Organophosphate Nerve Agent Detection with Europium Complexes

Autor: Jake R. Schwierking, Laird W. Menzel, E. Roland Menzel
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2004
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Zdroj: The Scientific World Journal, Vol 4, Pp 948-955 (2004)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1537-744X
DOI: 10.1100/tsw.2004.194
Popis: 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.
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