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Organophosphate Nerve Agent Detection with Europium Complexes

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 mod...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Schwierking, Jake R., Menzel, Laird W., Menzel, E. Roland
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5956489/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15578117
http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2004.194
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Sumario: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.