The dicarboximide fungicide procymidone was studied systematically by using direct current polarography, cyclic voltammetry, differential pulse polarography (DPP), controlled potential electrolysis, and millicoulometry in the universal buffer medium with dimethylformamide as the solvent. Procymidone exhibited a single well-defined polarographic wave in the pH range 2.0–6.0, leading to the formation of the hydroxy compound. The overall reduction process was diffusion-controlled and adsorption-free. The variation of half-wave potential with pH, the concentration of the analyte, and other experimental conditions are described. The reduction mechanism proposed is an overall 4-electron process, in which the dicarboximide group is reduced. DPP was used to determine procymidone in agricultural formulations and wine at the optimum conditions found; a detection limit of 2.4 × 10−9M was estimated. The results obtained by the proposed method were also compared with those obtained by other methods.
In this paper, a sensitive differential pulse voltammetric method to determine the residues of acetophos in water samples at CNTPE were reported. The significance of CNTPE is to result in low detection limits, high sensitivities, reduction of over-potentials, high mechanical strength and high conductivity and resistance to surface fouling. The universal buffer with pH range 2.0–6.0 is used as supporting electrolyte. Cyclic voltammetry employed to evaluate electrode mechanism and number of electrons involved in reduction process were found out by using Millicoulometry and the product collected by applying Controlled potential electrolysis. Experimental conditions such as accumulation potential, accumulation time and scan rate were optimized. Calculations were made by standard addition method.
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