Abstract
A sensitive analytical procedure based on solid phase extractive-spectrophotometry has been established for the determination of the widely used herbicide atrazine .The method is based on the Konig reaction in which atrazine reacts with pyridine reagent to form a quaternary pyridinium halide, which further forms glutaconic aldehyde in the presence of alkali. Glutaconic aldehyde is subsequently coupled with 4-aminoacetanilide in the micellar medium of anionic surfactant sodium dodecyl sulphate to give a yellow-orange dye. The produced dye was enriched on a C18 cartridge and is measured spectrophotometrically at 460 nm. The sensitivity and selectivity of the method was largely enhanced in the micellar media and SPE on the C18 cartridge and avoids the use of toxic solvents. Beer’s law was obeyed in the range 0.012–0.12 μg mL−1. Molar absorptivity and Sandell’s sensitivity were found to be 1.52 × 106 L mol− 1 cm−1 and 0.0002 μg cm−2, respectively. The limit of detection and quantification were 0.001 and 0.003 μg mL−1, respectively. The proposed method was applied successfully for the determination of atrazine in environmental and biological samples with a recovery range of 96–101 %. The method was found to be free from interference of a large number of foreign species. The accuracy and reliability of the method was further established by parallel determination by the reference method, and by recovery studies.
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Abbreviations
- CPC:
-
Cetyl-pyridiniumchloride
- CTAB:
-
Cetyl-trimethylammoniumbromide
- SDS:
-
Sodiumdodecylsulphate
- SPE:
-
Solid phase extraction
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Tiwari, N., Asthana, A. & Upadhyay, K. A sensitive spectrophotometric determination of atrazine in micellar medium and its application in environmental samples. Res Chem Intermed 39, 2867–2879 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11164-012-0806-4
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