Determination of Selenium in Water by Vortex-Assisted Cloud-Point Extraction Combination with Fluorescence Detection

摘要

A simple vortex-assisted cloud-point extraction(VA-CPE)method combined with the fluorescence(FL)strategy was developed to extract and determine inorganic Se(IV)in environmental water.Toluene was used as an extraction reagent,and Se(VI)was reduced to Se(IV)by subjecting its solution in 4 mol/L HCl to microwave heating for generating a yellow piazselenol complex using 3,3'-diaminobenzidine(DAB)and Se(IV).The concentration of the complex exhibited an excellent linear relation with the FL at 560 nm with an excitation wavelength of 420 nm.In addition,the effects of the toluene volume,pH,and VA-CPE parameters were investigated and the interference from coexisting ions was also studied.This method was successfully applied to determine the concentration selenium in environmental water samples with a detection limit of 0.05μg/L in the line range from 0.50μg/L to 50.00μg/L.