The determination of copper,lead and cadmium in sea water by differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry

The effect of various instrumental parameters is investigated and optimized conditions established. The results are in accordance with the theory of differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry. Both a hanging mercury drop electrode, and a rotating glassy carbon electrode mercury plated in situ were used. The best detection limit is obtained with the mercury film electrode, but the hanging mercury drop electrode is more reproducible. The differential pulse stripping technique is compared to linear sweep stripping, and increased sensitivity and better peak separation is demonstrated for the former technique, particularly when a hanging mercury drop electrode is used. However, the differential pulse technique will also improve the detection limit for a mercury film electrode, if the electrode has a non-ideal response with a corresponding high background current.     

Voltammetric Determination of Phenylglyoxylic Acid in Urine Using Graphite Composite Electrode

A composite electrode prepared from graphite powder and epoxy resin was applied as a working electrode for the determination of phenylglyoxylic acid (one of the metabolites of styrene) in human urine. Cathodic differential pulse stripping voltammetry was used and optimum conditions have been found giving the limit of determination about 5 mg L^?1. All results were compared with those obtained using hanging mercury drop electrode. For the confirmation of suggested mechanism of the electrochemical reaction the elimination voltammetry with linear scan was used.     

Comparison of fundamental and second-harmonic a.c., and normal,derivative and differential pulse linear-sweep and stripping voltammetric methods

Linear-sweep and stripping a.c. and pulse voltammetric methods have been compared for a variety of electrodes and electrode processes. Each of the linear-sweep techniques is readily used systematically because, in contrast to d.c. linear-sweep voltammetry, the theory for reversible electrode processes is basically analogous to that for polarography at a dropping mercury electrode. In stripping analysis, some departures are found at a hanging mercury drop electrode because of spherical diffusion effects. For reversible electrode processes, the limits of detection for a.c. and pulse methods are comparable. However, a.c. methods offer advantages over pulse methods in discriminating against irreversible electrode processes and permit the ready use of faster scan rates. Pulse methods are more sensitive for irreversible electrode process. Normal pulse polarography is particularly favourable in minimizing undesirable phenomena arising from adsorption or deposition of material on electrodes.     

石墨烯-壳聚糖修饰玻碳电极应用于环境水中五氯酚的测定

制备了石墨烯(CRG)-壳聚糖(CS)修饰玻碳(CRG-CS/GC)电极,用循环伏安法和示差脉冲伏安法研究了五氯酚(PCP)的电化学行为,发现其氧化电流信号与GC电极相比明显增强,表明修饰电极对PCP具有较强的吸附作用,并能够加速电子传递。 建立了一种灵敏简便、重现性好、稳定性好的测定PCP的新修饰电极方法,线性响应范围为1.00×10-7~1.00×10-5 mol/L（R=0.9975）,检测限为2.3×10-8 mol/L(S/N=3)。 将该修饰电极应用于实际水样分析,回收率为97%~103%。     

Rapid-scan pulse voltammetry

In pulse voltammetry slow scan-rates (1-5 mV/sec) are generally used, so long scan-times are needed to cover reasonable potential ranges. Data are presented to show that fast pulse voltammetry with stationary electrodes and the dropping mercury electrode can provide useful analytical data which fit the theory of conventional pulse voltammetry. The possibility of reducing the capacitive currents and increasing the apparent faradaic current in cyclic pulse voltammetry is also shown.     

An electroanalytical study of the anticancer drug dacarbazine

The electrochemical behaviour of dacarbazine [5-(3,3-dimethyl-1-triazenyl) imidazole-4-carboxamide; DTIC] was investigated by Tast and differential pulse polarography (d.p.p.) at the dropping mercury electrode, by cyclic and differential pulse voltammetry at the hanging mercury drop electrode and by anodic voltammetry at the glassy carbon electrode. Calibration graphs were obtained for 2×10^?8?2×10^?5 M DTIC by d.p.p., for 5×10^?9?1×10^?5 M by adsorptive stripping voltammetry ar a hanging mercury drop electrode, and for 1?10×10^?5 M by high-performance liquid chromatography with oxidative amperometric detection at a glassy carbon electrode. The methods are compared and applied to determine DTIC added to blood serum after a simple clean-up procedure.     

Direct zinc determination in commercial sulphuric acid by dpasv. Comparison of rotating disc and stationary graphite electrodes

A striking gas technique employed made a direct Zn determination possible at extremely low pH in commercial acid solutions when a stationary impregnated graphite-based mercury film electrode was used. The original Zn(II) concentrations were determined quantitatively by differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry on 0.5M and 1M sulphuric acid solutions by standard addition and were found to be 2 x 10(-8)M and 4.1 x 10(-8)M, respectively. The influence of mercury ion concentration, pulse amplitude, potential step and pulse repetition time on analytical data was studied and optimized. A rotating disc graphite electrode was also used as a working electrode and was found unreliable for this purpose as hydrogen bubbles were not removed effectively and blocked the working electrode surface.     

Dental Amalgam in Voltammetry. Some Preliminary Results

ABSTRACT

Liquid mercury and liquid diluted mercury amalgams have been superior as electrode material for the use of voltammetry for analytical purposes. This is mainly due to the high overvoltage to hydrogen, which enables one to use a wide potential range for the measurements. Due to the toxicity of mercury and liquid diluted mercury compounds, the use of such compounds are increasingly restricted, and cannot be included in voltammetric devices for field and online applications.

The present authors have studied the properties of dental amalgam and related solid amalgams as electrode material in voltammetry. Due to the special properties of dental amalgam compared with mercury itself it is not toxic.

It has been found that dental amalgam and related solid amalgams have a very high overpotential to hydrogen, allowing one to carry out trace analyses at potentials sufficiently negative to allow determination of e.g. zinc, cobalt, nickel and iron at trace levels. This have previously been difficult except when using a mercury or a mercury film electrode.

The present preliminary paper describes such electrodes and some practical applications for trace heavy metal analyses, using differential pulse stripping voltammetry. Such determinations are very important for field and online analyses of pollutants in soil and groundwater, and the electrode can be used repeatedly. Further improvements can obviously be obtained by optimising the composition of the alloy.     

Comparison of linear scan and differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry at a thin mercury film glassy carbon electrode

The use of the differential pulse mode in anodic stripping voltammetry with an electrode consisting of a thin mercury film deposited in situ on a glassy carbon support leads to detection limits which are 3–5 times lower than if a simple linear scan is used at the same electrode. If the glassy carbon electrode has a high base current, the improvement in detection limit with differential pulse will be even greater. Differential pulse peak currents, however, are more susceptible to interference by surface-active substances, and undetected adsorption/desorption effects can cause serious errors. Precautions which are necessary to maintain a glassy carbon electrode in good condition are described.     

Metal Ion Uptake and Voltammetry on a Dithiocarbamate Containing Polymer Modified Electrode

Abstract

There is a need to expand the range of working electrodes which can be us in analytical voltammetry.

In this work, the synthesis of a thio containing (poly) N-Ethyl Tyramine electrode is described. Cyclic voltammetry, SEM and EPMA were used to characterise the modified electrode.

The ability of this electrode to uptake copper, nickel, mercury or cobalt ions from solution was investigated. Detection limits of the order of 0.1 ppm were estimated using differential pulse voltammetry.     

Electrochemistry at carbon fibers : Part 1. Characteristics of the Mercury Film Carbon Fiber Electrode in Differential Pulse Anodic Stripping Voltammetry

Carbon fibers are proposed as a support electrode for a mercury film electrode. The response of these electrodes is evaluated for use in differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry. The mercury film is deposited in situ in aqueous solution and used to quantify cadmium in solutions of cadmium salts and organo cadmium compounds in the 1–10 μg l^-1 (ppb) concentration range. The good resolution and extremely low background current obtained allow a limit of detection at 0.04 μg Cd l^-1.     

脱氧核糖核酸在汞膜电极上的电化学行为

首次在汞膜电极上利用循环安，微分脉冲和交流伏安法研究脱氧核糖核酸（ＤＮＡ）的电化学行为，结果表明汞膜电极作为一类固体电极可应用于负电位区ＤＮＡ电化学行为的研究。同时结合凝胶电泳和ＵＶ光谱法，研究了用纯高氯酸处理的ＤＮＡ的氧化还原特性，结果表明纯高氯酸可经起ＤＮＡ的变性和降解，纯高氯酸不适宜ＤＮＡ的变性处理。     

The Study of Electrochemical Characteristics of Methotrexate

In this paper, the electrochemical characteristics of methotrexate are studied by using different electrochemical methods at the mercury drop electrode. In Britton‐Robinson buffer solution (pH 9.20), a pair of redox peaks of methotrexate controlled by adsorption is obtained by cyclic voltammetry. The differential pulse voltammetry peak currents have a linear relationship with methotrexate concentrations in the range of 1.0 × 10^?;5 mol/L ～ 1.0 × 10^?;8 mol/L with a detection limit of 2.0 × 10^?;9 mol/L, which has been used in real sample analysis with satisfactory result. Moreover, the electrode reaction mechanism of the system was studied and the kinetic parameters were obtained too. The electrode reduction of MTX is a quasi‐reversible process with two electrons and two protons.     

Effect of Basic Amino Acids on Nickel Ion Reduction at a Mercury Electrode

In a 0.02 M borax solution (pH 8.5), basic amino acids (arginine, lysine, and ornithine) react with Ni²⁺ to form a mono‐ligand complex that is reduced at a mercury electrode at about ?0.85 V vs. Ag|AgCl|KCl (3 M). At a long time scale (staircase voltammetry; scan rate<50 mV s^?1), the complex reduction is a catalytic (EC′) process, the rate‐determining step being the regeneration of the reducible species by the reaction of the amino acid with free Ni²⁺. At a short time scale (differential pulse voltammetry or higher scan rate staircase voltammetry), the reaction rate is controlled by the diffusion of the complex. Although the same kind of complexation occurs with either basic amino acids or glycine, the last one does not induce a similar process. The peculiar effect of basic amino acids is due to the side chain that causes the ligand molecule to adopt a favorable orientation at the electrode surface. The differential pulse voltammetry peak current is proportional to the total amino acid concentration over the concentration range from 2 to 100 μM. Hence a voltammetric method for arginine determination in nutritional supplements was developed and validated using HPLC as reference method.     

6-取代嘌呤的电化学行为及与DNA的相互作用

应用循环伏安法和微分脉冲伏安法研究了6-糠氨基嘌呤(6-KT)和6-巯基嘌呤(6-MP)在汞电极上的电化学行为及与小牛胸腺DNA的相互作用.结果发现,6-KT和6-MP的循环伏安曲线均显示两对分别表征为扩散控制和吸附控制的氧化还原波.扩散控制波的氧化峰电流随6-取代嘌呤浓度在0.1~50.0μmol.L-1范围内呈现良好的线性关系.依据预吸附时间和溶液pH值对吸附控制波的还原峰电位和峰电流的影响,讨论了6-KT和6-MP在汞电极上的吸附机理.作者认为,6-KT乃通过部分插入作用与DNA结合,而6-MP与DNA间的相互作用为静电模式.     

头孢哌酮在玻碳电极上的电化学行为及检测方法

应用循环伏安法、线性扫描伏安法和微分脉冲伏安法研究头孢哌酮在玻碳电极上的电化学行为,建立了应用伏安法定量检测头孢哌酮的新方法。头孢哌酮的电极过程为受吸附控制的不可逆过程,电极反应转移电子数和转移质子数均为2。头孢哌酮在pH1.0的1mol/LH3PO4-NaOH介质中,在+0.13V(vs.Ag/AgCl)电位处产生一灵敏的氧化峰,应用微分脉冲伏安法进行测定,该峰电流值Ip与头孢哌酮质量浓度在5.05×10-7～1.01×10-4g/mL范围内有良好的线性关系(R=0.9996),检出限为4.95×10-9g/mL,样品测定平均加标回收率达99.50%,相对标准偏差(RSD)为3.17%。     

Electrochemical behavior of phytochelatins and related peptides at the hanging mercury drop electrode in the presence of cobalt(II) ions

Direct current voltammetry and differential pulse voltammetry have been used to investigate the electrochemical behaviour of two phytochelatins: heptapeptide (gamma-Glu-Cys)3-Gly and pentapeptide (gamma-Glu-Cys)2-Gly, tripeptide glutathione gamma-Glu-Cys-Gly and its fragments: dipeptides Cys-Gly and gamma-Glu-Cys at the hanging mercury drop electrode in the presence of cobalt(II) ions. Most interesting results were obtained with direct current voltammetry in the potential region of -0.80 V up to -1.80 V. Differential pulse voltammetry of the same solutions of Co(II) with peptides gives more complicated voltammograms with overlapping peaks, probably in connection with the influence of adsorption at slow scan rates necessarily used in this method. However, in using Brdicka catalytic currents for analytical purposes, differential pulse voltammograms seem to be more helpful. Presented investigations have shown that particularly the prewave of cobalt(II) allows distinguishing among phytochelatins, glutathione, and its fragments.     

Electrochemical methods for monitoring of environmental carcinogens

The use of modern electroanalytical techniques, namely differential pulse polarography, differential pulse voltammetry on hanging mercury drop electrode or carbon paste electrode, adsorptive stripping voltammetry and high performance liquid chromatography with electrochemical detection for the determination of trace amounts of carcinogenic N-nitroso compounds, azo compounds, heterocyclic compounds, nitrated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and aromatic and heterocyclic amines is discussed. Scope and limitations of these methods are described and some practical applications based on their combination with liquid-liquid or solid phase extraction are given.     

Electrochemical determination of trace amounts of environmentally important dyes

A number of dyes exhibit genotoxic or ecotoxic properties leading to the need for sensitive and selective methods for their determination. Because of the easy reducibility of dyes, modern polarographic and voltammetric methods (differential pulse polarography on classical dropping mercury electrode, differential pulse voltammetry on hanging mercury drop electrode or adsorptive stripping voltammetry) are suitable for the determination of trace amounts of these substances in the general environment in the vicinity of production plants. The scope and limitations of these methods is reviewed and optimum conditions for recently developed methods are summarized. It is shown that the sensitivity of newly developed polarographic and voltammetric methods is sufficient even for the most demanding applications and their selectivity can be increased by their combination with preliminary separation using thin layer chromatography or liquid extraction.