Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 9, Issue 3, Pages 375-381Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s10311-010-0289-8
Keywords
Phenylhydrazine; Hydrazine; Carbon nanotube; Electrocatalysis; Modified electrode; Ferrocene
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The determination of hydrazine derivatives is of special interest because they are toxic and widely used in industry, agriculture and explosives. Electrochemical analysis has become of growing importance in industrial process control, environmental monitoring, and different applications in medicine and biotechnology. In the present work, we used a carbon paste electrode modified by ferrocene and carbon nanotubes for simultaneous determination of phenylhydrazine and hydrazine. The modified electrode showed an excellent character for electrocatalytic oxidization of phenylhydrazine and hydrazine with a 310 mV separation of both peaks. Differential pulse voltammetric peak currents of phenylhydrazine and hydrazine increased linearly with their concentrations at the range of 0.85-700 and 16-800 mu M, and the detection limits (3 sigma) were determined to be 0.6 and 14 mu M, respectively. Here, we show that this electrode could be used as an electrochemical sensor for determination of phenylhydrazine and hydrazine in real samples (water and urine) with advantages such as short time of analysis, lack of pretreatment procedures and more cheaper in comparison with some routine analysis methods such as chromatography or spectroscopy. The modified electrode showed good reproducibility, remarkable long-term stability, and especially good surface renewability by simple mechanical polishing.
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