sodium-dodecyl-sulfate and tetrabutylammonium

The suitability of a mixed-mode sorbent made up of admicelles of sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) and tetrabutylammonium (TBA) to extract and preserve pesticides from river and underground water was assessed. Pesticides belonging to different structural groups (i.e. triazines, carbamates, phenylureas, anilides, chloroacetanilides, organophosphorus and phenoxyacids), most of them well known by their instability, were selected for this purpose. Extraction of pesticides with the admicellar sorbent was optimized. Percolation of 250 mL of sample through the SPE cartridge, elution with 1 mL of methanol (neutral and basic pesticides) or 2 mL of 0.3M NaOH:methanol (90:10, v/v) (acidic pesticides) and direct analysis of the extract by liquid chromatography/UV detection, permitted to obtain method detection limits in the range 2-60 ng L(-1). Their degradation on the SPE cartridges after sample percolation was investigated under a variety of experimental conditions, namely darkness, natural illumination and different temperatures (room temperature, 4 °C and -20 °C) for 3 months. Under darkness, most of pesticides were stable for 1 month at room temperature and 3 months at 4 °C. Only atriazine and clorfenvinfos did not follow this general behaviour. No influence of matrix components on the stabilization of pesticides in the admicellar sorbent was observed. The stabilizing capability of surfactant aggregates surpassed that of C18 and black carbon and was similar to that obtained in some polymeric materials, which have the disadvantage of requiring large volumes of solvents for analyte elution. The stabilization of pesticides on the admicellar sorbent was long enough to permit easy shipping and storage of the cartridges in monitorization campaigns.

Topics: Adsorption; Chromatography, Liquid; Limit of Detection; Micelles; Pesticide Residues; Quaternary Ammonium Compounds; Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate; Solid Phase Extraction; Surface-Active Agents; Water; Water Pollutants, Chemical

Clouding is studied by small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) on a charged micellar system of sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) and tetrabutylammonium bromide (TBAB) with varying temperature and salt NaCl. We show that the clouding occurs as a result of increase in the attractive potential between the micelles mediated by the dehydrated TBA(+) counterions on increasing temperature and in the presence of salt. Both micelles and clusters coexist at cloud point temperature (CP) and beyond CP. The addition of salt can be used to obtain CP at room temperature (30° C). The relative effect of different salts on clouding has been found in the order CaCl(2) > MgSO(4) > Na(2)SO(4) > NaF > NaCl > KCl > CsCl > NaBr > NaNO(3). This order is explained on the basis of two important roles played by salt ions: i) counterion condensation that increases the size of the micelles and ii) dehydration of TBA(+) counterions by salt ions for bridging the micelles.

Topics: Micelles; Neutron Diffraction; Quaternary Ammonium Compounds; Salts; Scattering, Small Angle; Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate; Solutions; Temperature

A mixed anionic-cationic surfactant cloud point extraction (CPE) has been developed using sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and tetrabutylammonium bromide (TBABr) for the extraction and preconcentration of organophosphorus pesticides (OPPs) at ambient temperature before analysis by high-performance liquid chromatography. The studied OPPs were azinphos-methyl, parathion-methyl, fenitrothion, diazinon, chlorpyrifos, and prothiophos. The optimum conditions of the mixed anionic-cationic CPE were 50 mmol L(-1) SDS, 100 mmol L(-1) TBABr, and 10% (w/v) NaCl. The extracted OPPs were successfully separated within 11 min using the conditions of a Waters Symmetry C8 column, a flow rate of 0.8 mL min(-1), a gradient elution of methanol and water, and detection at 210 nm. Linearity was found over the range 0.05-5 μg mL(-1), with the correlation coefficients higher than 0.996. The enrichment factor of the target analytes was in the range 6-11, which corresponds to their limits of detection from 1 to 30 ng mL(-1). High precisions (intra-day and inter-day) were obtained with relative standard deviation <1.5% (t(R)) and 10% (peak area). Accuracies (% recovery) of the different spiked OPP concentrations were 82.7-109.1% (water samples) and 80.3-113.3% (fruit juice samples). No contamination by the OPPs was observed in any studied samples.

Topics: Beverages; Chemical Fractionation; Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; Fruit; Limit of Detection; Organophosphorus Compounds; Pesticide Residues; Quaternary Ammonium Compounds; Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate; Water; Water Pollutants, Chemical

Poly(vinylchloride) (PVC) based membranes of macrocycles 2,3,4:9,10,11-dipyridine-1,3,5,8,10,12-hexaazacyclotetradeca-2,9-diene (L(1)) and 2,3,4:9,10,11-dipyridine-1,5,8,12-tetramethylacrylate-1,3,5,8,10,12-hexaazacyclotetradeca-2,9-diene (L(2)) with NaTPB and KTpClPB as anion excluders and dibutylphthalate (DBP), benzyl acetate (BA), dioctylphthalate (DOP), o-nitrophenyloctyl ether (o-NPOE) and tri-n-butylphosphate (TBP) as plasticizing solvent mediators were prepared and investigated as Co(2+) selective electrodes. The best performance was observed with the membranes having the composition L(2):PVC:TBP:NaTPB in the ratio of 6:39:53:2 (w/w; mg). The performance of the membrane based on L(2) was compared with polymeric membrane electrode (PME) and coated graphite electrode (CGE). The PME exhibits detection limit of 4.7x10(-8)M with a Nernstian slope of 29.7 mV decade(-1) of activity between pH 2.5 and 8.5 whereas CGE exhibits the detection limit of 6.8x10(-9)M with a Nernstian slope of 29.5 mV decade(-1) of activity between pH 2.0 and 9.0. The response time for PME and CGE was found to be 11 and 8s, respectively. The CGE has been found to work satisfactorily in partially non-aqueous media up to 35% (v/v) content of methanol, ethanol and 25% (v/v) content of acetonitrile and could be used for a period of 4 months. The CGE was successfully applied for the determination of Co(2+) in real and pharmaceutical samples and as an indicator electrode in potentiometric titration of cobalt ion.

Topics: Cobalt; Electrochemistry; Environmental Monitoring; Fresh Water; Graphite; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; Ion-Selective Electrodes; Ions; Kinetics; Membranes, Artificial; Molecular Structure; Octoxynol; Organophosphates; Plasticizers; Polymers; Polyvinyl Chloride; Quaternary Ammonium Compounds; Seawater; Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate; Surface-Active Agents; Vitamin B Complex

In this work multifunctional sorbents, based on surfactant-coated mineral oxides, are assessed for the simultaneous extraction/preconcentration of pesticide multiresidues from aqueous environmental samples. Seventeen pesticides, representative of all the common groups (triazines, phenylureas, carbamates, azols, anilides, chloroacetanilides, organophosphorous, phenoxyacids, aryloxy acids and phenols), are selected for this study. The sorbents assessed are pure sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) and mixed tetrabutylammonium (TBA)-SDS hemimicelles and/or admicelles adsorbed onto alumina. Because of their multifunctional character, these sorbents provide different retention mechanisms (i.e. hydrophobic, ionic and/or pi-cation interactions), which highly contribute to the efficient retention of pesticides with different polarities and acidities (bases, neutrals and acids). In addition, the low volume of eluent required for complete elution of analytes (typically 1-2mL) avoided the need of using time-consuming and tedious evaporation steps that generally are needed when cross-linked polymeric resins or carbon materials are used as sorbents. The performance of two sorbents, i.e. SDS and TBA-SDS mixed hemimicelles/admicelles, for the admicellar solid-phase extraction (ASPE) of pesticide multiresidue was comparatively investigated. The latter was selected on the basis of the higher breakthrough volumes permitted, the lower volume of eluent required and the higher sample and eluent flow rates allowed. The proposed ASPE/LC/UV approach provided detection limits lower than 100 ngL(-1) for the determination of the 17 pesticides tested. Recoveries from spiked (at the ngL(-1) level) river and underground water samples was quantitative for most of the pesticides tested.

Topics: Calcium; Chemistry Techniques, Analytical; Chromatography, Liquid; Ions; Kinetics; Micelles; Pesticide Residues; Pesticides; Polymers; Quaternary Ammonium Compounds; Rivers; Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate; Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet; Surface-Active Agents; Water

The cloud point of the surfactant tetrabutylammonium dodecyl sulfate is shown to be a function of the tetrabutylammonium counterion concentration in the aqueous phase whether the counterions are provided by the surfactant or both the surfactant and added tetrabutylammonium bromide. The micellized surfactant dissociates 17% of its counterions to aqueous phase.

Topics: Micelles; Quaternary Ammonium Compounds; Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate; Surface-Active Agents; Water

A few vegetable oils were saponified using aqueous KOH and different PTCs at room temperature in the presence of ultrasound. The extent of saponification was studied using the saponification value as a reference. Optimizations of various parameters such as time, selection of PTC, quantity of PTC, quantity of KOH and quantity of water were carried out using soyabean oil as a sample oil under sonication with stirring. To study the effect of ultrasound, the saponification was also carried out at 35 +/- 2 degrees C under different conditions, namely stirring, sonication, stirring and sonication, and heating at 100 degrees C. It was found that the heterogeneous liquid-liquid phase saponification of different vegetable oils using aq. KOH/CTAB was remarkably accelerated at 35 +/- 2 degrees C in the presence of ultrasound along with stirring.

Topics: Catalysis; Cetrimonium; Cetrimonium Compounds; Hydroxides; Plant Oils; Polyethylene Glycols; Potassium Compounds; Quaternary Ammonium Compounds; Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate; Soybean Oil; Temperature; Ultrasonics; Water