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TALANTA
Volume 67, Issue 1, Pages 121-128Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2005.02.019
Keywords
copper; functionalized resin; F AAS; solid-phase extraction; flow-injection analysis
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This paper reports the development of anew strategy for low-level determination of copper in water samples by using a flow-injection system coupled to solid-phase extraction (SPE) using flame atomic absorption spectrometry (F AAS) as detector. In order to preconcentrate copper from samples, a minicolumn packed with a styrene-divinylbenzene resin functionalized with (S)-2-[hydroxy-bis-(4-vinyt-phenyl)-methyllpyrrolidine-1-carboxylic acid ethyl ester was used and the synthesis procedure is described. System operation is based on the on-line retention of Cu(II) ions at pH 9.0 +/- 0.2 in a such minicolumn with posterior analyte elution with 2 mol l(-1) HCl directly to the F AAS nebulizer. The influence of several chemical (sample pH, buffer concentration, HCl eluent concentration and effect of the ionic strength) and flow (sample and eluent flow rates and preconcentration time) variables that could affect the performance of this system were investigated as well as the possible interferents. At optimized conditions, for 2 min of preconcentration time (13.2 ml of sample volume), the system achieved a detection limit of 1.1 mu g l(-1), a R.S.D. 1% at 20 mu g g l(-1) and an analytical throughput of 25 h(-1), whereas for 4 min of preconcentration time (26.4 ml of sample volume), a detection limit of 0.93 mu g l(-1), a R.S.D. 5.3% at 5 mu g l(-1) and a sampling frequency of 13 h(-1) were reported. (C) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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