Voltammetric detection of paraquat pesticide on a phthalocyanine-based pyrolitic graphite electrode |
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Authors: | Ilanna C Lopes Djenaine De Souza Sergio A S Machado Auro A Tanaka |
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Institution: | 1.Departamento de Química,Universidade Federal do Maranh?o,S?o Luís,Brazil;2.Instituto de Química de S?o Carlos,Universidade de S?o Paulo,S?o Carlos,Brazil |
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Abstract: | This work describes the application of an ordinary pyrolitic graphite electrode modified by metallophthalocyanine allied to
square wave voltammetry for the study of the electrochemical behavior of the herbicide paraquat and the development of a method
for its analytical determination in natural water samples. Preliminary experiments indicated that the best responses, considering
the intensities of the current and voltammetric profile for the paraquat reduction process, were obtained when the electrode
modified by cobalt phthalocyanine was employed, which had a better catalytic activity as a result of this modification compared
with that for an unmodified electrode and electrodes modified by iron, manganese and the acid form of the phthalocyanines.
Studies of the concentration of cobalt phthalocyanine and the adsorption time showed that 1.0 × 10−4 mol L−1 cobalt phthalocyanine with an adsorption time of 10 min was sufficient to obtain reliability and stability of modification
for employment in the development of the electroanalytical procedure for paraquat determination in natural water samples.
The variation in pH of a 0.10 mol L−1 Britton–Robinson buffer solution and the square wave parameters indicated that the best conditions to reduce paraquat were
pH 7.0, a frequency of 100 s−1, a scan increment of 2 mV and a square wave amplitude of 50 mV. Under such conditions, the variation of paraquat concentrations
from 5.00 × 10−7 to 2.91 × 10−5 mol L−1 showed a linear relation, with detection and quantification limits of 26.53 and 88.23 μg L−1; those values were lower than the maximum limits for drinking water permitted by the Brazilian Environmental Council (100 μg
L−1), indicating that the method could be employed to analyze paraquat in drinking water samples. |
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Keywords: | Cobalt phthalocyanine Pyrolitic graphite Paraquat Square wave voltammetry Natural sample water |
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