Almeida, Ayssata Patrícia da Costa Leocádia VazMartins, Ana FilipaDias, RolandoCosta, Mário Rui2024-10-212024-10-212024Almeida, Ayssata; Martins, Cláudia; Dias, Rolando; Costa, Mário Rui P.F.N. (2024). Competitive Adsorption of Phenolic Acids, Secoiridoids, and Flavonoids in Quercetin Molecularly Imprinted Polymers and Application for Fractionation of Olive Leaf Extracts. ournal of Chemical & Engineering Data. ISSN 0021-9568. 69:10, p. 3629–36440021-9568http://hdl.handle.net/10198/30477The competitive adsorption of phenolic acids, secoiridoids, and flavonoids in a molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) functionalized with 4-vinylpiridine (4VP) moieties is analyzed here considering vanillic acid, oleuropein, and quercetin as reference molecules. Measured adsorption isotherms highlight a much stronger binding capacity of the quercetin-MIP particles toward quercetin as compared with vanillic acid and oleuropein. The acquired data were used to design and scale-up sorption/desorption processes aiming at the fractionation of olive leaf extracts. We show that a simple adsorption process, avoiding many pre-preparation steps, is possible when working at a high extract concentration due to the strong binding capacity of the MIP for flavonoids, even when using aqueous mixtures with a large alcoholic content. Solvent-gradient/temperature-swing desorption led to a sequence of fractions with enrichment of non-flavonoids at low alcoholic content while glycosylated flavonoids were enriched in fractions with 40% < alcohol content < 80%. Enrichment factors of 13 and 12 were measured for luteolin-7-O-glucoside and apigenin-7-O-glucoside, respectively. Flavonoid aglycones were enriched in fractions with alcohol content >80% (enrichment factors >20 for luteolin and quercetin). The findings reported here demonstrate the usefulness of the developed materials and sorption/desorption conditions for agricultural residue valorization and circular bioeconomy.engUltrasound-assisted extractionSelective recognitionjournal article10.1021/acs.jced.3c005431520-5134