title: Enhancement of fluorescence of terbium/trimesic acid/cyclodextrin system by zirconate and its application to the determination of terbium.
abstract: A new approach of fluorescence enhancement for the determination of terbium based on the formation of a new fluorescence system of Tb-TMA-beta-CD (benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxylic acid (TMA), beta-cyclodextrin (beta-CD)) in an aqueous medium of pH 5.0 provided by a HAc-NaAc buffer in the presence of an oxy-acid of transition metal, zirconate acid, is reported. The maximum excitation and emission wavelengths are 301 nm and 545 nm for the terbium complex, respectively. Under the optimal conditions, the method allows the determination of terbium over the range of 0.508-521 ng ml(-1) with a S.D. of 0.392, and the recovery is in the range of 99.0-100.1%. The emulsion formed by Tb-TMA-beta-CD with zirconate acid makes the determinate system more stable than the system of Tb-TMA-beta-CD. The proposed method has been employed for the determination of some international standard reference or samples with a good precision (RSD < 1.7%, n = 5).
authors.affiliation: Basic Courses of Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Yang