SIMULTANEOUS KINETIC DETERMINATION OF CARBAMATE PESTICIDES AFTER DERIVATIZATION WITH P-AMINOPHENOL BY USING PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES

摘要

A method has been developed for the fast spectrophotometric determination of propoxur, carbaryl, and ethiofencarb in water samples using injection analysis in the stopped-flow mode. The method is based on the reaction between p-aminophenol and the phenolic compounds obtained from the pesticides, after a previous hydrolysis with 0.05 M NaOH at room temperature for 15 min. The partial least-squares treatment of the spectrophotometry kinetic data provides a simultaneous determination of the three carbamate pesticides assayed with a relative accuracy error lower than 5% in complex mixtures also containing formetanate, which is only partially hydrolyzed under the experimental conditions and cannot be determined accurately by the above procedure. (C) 1996 Academic Press, Inc. [References: 19]