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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 94, Issue 4, Pages 348-355Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/03067319.2013.840831
Keywords
dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction; flame atomic absorption spectrometry; iron speciation; solidification of organic drop
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- Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
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A simple and efficient method for iron speciation (Fe2+, Fe3+) using dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction based on solidification of organic drop (DLLME-SFO) technique followed by flame atomic absorption spectrometry was developed. In this method, 1mL of ethanol (as the disperser solvent) containing 50 mu L of 1-undecanol (as the extracting solvent) was injected rapidly into the sample solution containing iron (II), iron (III) species and 1.1x10(-3)molL(-1) oxine (as the complexing agent). The procedure is based on the complexation of Fe3+ with 8-hydroxyquinoline (oxine) at pH 3, and extraction of the resulting complex using DLLME-SFO. The total Fe was determined after the oxidation of Fe2+ to Fe3+ with concentrated nitric acid. The concentration of Fe2+ was determined from the difference between the concentration of total Fe and the Fe3+. Some parameters such as pH, oxine concentration, ratio of disperser and extractant solvent were investigated. Under the optimum conditions, the calibration graph was linear in the range of 25-250 mu gL(-1) for Fe3+ with a limit of detection (LOD) of 4.8 mu gL(-1). The relative standard deviation (RSD, %) for 10 replicate determinations of Fe3+ at 50 mu gL(-1) levels was 3.2%. To validate the developed method, a certified reference material (BRGM R52) was analysed and the determined value was in very good agreement with the certified value. The proposed method was successfully employed for determination of iron species in tap, well and spring water samples.
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