Porphyrin based porous organic polymer modified with Fe3O4 nanoparticles as an efficient adsorbent for the enrichment of benzoylurea insecticides.

Porphyrin-based porous organic polymers (P-POPs) are amorphous polymers linked by strong covalent bonds between the porphyrin subunits that act as building blocks. The authors describe a magnetic P-POP that possesses high surface area, a highly porous structure, and strong magnetism. The MP-POP was employed as a magnetic sorbent for the extraction of benzoylurea insecticides from cucumber and tomato samples prior to their determination by HPLC. The sorbent has a typical sorption capacity of 1.90-2.00 mg∙g-1. The method exhibits a good linear range (0.8-160 ng·g-1), low limits of detection (0.08-0.2 ng·g-1), and high method recoveries (81.8-103.5%) for cucumber and tomato samples. The MP-POP has different adsorption capabilities for the benzoylurea insecticides, phenylurea herbicides and phenols compounds, and the adsorption mechanism is found to be based on π-stacking, hydrogen-bonding, and hydrophobic interactions. Graphical abstract A novel magnetic porphyrin-based porous organic polymer was fabricated and used as the adsorbent for the efficient extraction of benzoylurea insecticides.