Herein, a new method for the determination of formaldehyde in drinking water was proposed by sequential injection analysis using a fluorescent filter detector.
<p>Plackett-Burman and Quarter fraction 2<sup>5-2</sup> factorial designs were applied to evaluate a spectrophotometric flow injection method in order to determine phenol in water by using 4-aminoantipyrine (4-aap) as derivatizing reagent. With a minimum number of experiments, the designs enabled the best conditions for phenol analysis: 80 cm and 180 cm reactors; flow-rates being: NH<sub>3</sub> 1.0 mL min<sup>-1</sup>; 4-aap 0.35 mL min<sup>-1</sup> and K<sub>3</sub>[Fe(CN)<sub>6</sub>] 0.35 mL min<sup>-1</sup>, [NH<sub>3</sub>] 0.064 mol L<sup>-1</sup>, [4-aap] 9.84 × 10−3 mol L<sup>-1</sup>, [K<sub>3</sub>[Fe(CN)<sub>6</sub>]] 0.02 mol L<sup>-1</sup>, and an injection volume of 200 μL. With the optimized method it was possible to increase the lineal range from 0.3 μg mL<sup>-1</sup> to 30 μg mL<sup>-1</sup> and also to quantify the maximum allowable phenol concentration in water in comparison with other standard and flow injection methods whose lineal range are from 0.5 μg mL<sup>-1</sup> to 20 μg mL<sup>-1</sup> and from 0.5 μg mL<sup>-1</sup> to 16 μg mL<sup>-1</sup>, respectively. The detection limit was of 0.13 μg mL<sup>-1</sup> and the regression coefficient was of 0.9999, making possible a throughput of 36 determinations an hour with a minimum consume of reagent. With the proposed method, a distillation step was not necessary to remove sulfates but, when the sulfate:phenol ratio was higher than 83, the analytical signal for phenol increased 8%, but hypochlorite interfered with the signal when the ypochlorite:phenol ratio was higher than 1.</p>
Estimadas lectoras y estimados lectores. Para nosotros es un gran gusto escribir estas líneas que presentan este número especial, resultado de la colaboración de la Asociación Mexicana de Química Analítica con la revista Pädi, de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo. Esperamos que sea de su interés.
¿Qué es la Química Analítica, en la actualidad?
La Química Analítica es una disciplina que muchos confunden con el campo del conocimiento que se conoce como Análisis Químico. Sin embargo, durante el siglo XX el enfoque y concepción de lo que hoy llamamos Química Analítica evolucionó desde el Análisis Químico (concebido como una subdisciplina de la Química) hasta una interdisciplina que se relaciona con disciplinas tales como la Biología, las Ciencias de la Salud, diversas Ingenierías, las Ciencias Ambientales, las Ciencias Forenses y las Ciencias Aduanales, entre muchas otras.
Fue así como la revista Pädi, así como el Comité Directivo y la Junta de Representantes de la AMQA convocaron a los socios de esta última para que sometieran sus trabajos como artículos que pasarían por un arbitraje doble ciego, para su posible publicación en un número especial de la revista. Además, la Junta de Representantes de la AMQA escogió trabajos de alumnos de licenciatura que, a su juicio, tuvieran la calidad suficiente para ser sometidos a este tipo de evaluación por pares.
La convocatoria consideraba las siguientes áreas, entre otras:
Alimentos
Medicina, farmacia y salud
Educación
Estudios fundamentales
Aplicaciones diversas
Ambiental
On the basis of the absorbance activity law, it is possible to carry out the spectrophotometric determination of two individual components (having totally or partially overlapping spectra) in a binary mixture. This determination can be carried out in a very precise and simple way by introducing ourselves in the multicomponent analysis by means of the so-called multi-wavelength linear regression analysis (MLRA) method that allows easy handling of data obtained at different wavelengths and whose results are comparable in accuracy and precision with other mathematical procedures. Another way of being able to calculate the individual concentration of two components is a mixture when their spectra are totally or partially overlapping; it is the derived spectrophotometry. The objective of this work is to apply the MLRA method for the individual determination of a binary mixture of metformin and sitagliptin as well as to apply derived spectrophotometry.
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