The ability to use imprinted polymers for solid-phase extraction is demonstrated in a model pre-concentration of bupivacaine from human plasma samples prior to gas chromatography. Imprinting of the structural analogue pentycaine yielded a sorbent which efficiently extracted analyte and internal standard, while possible interference on analyte quantification from leakage of remaining template mo...

Abstract Sample pretreatment is one of the most crucial and error-prone steps an analytical procedure; it consents to improve selectivity sensitivity by sample clean-up pre-concentration. Nowadays, arousing interest in greener sustainable chemistry has increased development microextraction techniques as alternative preparation procedures. In this review, we aimed show two different categorizati...