title: Determination of trace europium based on new fluorimetric system of europium(III) with thenoyltrifluoroacetone and N,N'-dinaphthyl-N,N'-diphenyl-3,6-dioxaoctanediamide.
abstract: In the present paper, N,N'-dinaphthyl-N,N'-diphenyl-3,6-dioxaoctanediamide acts as a specific reagent for enhancing the fluorescence intensity of Eu(III) complex with thenoyl trifluoroacetone (TTA), the spectrofluorimetric determination of trace amounts of Eu(III) based on the above system was carried out and its luminescence mechanism was studied. The excitation and emission wavelengths are 343.6 and 613.3 nm, respectively. The fluorescence intensities vary linearly with the concentration of europium(III) in the range 3.647x10(-3)-3.039 mug ml(-1) for the original fluorescence with a detection limit down to 2.279x10(-4) mug ml(-1) and the standard deviation is 0.063 mug ml(-1) for 10 times measurements, and in the range 7.598x10(-4)-0.0243 mug ml(-1) (SD=0.035 for 15 times measurements), 0.06078-0.6100 mug ml(-1) (SD=0.52 for 10 times measurements) for the first derivative fluorescence signal with a detection limit down to 8.566x10(-5) mug ml(-1). The interferences of other rare earths and some of inorganic ions are described. This method is a direct, rapid, selective and sensitive analytical method for the determination of trivalent europium in rare earth ore samples and high purity of rare earth oxides.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: X L
authors.initials: XL
authors.lastname: Teng
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: J Z
authors.initials: JZ
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.forename: Q Y
authors.initials: QY
authors.lastname: Ou
authors.forename: S X
authors.initials: SX
authors.lastname: Liu