Simultaneous determination of mercury and arsenic by anodic stripping voltammetry

An electrochemical method for the simultaneous determinations of Hg^II concentration and total As^III and As^V concentration has been developed. The method does not require the additional preliminary step of the chemical reduction of As^V to As^III, or oxidation of As^III to As^V before stripping analysis takes place. Also, the method for the simultaneous determination of Hg^II concentration and As^III concentration is described. Measurements were performed in 0.1 M HCl using a gold-plated graphite electrode as sensor. Detection limits for both methods are below 0.4 ppb. Relative standard deviation did not exceed 15%. The possible interference by other trace metals was investigated. Analyses of natural water and industrial solutions were made using proposed methods and AAS. The t-test demonstrates that there was no significant difference between the results obtained with these methods. Proposed methods decrease the time of analysis because concentrations of the Hg^II and arsenic ions were measured simultaneously. Also, the removal of the additional step of chemical reduction of As^V to As^III or oxidation of As^III to As^V decreases analysis time, and also reduces the chance of contamination due to the use of additional reagents.     

Detecting DNA Damage with a Silver Solid Amalgam Electrode

Mercury electrodes modified with supercoiled (sc) DNA have been used as highly sensitive tools for the detection of DNA strand breaks or as sensors for DNA cleaving substances. In this paper we show that silver solid amalgam electrode (AgSAE), in connection with alternating current voltammetry, provides similar information about DNA damage as the hanging mercury drop electrode. The AgSAE can be used for the detection of enzymatic or chemical DNA cleavage in solution or at the electrode surface. AgSAE modified with scDNA can be utilized as a sensor for DNA nicking substances.     

Direct anodic oxidation ofp-methoxytoluene in methanol. The effect of electrolysis conditions

The effect of anions of the supporting electrolyte (F^–, dialkylphosphate, TsO^–, and BF ₄ ^– and other electrolysis conditions (anode material, temperature, substrate concentration) on the selectivity of the direct anodic oxidation ofp-methoxytoluene in methanol into 4-methoxybenzaldehyde dimethylacetal was studied. The highest selectivity was obtained in the presence of fluoride anion.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 3, pp. 524–527, March, 1995.This work was financially supported by the Ministry of Science, High School and Technical Policy of the Russian Federation within the scope of the State scientific-technical program Ecologically harmless processes of chemistry and chemical technology (project No. 1.140 Low-tonnage chemical products) and by the International Science Foundation (Grant Ch-2-1246-0923).     

Fast cathodic stripping analysis with ultramicroelectrodes

Hemispherical ultramicroelectrodes (2.5–12.5 μm in radius) fabricated from silver or amalgamated copper, gold or platinum were used in the cathodic stripping of various anions. A comparison is presented between the results obtained using electrodes of a conventional size at slow sweep rates (ca. 100 mV s^?1) and those obtained using ultramicroelectrodes under fast linear-sweep conditions (ca. 700 V s^?1). Problems in maintaining reproducible electrode surfaces under various experimental conditions are discussed. In addition, the benefit of using electrodes of microscopic dimensions is illustrated by their utilization in the analysis of very small volumes of analyte that result from a solvent back-extraction process.     

Electrode kinetics of Eu3+/Eu2+ reaction by cyclic voltammetry

The cyclic voltammetric behaviour of Eu³⁺/Eu²⁺ couple at hanging mercury drop electrode (HMDE) has been studied in chloride, bromide, iodide, thiocyanate and EDTA supporting electrolytes. The apparent rate constant and transfer coefficient for these systems have been calculated at various voltage scan rates, without using the data for standard or formal potential. The values have been compared with those obtained by earlier workers through other electrochemical methods.     

pH值对聚四氨基酞菁钴膜电化学和紫外光谱性质的影响

用循环伏安法在导电玻璃(ITO)和玻碳电极(GC)上制备了聚氨基酞菁钴(CoTAPc)修饰电极(CoTAPc/GC)。探讨了pH值对CoTAPc膜的光谱和电化学性质的影响，发现其氧化还原电位与pH值有线性关系，电催化活性也随酸度的增加而增加。CoTAPc膜的紫外吸收带变化与溶液pH值及在溶液中浸泡时间有关。     

Square-wave voltammetric determination of cefoperazone in a bacterial culture,pharmaceutical drug,milk, and urine

Use of square-wave voltammetry (SWV) for determination of cefoperazone (CFPZ) in some buffers, bacterial culture, urine, and milk is described. CFPZ provides a specific voltammetric signal which is affected by pH and solution components. Determination of CFPZ in Britton–Robinson buffer, pH 4.4, is sensitive with a low detection limit (about 0.5 nmol L^–1). In a more complex medium (bacterial 2YT medium, pH 7.2) the detection limit was approximately 1.5 mol L^–1. We provide evidence that SWV is a suitable and quick method for CFPZ determination in a culture of living bacteria without separation of biomass. We have found big differences between methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) in cultivation in the presence of CFPZ, depending on time. When CFPZ is cleaved by penicillinase, a new SWV peak b appears at more positive potentials. This peak rises both with increasing concentration of enzyme and with cleavage time while the original CFPZ peak is simultaneously decreasing. We determined the concentration of CFPZ in the drug Pathozone by the standard addition method and achieved good agreement with the declared value of CFPZ in the drug. With a simple pretreatment procedure it is possible to determine CFPZ in milk; for urine no pretreatment was required. Using SWV we could detect CFPZ concentrations as low as 500 nmol L^–1 in bovine milk and human urine.     

Direct and simultaneous voltammetric analysis of heavy metals in tap water samples at Assiut city: an approach to improve the analysis time for nickel and cobalt determination at mercury film electrode

Tap water samples (Assiut city, lie in the middle north of upper Egypt, approx. 370 km from Cairo, January-March, 2002) were taken from the eight sampling sites of different locations at Assiut city. The samples are analyzed to determine the total content of cadmium, copper, lead and zinc by differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry (DPASV) while nickel and cobalt are determined by a new simple differential pulse adsorptive stripping voltammetry (DPAdSV), using dimethylglyoxime (DMG) as the complexing agent. This method uses sodium sulfite as the supporting electrolyte, which facilitates the removal of oxygen interference without the traditional necessity of purging with inert gas. The effect of various parameters was studied using DPASV (for Cd, Pb, Cu and Zn) and AdSV (for Ni and Co) methods. Subsequently, under the so found experimental conditions, the stability of calibration curves and the detection limits (μg/l) have been determined. The data achieved (for all metals utility) are comparable to those measured by the graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrophotometric (GF-AAS) method. The effects of the interferences between these metal ions have been investigated. Moreover, the effect of storage was discussed and the obtained results were compared favorably with standard official methods. Statistical analysis of the database exhibits applicability and the accuracy of the techniques. The results obtained from the two techniques (Voltammetry and GF-AAS) are in very good agreements in the most tap water samples.     

钴-锌试剂络合吸附伏安法测定中草药中钴

研究了测定痕量钴的一种灵敏的吸附伏安法 ,利用钴和锌试剂络合物在悬汞电极上的吸附性 ,有效地提高了分析的灵敏度。在 0 .0 0 5mol·L-1NH3 和 0 .0 6mol·L-1NH4Cl及 2 .5× 1 0 -6mol·L-1锌试剂底液条件下 ,该体系 1 .5 ,2 .5阶微分吸附伏安法测定钴的线性范围为 1× 1 0 -10 ～ 1× 1 0 -7mol·L-1,用 2 .5阶微分吸附伏安法 ,富集 3min的检出限为 5× 1 0 -11mol·L-1。用此法直接测定了中草药中痕量钴     

苯巴比妥的二次微分简易示波伏安法测定

利用苯巴比妥的示波特性 ,分别建立了在0.2mol/LKOH和1.0×10-4mol/LCd2 +-0.1mol/L硼砂底液中直接和间接测定苯巴比妥的二次微分简易示波伏安法 ;直接测定和间接测定的线性范围分别为1.0×10 -5mol/L～1.0×10 -4mol/L和4.0×10 -6mol/L～8.0×10 -5mol/L ;检出限分别为8×10 -6mol/L和2×10 -6mol/L;在直接测定中 ,对6.000×10 -5mol/L苯巴比妥进行10次测定的RSD为4.5 % ;间接测定中 ,对2.000×10 -5mol/L苯巴比妥进行10次测定的RSD为2.6 % ;这一研究表明对于一些在示波分析中灵敏度不高或本身没有示波活性的药物 ,可以利用其与金属离子生成沉淀的方法间接测定 ,从而提高药物测定的灵敏度、拓宽示波分析应用领域