Organophosphate nerve agent detection with europium complexes.

Autor: Schwierking JR; Center for Forensic Studies, Physics Department, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-1051, USA., Menzel LW, Menzel ER
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: TheScientificWorldJournal [ScientificWorldJournal] 2004 Nov 05; Vol. 4, pp. 948-55. Date of Electronic Publication: 2004 Nov 05.
DOI: 10.1100/tsw.2004.194
Abstrakt: We explore the detection of paraoxon, a model compound for nonvolatile organophosphate nerve agents such as VX. The detection utilizes europium complexes with 1,10 phenanthroline and thenoyltrifluoroacetone as sensitizing ligands. Both europium luminescence quenching and luminescence enhancement modalities are involved in the detection, which is simple, rapid, and sensitive. It is adaptable as well to the more volatile fluorophosphate nerve agents. It involves nothing more than visual luminescence observation under sample illumination by an ordinary hand-held ultraviolet lamp.
Databáze: MEDLINE