title: Electrochemical determination of trace amounts of environmentally important dyes.
abstract: A number of dyes exhibit genotoxic or ecotoxic properties leading to the need for sensitive and selective methods for their determination. Because of the easy reducibility of dyes, modern polarographic and voltammetric methods (differential pulse polarography on classical dropping mercury electrode, differential pulse voltammetry on hanging mercury drop electrode or adsorptive stripping voltammetry) are suitable for the determination of trace amounts of these substances in the general environment in the vicinity of production plants. The scope and limitations of these methods is reviewed and optimum conditions for recently developed methods are summarized. It is shown that the sensitivity of newly developed polarographic and voltammetric methods is sufficient even for the most demanding applications and their selectivity can be increased by their combination with preliminary separation using thin layer chromatography or liquid extraction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Analytical Chemistry, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. Zima@natur.cuni.cz
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zima
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Barek
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Moreira
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Mejstrík
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Fogg
mesh_terms: D004396:Coloring Agents / Q000032:analysis*; D004563:Electrochemistry / Q000379:methods; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D011048:Polarography / Q000379:methods; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity
chemical_list: D004396:Coloring Agents; D004785:Environmental Pollutants