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A novel sensitive and simple method for rapid and selective extraction, preconcentration and determination of iron (as its
bathophenanthroline complex) and copper (as its neocuproine complex) using octadecyl silica cartridges and dual wavelength
spectrophotometry is presented. The dual wavelength method (533 nm for the iron-bathophenanthroline and 454 nm for the copper-neocuproine
as the analytical wavelength) is used to eliminate spectral interferences. Extraction efficiency and the influence of flow
rates of sample solution and eluent, pH, amount of neocuproine, bathophenanthroline and hydroxylamine hydrochloride, type
and least amount of eluent for elution of iron and copper complexes from cartridge, break-through volume and limit of detection
are evaluated. The effects of various cationic and anionic interferences on percent recovery of iron and copper are also studied.
Extraction efficiencies >95% are obtained by elution of cartridges with minimal amount of organic solvent. Iron and copper
were determined in the range of 3–100 ng mL
−1. The limits of detection are 0.98 and 1.13 ng mL
−1 for iron and copper, respectively. The proposed method is applied successfully to the determination of both analytes in river,
tap and well water samples.
Author for correspondence. E-mail: yyamini@modares.ac.ir
Received September 18, 2002; accepted December 12, 2002
Published online May 5, 2003
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