A molecularly imprinted polymer for the selective determination of Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) in water was synthesized and evaluated. This was accomplished by the use of sodium methacrylate as the monomer, toluene as a porogen, ethylene glycol dimethacrylate as a crosslinker, azobisisobutyronitrile as initiator and DEHP as a template molecule to generate the selectivity of the polymer for the compound, as well as synthesizing non-imprinted polymers. Three different polymerization approaches were used, emulsion, bulk and co-precipitation, the polymers obtained by emulsion presented a high retention rate reaching 99%. The method was able to pre-concentrate DEHP in water samples up to 250 times. To evaluate the applicability of the method, concentrations in fortified and bottled water were assessed using our polymer and determining DEHP concentrations by gas chromatography with mass spectrometry. Reported concentrations in bottled water were 12.1 µg/L, well above reference values established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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