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Electrochemical study of 5-nitroquinoline using carbon film electrode and its determination in model samples of drinking and river water

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This work is focused on the determination of submicromolar concentrations of 5-nitroquinoline (5-NQ) using differential pulse voltammetry (DPV) and direct current voltammetry (DCV) at a novel type of carbon film electrode (CFE). The advantages of CFE are its wide potential window in both cathodic and anodic regions (ca 3 V span), high sensitivity, and low noise of measurements. The other advantages of CFE are the possibility to quickly and easily renew the electrode surface and also non-toxicity for environment compared to mercury electrodes. Calibration dependences in deionized water are linear from 0.4 to 100 µmol dm−3, with limit of quantification (LOQ) 1 µmol dm−3 using DCV, and from 0.2 to 100 µmol dm−3, with LOQ 0.4 µmol dm−3 using DPV. The DPV method was verified for model samples of drinking and river water. The calibration dependences were linear in the concentration ranges from 0.2 to 10 µmol dm−3 for both matrices, with LOQ 0.2 µmol dm−3 for drinking water and LOQ 0.6 µmol dm−3 for river water, respectively. This work has proved the usability of CFE for submicromolar determination of 5-NQ based on cathodic reduction of the present nitro group.

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Acknowledgments

This research was carried out in the framework of the Specific University Research (SVV). JB and VV thank the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (Project P206/12/G151) and TR thanks the Grant Agency of the Charles University in Prague (Project GAUK 468214) for financial support.

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    Tereza Rumlova, Ivan Jiranek, Vlastimil Vyskocil & Jiri Barek

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Rumlova, T., Jiranek, I., Vyskocil, V. et al. Electrochemical study of 5-nitroquinoline using carbon film electrode and its determination in model samples of drinking and river water. Monatsh Chem 147, 153–158 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00706-015-1573-x

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