Abstract
The new ionic liquid-modified polymer sorbent was developed by surface chemical modification of the synthesized polymer particles using ionic liquids. The obtained ionic liquid-modified polymer was successfully used as a special sorbent in a solid-phase extraction (SPE) process to isolate caffeine and theophylline from green tea. A comparison of different SPE cartridges using the blank polymer, C18, and ionic liquid-modified polymer revealed that the highest recovery was obtained using ionic liquid-modified polymer sorbent. Quantitative analysis was carried out by using a C18 column (5 µm, 150 × 4.6 mm) as an analytical column. Good linearity was obtained from 5 × 10−4 to 0.5 mg/mL (r2>0.999) for the two analytes with relative standard deviations <4.5%.
Acknowledgments
This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2009-0072787).
Notes
#1 Oksusu Tea.
#2 Momi 17 Tea.
#3 Yolinip Green Tea.