Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1235919 | Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy | 2007 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
A new method for the determination of trace selenium based on solid substrate-room temperature phosphorimetry (SS-RTP) has been established. This method was based on the fact that in HCl-KCl buffer solution, potassium chlorate could oxidize phenyl hydrazine to form chloridize diazo-ion after being heated at 100 °C for 20 min, and then the diazo-ion reacted with 1,2-dihydroxynaphthalene-3,6-disulfonic acid to form red azo-compound which could emit strong room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) signal on filter paper. Selenium could catalyze potassium chlorate oxidizing the reaction between phenyl hydrazine and 1,2-dihydroxynaphthalene-3,6-disulfonic acid, which caused the sharp enhancement of SS-RTP. Under the optimum condition, the relationship between the phosphorescence emission intensity (ÎIp) and the content of selenium obeyed Beer's law when the concentration of selenium is within the range of 1.60-320 fg spotâ1 (or 0.0040-0.80 ng mlâ1 with a sample volume of 0.4 μl). The regression equation of working curve can be expressed as ÎIp = 13.12 + 0.4839CSe(IV) (fg spotâ1) (n = 6), with correlation coefficient r = 0.9991 and a detection limit of 0.28 fg spotâ1 (corresponding to a concentration range of 7.0 Ã 10â13 g mlâ1 Se(IV), n = 11). After 11-fold measurement, R.S.D. were 2.8 and 3.5% for the samples containing 0.0040 and 0.80 ng mlâ1 of Se(IV), respectively. This accurate and sensitive method with good repeatability has been successfully applied to the determination of trace selenium in Chinese wolfberry and egg yolk with satisfactory results. The mechanism of the enhancement of phosphorescence was also discussed.
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Authors
Jia-Ming Liu, Xiao-Jie Cui, Lai-Ming Li, Geng-Min Fu, Shao-Xian Lin, Min-Lan Yang, Mei-Ying Xu, Zhi-Qun Wu,