Facile fabrication of functional groups-rich sorbent for the efficient enrichment of aromatic N- and S-containing compounds in environmental waters

Extraction strategy is designed for the pretreatment of low contents of aromatic N- and S-containing compounds (ANSCs) in environmental waters prior to chromatographic analysis. To enrich studied ANSCs effectively, poly (9-vinylanthracene/4-vinylphenylboronic acid-co-ethylene dimethacrylate/divinylbenzene) polymeric monolithic sorbent were facilely fabricated using the one-step free radical polymerization. Various technologies were employed to investigate the structure and morphology of the resultant monolith. Combining with solid-phase microextraction format, the sorbent exhibited satisfying concentrated performance for ANSCs through multiply interactions under the optimized conditions. After desorption with eluent, the retained analytes were analyzed by HPLC. Results showed that the extraction efficiencies ranged from 51.6 to 93.2%. The linear ranges and limits of detection were 0.01–150 μg/L and 0.63–2.64 ng/L, respectively. Furthermore, the precisions were all below 10%. The introduced approach was productively practiced on three real water samples for simultaneous quantification of studied ANSCs, and the fortified recoveries ranged from 81.5 to 118%. All the results well evidenced that prepared sorbent can enrich ANSCs effectively and the introduced method is reliable alternative for routine analysis of ANSCs in environmental waters. [Display omitted] •An innovative functional groups-rich sorbent was facilely fabricated.•The prepared PMS was utilized as adsorbent of MF-SPME.•The obtained PMS/MF-SPME displayed satisfying extraction capability for ANSCs.•Fabrication conditions and extraction parameters were optimized in detail.•Developed methodology was applied to quantify ANSCs in a variety of waters.