Determination of furfurals in baby food samples after extraction by a novel functionalized magnetic porous carbon.

Herein, a novel polypyrrole-polyaniline functionalized magnetic porous carbon (MPC@PPy-PANI) composite material was fabricated and utilized for the separation/extraction of furfurals from baby food and dry milk samples. In this way, magnetite@silica nanoparticles were first synthesized, and then a magnetic metal-organic framework (MMIL-101(Fe)) was prepared. After that, the MMIL-101(Fe) was pyrolyzed in a neutral atmosphere to obtain MPC. Ultimately, the MPC was functionalized with a co-polymer of aniline-pyrrole oxidation polymerization. The synthesis of MPC@PPy-PANI was confirmed with FT-IR spectroscopy, SEM, TEM, VSM, and XRD techniques. Furfural and hydroxymethyl furfural were selected as the model analytes, which were separated/quantified on an HPLC-UV instrument. The LODs, LOQs, and linear dynamic ranges (LDRs) were in the range of 0.3-0.7 μg kg, 1.0-2.5 μg kg, and 1.0-600 μg kg, respectively. Repeatability of the method was studied as an RSD parameter, and was located in the range of 5.5-6.8% (within-day, = 5) and 8.2-9.4% (between-day, = 3 days). The applicability of the proposed method was established by analyzing several baby food and dry milk samples. The relative recovery (RR%) and repeatability were located in the range of 86-111% and 3.3-10.1%, respectively, showing excellent accuracy and precision of the method.