Yong-Fang Du¹, Jun Yang^2,*, Wen-Wen Tang², Xiao-Lan Zhu², Li-Li Zhang² and Yun Gao²

¹Department of Chemical Engineering, Anhui Vocational and Technical College, Hefei 230051, P.R. China

²Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P.R. China

*Corresponding author: Tel/Fax: +86 551 3492065; E-mail: yjun8202@ustc.edu.cn

A new molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) has been synthesized using 1-naphthylamine as the template molecule. Equilibrium adsorption and selectivity adsorption experiments showed that the molecularly imprinted polymer has better binding ability and higher selectivity for 1-naphthylamine, comparing to non-imprinted polymer (NIP). The molecularly imprinted solid phase extraction (MI-SPE) was prepared by using the molecularly imprinted polymer as sorbent and used to extract and pre-concentrate 1-naphthylamine, 2-naphthylamine, 3-aminobiphenyl and 4-aminobiphenyl from the mainstream tobacco smoke. Compared to non-imprinted solid phase extraction (NI-SPE), MI-SPE can effective to extract selectively the four Hoffmann aromatic amines from the mainstream tobacco smoke under the optimized conditions.

Molecularly imprinted polymer, Solid phase extraction, Aromatic amines, Mainstream tobacco smoke.