Selectivity enhancement by flow injection analysis

Flow injection analysis offers numerous possibilities for significantly increasing the selectivity of existing methods by utilizing knowledge of the chemistry of those methods. It also enables new selective methods to be created by utilizing kinetic methods and fast separation techniques such as gas diffusion, dialysis, extraction and ion-exchange columns. Selectivity enhancements and increased sensitivity can be achieved by incorporating the kinetic techniques of kinetic discrimination and/or kinetic enhancement into the timing of the system or the reagent concentrations and conditions for a given method. Methods have been developed for quantifying ozone, chlorine dioxide, chlorate ion, and chlorite and chlorate ions sequentially. A dual-phase gas diffusion system for hydride generation provides significant decreases in the interferences observed for transition metals.