Study of the voltammetric behaviour of the ethalfluralin and methalpropalin and its determination in environmental matrices at hanging mercury drop electrode

Author： Thriveni T. Kumar J. Lee Jin Sreedhar N.

Publisher： Springer Publishing Company

ISSN： 0167-6369

Source： Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Vol.151, Iss.1-4, 2009-04, pp. : 9-18

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Abstract

An electroanalytical method has been developed for the determination of the herbicides ethalfluralin[N-ethyl-N-(2-methyl-2-propenyl)-2,6-dinitro-4-(trifluoromethyl) bezenamine] and methalpropalin [N-(2-methyl-2-propenyl)-2, 6-dinitro-N-propyl-4 (trifluoromethyl) benzenamine] by differential pulse adsorptive stripping voltammetry (DP-AdSV) on a hanging mercury drop electrode (HMDE) with universal buffer as supporting electrolyte. The optimum adsorption conditions were found to be pH 6.0, an accumulation potential of −0.6 V (HMDE vs SCE), an accumulation time of 80 s. and scan rate 45 mVs⁻¹. Calibration curve is linear in the range 1.30 × 10⁻⁹ to 1.32 × 10⁻⁵ M of ethalfluralin and 1.13 × 10⁻⁵ to 2.0 × 10⁻⁸ M of methalpropalin with detection limits of 1.08 × 10⁻⁹ and 1.87 × 10⁻⁸ M, respectively. The relative SD and correlation coefficients were found to be 1.24%, 0.998 and 1.34%, 0.995, respectively for ten replicates. The method is applied to the determination of the ethalfluralin and methalpropalin in formulations and environmental matrices.