A novel chemiluminescence(CL) sensor, which can be used for hydroxylamine determination in combination with flow injection analysis, was developed by electrostatically immobilizing luminol and periodate on anion exchange resin respectively. Hydroxylamine was sensed by its enhancing effect on the weak CL reaction between luminol and periodate, which were eluted from the ion exchange column. The response of the sensor to hydroxylamine was linear in the concentration range of 8.0×10^(-8)-2.0×10^(-6)mol/L with a detection limit of 4.0×10^(-8)mol/L hydroxylamine(3σ).The relative standard deviation(RSD) was 2.0% for 9 repetitive determinations at a hydroxylamine concentration of 5.0×10^(-7) mol/L. The sensor could be reused for over 400 times with a good reproducibility and was used to determine hydroxylamine in wastewater.
A novel determination method of electroinactive molecules by means of electrochemical technique is presented. A new self-assembled monolayer containing cyclodextrin (CD) is prepared with mono(6-o-p-tolylsulfonyl)-β-cyclodextrin. Although this derivatization process leads to a β-CD coverage of 10% of a full monolayer, this layer shows an effective host-guest response to ferrocene. The interfacial ferrocene complexation gives a response similar to that expected for a Langmuir adsorption isotherm yielding a stability constant of 4.2 ×104 mol-1· L and a maximum ferrocene coverage of 8.6×10-12 mol/cm2. The redox peak currents of the surface-confined ferrocene decrease upon addition of competing β-CD guest species to the solution, such as m-toluic acid (mTA) and sodium dodecyl sulfonate (SDS). This principle has been used for the determination of the electroinactive molecules, mTA and SDS in the concentration ranges of 0.8-2.7 μmol/L and 5-100 nmol/L, respectively.
