Voltammetric Determination of Nitrophenols at a Silver Solid Amalgam Electrode
Title:
Voltammetric Determination of Nitrophenols at a Silver Solid Amalgam Electrode
Author:
Jan Fischer, Lenka Vanourkova, Ales Danhel, Vlastimil Vyskocil, Karel Cizek, Jiri Barek, Karolina Peckova, Bogdan Yosypchuk , Tomas Navratil
Appeared in:
International journal of electrochemical science
Paging:
Volume 2 (2007) nr. 3 pages 226-234
Year:
2007
Contents:
The voltammetric behavior of 2-nitrophenol, 4-nitrophenol and 2,4-dinitrophenol was investigated by differential pulse voltammetry (DPV) at a mercury meniscus-modified silver solid amalgam electrode (m-AgSAE) and liquid mercury free polished silver solid amalgam electrode (p-AgSAE). Conditions have been found for their determination by DPV at m-AgSAE and p-AgSAE in Britton-Robinson buffer in the concentration range from 2 to 100 µmol.L-1. The applicability of these methods in combination with solid phase extraction (SPE) for determination 2-nitrophenol in drinking water with limit of determination around 20 nmol.L-1 was verified.