Polypore Cia (Wuppertal, Germany). 1-Octanol from Merck was a phyllosilicate material with a general chemical formula of
was used to prepare the liquid membrane. The film thickness was (Si4)IV(Al4)VIO10(OH)8.
300 mm with a pore size of 0.2 mm and an internal diameter of
1.2 mm. The specific surface area was 17.3 m2 g1. The C18 and C8 2.3.2. Synthesis of the ionic liquid
sorbents were obtained from Waters Corp. (Milford, MA, USA). The ionic liquid HDMIM-Br was synthesized according the
PCB standards (PCB 81, PCB 105, PCB 114, PCB 123, PCB 126, PCB procedure described by Min et al. [25]. Briefly, the procedure
156, PCB 157, PCB 167, PCB 169, PCB 189) (99% purity) were pur- involved mixing equimolar amounts of methyl imidazole (5.0 g,
chased from AccuStandard (New Haven, CT, USA). Solutions of each 61 mmol) and 1-bromohexadecane (18.3 g, 61 mmol) in a reaction
PCB were prepared in ethyl acetate at 100 mg mL1, and a mixed flask in ethyl acetate (50 mL). The mixture was vigorously stirred at
standard with each compound at 1 mg mL1 in ethyl acetate was reflux for 48 h, and after this time, the solution was evaporated to
used as the working standard. Hexachlorobenzene (HCB) was remove the solvent and obtain HDMIM-Br as a pale yellow solid.
purchased from Dr. Ehrenstorfer GmbH (Augsburg, Germany) and This compound was characterized by 1H NMR and 13C NMR.
1
used as the internal standard. H NMR (DMSO-d6, 300 MHz): d 0.86 (3H, t, J ¼ 7.07 Hz),
Nitrogen with a purity of 99.995% was purchased from Linde 1.19e1.27 (24H, m), 1.28e1.36 (2H, m) 1.80e1.98 (2H, m), 4.12 (3H,
(Santiago, Chile) and used in the evaporation of the final extract for s, NeCH3), 4.31 (2H, t, J ¼ 7.43 Hz, NeCH2e), 7.45 (1H, d, J ¼ 1.51 Hz),
RDSE and as a chromatographic carrier gas. 7.64 (1H, d, J ¼ 1.51 Hz), 10.25 (1H, s).
13
C NMR (DMSO-d6, 75 MHz): d 14.07 (CH3), 22.65 (CH2), 26.24
2.2. Instruments (CH2) 28.98 (CH2) 29.31 (CH2) 29.36 (CH2) 29.48 (CH2) 29.57 (CH2)
29.61 (3CH2), 29.65 (3CH2) 30.30 (CH2), 31.84 (NeCH3), 50.15
The ionic liquid HDMIM-Br was characterized by 1H and 13C (NeCH2), 121.97 (CH-Im), 123.77 (CH-Im), 137.29 (CH-Im).
NMR, and the spectra were recorded from DMSO-d6 solutions on an The other ILs (1-hexadecyl-3-methylimidazolium hydroxide, 1-
AMX 300 spectrometer (Bruker, Billerica, MA, USA) operating at hexadecyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate, 1-butyl-3-
300 MHz for 1H and 75 MHz for 13C. The chemical shifts (d) are methylimidazolium-based [26,27] and 1-octyl-3-
expressed in ppm, with the solvent peak as the reference and TMS methylimidazolium-based) were synthetized following a similar
as the internal standard; the coupling constants (J) are given in procedure.
Hertz (Hz).
X-ray diffraction (XRD) experiments were performed using an 2.3.3. Modification of MMT
XPert PANalytical Empyrean diffractometer (EA Almelo, One gram of MMT was dispersed in a 3.0 g of a solution of
Netherlands). The 2Ө values were obtained from a step size of HDMIM-Br in methanol at 13% v/v, and the dispersion was vigor-
0.0394 using CuKa radiation (l of 1.540598 Å). The samples ously stirred for 1 h at room temperature. The mixture was filtered,
(100 mg) of raw MMT and modified MMT prepared with different and the solid material was washed three times with methanol
ILs were placed on a plate with an area of 2 cm2 to minimize the (20 mL each time) to remove the excess ionic liquid and then three
error in the peak location, and the crystal structure of the clays can times with distilled water. The solid was dried in an oven for 24 h at
be obtained from these data, also providing the inter-planar space. 105 C. MMT samples modified with the other ILs were prepared
The MMT-HDMIM-Br sorptive phase was also characterized by following the same procedure.
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), thermogravimetric
analysis (TGA) and scanning electronic microscopy (SEM). The 2.4. Rotating-disk sorptive extraction
infrared spectra were recorded in the range of 4000e400 cm1 on
an FTIR model IRAffinity-1 (Shimadzu, Kyoto, Japan) from KBr The extraction device used included a Teflon disk (1.5 cm
pellets. The TGA spectra were obtained using a Q500 thermogra- diameter) containing an embedded miniature magnetic stirring bar
vimetric analyzer from TA Instruments (New Castle, DE, USA), and (Teflon-coated micro stir bar from VWR International). The disk had
the heating rate was 10 C/min from room temperature to 800 C in a 0.44 cm3 cavity on one of its surfaces, into which 10 mg of MMT-
air. SEM experiments were performed using an FEI Quanta 250 HDMIM-Br sorbent was loaded. The cavity was covered with a
microscope (OR, USA). fiberglass filter (1.4 cm diameter, 3 mm mean pore size) and sealed
Quantification of PCBs was performed using a HewlettePackard with a Teflon ring (Fig. 1a). Before extraction, the sorptive phase
gas chromatograph, model 5890 series II (Palo Alto, CA, USA), was conditioned with ethyl acetate, methanol and Milli-Q water for
equipped with an electron-capture detector and fused silica capil- 5 min each.
lary column (Restek RTX-5MS, Bellefonte, PA, USA) (Rtx®-5 ms, Comparative studies using other sorptive phases, including
30 m 0.25 mm 0.25 mm film thickness). One microliter of the octadecyl (C18), octyl (C8) and MMT without modification (10 mg),
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were performed using the same disk (Fig. 1a). In addition, a hollow the clay was probably modified by the IL, which intercalated into
fiber made of polypropylene (PP) and a hollow fiber embedded the polar structure of MMT. These bands are due to the stretching of
with 1-octanol by occupying the HF pores as a supported liquid the CH bonds present in the methylene long chain in the ionic
membrane (SLM) (PP with 1-octanol as a SLM) were also immo- liquid. Kim et al. [12] reported similar spectra when MMT was
bilized on the disk cavity for comparative studies (Fig. 1b). modified with the following ILs: 1-ethyl 3-methylimidazolium
The beaker containing the samples (5 mL) and the rotating disk bromide, 1-hexyl 3-methylimidazolium chloride and N-ethyl-
was placed on an MMS-3000 Boeco magnetic stirrer (Hamburg, pyridinium tetrafluoroborate.
Germany). An analog heat-block evaporator (VWR, USA) was The TGA spectra of the non-modified MMT revealed weight
employed during the extraction process following the RDSE losses in the interval of 25e150 C due to release of the adsorbed
procedure. water intercalated in the clay; the release of bonded water occurred
The desorption procedure for all sorbents used was with 5 mL of gradually between 250 and 450 C. The dehydroxylation of clay
methanol, followed by a concentration step with nitrogen to total minerals occurs over a wide range of temperatures (250e900 C),
dryness and reconstitution in 100 mL of methanol. as was reported by Liptay et al. [28]. The spectrum of MMT-
HDMIM-Br reveals an evident loss of the IL that was intercalated
2.5. Real samples in the clay at approximately 250 C (Fig. 3).
The micrographs of MMT-HDMIM-Br (Fig. 4) reveal clusters of
A sample was taken from the inflow of a water treatment plant particles having a narrow size distribution with diameters of
in Santiago (Chile) in September 2015. A portion of the sample was approximately 25 mm.
spiked with 20 ng mL1 of the target compounds to demonstrate As expected, the XRD experiments (Fig. 5) show that the ion
the extraction capacity of the new device and was then analyzed by exchange of Naþ in MMT by HDMIM-Br led to an increase in the
GC-ECD. spacing of the d001 reflections in comparison with pure MMT and
that such spacing was related to the length of the alkyl chain on the
HDMIM cation. The spacing results are reported in Table 1.
3. Results and discussion
XRD analyses were performed on the raw MMT and modified 3.2. Study of the extraction variables
MMT prepared with different ILs to establish whether the exchange
of its interlayer sodium cations with the long alkyl chains of qua- Different chemical and preconcentration factors were evaluated
ternary ammonium salts affects the basal spacing of MMT and fa- to obtain the highest extraction efficiencies of the selected analytes.
cilitates the extraction of low-polarity organic analytes. As shown In addition, the variables were studied in deionized water spiked
in Table 1, the MMT-HDMIM (Br, OH, and BF4) series exhibited with a known concentration of the selected PCBs, and conse-
higher d-value increases with respect to the raw MMT, and the quently, the selectivity of this technique was able to assess the
reflection peaks 2Ɵ ( ) of plane (001) were displaced towards lower behavior of each variable.
values as a consequence of the intercalation process in accordance Matrix modifications such as NaCl (salting-out effect) or meth-
with Bragg’s law, with a straight correlation with the materials that anol addition can modify the extraction efficiency or analyte re-
exhibited the best organic compound retention [14]. A longer car- covery, particularly for low-polarity analytes. It has been observed
bon chain intercalated into the clay galleries afforded great that a high concentration of methanol (20%) improves the recovery
extraction capability that was comparable to commercial C18 sor- of hydrophobic solutes by reducing adsorption onto the glass wall
bent. The MMT-HDMIM-Br sorptive phase was selected for further of the extraction vessel [20]. Considering the high hydrophobicity
studies. of PCBs, the effects of both reagents were investigated using con-
centrations of NaCl and methanol in intervals of 0e10% (w/v) and
3.1. Characterization of the sorbent material 0e3% (v/v), respectively, in rotating disks that contained the
sorptive phase. An increase in the concentration of NaCl increased
Typical characterization analyses were carried out on the the response of the analyte within an interval of 0e5%, after which
selected phase, including FT-IR, TGA, SEM and XRD. When the FTIR the signal remains constant. Regarding methanol, the extraction
spectrum of MMT-HDMIM-Br was compared with that of the non- efficiency increased within an interval 0e2%. Over this range, the
modified clay, it can be observed that new signals appeared in the extraction efficiency remained constant. Consequently, concentra-
region of the 3000 cm1 (Fig. 2) in the former case, indicating that tions of 5% and 2% for NaCl and methanol, respectively, were
selected for further studies.
The amount of MMT-HDMIM-Br immobilized into the disk was
Table 1
XRD data for MMT and MMT modified with ILs.
2Ө ( ) d-value (Å)
Fig. 2. Overlapped infrared spectra of the raw (MMT) and modified material (MMT-
HDMIM-Br). Fig. 5. XRD analysis of MMT and MMT-HDMIM.
Fig. 4. SEM micrographs of the (A) raw MMT-Na clay and (B) MMT-HDMIM-Br clay.
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2000 rpm was selected as optimum for PCB transfer. precision and a low LOD were obtained for this method. The cor-
Under the selected conditions, the extraction time profiles were relation between the PCB concentrations and the signal obtained
obtained between 15 and 75 min for each analyte from 5 mL sample from the GCeECD were almost all near 0.99. The detection limits of
volumes. Fig. 7 shows the extraction profiles for PCB 81, PCB 123 the method were determined by following the 3-s criteria and
and PCB 105 as representative analytes. As evident from the figure, were sufficiently low (between 2.5 and 43 ngL1) for the deter-
the amount of analyte extracted increased concomitantly with the mination of these compounds in water. The reproducibility and
extraction time and reached equilibrium at approximately 30 min. recovery were determined using different extraction disks (n ¼ 6)
Then, the signals began to decay slowly probably because of the with PCB sample concentrations of 1.0 mg L1 in a water sample. The
evaporation of the methanol used as a modifier after long extrac- absolute recovery values ranged between 35.8 and 55.5%, with
tion periods. Leakage of the ionic liquid from the sorptive phase was relative standard deviations (RSDs) between 2.1 and 24.8%. The
not observed after long extraction periods. In spite of proposed precision was also determined by the sequential use of the same
determination resulted faster than other methods based on RDSE extraction disk (containing the same sorbent phase) for various
[16,18,20,23,24], its main drawback, compared with the typical aliquots of the same sample containing PCBs at 1.0 mg L1 (n ¼ 10).
solid phase extraction technology, is the relatively long extraction The RSDs under these conditions were between 10 and 25%, clearly
time. This is mainly due because RDSE is an equilibrium-based indicating that the MMT-HDMIM-Br sorbent could be re-used ten
technology. times. A higher number of adsorptioneelution cycles resulted in an
The desorption of the analytes from the disk was quantitative RSD over 30%.
when using 5 mL of methanol in a 10 min extraction at a rotation The results obtained using this newly proposed MMT-HDMIM-
velocity of 1000 rpm. Br sorptive phase in RDSE were compared under the same
The retention capability of non-modified MMT was also selected conditions with other non-polar sorbents immobilized in
assessed under the same optimized conditions in order to sepa- the same extraction device. Sorptive phases of C18, C8 and HF were
rately establish if the clay contributed to the overall analyte tested.
retention. As expected, considering the polarity of the clay, the Fig. 8 shows the comparative results. The most promising results
contribution of the clay to the extraction of the determined PCBs were obtained using RDSE with MMT-HDMIM-Br. The efficiency of
was negligible, reaching approximately 2% of the retention effi- the liquid HF membrane with 1-octanol as the supported liquid
ciency of the modified clay and confirming that the presence of the membrane (SLM) (PP with 1-octanol as the SLM) was also good,
intercalated ionic liquid is mandatory for the extraction of this type particularly for the most polar PCBs. Similarly, RDSE with MMT-
of low-polarity analyte. HDMIM-OH was significant for retention of the most polar PCBs,
associated with the presence of OH anion and possible H-bond
formation with the target analytes. The C16 chain contained in the
3.3. Analytical features and analysis of real samples structure of the ionic liquid likely favored the retention of the most
hydrophobic analytes with respect to the liquid membrane.
By taking into account the selected values for the variables, the When the analytical performance of the synthetic sorptive
analytical features of the method involving rotating-disk sorptive phase MMT-HDMIM-Br was compared with that observed in a
extraction were determined using a tap water matrix. Table 2 synthetic molecular imprinted polymeric (MIP) sorbent used pre-
shows the analytical features for the different analytes under study. viously in RDSE [7], at least two advantages arise: On the one hand,
As evident from the results in Table 2, good accuracy and
Table 2
Analytical features of the method.
Analyte Linearity, R2 Precision RSD, % LOD (ng L1) LOQ (ng L1) Absolute recovery, % Enrichment factor
the extraction time was significantly reduced from 120 min (using (from 25 mg in MIP to 10 mg in the present case), (b) reusability of
MIP) to 30 min (using the proposed new phase). On the other hand, the phase was improved considering the number of extraction-
eco-efficiency of the method was also improved when MMT- elution cycles (from 6 cycles in MIP to 10 cycles in the present
HDMIM-Br is used, taking into account the following points: (a) case) and (c) the synthesis of the proposed phase was greener that
The amount of sorptive phase used per analysis was decreased the followed for MIP (use of fewer amounts of dangerous reagents).
Fig. 8. Comparative results for different phases used in RDSE for PCB extraction.
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Under the above extraction conditions, a sample of the inflow of Using rotating-disk sorptive extraction, the new material pro-
a wastewater treatment plant in Santiago was analyzed, and posed as the sorptive phase provided the best efficiency in the
neither of the analytes was detected (Fig. 9). In the sample spiked extraction of PCBs from water compared with other non-polar solid
with 20 ng mL1 of the PCB standard, the analyte signals clearly phases.
appeared, as observed in Fig. 9. The relative recovery percentages in This newly developed ecosorbent will have great opportunities
this analysis were in the range of 80e86%, demonstrating good in the microextraction field because of the possibilities that fully
performance, considering the type of studied samples. As can be comply with the modern trends in sample preparation.
seen also in Fig. 9, chromatographic peaks 7 and 8 were not sepa-
rated, which suggest that both analytes (PCB 156 and PCB 157) Acknowledgments
could be determined as the sum of both signals, taking into account
that toxicity equivalent factors of both compounds are similar. In The authors would like to thank FONDECYT (Project 1140716)
addition, the small signals appearing in the non-spiked sample at for financial support. One of the authors (FLJA) would like to thank
15.69 and 17.25 min did not correspond to PCBs, however to avoid COLCIENCIAS and VIP Unicaldas for his “Jo ven Investigador”
some interference in the determination by GC with electron cap- fellowship (call 2014/645).
ture detector, it is recommended to use a confirmative mass se-
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