Review ArticleRecent Developments in the Speciation and Determination ofMercury Using Various Analytical Techniques

Lakshmi Narayana Suvarapu and Sung-Ok Baek

Department of Environmental Engineering Yeungnam University Gyeongsan-si 712 749 Republic of Korea

Correspondence should be addressed to Lakshmi Narayana Suvarapu suvarapugmailcom

Received 8 May 2015 Accepted 15 June 2015

Academic Editor Antony C Calokerinos

Copyright copy 2015 L N Suvarapu and S-O Baek This is an open access article distributed under the Creative CommonsAttribution License which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work isproperly cited

This paper reviews the speciation and determination of mercury by various analytical techniques such as atomic absorptionspectrometry voltammetry inductively coupled plasma techniques spectrophotometry spectrofluorometry high performanceliquid chromatography and gas chromatography Approximately 126 research papers on the speciation and determination ofmercury by various analytical techniques published in international journals since 2013 are reviewed

1 Introduction

Mercury which is also known as quick silver is only themetal (Figure 1) in the modern periodic table that exists inliquid form at room temperature The sources of mercuryin the environment include the natural processes such asbreakdown of minerals in rocks and volcanic activities Theanthropogenic sources are not limited to mining and theburning of fossil fuels Regarding the toxicity of mercury andits different speciesmethylmercury poisoning affects the ner-vous system of humans and damages the brain and kidneys[1] Most of the mercury emitted into the environment isconverted tomethylmercury which spreads to the food chaindue to the bioaccumulation nature of methylmercury [2]Owing to the toxicity nature and bioaccumulation nature ofmercury most studies in this area have focused on the deter-mination ofmercury and its species in various environmentaland biological samples

Marumoto and Imai [3] reported the determination ofdissolved gaseous mercury in the seawater of MinamataBay of Japan This study also estimated the exchange ofmercury across the air-sea interface Panichev and Panicheva[4] reported the determination of the total mercury contentin fish and sea products by thermal decomposition atomicabsorption spectrometry Fernandez-Martınez et al [5] eval-uated different digestion systems for the determination of

mercury with CV-AFS (cold-vapor atomic fluorescence spec-trometer) in seaweeds Pinedo-Hernandez et al [6] examinedthe speciation and bioavailability of mercury in sedimentsthat had been impacted by gold mining in Colombia

This paper presented the recent developments in thistopic after a previous review published in 2013 [2] Thepresent study reviews the recent developments in the spe-ciation and determination studies of mercury reported andpublished since 2013 For this purpose approximately 136research papers published were reviewed All the analyticalparameters such as limit of detection linearity range andinterference study reported by the reviewed papers arepresented in Tables 1ndash4 [7ndash133] This extensive collectionof literature and the analytical parameters of the reviewedpapers established the recent developments in the determi-nation and speciation studies of mercury using a range ofanalytical techniques

2 Discussion

The toxicity and bioaccumulation nature of mercury hasprompted extensive studies to determine the concentrationsof mercury species in different environmental and biologicalsamples This paper reviewed a large number of studies onthe determination and speciation of toxic metals including

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Figure 1 Elemental mercury

mercury The reviews regarding the determination of mer-cury published since 2013 are discussed hereunder

Suvarapu et al [2] reviewed research papers publishedbetween 2010 and 2011 regarding the speciation and deter-mination of mercury using a variety of analytical tech-niques They concluded that most researchers prefer cold-vapor atomic absorption spectrometry (CV-AAS) and atomicabsorption spectrofluorometry (CV-AFS) for the speciationand determination studies of mercury in various environ-mental samples Suvarapu et al [134] also reviewed researchpapers published in 2012 regarding the determination ofmer-cury in various environmental samples El-Shahawi and Al-Saidi [135] reviewed the dispersive liquid-liquidmicroextrac-tion (DLLME) method for the speciation and determinationof metal ions including mercury This review concluded thatthe method of DLLME has the advantages of simplicityspeed and low cost for the determination of metal ions usingvarious analytical techniques Ferreira et al [136] reviewedthe use of reflux systems for the sample preparation inthe determination of elements such as arsenic antimonycadmium lead and mercury This study concluded that theuse of the reflux systems is very rare in the determinationof elements such as Hg Gao et al [137] reviewed theapplication of chemical vapor generation method for thedetermination of metal ions such as mercury and cadmiumwith ICP-MS Sanchez et al [138] reviewed the determinationof trace elements including mercury present in petroleumproducts using ICP techniquesThis study concluded that theelectrothermal vaporization and laser ablation methods werepromising for the analysis of petroleum for trace elementsMartın-Yerga et al [139] reviewed the determination of mer-cury using electrochemical methods This study discussedthe advantages and disadvantages of the use of differentelectrodes in the determination ofmercury Chang et al [140]reviewed the detection of heavy metals such as cadmiumlead and mercury in water samples using graphene basedsensors This study concluded that it is a very challengingtask to detect heavy metals in water in real time due tothe interference of large chemical and biological species inwater Yu andWang [141] reviewed the determination ofmetalions including mercury by atomic spectrometry by applyingflow-based sample pretreatment methods They concludedthat the ICP-AES AAS AFS and ICP-MS are the majordetection techniques for trace metal analysis Yin et al [142]reviewed the speciation analysis of mercury arsenic andselenium using a range of analytical techniques Gao and

Huang [143] reviewed the determination of mercury(II) ionsby voltammetry and concluded that stripping voltammetry isstill an active field of research regarding the determination ofmercury Duarte et al [144] reviewed disposable sensors andelectrochemical sensors for the environmental monitoring ofPb Cd and Hg They recommended the recycling of materi-als used in sensors for future studies Recently Ferreira et al[145] reviewed the analytical strategies of sample preparationfor the determination of mercury in food matrices

In recent days few research papers were publishedabout the determination and analysis of mercury speciesin various environmental and biological samples and someof them are discussed hereunder Lima et al [146] reportedan efficient method for the determination of mercuryin inorganic fertilizers by using CV-AAS combined withmicrowave-induced plasma spectrometry Pelcova et al[147] reported the simultaneous determination of mercuryspecies by LC-AFS with a low detection limit of 13ndash38 ng Lminus1Chen et al [148] reported a colorimetric method for thedetermination of mercury ions based on gold nanoparticlesand thiocyanuric acid Fernandez et al [149] reported goldnanostructured screen-printed carbon electrodes for thedetermination of mercury using dispersive liquid-liquidmicroextraction Fernandez-Martınez et al [5] evaluatedthe different digestion systems for determination of mercuryin seaweeds using CV-AFS Silva et al [150] determinedthe trace amounts of mercury in alcohol vinegar samplescollected from Salvador Bahia of Brazil Jarujamrus et al[151] reported a colorimetric method using unmodified silvernanoparticles for the determination of mercury in watersamples A highly selective method for the determinationof mercury using a glassy carbon electrode modified withnano-TiO

2

and multiwalled carbon nanotubes in river andindustrial wastewater was reported by Mao et al [152]

As mentioned in our previous review [2] spectrometrictechniques are used widely bymany researchers for the deter-mination of mercury over the world Regarding the determi-nation of mercury with various analytical instruments in thepapers reviewedmore than 55 of the researchers used spec-trometric instruments such as atomic absorption spectrome-try (AAS) inductively coupled plasma techniques (ICP-OESAES and MS) and atomic fluorescence spectrometer (AFS)(Table 1) ICP-MS technique has an advantage of low detec-tion limits and wide range of linearity in the determinationof mercury [153] Around 20 of the researchers chose thespectrophotometer and spectrofluorometer (Table 2) for thedetermination and speciation ofmercury Approximately 10of researchers in the papers reviewed used electrochemicalinstruments for the determination and speciation studiesof mercury (Table 3) Only a few authors chose the HPLCGC and other techniques (Table 4) but they coupled theseinstruments with AAS or other instruments Regarding theanalysis of the environmental biological samples for mercuryand its species most researchers analyzed various water sam-ples (drinking seawater wastewater river and lake waters)followed by food samples (mostly fish) human hair andambient air Only a few authors determined the concentrationofmercury in ambient air and atmospheric particulatematter

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 3

Table1Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

byspectro

metric

instr

uments(A

ASICP-OES

AES

MSandAFS

)

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1To

talH

gCV

-AASand

ICP-AES

Microwavea

ciddigestion

483times10minus10M

mdashFish

samples

Cadm

ium

andlead

also

analyzed

alon

gwith

mercury

mdash[7]

2Hg(II)

CV-AAS

Precon

centratio

n17

9times10minus10M

mdashWater

andhu

man

hair

Recovery

ofHg2

+isin

ther

ange

of956ndash104

9

inpresence

ofCu

2+

Co2

+Z

n2+N

i2+C

d2+M

n2+B

a2+

Pb2+Fe3

+C

r3+A

l3+A

g+K

+N

a+

NH

4+M

g2+and

Ca2+

ionsfrom

750

to2500-fo

ld

Dith

izon

e[8]

3To

talH

gCV

-AAS

Ultrasou

ndextractio

n698times10minus11M

mdashAlcoh

olvinegar

mdashmdash

[9]

4To

talH

gCV

-AAS

SPE1

498times10minus11M

Ricecannedfishandtealeaves

Thetolerance

limitforN

a+K

+M

g2+

andCa

2+is40

00-fo

ldfor

Ba2+

and

Zn2+

is40

-foldfor

Fe3+C

r3+C

o2+

andNi2+

is10-fo

ldand

forA

l3+is

200-fold

comparedto

Hg2

+

Fe3O

4nano

particles

[10]

5Hg(II)

CV-AAS

SPE

997times10minus12M

Upto

500120583

gLminus1

Water

samples

AsAlFeM

oandSb

ared

epressed

theH

gsig

nal

Carbon

nano

tubes

[11]

6To

talH

gCV

-AAS

Acid

digestion

36times10minus9M

mdashMarinefi

shmdash

mdash[12]

7To

talH

gCV

-AAS

Wetdigestion

30times10minus9M

mdashGreen

tiger

shrim

pArsenicalso

determ

ined

alon

gwith

mercury

mdash[13]

8To

talH

gCV

-AAS

Alkalinefusiondigestion

006

nggminus

1000

6ndash40

00ng

gminus1

Phosph

ater

ock

mdashmdash

[14]

9TH

gAAS

Acid

digestion

498times10minus12M

mdashFish

muscle

tissues

Cadm

ium

andlead

also

detected

alon

gwith

mercury

mdash[15]

10Hg(II)

CV-AAS

SPE

119times10minus11M

001ndash230120583

gLminus1

Water

samples

Fe3+C

u2+Z

n2+C

d2+C

o2+and

Mn2

+aren

otinterfe

redup

to5m

gLminus1

andNH

4+andTl

3+aren

otinterfe

red

upto

1mgLminus1

Polymer

supp

ortedionic

liquid

[16]

11Hg(II)

CV-AAS

SPE

997times10minus11M

007ndash200120583

gLminus1

Water

samples

Tolerablea

mou

ntof

major

metalsis

limitedup

to50120583gLminus1

Polytetrafluo

roethylene

[17]

12To

talH

gCV

-AAS

Digestio

n398times10minus10M

25ndash100120583gLminus1

Biologicalsamples

mdashColdfin

ger

[18]

13To

talH

gCV

-AAS

Com

bustion

299times10minus13M

mdashWater

andfish

Arsenicandselenium

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

mercury

mdash[19

]

14To

talH

gAAS

Amalgamation

02n

ggforh

aira

nd002

ngg

forb

lood

mdashHaira

ndbloo

dsamples

Arsenicandselenium

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

mercury

mdash[20]

15To

talH

gCV

-AAS(to

talH

g)andGC-

ICPM

S(M

eHg)

Cold-vapo

rreductio

nwith

NaB

H4

598times10minus11M

(totalH

g)and23times10minus9M

(MeH

g)mdash

Bloo

dof

birds

Selenium

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

mercury

andmethylm

ercury

mdash[21]

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Table1Con

tinued

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

16To

talH

gand

MeH

g

CV-AAS(to

talH

g)andCV

-AFS

(MeH

g)Digestio

n003ndash0

1ng

gmdash

Fishvegetablesandmushroo

ms

Selenium

andcadm

ium

also

determ

ined

with

mercury

species

mdash[22]

17Hgspeciatio

nCV

-AAS(to

talH

g)andCV

-AFS

(MeH

g)Ac

iddigestion

mdashWater

samples

mdashmdash

[23]

18Hgspeciatio

nCV

-AAS

LLME2

149times10minus10M

(Hg2

+)

and

18times10minus9M

(MeH

g)05ndash100n

gmLminus

1Water

samples

andCR

Ms

Ther

ecoveryof

Hg2

+in

presence

offoreignions

is95ndash105

andforM

eHgis

96ndash106

mdash[24]

19To

talH

gGF-AAS

Acid

mineralization

697times10minus11M

mdashFish

muscle

samples

mdashCop

pern

itrate

[25]

20GEM

AAS

Ambientair

mdashmdash

[26]

21To

talH

gCV

-AAS

Acid

digestion

00006120583ggminus1

mdashFreshw

ater

fishsamples

mdashStanno

uschlorid

e[27]

22To

talH

gAAS

Com

bustion

001ng

mdashSoilsamples

Interfe

renceo

fvarious

heavymetals

was

overcomeb

yusingsample

pretreatment

mdash[28]

23Hgspeciatio

nAAS(THg)

and

ICP-MS-HPL

C(M

eHg)

Hydrid

egeneration

533times10minus14M

20120583gLminus1

Fish

samples

CdPb

AsandSn

also

measured

alon

gwith

Hg

mdash[29]

24TH

gHG-AAS

Hydrid

egeneration

984

(accuracy)

mdashIrrig

ationwater

wells

Along

with

mercury

PbC

dandAl

Cralso

measured

mdash[30]

25TH

gCV

-AASandAAS

Thermaldecompo

sition

andam

algamation

134times10minus9M

(TD-amalgamation

AAS)

and314times10minus9M

(CV-AAS)

mdashSoilsamples

mdashmdash

[31]

26To

talH

gspeciatio

nHV-AASand

HPL

C-CV

-AFS

Extractio

nmdash

mdashAq

ueou

ssolutions

andfishtissue

mdashMultiw

alledcarbon

nano

tubes

[32]

27To

talH

gCV

-AAS(D

MA)

Microwaveo

vendigestion

mdashmdash

Cann

edfish

Selenium

andtin

also

measuredalon

gwith

mercury

mdash[33]

28TH

gAMA(A

AS)

AASprinciples

and

with

outd

igestio

nprocess

mdashmdash

Fish

redmuscle

and

whitemuscle

mdashmdash

[34]

29TH

gAES

LIBS

andSIBS

2times10minus3M

(LIBS)

and

997times10minus5M

(SIBS)

Soilsamples

At534074n

mhaslessspectral

interfe

rence

mdash[35]

30Hgspeciatio

nCV

-AFS

Extractio

n10

(totalH

g)and

001MeH

gnggminus1

mdashSeaw

ater

andsediments

mdashmdash

[36]

31Hgspeciatio

nCV

-AFS

Extractio

n001times10minus12M

(Hg0)and

0002times10minus12M

(DM

Hg)

mdashSeaw

aters

mdashmdash

[37]

32To

talH

gCV

-AFS

Microwavea

ssisted

digestion

398times10minus13M

mdashNuts

Interfe

renceo

ffatin

nutsisremoved

bytre

atmentw

ithchloroform

and

methano

lmdash

[38]

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 5

Table1Con

tinued

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

33Hg(II)

AFS

Fluo

rescence

optical

sensor

957times10minus12M

227times10minus11ndash113times

10minus3M

Hum

anhair

urineand

wellw

ater

samples

Mosto

fthe

alkalialkalin

eand

transitionmetalions

didno

tinterfere

inthed

eterminationof

Hg2

+

N-(2-Hydroxy

phenyl)-N-(2-mercapto

phenyl)-o-ph

thalylidene

[39]

34GEM

CV-AFS

Goldam

algamation

000

02ng

mdashTo

talsuspend

edparticulates

mdashQFF

(quartzfi

berfi

lters)

[40]

35MeH

gAASandCV

-AFS

Acid

digestion

0005120583

gg

mdashWatersoilsediments

and

food

stuffs

mdashmdash

[41]

36To

talH

gCV

-AFS

Microwavea

ssisted

digestion

05n

ggminus1

mdashSediments

mdashSequ

entia

linjectio

nsyste

m[42]

37To

talH

gCV

-AFS

Acid

digestion

048

nggminus

1mdash

Rice

Interfe

renceo

fother

metalions

iselim

inated

byacid

washandkept

storage

ofsamples

for2

4h

Multisyringe

flow

injectionanalysis

[43]

38Hgspeciatio

nHPL

C-AFS

UV-indu

cedatom

ization

19times10minus9(H

g2+)19times

10minus9(M

eHg)and

20times

10minus9(EtH

g)M

CRMs

mdashmdash

[44]

39Hg(II)

UV-AFS

SPE

149times10minus13ndash398times

10minus13M

1ndash5000

ngLminus

1Naturalwaters

10mgLminus1of

Fe2+Fe3

+C

u2+P

b2+

andAs3+and10gLminus1of

Na+K

+and

Ca2+

didno

tinterfere

inthe

determ

inationof

100n

gLminus1of

Hg2

+

Sodium

diethyldith

iocarbam

ate

[45]

40Hg(II)

AFS

Micro-SPE

598times10minus11M

Upto

5120583gLminus1

Water

samples

mdashMesofl

uidicp

latform

[46]

41Hgspeciatio

nEX

-AFS

05n

ggminus1(to

talH

g)mdash

Wastecalcines

mdashmdash

[47]

42Hgspeciatio

nCV

-AFS

Extractio

nsim05p

gmdash

Atmosph

ericair

mdashPT

FEfilterp

apers

[48]

43MeH

gGC-AFS

SPE

12ng

gminus1

Upto

15ng

mLminus

1Biologicalsamples

mdashmdash

[49]

44Hgspeciatio

nHPL

C-AFS

Liqu

id-liqu

idmicroextractio

n

154times10minus10(H

g2+)74

2times10minus11(M

eHg)1045times

10minus10(EtH

g)and

331times

10minus10M

(PhH

g)

00ndash

20120583gLminus1

Environm

entalw

aters

Nointerfe

rencefrom

otherm

etalions

1-Octyl-3-m

eth-l

imidazolium

hexaflu

orop

hosphate

[50]

45MeH

gCV

-AFS

Extractio

n0515n

ggminus1

mdashPetro

leum

mdashTM

AH

3 KO

HCH

3OH

HCland

acidic

CuSO

4KB

r[51]

46GEM

CV-AFS

mdashmdash

mdashAmbientair

mdashmdash

[52]

47Hg(II)

AFS

Fluo

rescence

007times10minus6M

01ndash45120583

MAq

ueou

ssolutions

Long

erexcitatio

nandem

ission

wavele

ngth

couldshield

the

interfe

rence

Fe3O

4magnetic

nano

particles

[53]

48Hgspeciatio

nCV

-AFS

Thermaldecompo

sition

mdashmdash

Fish

liver

Metho

dvalid

ityisteste

dwith

CRM

mdash[54]

49TH

gAFS

mdashlt498times10minus12M

mdashSn

owmdash

K 2Cr

2O7Sn

Cl2

[55]

50Atmosph

ericHg

CV-AFS

Extractio

nmdash

mdashParticulatem

atter

mdashmdash

[56]

6 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Table1Con

tinued

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

51TH

gCV

-AFS

Flow

injectionmercury

syste

mmdash

mdashHerbalprodu

cts

mdashProtease

papain

[57]

52Hgspeciatio

nLC

-UV-CV

-AFS

Microwaved

igestio

n498times10minus12(to

talH

g)

139times10minus12(M

eHg)and

199times10minus12(H

g2+)M

mdashSeafoo

dSimultaneou

slydeterm

ined

both

Hg(II)a

ndMeH

gmdash

[58]

53MeH

gandtotal

Hg

CV-AAS

Digestio

n0088(M

eHg)

and0005

(totalH

g)120583ggminus1

mdashHaira

ndmilk

ofmothers

mdashmdash

[59]

54Hg(II)

ICP-MS

Microflu

idic

349times10minus10M

02ndash40120583

gLminus1

Aqueou

ssam

ples

Ther

ecoveryof

Hg2

+in

thep

resence

of100120583

gLminus1of

Ca2+C

d2+C

o2+

Cr3+C

u2+K

+M

g2+N

a+N

i2+

Pb2+and

Zn2+

isin

ther

ange

of975ndash1017

Goldnano

particles

[60]

55To

talH

gICP-MS

Acid

digestion

0053ndash001120583ggminus1

mdashPh

armaceutic

alingredients

Lowresid

ualcarbo

ncontentin

digests

isdesir

ableto

minim

izes

ome

interfe

rence

mdash[61]

56Hg(II)

ICP-MS

Adsorptio

nmdash

mdashWastewaters

mdashMultiw

alledcarbon

nano

tubes

[62]

57Hg(II)

ICP-OES

Extractio

n14

9times10minus11M

mdashFish

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofNa+K

+C

s+

Ca2+M

g2+Z

n2+Fe2

+C

u2+C

o2+

Ni2+

Mn2

+C

d2+and

Pb2+

into

1mgLminus1solutio

nsof

Hg(II)inpH

8

Ionim

printedpo

lymer

[63]

58To

talH

gCV

-ICP

-MS

Microwaved

igestio

n3n

ggminus1

mdashPlantsandsoil

mdashmdash

[64]

59To

talH

gICP-MS

Microwavea

ssisted

digestion

mdashmdash

Rice

mdashmdash

[65]

60GEM

CV-ICP

-MS

Thermalanalysis

20times10minus15g

mdashAtmosph

ericparticulates

mdashmdash

[66]

61Hg(II)a

ndMeH

gHPL

C-ICPM

SHF-LP

ME4

548times10minus10(H

g2+)a

nd1times

10minus9(M

eHg)

MUpto

50120583gLminus1

Tapriv

erand

estuarinew

aters

Simultaneou

slyselenium

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

mercury

mdash[67]

62Hgspeciatio

nICP-MS

Ionexchange

chromatograph

y

947times10minus11(H

g2+)12

5times10minus10

(MeH

g)135times

10minus10(EtH

g)and

792times

10minus10(PhH

g)M

01ndash100120583

gLminus1(all

Hgspecies)

Seaw

ater

andmarinefi

shmdash

L-Cy

steineo

rthiou

rea

[68]

63Hgspeciatio

nGC-

ICP-MS

Precon

centratio

n27

(Hg2

+)a

nd12ng

gminus1

(MeH

g)mdash

Hum

anhair

mdashmdash

[69]

64To

talH

gMC-

ICPM

SIsotop

eratio

analysis

01ndash02disin

tegrations

perm

inute

mdashSedimentcore

Mercury

andmercury

isotope

compo

sitions

ared

etermined

mdash[70]

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 7

Table1Con

tinued

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

65Hg(II)a

ndMeH

gCV

G-ICP

-MS

Extractio

n17

(Hg(II))and

23n

ggminus1(M

eHg)

mdashFish

samples

mdashmdash

[71]

66MeH

gHg(II)

and

EtHg

HPL

C-CV

-ICP

MS

Extractio

nandseparatio

n598times10minus11(H

g(II))

217times10minus11(EtH

g)and

18times10minus8(M

eHg)

Mmdash

Plasmaserum

samples

mdashmdash

[72]

67To

talH

gICP-MS

Microwavea

ssisted

digestion

mdashmdash

Freshw

ater

fishsamples

mdashmdash

[73]

68To

talH

gICP-MS

Isotop

edilu

tionand

UV-ph

otochemicalvapo

rgeneratio

n05p

ggminus1

mdashBiologicaltissues

Polyatom

icinterfe

renceisn

otdetectable

Form

icacid

[74]

69To

talH

gICP-MS

Calcination-iso

tope

dilutio

n2times10minus15M

mdashDiploria

specim

ens

Noiso

baric

interfe

rencew

asfoun

dmdash

[75]

70Hgspeciatio

nICP-MS

Anion

exchange

chromatograph

icseparatio

n

398times10minus11(H

g2+)111

times10minus10(M

eHg)126times

10minus10(EtH

g)and

122times

10minus10(PhH

g)M

mdashFish

samples

mdash3-Mercapto-1-

prop

anesulfonate

[76]

71To

talH

gICP-MS

Ultrason

icslu

rry

samplingele

ctrothermal

vapo

rization

02n

ggminus1

mdashHerbalsam

ples

AsCdandPb

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

Hg

8-Hydroxyqu

inoline

[77]

72To

talH

gICP-MS

Electro

thermal

vapo

rization

598times10minus11M

mdashWater

associated

with

crud

eoil

prod

uctio

nBy

precon

centratio

nof

analyte

interfe

renceisa

voided

mdash[78]

73TH

gICP-MS

Isotop

edilu

tionequatio

n498times10minus11M

forT

Hg

000

05ndash132

1mgkg

forM

eHg

Arctic

cod

mdashmdash

[79]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 Solid-phase

extractio

n2 LLM

Eliq

uid-liq

uidmicroextractio

n3 T

MAHtetramethylammon

ium

hydroxide

4 HF-LP

ME

hallo

wfib

erliq

uidph

asem

icroextractio

nAnalytic

alinstruments

CV-AAS

cloud

vapo

ratom

icabsorptio

nspectro

meterH

G-AAS

hydridegeneratio

nAAS

GF-AAS

graphite

furnaceAAS

ICP-OES

ind

uctiv

elycoup

ledplasmaop

tical

emiss

ion

spectro

meterICP

-MSICP-massspectrometerICP

-AES

ICP

-atomicem

issionspectro

meterH

PLC

high

perfo

rmance

liquidchromatograph

yAFS

atomicflu

orescences

pectrometerA

MAautom

aticmercury

analyzerD

MAdire

ctmercury

analyzer

8 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Table2Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

byspectro

photom

eter

andspectro

fluorom

eter

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

ument

used

forthe

detection

Metho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1Hg(II)

Fluo

rescence

spectro

photom

eter

Fluo

rescence

40times10minus9M

60ndash

450n

MWater

samples

10-fo

ldof

Pb2+C

u2+and

Ag+

show

slt7

influ

ence

onthed

eterminationof

Hg2

+comparedto

repo

rted

ones

CdT

equantum

dots

[80]

2Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

23times10minus9M

000ndash0

31120583M

Riverw

ater

Selectiveinpresence

ofAg+C

d2+C

u2+

Co2

+N

i2+and

Pb2+

Carbon

nano

dots

[81]

3Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

26times10minus9M

0001ndash1120583

MWater

samples

Selectiveinpresence

of20120583M

ofAl3+

Ca

2+C

o2+C

u2+C

d2+Fe3

+M

n2+N

i2+

Pb2+and

Zn2+

Goldnano

particles

[82]

4Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

mdash083ndash86120583gm

Lminus1

Water

samples

Thetolerance

limitof

Cu2+V

5+A

g+

Pd2+P

t4+A

u3+Fe2

+N

i2+C

d2+P

b2+

andCr

6+isin

ther

ange

of011ndash

041120583

gmLminus

1 inthed

eterminationof

191120583

gmLminus

1of

Hg2

+

5-Methylth

ioph

ene-2-

carboxaldehyde

ethylenediam

ine

[83]

5Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

173times

10minus9M

20n

Mndash6

0120583M

mdashInterfe

renceo

fmajor

catio

nsstu

died

ONPC

Rs1

[84]

6Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

50times10minus9M

20ndash

1000

nMWater

samplers

Selectiveinpresence

ofNi2+

Co2

+C

a2+

Cu2+N

a+K

+A

s3+M

g2+C

d2+and

Fe2+

Silver

nano

particles

[85]

7Hg(II)

UV-Vis

spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

135times10minus6M

mdashDrin

king

water

Cd2

+P

b2+Fe3

+and

Ba2+

dono

tinterfe

rein

thed

eterminationof

Hg2

+bu

tMg2

+C

a2+and

Mn2

+interfe

reslightly

Goldnano

particles

[86]

8Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

and

UV-spectro

meter

Colorim

etric

and

fluorescent

sensor

27times10minus8M

0ndash10times10minus6M

Water

samples

and

livingcells

Thefl

uorescentsignalfor

Hg(II)isn

otinflu

encedby

them

ajor

metalions

inclu

ding

Fe(III)Cu

(II)and

Al(III)

24-Dichloroq

uinazolin

e[87]

9Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

53times10minus13M

10times10minus12ndash86times

10minus4M

Water

samples

and

SRM

Selectiveinpresence

ofMn2

+Fe2

+Fe3

+

Ni2+

Co2

+C

d2+and

Pb2+

Chromoion

opho

reV

[88]

10Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescentand

colorim

etric

10times10minus9M

mdashSpiked

water

samples

Na+M

g2+K

+C

r3+M

n2+C

o2+N

i2+

Fe3+C

u2+Z

n2+A

g+C

d2+and

Pb2+

did

notinterfere

Rhod

amineB

[89]

11Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

142times10minus9M

0ndash5times10minus7M

Aqueou

ssolutions

Cd2

+C

u2+and

Ag+

dono

tinterfere

Thioether-append

eddipeptide

[90]

12Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

05times10minus9M

000

05ndash0

01120583

MLake

water

samples

Zn2+P

b2+N

i2+C

a2+M

g2+C

u2+C

o2+

Cd2

+Fe3

+and

Mn2

+didno

tinterfere

Carbon

nano

tubes

[91]

13Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescent

174ndash

383times10minus6M

mdashLiving

cells

Minor

interfe

rencefrom

Ag+C

a2+C

d2+

Co2

+C

u2+Fe2

+Fe3

+K

+M

g2+M

n2+

Na+N

i2+P

b2+R

b+and

Zn2+

Pyrene

[92]

14Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

04times10minus6M

01ndash42120583

gmLminus

1Waterbiological

plantleavesand

soilsamples

Tolerancelim

itof

theC

d2+Z

n2+C

e3+

Ce4

+In3

+C

r3+L

a3+Y

b3+and

Eu3+

is300120583

gmLminus

1andthetolerance

limitof

the

Co2

+C

u2+Fe3

+T

i4+P

b2+N

i2+and

Ag+

is100120583

gmLminus

1andatHg(II)is

20120583

gmLminus

1

247-Triamino-6-ph

enylpteridine

[93]

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 9

Table2Con

tinued

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

ument

used

forthe

detection

Metho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

15Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorop

hotometer

Fluo

rescent

10times10minus7M

20times10minus7 ndash30times

10minus5M

Water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofNa+K

+N

H4+

Ba2+Z

n2+C

d2+M

g2+C

a2+and

Ni2+

Con

jugatedpo

lymer

multilayer

films

[94]

16Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

TGFR

ET3

049ndash0

87times10minus9M

10times10minus9 ndash10times

10minus8M

Water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofMn2

+B

a2+N

i2+

Cu2+C

a2+C

r2+C

o2+C

d2+M

g2+

Zn2+A

l3+Fe3

+and

Pb2+

Goldnano

particles

[95]

17Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescent

1times10minus9M

001ndash0

12120583M

Water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofZn

2+P

b2+N

i2+

Co2

+C

a2+C

u2+M

g2+C

d2+Fe3

+and

Mn2

+Ca

rbon

nano

dots

[96]

18Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescent

0012times10minus6M

0-1120583

MTapandriv

erwater

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofAg+P

b2+N

a+

K+C

r3+C

d2+B

a2+Z

n2+M

g2+C

u2+

Ni2+

Ca2

+A

l3+and

Fe3+

Rhod

amine

[97]

19Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

224times10minus9M

50ndash

100n

MDrin

king

water

20-fo

ldof

Ca2+M

g2+Z

n2+C

r3+P

b2+

Cr6+M

n2+C

d2+Fe3

+A

l3+and

Ni2+

10-fo

ldof

Fe2+and

Co2

+5-fo

ldof

Cu2+

andthes

amec

oncentratio

nof

Ag+

caused

almostn

ointerfe

rence

Goldnano

particles

[98]

20Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Opticalchem

ical

sensor

018times10minus12M

72times10minus13ndash4

7times

10minus4M

Tapwaterriver

waterand

cann

edtuna

fish

Interfe

renceo

fCu(II)elim

inated

with

the

additio

nof

L-histidine

asam

asking

agent

Synthesiz

ediono

phore

[99]

21Hg(II)

UV-Vis

spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

sensor

50times10minus6M

(visu

al)10times10minus7M

(UV-Vis)

mdashAq

ueou

ssolutions

Mg2

+C

a2+Z

n2+C

u2+C

r3+Fe3

+P

b2+

Ni2+

Co2

+and

Ag+

didno

tinterfere

Dim

ethylsulph

oxide

[100]

22Hg(II)

Fluo

rescence

spectro

photom

eter

Fluo

rescence

prob

e16times10minus9M

002ndash10120583M

Aqueou

ssolutions

Selectiveinthed

eterminationof

Hg2

+

over

otherm

etalions

such

asFe

3+C

a2+

Mg2

+M

n2+C

r3+N

i2+C

u2+C

o2+and

Pb2+

Goldnano

particles

[101]

23Hg(II)

mdashColorim

etric

12times10minus9M

2ndash30

nMWater

samples

Na+

(2mM)K+

(2mM)Fe

3+Z

n2+and

Mg2

+(01mM)Ni2+

Co2

+C

d2+P

b2+

andCu

2+(50120583

M)andAg+

(35120583M)d

idno

tinterfere

with

thed

etectio

nof

Hg2

+

(25n

M)inthem

entio

nedam

ounts

Rhod

amineB

thiolacton

e[102]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 ONPC

Rsoxygen-do

pednitro

gen-ric

hph

otolum

inescent

polymer

carbon

nano

ribbo

ns2Limitof

quantifi

catio

n3 T

GFR

ETtim

e-gatedflu

orescencer

eson

ance

energy

transfe

r

10 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Table3Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

byelectro

chem

icalinstruments

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1Hg(II)

DP-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

499times10minus8M

mdashAmbientw

atertapand

wastewaters

Palladium

-naturalph

osph

ate-carbon

paste

electro

deenhances

thes

electiv

ityforH

g2+

Naturalph

osph

ate

electro

des

[103]

2Hg(II)

SW-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

004times10minus6M

02ndash100120583M

Food

stuffs

Simultaneou

slybo

thCd2

+andHg2

+are

determ

ined

and10

00-fo

ldforK

+N

a+L

i+

NH

4+C

a2+M

g2+P

b2+Z

n2+C

r3+Fe2

+

Co2

+and

Al3+

didno

tinterfere

Carbon

paste

electro

de[104

]

3Hg(II)

Differentia

lpulse

voltammeter

Electro

chem

ical

448times10minus10M

02ndash10120583gLminus1

Spiked

fishandplant

samples

Cu(II)M

g(II)As(III)and

Cr(II)were

possibleinterfe

rers

441015840-Bipyridine-silver

polymer

[105]

4Hg(II)

Cyclicv

oltammeter

Electro

chem

ical

08times10minus14M

10minus14ndash10minus

7M

mdashCu

2+P

b2+N

i2+Z

n2+C

r3+C

o3+A

s5+

Fe2+and

Fe3+

didno

tinterfere

Goldatom

icclu

ster-chito

san

[106]

5Hg(II)

Voltammeter

(cyclic

and

differentialpulse)

Biosensor

393times10minus12M

0005ndash0034m

MWater

samples

Thew

orking

potentialcon

trolledto

minim

izethe

interfe

renceo

fother

metalions

intestmedium

PANIand

PANI-co-PDTD

Apo

lymer

films

[107]

6Hg(II)

ASV

Electro

chem

ical

498times10minus9M

4ndash160p

pbAq

uatic

solutio

nsmdash

Glassycarbon

electro

de[108]

7Hg(II)

SW-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

92times10minus5M

01ndash1500n

MSoilgasolin

efishtap

andwastewaters

400-fold

massratio

ofCu

2+M

n2+Z

n2+

Cr3+C

r6+Fe3

+Fe2

+N

i2+and

Co2

+didno

tinterfe

rein

thes

imultaneou

sdetermination

ofCd2

+P

b2+and

Hg2

+

Triphenylpho

sphine

[109]

8Hg(II)

Potentiometer

Electro

chem

ical

977times10minus6M

(PME)

1

776times10minus7M

(CGE)

1

10times10minus1 ndash50times10minus6M

(PME)

10times10minus1 ndash50times10minus7M

(CGE)

Water

samples

Ag+

hassmallinterferenceinthe

determ

inationof

Hg2

+13

-Alternate

thiacalix[4]crow

n[110]

9Hg(II)

Potentiometer

Electro

chem

ical

10times10minus8M

50times10minus8 ndash10times10minus2M

mdashTh

esele

ctivity

coeffi

ciento

fthe

otherion

sis

rang

ingfro

m29to

49

PVCmem

brane

[111]

10Hg(II)

DPS

VElectro

chem

ical

005times10minus12M

1ndash500n

MWater

samples

Pb2+Th

3+C

u2+C

d2+N

i2+and

Al3+

did

notinterfere

Goldnano

particles

[112]

11Hg(II)

SW-ASV

Ultrason

icextractio

nmdash

mdashIndo

ordu

stsamples

mdashGoldnano

particles

[113]

12Hg(II)

Cyclicv

oltammeter

Electro

chem

ical

19times10minus9M

40ndash170120583gLminus1

Wastewaters

mdashBiotinylSomatostatin

-14

peptide

[114]

13Hg(II)

Potentiometer

Electro

chem

ical

3times10minus6M

5times10minus6 ndash1times

10minus2M

Con

taminated

water

Na+K

+M

g2+C

a2+Z

n2+C

u2+C

r3+Fe3

+

andPb

2+didno

tinterfere

inthe

determ

inationof

Hg2

+

Dith

izon

eand

di-n-butyl

phthalate

[115]

14Hg(II)

DP-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

0483times10minus6M

300ndash

700n

gmLminus

1mdash

Nointerfe

renceo

fCdNiZn

and

Cuin

50-

25-100-and

5-fold

inexcessrespectively

Nanocellulosic

fibers

[116]

15Hg(II)

mdashElectro

chem

ical

05times10minus9M

10nM

ndash10120583M

Zn2+M

g2+C

a2+P

b2+C

d2+M

n2+C

u2+

Ni2+

and

Fe3+

didno

tinterfere

G-quadrup

lexndashhemin

(G4ndash

hemin)

[117]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 PME

polymericmem

branee

lectrode

andCG

Ecoated

graphiteele

ctrode

Analyticalinstr

uments

DP-ASV

differentia

lpulse

anod

icstr

ipping

voltammeterSW-ASV

squ

arew

avea

nodics

tripping

voltammeter

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 11

Table4Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

bymisc

ellaneou

stechn

iques

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sed

forthe

detection

Metho

dLimitof

detection(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1Speciatio

nCon

tinuo

usmercury

analyzer

Thermaldesorptio

nmdash

mdashSolid

samples

(fly

ash)

mdashmdash

[118]

2GEM

Portablemercury

analyzer

mdashmdash

mdashAtmosph

ere

mdashmdash

[119]

3Hg(II)

SERS

1mdash

224times10minus12M

0001ndash05n

gmLminus

1Drin

king

water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofZn

2+

Mg2

+Fe3

+C

u2+P

b2+and

Mn2

+Goldnano

particles

[120]

4Hg(II)

HPL

CSP

E19

9times10minus10ndash4

48times10minus9M

27ndash300120583

gLminus1

Water

samples

Simultaneou

slyNi2+

Co2

+and

Hg2

+ared

etermined

Carbon

nano

tubes

[121]

5Hg(II)

SERS

mdash01times

10minus9M

01ndash1000

nMGroun

dwater

Ag+

was

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

Hg2

+andK+

Cu2

+A

g+

Cr3+Fe3

+N

H4+C

a2+C

o2+

Cd2

+and

Zn2+

didno

tinterfere

Oligon

ucleotide-

functio

nalized

magnetic

silicas

phere

[122]

6To

talH

gAMA

Acid

digestion

mdashmdash

Eggs

andbloo

dof

Eretmochelys

imbrica

ta

Along

with

mercury

CdCu

Zn

and

Pbarea

lsodeterm

ined

mdash[123]

7Hg(II)

Luminescence

spectro

meter

Fluo

rescence

30ndash

90times10minus9M

005ndash10120583M

Water

samples

Fairlyselectiveinpresence

ofAg+Fe3

+Z

n2+C

a2+M

n2+

Mg2

+C

o2+P

b2+N

i2+C

d2+

andCu

2+

Silver

nano

cluste

rs[124]

8Hg(II)

X-rayflu

orescence

spectro

meter

Precon

centratio

n498times10minus12M

Upto20

mgLminus1

Drin

king

water

mdashAc

tivated

carbon

[125]

9To

talH

gDMA

014ng

mdashParticulatem

atter

mdashGFCfilters

[126]

10MeH

gand

EtHg

HPL

CCh

emilu

minescence

016

nggminus

105ndash20

ngHg

Soilandsediment

samples

Back

extractio

nandanother

chem

icalprocessm

akethe

metho

dselectivefor

MeH

gand

EtHg

Emetined

ithiocarbam

ate

[127]

11To

talH

gCV

-CCP

M-O

ES2

Microwaved

igestio

n239times10minus11M

027ndash55m

gkgminus

1Soilsamples

mdashmdash

[128]

12Hg(II)

Chem

odosim

eter

Fluo

rescence

171times

10minus9M

10times10minus7 ndash10times

10minus6M

Bloo

dserum

ofmice

mdashRh

odam

ine

[129]

13Hg(0)

XRF

Acid

digestion

997times10minus8M

mdashSoils

from

indu

strial

complex

mdashmdash

[130]

14To

talH

gDMA

Com

bustion

012ng

05ndash5n

gSoilandleafsamples

mdashmdash

[131]

15MeH

gand

Hg(II)

GC-

MS

Matrix

solid

-phase

dispersio

n006

(MeH

g)and012

(Hg(II))120583gg

mdashTu

nafishangel

sharkandguitarfish

mdashmdash

[132]

16GEM

mdashCon

centratio

n-weighted

trajectory

mod

elmdash

mdashParticulatem

atter

mdashQFF

[133]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 SER

Ssurfa

ceenhanced

Raman

scatterin

g2 C

V-CC

PM-O

EScold-vapo

rcapacitivelycoup

ledplasmam

icrotorchflu

orescences

pectrometry

Analyticalinstr

uments

HPL

Chigh

perfo

rmance

liquidchromatograph

yAMAautom

aticmercury

analyzerD

MAdire

ctmercury

analyzerX

RFX

-ray

fluorescence

12 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

[26 48 52 66 119 126] Various measurement techniquesthat can be available for the determination ofmercury speciesin ambient air were reviewed by Pandey et al [154] Thisstudy also concluded that most of the researchers preferredCV-AAS and CV-AFS technique for the measurement ofdifferent mercury species in ambient air In comparison ofmethods acid digestion and thermal method for the analysisof mercury in ambient air acid digestion is better thanthermal method By the thermal methods the values can beobtained 30 lower than the acid digestion method [155]

In the analysis ofmercury species in various environmen-tal samples selectivity and range of linearity of the methodalso play a major role due to the presence of multielementsin the real samples Based on the present study most ofthe spectrophotometric spectrofluorometric and electroan-alytical methods were discussed regarding the interferingion studies and linearity range of the method These studieswill give a clear picture about the determination of mercuryspecies in presence of other ionswhich validates themethods

Regarding the merits of the different methods for spe-ciation and analysis of mercury the usage of nonchromato-graphic methods has an advantage in terms of speed of anal-ysis inexpensiveness and convenience to find themercury invarious environmental samples But for the complete specia-tion studies of mercury in biological and environmental sam-ples chromatographic methods are useful [156] The validityof analytical methods can be enhanced with the analysis ofthe certified reference materials along with the real samplesIn recent years the researchers mostly preferred GC coupledwith AFS or ICP-MS for the determination and speciation ofmercury in natural waters [157] In electroanalyticalmethodsthe validity of themethods depends on various factors such astype of electrode preconcentration and supportingmaterials[139] and these methods are cost-effective selective andsensitive [143]

3 Conclusions

The present study revealed the recent developments in thedetermination and speciation studies ofmercury by a range ofanalytical techniques Our previous study [2] also describedthe challenges in the methodology for mercury determina-tionThis review showed thatmost researchers focused on thedetermination of Hg(II) rather than speciation studies Onthe other hand the speciation studies [23 24 29 36 37 4447 50 54 58 68 69 76 118] accurately revealed the toxicityof mercury rather than the total mercury or single speciesdeterminations In the papers reviewed most researcherswere aware of the interfering ions in the determination ofmercury and its different forms In the analytical methoda study of interfering ions is very important because it canpredict the selectivity of the method In future studies it willbe important to focus on speciation studies of mercury ratherthan a determination of the total mercury

Conflict of Interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper

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[93] A S Al-Kady and F I Abdelmonem ldquoHighly sensitive andselective spectrophotometric detection of trace amounts of

16 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

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[95] D Huang C Niu M Ruan X Wang G Zeng and C DengldquoHighly sensitive strategy for Hg2+ detection in environmentalwater samples using long lifetime fluorescence quantum dotsand gold nanoparticlesrdquo Environmental Science amp Technologyvol 47 no 9 pp 4392ndash4398 2013

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[98] L Yan Z Chen Z Zhang C Qu L Chen and D ShenldquoFluorescent sensing of mercury(II) based on formation ofcatalytic gold nanoparticlesrdquo Analyst vol 138 no 15 pp 4280ndash4283 2013

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[101] D Tan Y He X Xing Y Zhao H Tang and D Pang ldquoAptamerfunctionalized gold nanoparticles based fluorescent probe forthe detection of mercury (II) ion in aqueous solutionrdquo Talantavol 113 pp 26ndash30 2013

[102] J Liu D Wu X Yan and Y Guan ldquoNaked-eye sensor for rapiddetermination of mercury ionrdquo Talanta vol 116 pp 563ndash5682013

[103] F El Aroui S Lahrich A Farahi et al ldquoPalladium particles-impregnated natural phosphate electrodes for electrochemicaldetermination of mercury in ambient water samplesrdquo Electro-analysis vol 26 pp 1751ndash1760 2014

[104] A Afkhami S Sayari F Soltani-Felehgari and T MadrakianldquoNi05

Zn05

Fe2

O4

nanocomposite modified carbon paste elec-trode for highly sensitive and selective simultaneous electro-chemical determination of trace amounts of mercury (II) andcadmium (II)rdquo Journal of the Iranian Chemical Society vol 12no 2 pp 257ndash265 2014

[105] A Chira B Bucur M P Bucur and G L Radu ldquoElectrode-modifiedwith nanoparticles composed of 441015840-bipyridine-silvercoordination polymer for sensitive determination of Hg(II)Cu(II) and Pb(II)rdquo New Journal of Chemistry vol 38 no 11 pp5641ndash5646 2014

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[109] H Bagheri A Afkhami H Khoshsafar M Rezaei and AShirzadmehr ldquoSimultaneous electrochemical determination ofheavy metals using a triphenylphosphineMWCNTs compositecarbon ionic liquid electroderdquo Sensors and Actuators B Chem-ical vol 186 pp 451ndash460 2013

[110] R K Mahajan A Kamal N Kumar V Bhalla and MKumar ldquoSelective sensing of mercury(II) using PVC-basedmembranes incorporating recently synthesized 13-alternatethiacalix[4]crown ionophorerdquo Environmental Science and Pol-lution Research vol 20 no 5 pp 3086ndash3097 2013

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[114] N Daud N A Yusof and S M M Nor ldquoElectrochemi-cal characteristic of biotinyl somatostatin-14Nafion modifiedgold electrode in development of sensor for determination ofHg(II)rdquo International Journal of Electrochemical Science vol 8no 7 pp 10086ndash10099 2013

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[118] M Rumayor M Diaz-Somoano M A Lopez-Anton and MR Martinez-Tarazona ldquoApplication of thermal desorption forthe identification of mercury species in solids derived from coalutilizationrdquo Chemosphere vol 119 pp 459ndash465 2015

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[123] M Ehsanpour M Afkhami R Khoshnood and K J ReichldquoDetermination and maternal transfer of heavy metals (CdCu Zn Pb and Hg) in the Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelysimbricata) from a nesting colony of Qeshm Island IranrdquoBulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology vol92 no 6 pp 667ndash673 2014

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[125] P R Aranda L Colombo E Perino I E De Vito andJ Raba ldquoSolid-phase preconcentration and determination ofmercury(II) using activated carbon in drinking water by X-rayfluorescence spectrometryrdquo X-Ray Spectrometry vol 42 no 2pp 100ndash104 2013

[126] H Jin and G Liebezeit ldquoTidal cycles of total particulate mer-cury in the jade bay lower saxonianwadden sea southern northseardquo Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicologyvol 90 no 1 pp 97ndash102 2013

[127] H Kodamatani and T Tomiyasu ldquoSelective determinationmethod for measurement of methylmercury and ethylmer-cury in soilsediment samples using high-performance liquidchromatography-chemiluminescence detection coupled withsimple extraction techniquerdquo Journal of Chromatography A vol1288 pp 155ndash159 2013

[128] T Frentiu A IMihaltanM Senila et al ldquoNewmethod former-cury determination in microwave digested soil samples basedon cold vapor capacitively coupled plasma microtorch opticalemission spectrometry comparison with atomic fluorescencespectrometryrdquo Microchemical Journal vol 110 pp 545ndash5522013

[129] W-Y Liu S-L Shen H-Y Li J-Y Miao and B-X ZhaoldquoFluorescence turn-on chemodosimeter for rapid detection ofmercury (II) ions in aqueous solution and blood frommicewithtoxicosisrdquo Analytica Chimica Acta vol 791 pp 65ndash71 2013

[130] C L Miller D B Watson B P Lester K A Lowe E M Pierceand L Liang ldquoCharacterization of soils from an industrialcomplex contaminatedwith elementalmercuryrdquoEnvironmentalResearch vol 125 pp 20ndash29 2013

[131] J J Melendez-Perez and A H Fostier ldquoAssessment of directmercury analyzer to quantifymercury in soils and leaf samplesrdquoJournal of the Brazilian Chemical Society vol 24 no 11 pp1880ndash1886 2013

[132] K Duarte C I L Justino A C Freitas A M P GomesA C Duarte and T A P Rocha-Santos ldquoDisposable sensorsfor environmental monitoring of lead cadmium and mercuryrdquoTrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry vol 64 pp 183ndash190 2015

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coastal site inNova Scotia CanadardquoAtmospheric Chemistry andPhysics vol 13 no 12 pp 6031ndash6048 2013

[134] L N Suvarapu Y K Seo and S O Baek ldquoDetermination ofmercury in various environmental samplesrdquo Asian Journal ofChemistry vol 25 no 10 pp 5599ndash5601 2013

[135] M S El-Shahawi and H M Al-Saidi ldquoDispersive liquid-liquidmicroextraction for chemical speciation and determination ofultra-trace concentrations of metal ionsrdquo Trends in AnalyticalChemistry vol 44 pp 12ndash24 2013

[136] S L C Ferreira L O B Silva F A de Santana M M S JuniorGDMatos andWN L dos Santos ldquoA review of reflux systemsusing cold finger for sample preparation in the determination ofvolatile elementsrdquoMicrochemical Journal vol 106 pp 307ndash3102013

[137] Y Gao R Liu and L Yang ldquoApplication of chemical vaporgeneration in ICP-MS a reviewrdquo Chinese Science Bulletin vol58 no 17 pp 1980ndash1991 2013

[138] R Sanchez J L Todolı C-P Lienemann and J-M MermetldquoDetermination of trace elements in petroleum products byinductively coupled plasma techniques a critical reviewrdquo Spec-trochimica Acta Part B Atomic Spectroscopy vol 88 pp 104ndash126 2013

[139] D Martın-Yerga M B Gonzalez-Garcıa and A Costa-GarcıaldquoElectrochemical determination of mercury a reviewrdquo Talantavol 116 pp 1091ndash1104 2013

[140] J Chang G Zhou E R Christensen R Heideman and JChen ldquoGraphene-based sensors for detection of heavy metalsin water a reviewrdquo Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry vol406 pp 3957ndash3975 2014

[141] Y L Yu and J HWang ldquoRecent advances in flow-based samplepretreatment for the determination of metal species by atomicspectrometryrdquo Chinese Science Bulletin vol 58 no 17 pp 1992ndash2002 2013

[142] Y Yin J Liu and G Jiang ldquoRecent advances in speciationanalysis of mercury arsenic and seleniumrdquo Chinese ScienceBulletin vol 58 no 2 pp 150ndash161 2013

[143] C Gao and X-J Huang ldquoVoltammetric determination ofmercury(II)rdquo Trends in Analytical Chemistry vol 51 pp 1ndash122013

[144] F A Duarte B M Soares A A Vieira et al ldquoAssessment ofmodified matrix solid-phase dispersion as sample preparationfor the determination of CH

3

Hg+ and Hg2+ in fishrdquo AnalyticalChemistry vol 85 no 10 pp 5015ndash5022 2013

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[146] A F Lima M C Da Costa D C Ferreira E M Richter and RA A Munoz ldquoFast ultrasound-assisted treatment of inorganicfertilizers for mercury determination by atomic absorptionspectrometry and microwave-induced plasma spectrometrywith the aid of the cold-vapor techniquerdquo Microchemical Jour-nal vol 118 pp 40ndash44 2015

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[150] M M Silva L O Bastos Silva D J Leao W N Lopes dosSantos B Welz and S L Costa Ferreira ldquoDetermination ofmercury in alcohol vinegar samples from Salvador BahiaBrazilrdquo Food Control vol 47 pp 623ndash627 2015

[151] P Jarujamrus M Amatatongchai A Thima T Khongrangdeeand C Mongkontong ldquoSelective colorimetric sensors based onthe monitoring of an unmodified silver nanoparticles (AgNPs)reduction for a simple and rapid determination of mercuryrdquoSpectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spec-troscopy vol 142 pp 86ndash93 2015

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2

andmulti-walled carbon nanotubes composites dispersed in a novelcationic surfactantrdquo Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry vol751 pp 23ndash29 2015

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80Hg20059

Figure 1 Elemental mercury

mercury The reviews regarding the determination of mer-cury published since 2013 are discussed hereunder

Suvarapu et al [2] reviewed research papers publishedbetween 2010 and 2011 regarding the speciation and deter-mination of mercury using a variety of analytical tech-niques They concluded that most researchers prefer cold-vapor atomic absorption spectrometry (CV-AAS) and atomicabsorption spectrofluorometry (CV-AFS) for the speciationand determination studies of mercury in various environ-mental samples Suvarapu et al [134] also reviewed researchpapers published in 2012 regarding the determination ofmer-cury in various environmental samples El-Shahawi and Al-Saidi [135] reviewed the dispersive liquid-liquidmicroextrac-tion (DLLME) method for the speciation and determinationof metal ions including mercury This review concluded thatthe method of DLLME has the advantages of simplicityspeed and low cost for the determination of metal ions usingvarious analytical techniques Ferreira et al [136] reviewedthe use of reflux systems for the sample preparation inthe determination of elements such as arsenic antimonycadmium lead and mercury This study concluded that theuse of the reflux systems is very rare in the determinationof elements such as Hg Gao et al [137] reviewed theapplication of chemical vapor generation method for thedetermination of metal ions such as mercury and cadmiumwith ICP-MS Sanchez et al [138] reviewed the determinationof trace elements including mercury present in petroleumproducts using ICP techniquesThis study concluded that theelectrothermal vaporization and laser ablation methods werepromising for the analysis of petroleum for trace elementsMartın-Yerga et al [139] reviewed the determination of mer-cury using electrochemical methods This study discussedthe advantages and disadvantages of the use of differentelectrodes in the determination ofmercury Chang et al [140]reviewed the detection of heavy metals such as cadmiumlead and mercury in water samples using graphene basedsensors This study concluded that it is a very challengingtask to detect heavy metals in water in real time due tothe interference of large chemical and biological species inwater Yu andWang [141] reviewed the determination ofmetalions including mercury by atomic spectrometry by applyingflow-based sample pretreatment methods They concludedthat the ICP-AES AAS AFS and ICP-MS are the majordetection techniques for trace metal analysis Yin et al [142]reviewed the speciation analysis of mercury arsenic andselenium using a range of analytical techniques Gao and

Huang [143] reviewed the determination of mercury(II) ionsby voltammetry and concluded that stripping voltammetry isstill an active field of research regarding the determination ofmercury Duarte et al [144] reviewed disposable sensors andelectrochemical sensors for the environmental monitoring ofPb Cd and Hg They recommended the recycling of materi-als used in sensors for future studies Recently Ferreira et al[145] reviewed the analytical strategies of sample preparationfor the determination of mercury in food matrices

In recent days few research papers were publishedabout the determination and analysis of mercury speciesin various environmental and biological samples and someof them are discussed hereunder Lima et al [146] reportedan efficient method for the determination of mercuryin inorganic fertilizers by using CV-AAS combined withmicrowave-induced plasma spectrometry Pelcova et al[147] reported the simultaneous determination of mercuryspecies by LC-AFS with a low detection limit of 13ndash38 ng Lminus1Chen et al [148] reported a colorimetric method for thedetermination of mercury ions based on gold nanoparticlesand thiocyanuric acid Fernandez et al [149] reported goldnanostructured screen-printed carbon electrodes for thedetermination of mercury using dispersive liquid-liquidmicroextraction Fernandez-Martınez et al [5] evaluatedthe different digestion systems for determination of mercuryin seaweeds using CV-AFS Silva et al [150] determinedthe trace amounts of mercury in alcohol vinegar samplescollected from Salvador Bahia of Brazil Jarujamrus et al[151] reported a colorimetric method using unmodified silvernanoparticles for the determination of mercury in watersamples A highly selective method for the determinationof mercury using a glassy carbon electrode modified withnano-TiO

2

and multiwalled carbon nanotubes in river andindustrial wastewater was reported by Mao et al [152]

As mentioned in our previous review [2] spectrometrictechniques are used widely bymany researchers for the deter-mination of mercury over the world Regarding the determi-nation of mercury with various analytical instruments in thepapers reviewedmore than 55 of the researchers used spec-trometric instruments such as atomic absorption spectrome-try (AAS) inductively coupled plasma techniques (ICP-OESAES and MS) and atomic fluorescence spectrometer (AFS)(Table 1) ICP-MS technique has an advantage of low detec-tion limits and wide range of linearity in the determinationof mercury [153] Around 20 of the researchers chose thespectrophotometer and spectrofluorometer (Table 2) for thedetermination and speciation ofmercury Approximately 10of researchers in the papers reviewed used electrochemicalinstruments for the determination and speciation studiesof mercury (Table 3) Only a few authors chose the HPLCGC and other techniques (Table 4) but they coupled theseinstruments with AAS or other instruments Regarding theanalysis of the environmental biological samples for mercuryand its species most researchers analyzed various water sam-ples (drinking seawater wastewater river and lake waters)followed by food samples (mostly fish) human hair andambient air Only a few authors determined the concentrationofmercury in ambient air and atmospheric particulatematter

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 3

Table1Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

byspectro

metric

instr

uments(A

ASICP-OES

AES

MSandAFS

)

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1To

talH

gCV

-AASand

ICP-AES

Microwavea

ciddigestion

483times10minus10M

mdashFish

samples

Cadm

ium

andlead

also

analyzed

alon

gwith

mercury

mdash[7]

2Hg(II)

CV-AAS

Precon

centratio

n17

9times10minus10M

mdashWater

andhu

man

hair

Recovery

ofHg2

+isin

ther

ange

of956ndash104

9

inpresence

ofCu

2+

Co2

+Z

n2+N

i2+C

d2+M

n2+B

a2+

Pb2+Fe3

+C

r3+A

l3+A

g+K

+N

a+

NH

4+M

g2+and

Ca2+

ionsfrom

750

to2500-fo

ld

Dith

izon

e[8]

3To

talH

gCV

-AAS

Ultrasou

ndextractio

n698times10minus11M

mdashAlcoh

olvinegar

mdashmdash

[9]

4To

talH

gCV

-AAS

SPE1

498times10minus11M

Ricecannedfishandtealeaves

Thetolerance

limitforN

a+K

+M

g2+

andCa

2+is40

00-fo

ldfor

Ba2+

and

Zn2+

is40

-foldfor

Fe3+C

r3+C

o2+

andNi2+

is10-fo

ldand

forA

l3+is

200-fold

comparedto

Hg2

+

Fe3O

4nano

particles

[10]

5Hg(II)

CV-AAS

SPE

997times10minus12M

Upto

500120583

gLminus1

Water

samples

AsAlFeM

oandSb

ared

epressed

theH

gsig

nal

Carbon

nano

tubes

[11]

6To

talH

gCV

-AAS

Acid

digestion

36times10minus9M

mdashMarinefi

shmdash

mdash[12]

7To

talH

gCV

-AAS

Wetdigestion

30times10minus9M

mdashGreen

tiger

shrim

pArsenicalso

determ

ined

alon

gwith

mercury

mdash[13]

8To

talH

gCV

-AAS

Alkalinefusiondigestion

006

nggminus

1000

6ndash40

00ng

gminus1

Phosph

ater

ock

mdashmdash

[14]

9TH

gAAS

Acid

digestion

498times10minus12M

mdashFish

muscle

tissues

Cadm

ium

andlead

also

detected

alon

gwith

mercury

mdash[15]

10Hg(II)

CV-AAS

SPE

119times10minus11M

001ndash230120583

gLminus1

Water

samples

Fe3+C

u2+Z

n2+C

d2+C

o2+and

Mn2

+aren

otinterfe

redup

to5m

gLminus1

andNH

4+andTl

3+aren

otinterfe

red

upto

1mgLminus1

Polymer

supp

ortedionic

liquid

[16]

11Hg(II)

CV-AAS

SPE

997times10minus11M

007ndash200120583

gLminus1

Water

samples

Tolerablea

mou

ntof

major

metalsis

limitedup

to50120583gLminus1

Polytetrafluo

roethylene

[17]

12To

talH

gCV

-AAS

Digestio

n398times10minus10M

25ndash100120583gLminus1

Biologicalsamples

mdashColdfin

ger

[18]

13To

talH

gCV

-AAS

Com

bustion

299times10minus13M

mdashWater

andfish

Arsenicandselenium

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

mercury

mdash[19

]

14To

talH

gAAS

Amalgamation

02n

ggforh

aira

nd002

ngg

forb

lood

mdashHaira

ndbloo

dsamples

Arsenicandselenium

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

mercury

mdash[20]

15To

talH

gCV

-AAS(to

talH

g)andGC-

ICPM

S(M

eHg)

Cold-vapo

rreductio

nwith

NaB

H4

598times10minus11M

(totalH

g)and23times10minus9M

(MeH

g)mdash

Bloo

dof

birds

Selenium

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

mercury

andmethylm

ercury

mdash[21]

4 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Table1Con

tinued

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

16To

talH

gand

MeH

g

CV-AAS(to

talH

g)andCV

-AFS

(MeH

g)Digestio

n003ndash0

1ng

gmdash

Fishvegetablesandmushroo

ms

Selenium

andcadm

ium

also

determ

ined

with

mercury

species

mdash[22]

17Hgspeciatio

nCV

-AAS(to

talH

g)andCV

-AFS

(MeH

g)Ac

iddigestion

mdashWater

samples

mdashmdash

[23]

18Hgspeciatio

nCV

-AAS

LLME2

149times10minus10M

(Hg2

+)

and

18times10minus9M

(MeH

g)05ndash100n

gmLminus

1Water

samples

andCR

Ms

Ther

ecoveryof

Hg2

+in

presence

offoreignions

is95ndash105

andforM

eHgis

96ndash106

mdash[24]

19To

talH

gGF-AAS

Acid

mineralization

697times10minus11M

mdashFish

muscle

samples

mdashCop

pern

itrate

[25]

20GEM

AAS

Ambientair

mdashmdash

[26]

21To

talH

gCV

-AAS

Acid

digestion

00006120583ggminus1

mdashFreshw

ater

fishsamples

mdashStanno

uschlorid

e[27]

22To

talH

gAAS

Com

bustion

001ng

mdashSoilsamples

Interfe

renceo

fvarious

heavymetals

was

overcomeb

yusingsample

pretreatment

mdash[28]

23Hgspeciatio

nAAS(THg)

and

ICP-MS-HPL

C(M

eHg)

Hydrid

egeneration

533times10minus14M

20120583gLminus1

Fish

samples

CdPb

AsandSn

also

measured

alon

gwith

Hg

mdash[29]

24TH

gHG-AAS

Hydrid

egeneration

984

(accuracy)

mdashIrrig

ationwater

wells

Along

with

mercury

PbC

dandAl

Cralso

measured

mdash[30]

25TH

gCV

-AASandAAS

Thermaldecompo

sition

andam

algamation

134times10minus9M

(TD-amalgamation

AAS)

and314times10minus9M

(CV-AAS)

mdashSoilsamples

mdashmdash

[31]

26To

talH

gspeciatio

nHV-AASand

HPL

C-CV

-AFS

Extractio

nmdash

mdashAq

ueou

ssolutions

andfishtissue

mdashMultiw

alledcarbon

nano

tubes

[32]

27To

talH

gCV

-AAS(D

MA)

Microwaveo

vendigestion

mdashmdash

Cann

edfish

Selenium

andtin

also

measuredalon

gwith

mercury

mdash[33]

28TH

gAMA(A

AS)

AASprinciples

and

with

outd

igestio

nprocess

mdashmdash

Fish

redmuscle

and

whitemuscle

mdashmdash

[34]

29TH

gAES

LIBS

andSIBS

2times10minus3M

(LIBS)

and

997times10minus5M

(SIBS)

Soilsamples

At534074n

mhaslessspectral

interfe

rence

mdash[35]

30Hgspeciatio

nCV

-AFS

Extractio

n10

(totalH

g)and

001MeH

gnggminus1

mdashSeaw

ater

andsediments

mdashmdash

[36]

31Hgspeciatio

nCV

-AFS

Extractio

n001times10minus12M

(Hg0)and

0002times10minus12M

(DM

Hg)

mdashSeaw

aters

mdashmdash

[37]

32To

talH

gCV

-AFS

Microwavea

ssisted

digestion

398times10minus13M

mdashNuts

Interfe

renceo

ffatin

nutsisremoved

bytre

atmentw

ithchloroform

and

methano

lmdash

[38]

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 5

Table1Con

tinued

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

33Hg(II)

AFS

Fluo

rescence

optical

sensor

957times10minus12M

227times10minus11ndash113times

10minus3M

Hum

anhair

urineand

wellw

ater

samples

Mosto

fthe

alkalialkalin

eand

transitionmetalions

didno

tinterfere

inthed

eterminationof

Hg2

+

N-(2-Hydroxy

phenyl)-N-(2-mercapto

phenyl)-o-ph

thalylidene

[39]

34GEM

CV-AFS

Goldam

algamation

000

02ng

mdashTo

talsuspend

edparticulates

mdashQFF

(quartzfi

berfi

lters)

[40]

35MeH

gAASandCV

-AFS

Acid

digestion

0005120583

gg

mdashWatersoilsediments

and

food

stuffs

mdashmdash

[41]

36To

talH

gCV

-AFS

Microwavea

ssisted

digestion

05n

ggminus1

mdashSediments

mdashSequ

entia

linjectio

nsyste

m[42]

37To

talH

gCV

-AFS

Acid

digestion

048

nggminus

1mdash

Rice

Interfe

renceo

fother

metalions

iselim

inated

byacid

washandkept

storage

ofsamples

for2

4h

Multisyringe

flow

injectionanalysis

[43]

38Hgspeciatio

nHPL

C-AFS

UV-indu

cedatom

ization

19times10minus9(H

g2+)19times

10minus9(M

eHg)and

20times

10minus9(EtH

g)M

CRMs

mdashmdash

[44]

39Hg(II)

UV-AFS

SPE

149times10minus13ndash398times

10minus13M

1ndash5000

ngLminus

1Naturalwaters

10mgLminus1of

Fe2+Fe3

+C

u2+P

b2+

andAs3+and10gLminus1of

Na+K

+and

Ca2+

didno

tinterfere

inthe

determ

inationof

100n

gLminus1of

Hg2

+

Sodium

diethyldith

iocarbam

ate

[45]

40Hg(II)

AFS

Micro-SPE

598times10minus11M

Upto

5120583gLminus1

Water

samples

mdashMesofl

uidicp

latform

[46]

41Hgspeciatio

nEX

-AFS

05n

ggminus1(to

talH

g)mdash

Wastecalcines

mdashmdash

[47]

42Hgspeciatio

nCV

-AFS

Extractio

nsim05p

gmdash

Atmosph

ericair

mdashPT

FEfilterp

apers

[48]

43MeH

gGC-AFS

SPE

12ng

gminus1

Upto

15ng

mLminus

1Biologicalsamples

mdashmdash

[49]

44Hgspeciatio

nHPL

C-AFS

Liqu

id-liqu

idmicroextractio

n

154times10minus10(H

g2+)74

2times10minus11(M

eHg)1045times

10minus10(EtH

g)and

331times

10minus10M

(PhH

g)

00ndash

20120583gLminus1

Environm

entalw

aters

Nointerfe

rencefrom

otherm

etalions

1-Octyl-3-m

eth-l

imidazolium

hexaflu

orop

hosphate

[50]

45MeH

gCV

-AFS

Extractio

n0515n

ggminus1

mdashPetro

leum

mdashTM

AH

3 KO

HCH

3OH

HCland

acidic

CuSO

4KB

r[51]

46GEM

CV-AFS

mdashmdash

mdashAmbientair

mdashmdash

[52]

47Hg(II)

AFS

Fluo

rescence

007times10minus6M

01ndash45120583

MAq

ueou

ssolutions

Long

erexcitatio

nandem

ission

wavele

ngth

couldshield

the

interfe

rence

Fe3O

4magnetic

nano

particles

[53]

48Hgspeciatio

nCV

-AFS

Thermaldecompo

sition

mdashmdash

Fish

liver

Metho

dvalid

ityisteste

dwith

CRM

mdash[54]

49TH

gAFS

mdashlt498times10minus12M

mdashSn

owmdash

K 2Cr

2O7Sn

Cl2

[55]

50Atmosph

ericHg

CV-AFS

Extractio

nmdash

mdashParticulatem

atter

mdashmdash

[56]

6 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Table1Con

tinued

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

51TH

gCV

-AFS

Flow

injectionmercury

syste

mmdash

mdashHerbalprodu

cts

mdashProtease

papain

[57]

52Hgspeciatio

nLC

-UV-CV

-AFS

Microwaved

igestio

n498times10minus12(to

talH

g)

139times10minus12(M

eHg)and

199times10minus12(H

g2+)M

mdashSeafoo

dSimultaneou

slydeterm

ined

both

Hg(II)a

ndMeH

gmdash

[58]

53MeH

gandtotal

Hg

CV-AAS

Digestio

n0088(M

eHg)

and0005

(totalH

g)120583ggminus1

mdashHaira

ndmilk

ofmothers

mdashmdash

[59]

54Hg(II)

ICP-MS

Microflu

idic

349times10minus10M

02ndash40120583

gLminus1

Aqueou

ssam

ples

Ther

ecoveryof

Hg2

+in

thep

resence

of100120583

gLminus1of

Ca2+C

d2+C

o2+

Cr3+C

u2+K

+M

g2+N

a+N

i2+

Pb2+and

Zn2+

isin

ther

ange

of975ndash1017

Goldnano

particles

[60]

55To

talH

gICP-MS

Acid

digestion

0053ndash001120583ggminus1

mdashPh

armaceutic

alingredients

Lowresid

ualcarbo

ncontentin

digests

isdesir

ableto

minim

izes

ome

interfe

rence

mdash[61]

56Hg(II)

ICP-MS

Adsorptio

nmdash

mdashWastewaters

mdashMultiw

alledcarbon

nano

tubes

[62]

57Hg(II)

ICP-OES

Extractio

n14

9times10minus11M

mdashFish

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofNa+K

+C

s+

Ca2+M

g2+Z

n2+Fe2

+C

u2+C

o2+

Ni2+

Mn2

+C

d2+and

Pb2+

into

1mgLminus1solutio

nsof

Hg(II)inpH

8

Ionim

printedpo

lymer

[63]

58To

talH

gCV

-ICP

-MS

Microwaved

igestio

n3n

ggminus1

mdashPlantsandsoil

mdashmdash

[64]

59To

talH

gICP-MS

Microwavea

ssisted

digestion

mdashmdash

Rice

mdashmdash

[65]

60GEM

CV-ICP

-MS

Thermalanalysis

20times10minus15g

mdashAtmosph

ericparticulates

mdashmdash

[66]

61Hg(II)a

ndMeH

gHPL

C-ICPM

SHF-LP

ME4

548times10minus10(H

g2+)a

nd1times

10minus9(M

eHg)

MUpto

50120583gLminus1

Tapriv

erand

estuarinew

aters

Simultaneou

slyselenium

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

mercury

mdash[67]

62Hgspeciatio

nICP-MS

Ionexchange

chromatograph

y

947times10minus11(H

g2+)12

5times10minus10

(MeH

g)135times

10minus10(EtH

g)and

792times

10minus10(PhH

g)M

01ndash100120583

gLminus1(all

Hgspecies)

Seaw

ater

andmarinefi

shmdash

L-Cy

steineo

rthiou

rea

[68]

63Hgspeciatio

nGC-

ICP-MS

Precon

centratio

n27

(Hg2

+)a

nd12ng

gminus1

(MeH

g)mdash

Hum

anhair

mdashmdash

[69]

64To

talH

gMC-

ICPM

SIsotop

eratio

analysis

01ndash02disin

tegrations

perm

inute

mdashSedimentcore

Mercury

andmercury

isotope

compo

sitions

ared

etermined

mdash[70]

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 7

Table1Con

tinued

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

65Hg(II)a

ndMeH

gCV

G-ICP

-MS

Extractio

n17

(Hg(II))and

23n

ggminus1(M

eHg)

mdashFish

samples

mdashmdash

[71]

66MeH

gHg(II)

and

EtHg

HPL

C-CV

-ICP

MS

Extractio

nandseparatio

n598times10minus11(H

g(II))

217times10minus11(EtH

g)and

18times10minus8(M

eHg)

Mmdash

Plasmaserum

samples

mdashmdash

[72]

67To

talH

gICP-MS

Microwavea

ssisted

digestion

mdashmdash

Freshw

ater

fishsamples

mdashmdash

[73]

68To

talH

gICP-MS

Isotop

edilu

tionand

UV-ph

otochemicalvapo

rgeneratio

n05p

ggminus1

mdashBiologicaltissues

Polyatom

icinterfe

renceisn

otdetectable

Form

icacid

[74]

69To

talH

gICP-MS

Calcination-iso

tope

dilutio

n2times10minus15M

mdashDiploria

specim

ens

Noiso

baric

interfe

rencew

asfoun

dmdash

[75]

70Hgspeciatio

nICP-MS

Anion

exchange

chromatograph

icseparatio

n

398times10minus11(H

g2+)111

times10minus10(M

eHg)126times

10minus10(EtH

g)and

122times

10minus10(PhH

g)M

mdashFish

samples

mdash3-Mercapto-1-

prop

anesulfonate

[76]

71To

talH

gICP-MS

Ultrason

icslu

rry

samplingele

ctrothermal

vapo

rization

02n

ggminus1

mdashHerbalsam

ples

AsCdandPb

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

Hg

8-Hydroxyqu

inoline

[77]

72To

talH

gICP-MS

Electro

thermal

vapo

rization

598times10minus11M

mdashWater

associated

with

crud

eoil

prod

uctio

nBy

precon

centratio

nof

analyte

interfe

renceisa

voided

mdash[78]

73TH

gICP-MS

Isotop

edilu

tionequatio

n498times10minus11M

forT

Hg

000

05ndash132

1mgkg

forM

eHg

Arctic

cod

mdashmdash

[79]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 Solid-phase

extractio

n2 LLM

Eliq

uid-liq

uidmicroextractio

n3 T

MAHtetramethylammon

ium

hydroxide

4 HF-LP

ME

hallo

wfib

erliq

uidph

asem

icroextractio

nAnalytic

alinstruments

CV-AAS

cloud

vapo

ratom

icabsorptio

nspectro

meterH

G-AAS

hydridegeneratio

nAAS

GF-AAS

graphite

furnaceAAS

ICP-OES

ind

uctiv

elycoup

ledplasmaop

tical

emiss

ion

spectro

meterICP

-MSICP-massspectrometerICP

-AES

ICP

-atomicem

issionspectro

meterH

PLC

high

perfo

rmance

liquidchromatograph

yAFS

atomicflu

orescences

pectrometerA

MAautom

aticmercury

analyzerD

MAdire

ctmercury

analyzer

8 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Table2Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

byspectro

photom

eter

andspectro

fluorom

eter

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

ument

used

forthe

detection

Metho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1Hg(II)

Fluo

rescence

spectro

photom

eter

Fluo

rescence

40times10minus9M

60ndash

450n

MWater

samples

10-fo

ldof

Pb2+C

u2+and

Ag+

show

slt7

influ

ence

onthed

eterminationof

Hg2

+comparedto

repo

rted

ones

CdT

equantum

dots

[80]

2Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

23times10minus9M

000ndash0

31120583M

Riverw

ater

Selectiveinpresence

ofAg+C

d2+C

u2+

Co2

+N

i2+and

Pb2+

Carbon

nano

dots

[81]

3Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

26times10minus9M

0001ndash1120583

MWater

samples

Selectiveinpresence

of20120583M

ofAl3+

Ca

2+C

o2+C

u2+C

d2+Fe3

+M

n2+N

i2+

Pb2+and

Zn2+

Goldnano

particles

[82]

4Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

mdash083ndash86120583gm

Lminus1

Water

samples

Thetolerance

limitof

Cu2+V

5+A

g+

Pd2+P

t4+A

u3+Fe2

+N

i2+C

d2+P

b2+

andCr

6+isin

ther

ange

of011ndash

041120583

gmLminus

1 inthed

eterminationof

191120583

gmLminus

1of

Hg2

+

5-Methylth

ioph

ene-2-

carboxaldehyde

ethylenediam

ine

[83]

5Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

173times

10minus9M

20n

Mndash6

0120583M

mdashInterfe

renceo

fmajor

catio

nsstu

died

ONPC

Rs1

[84]

6Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

50times10minus9M

20ndash

1000

nMWater

samplers

Selectiveinpresence

ofNi2+

Co2

+C

a2+

Cu2+N

a+K

+A

s3+M

g2+C

d2+and

Fe2+

Silver

nano

particles

[85]

7Hg(II)

UV-Vis

spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

135times10minus6M

mdashDrin

king

water

Cd2

+P

b2+Fe3

+and

Ba2+

dono

tinterfe

rein

thed

eterminationof

Hg2

+bu

tMg2

+C

a2+and

Mn2

+interfe

reslightly

Goldnano

particles

[86]

8Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

and

UV-spectro

meter

Colorim

etric

and

fluorescent

sensor

27times10minus8M

0ndash10times10minus6M

Water

samples

and

livingcells

Thefl

uorescentsignalfor

Hg(II)isn

otinflu

encedby

them

ajor

metalions

inclu

ding

Fe(III)Cu

(II)and

Al(III)

24-Dichloroq

uinazolin

e[87]

9Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

53times10minus13M

10times10minus12ndash86times

10minus4M

Water

samples

and

SRM

Selectiveinpresence

ofMn2

+Fe2

+Fe3

+

Ni2+

Co2

+C

d2+and

Pb2+

Chromoion

opho

reV

[88]

10Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescentand

colorim

etric

10times10minus9M

mdashSpiked

water

samples

Na+M

g2+K

+C

r3+M

n2+C

o2+N

i2+

Fe3+C

u2+Z

n2+A

g+C

d2+and

Pb2+

did

notinterfere

Rhod

amineB

[89]

11Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

142times10minus9M

0ndash5times10minus7M

Aqueou

ssolutions

Cd2

+C

u2+and

Ag+

dono

tinterfere

Thioether-append

eddipeptide

[90]

12Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

05times10minus9M

000

05ndash0

01120583

MLake

water

samples

Zn2+P

b2+N

i2+C

a2+M

g2+C

u2+C

o2+

Cd2

+Fe3

+and

Mn2

+didno

tinterfere

Carbon

nano

tubes

[91]

13Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescent

174ndash

383times10minus6M

mdashLiving

cells

Minor

interfe

rencefrom

Ag+C

a2+C

d2+

Co2

+C

u2+Fe2

+Fe3

+K

+M

g2+M

n2+

Na+N

i2+P

b2+R

b+and

Zn2+

Pyrene

[92]

14Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

04times10minus6M

01ndash42120583

gmLminus

1Waterbiological

plantleavesand

soilsamples

Tolerancelim

itof

theC

d2+Z

n2+C

e3+

Ce4

+In3

+C

r3+L

a3+Y

b3+and

Eu3+

is300120583

gmLminus

1andthetolerance

limitof

the

Co2

+C

u2+Fe3

+T

i4+P

b2+N

i2+and

Ag+

is100120583

gmLminus

1andatHg(II)is

20120583

gmLminus

1

247-Triamino-6-ph

enylpteridine

[93]

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 9

Table2Con

tinued

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

ument

used

forthe

detection

Metho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

15Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorop

hotometer

Fluo

rescent

10times10minus7M

20times10minus7 ndash30times

10minus5M

Water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofNa+K

+N

H4+

Ba2+Z

n2+C

d2+M

g2+C

a2+and

Ni2+

Con

jugatedpo

lymer

multilayer

films

[94]

16Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

TGFR

ET3

049ndash0

87times10minus9M

10times10minus9 ndash10times

10minus8M

Water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofMn2

+B

a2+N

i2+

Cu2+C

a2+C

r2+C

o2+C

d2+M

g2+

Zn2+A

l3+Fe3

+and

Pb2+

Goldnano

particles

[95]

17Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescent

1times10minus9M

001ndash0

12120583M

Water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofZn

2+P

b2+N

i2+

Co2

+C

a2+C

u2+M

g2+C

d2+Fe3

+and

Mn2

+Ca

rbon

nano

dots

[96]

18Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescent

0012times10minus6M

0-1120583

MTapandriv

erwater

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofAg+P

b2+N

a+

K+C

r3+C

d2+B

a2+Z

n2+M

g2+C

u2+

Ni2+

Ca2

+A

l3+and

Fe3+

Rhod

amine

[97]

19Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

224times10minus9M

50ndash

100n

MDrin

king

water

20-fo

ldof

Ca2+M

g2+Z

n2+C

r3+P

b2+

Cr6+M

n2+C

d2+Fe3

+A

l3+and

Ni2+

10-fo

ldof

Fe2+and

Co2

+5-fo

ldof

Cu2+

andthes

amec

oncentratio

nof

Ag+

caused

almostn

ointerfe

rence

Goldnano

particles

[98]

20Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Opticalchem

ical

sensor

018times10minus12M

72times10minus13ndash4

7times

10minus4M

Tapwaterriver

waterand

cann

edtuna

fish

Interfe

renceo

fCu(II)elim

inated

with

the

additio

nof

L-histidine

asam

asking

agent

Synthesiz

ediono

phore

[99]

21Hg(II)

UV-Vis

spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

sensor

50times10minus6M

(visu

al)10times10minus7M

(UV-Vis)

mdashAq

ueou

ssolutions

Mg2

+C

a2+Z

n2+C

u2+C

r3+Fe3

+P

b2+

Ni2+

Co2

+and

Ag+

didno

tinterfere

Dim

ethylsulph

oxide

[100]

22Hg(II)

Fluo

rescence

spectro

photom

eter

Fluo

rescence

prob

e16times10minus9M

002ndash10120583M

Aqueou

ssolutions

Selectiveinthed

eterminationof

Hg2

+

over

otherm

etalions

such

asFe

3+C

a2+

Mg2

+M

n2+C

r3+N

i2+C

u2+C

o2+and

Pb2+

Goldnano

particles

[101]

23Hg(II)

mdashColorim

etric

12times10minus9M

2ndash30

nMWater

samples

Na+

(2mM)K+

(2mM)Fe

3+Z

n2+and

Mg2

+(01mM)Ni2+

Co2

+C

d2+P

b2+

andCu

2+(50120583

M)andAg+

(35120583M)d

idno

tinterfere

with

thed

etectio

nof

Hg2

+

(25n

M)inthem

entio

nedam

ounts

Rhod

amineB

thiolacton

e[102]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 ONPC

Rsoxygen-do

pednitro

gen-ric

hph

otolum

inescent

polymer

carbon

nano

ribbo

ns2Limitof

quantifi

catio

n3 T

GFR

ETtim

e-gatedflu

orescencer

eson

ance

energy

transfe

r

10 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Table3Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

byelectro

chem

icalinstruments

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1Hg(II)

DP-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

499times10minus8M

mdashAmbientw

atertapand

wastewaters

Palladium

-naturalph

osph

ate-carbon

paste

electro

deenhances

thes

electiv

ityforH

g2+

Naturalph

osph

ate

electro

des

[103]

2Hg(II)

SW-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

004times10minus6M

02ndash100120583M

Food

stuffs

Simultaneou

slybo

thCd2

+andHg2

+are

determ

ined

and10

00-fo

ldforK

+N

a+L

i+

NH

4+C

a2+M

g2+P

b2+Z

n2+C

r3+Fe2

+

Co2

+and

Al3+

didno

tinterfere

Carbon

paste

electro

de[104

]

3Hg(II)

Differentia

lpulse

voltammeter

Electro

chem

ical

448times10minus10M

02ndash10120583gLminus1

Spiked

fishandplant

samples

Cu(II)M

g(II)As(III)and

Cr(II)were

possibleinterfe

rers

441015840-Bipyridine-silver

polymer

[105]

4Hg(II)

Cyclicv

oltammeter

Electro

chem

ical

08times10minus14M

10minus14ndash10minus

7M

mdashCu

2+P

b2+N

i2+Z

n2+C

r3+C

o3+A

s5+

Fe2+and

Fe3+

didno

tinterfere

Goldatom

icclu

ster-chito

san

[106]

5Hg(II)

Voltammeter

(cyclic

and

differentialpulse)

Biosensor

393times10minus12M

0005ndash0034m

MWater

samples

Thew

orking

potentialcon

trolledto

minim

izethe

interfe

renceo

fother

metalions

intestmedium

PANIand

PANI-co-PDTD

Apo

lymer

films

[107]

6Hg(II)

ASV

Electro

chem

ical

498times10minus9M

4ndash160p

pbAq

uatic

solutio

nsmdash

Glassycarbon

electro

de[108]

7Hg(II)

SW-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

92times10minus5M

01ndash1500n

MSoilgasolin

efishtap

andwastewaters

400-fold

massratio

ofCu

2+M

n2+Z

n2+

Cr3+C

r6+Fe3

+Fe2

+N

i2+and

Co2

+didno

tinterfe

rein

thes

imultaneou

sdetermination

ofCd2

+P

b2+and

Hg2

+

Triphenylpho

sphine

[109]

8Hg(II)

Potentiometer

Electro

chem

ical

977times10minus6M

(PME)

1

776times10minus7M

(CGE)

1

10times10minus1 ndash50times10minus6M

(PME)

10times10minus1 ndash50times10minus7M

(CGE)

Water

samples

Ag+

hassmallinterferenceinthe

determ

inationof

Hg2

+13

-Alternate

thiacalix[4]crow

n[110]

9Hg(II)

Potentiometer

Electro

chem

ical

10times10minus8M

50times10minus8 ndash10times10minus2M

mdashTh

esele

ctivity

coeffi

ciento

fthe

otherion

sis

rang

ingfro

m29to

49

PVCmem

brane

[111]

10Hg(II)

DPS

VElectro

chem

ical

005times10minus12M

1ndash500n

MWater

samples

Pb2+Th

3+C

u2+C

d2+N

i2+and

Al3+

did

notinterfere

Goldnano

particles

[112]

11Hg(II)

SW-ASV

Ultrason

icextractio

nmdash

mdashIndo

ordu

stsamples

mdashGoldnano

particles

[113]

12Hg(II)

Cyclicv

oltammeter

Electro

chem

ical

19times10minus9M

40ndash170120583gLminus1

Wastewaters

mdashBiotinylSomatostatin

-14

peptide

[114]

13Hg(II)

Potentiometer

Electro

chem

ical

3times10minus6M

5times10minus6 ndash1times

10minus2M

Con

taminated

water

Na+K

+M

g2+C

a2+Z

n2+C

u2+C

r3+Fe3

+

andPb

2+didno

tinterfere

inthe

determ

inationof

Hg2

+

Dith

izon

eand

di-n-butyl

phthalate

[115]

14Hg(II)

DP-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

0483times10minus6M

300ndash

700n

gmLminus

1mdash

Nointerfe

renceo

fCdNiZn

and

Cuin

50-

25-100-and

5-fold

inexcessrespectively

Nanocellulosic

fibers

[116]

15Hg(II)

mdashElectro

chem

ical

05times10minus9M

10nM

ndash10120583M

Zn2+M

g2+C

a2+P

b2+C

d2+M

n2+C

u2+

Ni2+

and

Fe3+

didno

tinterfere

G-quadrup

lexndashhemin

(G4ndash

hemin)

[117]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 PME

polymericmem

branee

lectrode

andCG

Ecoated

graphiteele

ctrode

Analyticalinstr

uments

DP-ASV

differentia

lpulse

anod

icstr

ipping

voltammeterSW-ASV

squ

arew

avea

nodics

tripping

voltammeter

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 11

Table4Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

bymisc

ellaneou

stechn

iques

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sed

forthe

detection

Metho

dLimitof

detection(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1Speciatio

nCon

tinuo

usmercury

analyzer

Thermaldesorptio

nmdash

mdashSolid

samples

(fly

ash)

mdashmdash

[118]

2GEM

Portablemercury

analyzer

mdashmdash

mdashAtmosph

ere

mdashmdash

[119]

3Hg(II)

SERS

1mdash

224times10minus12M

0001ndash05n

gmLminus

1Drin

king

water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofZn

2+

Mg2

+Fe3

+C

u2+P

b2+and

Mn2

+Goldnano

particles

[120]

4Hg(II)

HPL

CSP

E19

9times10minus10ndash4

48times10minus9M

27ndash300120583

gLminus1

Water

samples

Simultaneou

slyNi2+

Co2

+and

Hg2

+ared

etermined

Carbon

nano

tubes

[121]

5Hg(II)

SERS

mdash01times

10minus9M

01ndash1000

nMGroun

dwater

Ag+

was

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

Hg2

+andK+

Cu2

+A

g+

Cr3+Fe3

+N

H4+C

a2+C

o2+

Cd2

+and

Zn2+

didno

tinterfere

Oligon

ucleotide-

functio

nalized

magnetic

silicas

phere

[122]

6To

talH

gAMA

Acid

digestion

mdashmdash

Eggs

andbloo

dof

Eretmochelys

imbrica

ta

Along

with

mercury

CdCu

Zn

and

Pbarea

lsodeterm

ined

mdash[123]

7Hg(II)

Luminescence

spectro

meter

Fluo

rescence

30ndash

90times10minus9M

005ndash10120583M

Water

samples

Fairlyselectiveinpresence

ofAg+Fe3

+Z

n2+C

a2+M

n2+

Mg2

+C

o2+P

b2+N

i2+C

d2+

andCu

2+

Silver

nano

cluste

rs[124]

8Hg(II)

X-rayflu

orescence

spectro

meter

Precon

centratio

n498times10minus12M

Upto20

mgLminus1

Drin

king

water

mdashAc

tivated

carbon

[125]

9To

talH

gDMA

014ng

mdashParticulatem

atter

mdashGFCfilters

[126]

10MeH

gand

EtHg

HPL

CCh

emilu

minescence

016

nggminus

105ndash20

ngHg

Soilandsediment

samples

Back

extractio

nandanother

chem

icalprocessm

akethe

metho

dselectivefor

MeH

gand

EtHg

Emetined

ithiocarbam

ate

[127]

11To

talH

gCV

-CCP

M-O

ES2

Microwaved

igestio

n239times10minus11M

027ndash55m

gkgminus

1Soilsamples

mdashmdash

[128]

12Hg(II)

Chem

odosim

eter

Fluo

rescence

171times

10minus9M

10times10minus7 ndash10times

10minus6M

Bloo

dserum

ofmice

mdashRh

odam

ine

[129]

13Hg(0)

XRF

Acid

digestion

997times10minus8M

mdashSoils

from

indu

strial

complex

mdashmdash

[130]

14To

talH

gDMA

Com

bustion

012ng

05ndash5n

gSoilandleafsamples

mdashmdash

[131]

15MeH

gand

Hg(II)

GC-

MS

Matrix

solid

-phase

dispersio

n006

(MeH

g)and012

(Hg(II))120583gg

mdashTu

nafishangel

sharkandguitarfish

mdashmdash

[132]

16GEM

mdashCon

centratio

n-weighted

trajectory

mod

elmdash

mdashParticulatem

atter

mdashQFF

[133]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 SER

Ssurfa

ceenhanced

Raman

scatterin

g2 C

V-CC

PM-O

EScold-vapo

rcapacitivelycoup

ledplasmam

icrotorchflu

orescences

pectrometry

Analyticalinstr

uments

HPL

Chigh

perfo

rmance

liquidchromatograph

yAMAautom

aticmercury

analyzerD

MAdire

ctmercury

analyzerX

RFX

-ray

fluorescence

12 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

[26 48 52 66 119 126] Various measurement techniquesthat can be available for the determination ofmercury speciesin ambient air were reviewed by Pandey et al [154] Thisstudy also concluded that most of the researchers preferredCV-AAS and CV-AFS technique for the measurement ofdifferent mercury species in ambient air In comparison ofmethods acid digestion and thermal method for the analysisof mercury in ambient air acid digestion is better thanthermal method By the thermal methods the values can beobtained 30 lower than the acid digestion method [155]

In the analysis ofmercury species in various environmen-tal samples selectivity and range of linearity of the methodalso play a major role due to the presence of multielementsin the real samples Based on the present study most ofthe spectrophotometric spectrofluorometric and electroan-alytical methods were discussed regarding the interferingion studies and linearity range of the method These studieswill give a clear picture about the determination of mercuryspecies in presence of other ionswhich validates themethods

Regarding the merits of the different methods for spe-ciation and analysis of mercury the usage of nonchromato-graphic methods has an advantage in terms of speed of anal-ysis inexpensiveness and convenience to find themercury invarious environmental samples But for the complete specia-tion studies of mercury in biological and environmental sam-ples chromatographic methods are useful [156] The validityof analytical methods can be enhanced with the analysis ofthe certified reference materials along with the real samplesIn recent years the researchers mostly preferred GC coupledwith AFS or ICP-MS for the determination and speciation ofmercury in natural waters [157] In electroanalyticalmethodsthe validity of themethods depends on various factors such astype of electrode preconcentration and supportingmaterials[139] and these methods are cost-effective selective andsensitive [143]

3 Conclusions

The present study revealed the recent developments in thedetermination and speciation studies ofmercury by a range ofanalytical techniques Our previous study [2] also describedthe challenges in the methodology for mercury determina-tionThis review showed thatmost researchers focused on thedetermination of Hg(II) rather than speciation studies Onthe other hand the speciation studies [23 24 29 36 37 4447 50 54 58 68 69 76 118] accurately revealed the toxicityof mercury rather than the total mercury or single speciesdeterminations In the papers reviewed most researcherswere aware of the interfering ions in the determination ofmercury and its different forms In the analytical methoda study of interfering ions is very important because it canpredict the selectivity of the method In future studies it willbe important to focus on speciation studies of mercury ratherthan a determination of the total mercury

Conflict of Interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper

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Zn05

Fe2

O4

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[150] M M Silva L O Bastos Silva D J Leao W N Lopes dosSantos B Welz and S L Costa Ferreira ldquoDetermination ofmercury in alcohol vinegar samples from Salvador BahiaBrazilrdquo Food Control vol 47 pp 623ndash627 2015

[151] P Jarujamrus M Amatatongchai A Thima T Khongrangdeeand C Mongkontong ldquoSelective colorimetric sensors based onthe monitoring of an unmodified silver nanoparticles (AgNPs)reduction for a simple and rapid determination of mercuryrdquoSpectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spec-troscopy vol 142 pp 86ndash93 2015

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andmulti-walled carbon nanotubes composites dispersed in a novelcationic surfactantrdquo Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry vol751 pp 23ndash29 2015

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[154] S K Pandey K-H Kim and R J C Brown ldquoMeasurementtechniques for mercury species in ambient airrdquo TrACmdashTrendsin Analytical Chemistry vol 30 no 6 pp 899ndash917 2011

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CatalystsJournal of

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 3

Table1Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

byspectro

metric

instr

uments(A

ASICP-OES

AES

MSandAFS

)

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1To

talH

gCV

-AASand

ICP-AES

Microwavea

ciddigestion

483times10minus10M

mdashFish

samples

Cadm

ium

andlead

also

analyzed

alon

gwith

mercury

mdash[7]

2Hg(II)

CV-AAS

Precon

centratio

n17

9times10minus10M

mdashWater

andhu

man

hair

Recovery

ofHg2

+isin

ther

ange

of956ndash104

9

inpresence

ofCu

2+

Co2

+Z

n2+N

i2+C

d2+M

n2+B

a2+

Pb2+Fe3

+C

r3+A

l3+A

g+K

+N

a+

NH

4+M

g2+and

Ca2+

ionsfrom

750

to2500-fo

ld

Dith

izon

e[8]

3To

talH

gCV

-AAS

Ultrasou

ndextractio

n698times10minus11M

mdashAlcoh

olvinegar

mdashmdash

[9]

4To

talH

gCV

-AAS

SPE1

498times10minus11M

Ricecannedfishandtealeaves

Thetolerance

limitforN

a+K

+M

g2+

andCa

2+is40

00-fo

ldfor

Ba2+

and

Zn2+

is40

-foldfor

Fe3+C

r3+C

o2+

andNi2+

is10-fo

ldand

forA

l3+is

200-fold

comparedto

Hg2

+

Fe3O

4nano

particles

[10]

5Hg(II)

CV-AAS

SPE

997times10minus12M

Upto

500120583

gLminus1

Water

samples

AsAlFeM

oandSb

ared

epressed

theH

gsig

nal

Carbon

nano

tubes

[11]

6To

talH

gCV

-AAS

Acid

digestion

36times10minus9M

mdashMarinefi

shmdash

mdash[12]

7To

talH

gCV

-AAS

Wetdigestion

30times10minus9M

mdashGreen

tiger

shrim

pArsenicalso

determ

ined

alon

gwith

mercury

mdash[13]

8To

talH

gCV

-AAS

Alkalinefusiondigestion

006

nggminus

1000

6ndash40

00ng

gminus1

Phosph

ater

ock

mdashmdash

[14]

9TH

gAAS

Acid

digestion

498times10minus12M

mdashFish

muscle

tissues

Cadm

ium

andlead

also

detected

alon

gwith

mercury

mdash[15]

10Hg(II)

CV-AAS

SPE

119times10minus11M

001ndash230120583

gLminus1

Water

samples

Fe3+C

u2+Z

n2+C

d2+C

o2+and

Mn2

+aren

otinterfe

redup

to5m

gLminus1

andNH

4+andTl

3+aren

otinterfe

red

upto

1mgLminus1

Polymer

supp

ortedionic

liquid

[16]

11Hg(II)

CV-AAS

SPE

997times10minus11M

007ndash200120583

gLminus1

Water

samples

Tolerablea

mou

ntof

major

metalsis

limitedup

to50120583gLminus1

Polytetrafluo

roethylene

[17]

12To

talH

gCV

-AAS

Digestio

n398times10minus10M

25ndash100120583gLminus1

Biologicalsamples

mdashColdfin

ger

[18]

13To

talH

gCV

-AAS

Com

bustion

299times10minus13M

mdashWater

andfish

Arsenicandselenium

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

mercury

mdash[19

]

14To

talH

gAAS

Amalgamation

02n

ggforh

aira

nd002

ngg

forb

lood

mdashHaira

ndbloo

dsamples

Arsenicandselenium

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

mercury

mdash[20]

15To

talH

gCV

-AAS(to

talH

g)andGC-

ICPM

S(M

eHg)

Cold-vapo

rreductio

nwith

NaB

H4

598times10minus11M

(totalH

g)and23times10minus9M

(MeH

g)mdash

Bloo

dof

birds

Selenium

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

mercury

andmethylm

ercury

mdash[21]

4 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Table1Con

tinued

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

16To

talH

gand

MeH

g

CV-AAS(to

talH

g)andCV

-AFS

(MeH

g)Digestio

n003ndash0

1ng

gmdash

Fishvegetablesandmushroo

ms

Selenium

andcadm

ium

also

determ

ined

with

mercury

species

mdash[22]

17Hgspeciatio

nCV

-AAS(to

talH

g)andCV

-AFS

(MeH

g)Ac

iddigestion

mdashWater

samples

mdashmdash

[23]

18Hgspeciatio

nCV

-AAS

LLME2

149times10minus10M

(Hg2

+)

and

18times10minus9M

(MeH

g)05ndash100n

gmLminus

1Water

samples

andCR

Ms

Ther

ecoveryof

Hg2

+in

presence

offoreignions

is95ndash105

andforM

eHgis

96ndash106

mdash[24]

19To

talH

gGF-AAS

Acid

mineralization

697times10minus11M

mdashFish

muscle

samples

mdashCop

pern

itrate

[25]

20GEM

AAS

Ambientair

mdashmdash

[26]

21To

talH

gCV

-AAS

Acid

digestion

00006120583ggminus1

mdashFreshw

ater

fishsamples

mdashStanno

uschlorid

e[27]

22To

talH

gAAS

Com

bustion

001ng

mdashSoilsamples

Interfe

renceo

fvarious

heavymetals

was

overcomeb

yusingsample

pretreatment

mdash[28]

23Hgspeciatio

nAAS(THg)

and

ICP-MS-HPL

C(M

eHg)

Hydrid

egeneration

533times10minus14M

20120583gLminus1

Fish

samples

CdPb

AsandSn

also

measured

alon

gwith

Hg

mdash[29]

24TH

gHG-AAS

Hydrid

egeneration

984

(accuracy)

mdashIrrig

ationwater

wells

Along

with

mercury

PbC

dandAl

Cralso

measured

mdash[30]

25TH

gCV

-AASandAAS

Thermaldecompo

sition

andam

algamation

134times10minus9M

(TD-amalgamation

AAS)

and314times10minus9M

(CV-AAS)

mdashSoilsamples

mdashmdash

[31]

26To

talH

gspeciatio

nHV-AASand

HPL

C-CV

-AFS

Extractio

nmdash

mdashAq

ueou

ssolutions

andfishtissue

mdashMultiw

alledcarbon

nano

tubes

[32]

27To

talH

gCV

-AAS(D

MA)

Microwaveo

vendigestion

mdashmdash

Cann

edfish

Selenium

andtin

also

measuredalon

gwith

mercury

mdash[33]

28TH

gAMA(A

AS)

AASprinciples

and

with

outd

igestio

nprocess

mdashmdash

Fish

redmuscle

and

whitemuscle

mdashmdash

[34]

29TH

gAES

LIBS

andSIBS

2times10minus3M

(LIBS)

and

997times10minus5M

(SIBS)

Soilsamples

At534074n

mhaslessspectral

interfe

rence

mdash[35]

30Hgspeciatio

nCV

-AFS

Extractio

n10

(totalH

g)and

001MeH

gnggminus1

mdashSeaw

ater

andsediments

mdashmdash

[36]

31Hgspeciatio

nCV

-AFS

Extractio

n001times10minus12M

(Hg0)and

0002times10minus12M

(DM

Hg)

mdashSeaw

aters

mdashmdash

[37]

32To

talH

gCV

-AFS

Microwavea

ssisted

digestion

398times10minus13M

mdashNuts

Interfe

renceo

ffatin

nutsisremoved

bytre

atmentw

ithchloroform

and

methano

lmdash

[38]

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 5

Table1Con

tinued

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

33Hg(II)

AFS

Fluo

rescence

optical

sensor

957times10minus12M

227times10minus11ndash113times

10minus3M

Hum

anhair

urineand

wellw

ater

samples

Mosto

fthe

alkalialkalin

eand

transitionmetalions

didno

tinterfere

inthed

eterminationof

Hg2

+

N-(2-Hydroxy

phenyl)-N-(2-mercapto

phenyl)-o-ph

thalylidene

[39]

34GEM

CV-AFS

Goldam

algamation

000

02ng

mdashTo

talsuspend

edparticulates

mdashQFF

(quartzfi

berfi

lters)

[40]

35MeH

gAASandCV

-AFS

Acid

digestion

0005120583

gg

mdashWatersoilsediments

and

food

stuffs

mdashmdash

[41]

36To

talH

gCV

-AFS

Microwavea

ssisted

digestion

05n

ggminus1

mdashSediments

mdashSequ

entia

linjectio

nsyste

m[42]

37To

talH

gCV

-AFS

Acid

digestion

048

nggminus

1mdash

Rice

Interfe

renceo

fother

metalions

iselim

inated

byacid

washandkept

storage

ofsamples

for2

4h

Multisyringe

flow

injectionanalysis

[43]

38Hgspeciatio

nHPL

C-AFS

UV-indu

cedatom

ization

19times10minus9(H

g2+)19times

10minus9(M

eHg)and

20times

10minus9(EtH

g)M

CRMs

mdashmdash

[44]

39Hg(II)

UV-AFS

SPE

149times10minus13ndash398times

10minus13M

1ndash5000

ngLminus

1Naturalwaters

10mgLminus1of

Fe2+Fe3

+C

u2+P

b2+

andAs3+and10gLminus1of

Na+K

+and

Ca2+

didno

tinterfere

inthe

determ

inationof

100n

gLminus1of

Hg2

+

Sodium

diethyldith

iocarbam

ate

[45]

40Hg(II)

AFS

Micro-SPE

598times10minus11M

Upto

5120583gLminus1

Water

samples

mdashMesofl

uidicp

latform

[46]

41Hgspeciatio

nEX

-AFS

05n

ggminus1(to

talH

g)mdash

Wastecalcines

mdashmdash

[47]

42Hgspeciatio

nCV

-AFS

Extractio

nsim05p

gmdash

Atmosph

ericair

mdashPT

FEfilterp

apers

[48]

43MeH

gGC-AFS

SPE

12ng

gminus1

Upto

15ng

mLminus

1Biologicalsamples

mdashmdash

[49]

44Hgspeciatio

nHPL

C-AFS

Liqu

id-liqu

idmicroextractio

n

154times10minus10(H

g2+)74

2times10minus11(M

eHg)1045times

10minus10(EtH

g)and

331times

10minus10M

(PhH

g)

00ndash

20120583gLminus1

Environm

entalw

aters

Nointerfe

rencefrom

otherm

etalions

1-Octyl-3-m

eth-l

imidazolium

hexaflu

orop

hosphate

[50]

45MeH

gCV

-AFS

Extractio

n0515n

ggminus1

mdashPetro

leum

mdashTM

AH

3 KO

HCH

3OH

HCland

acidic

CuSO

4KB

r[51]

46GEM

CV-AFS

mdashmdash

mdashAmbientair

mdashmdash

[52]

47Hg(II)

AFS

Fluo

rescence

007times10minus6M

01ndash45120583

MAq

ueou

ssolutions

Long

erexcitatio

nandem

ission

wavele

ngth

couldshield

the

interfe

rence

Fe3O

4magnetic

nano

particles

[53]

48Hgspeciatio

nCV

-AFS

Thermaldecompo

sition

mdashmdash

Fish

liver

Metho

dvalid

ityisteste

dwith

CRM

mdash[54]

49TH

gAFS

mdashlt498times10minus12M

mdashSn

owmdash

K 2Cr

2O7Sn

Cl2

[55]

50Atmosph

ericHg

CV-AFS

Extractio

nmdash

mdashParticulatem

atter

mdashmdash

[56]

6 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Table1Con

tinued

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

51TH

gCV

-AFS

Flow

injectionmercury

syste

mmdash

mdashHerbalprodu

cts

mdashProtease

papain

[57]

52Hgspeciatio

nLC

-UV-CV

-AFS

Microwaved

igestio

n498times10minus12(to

talH

g)

139times10minus12(M

eHg)and

199times10minus12(H

g2+)M

mdashSeafoo

dSimultaneou

slydeterm

ined

both

Hg(II)a

ndMeH

gmdash

[58]

53MeH

gandtotal

Hg

CV-AAS

Digestio

n0088(M

eHg)

and0005

(totalH

g)120583ggminus1

mdashHaira

ndmilk

ofmothers

mdashmdash

[59]

54Hg(II)

ICP-MS

Microflu

idic

349times10minus10M

02ndash40120583

gLminus1

Aqueou

ssam

ples

Ther

ecoveryof

Hg2

+in

thep

resence

of100120583

gLminus1of

Ca2+C

d2+C

o2+

Cr3+C

u2+K

+M

g2+N

a+N

i2+

Pb2+and

Zn2+

isin

ther

ange

of975ndash1017

Goldnano

particles

[60]

55To

talH

gICP-MS

Acid

digestion

0053ndash001120583ggminus1

mdashPh

armaceutic

alingredients

Lowresid

ualcarbo

ncontentin

digests

isdesir

ableto

minim

izes

ome

interfe

rence

mdash[61]

56Hg(II)

ICP-MS

Adsorptio

nmdash

mdashWastewaters

mdashMultiw

alledcarbon

nano

tubes

[62]

57Hg(II)

ICP-OES

Extractio

n14

9times10minus11M

mdashFish

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofNa+K

+C

s+

Ca2+M

g2+Z

n2+Fe2

+C

u2+C

o2+

Ni2+

Mn2

+C

d2+and

Pb2+

into

1mgLminus1solutio

nsof

Hg(II)inpH

8

Ionim

printedpo

lymer

[63]

58To

talH

gCV

-ICP

-MS

Microwaved

igestio

n3n

ggminus1

mdashPlantsandsoil

mdashmdash

[64]

59To

talH

gICP-MS

Microwavea

ssisted

digestion

mdashmdash

Rice

mdashmdash

[65]

60GEM

CV-ICP

-MS

Thermalanalysis

20times10minus15g

mdashAtmosph

ericparticulates

mdashmdash

[66]

61Hg(II)a

ndMeH

gHPL

C-ICPM

SHF-LP

ME4

548times10minus10(H

g2+)a

nd1times

10minus9(M

eHg)

MUpto

50120583gLminus1

Tapriv

erand

estuarinew

aters

Simultaneou

slyselenium

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

mercury

mdash[67]

62Hgspeciatio

nICP-MS

Ionexchange

chromatograph

y

947times10minus11(H

g2+)12

5times10minus10

(MeH

g)135times

10minus10(EtH

g)and

792times

10minus10(PhH

g)M

01ndash100120583

gLminus1(all

Hgspecies)

Seaw

ater

andmarinefi

shmdash

L-Cy

steineo

rthiou

rea

[68]

63Hgspeciatio

nGC-

ICP-MS

Precon

centratio

n27

(Hg2

+)a

nd12ng

gminus1

(MeH

g)mdash

Hum

anhair

mdashmdash

[69]

64To

talH

gMC-

ICPM

SIsotop

eratio

analysis

01ndash02disin

tegrations

perm

inute

mdashSedimentcore

Mercury

andmercury

isotope

compo

sitions

ared

etermined

mdash[70]

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 7

Table1Con

tinued

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

65Hg(II)a

ndMeH

gCV

G-ICP

-MS

Extractio

n17

(Hg(II))and

23n

ggminus1(M

eHg)

mdashFish

samples

mdashmdash

[71]

66MeH

gHg(II)

and

EtHg

HPL

C-CV

-ICP

MS

Extractio

nandseparatio

n598times10minus11(H

g(II))

217times10minus11(EtH

g)and

18times10minus8(M

eHg)

Mmdash

Plasmaserum

samples

mdashmdash

[72]

67To

talH

gICP-MS

Microwavea

ssisted

digestion

mdashmdash

Freshw

ater

fishsamples

mdashmdash

[73]

68To

talH

gICP-MS

Isotop

edilu

tionand

UV-ph

otochemicalvapo

rgeneratio

n05p

ggminus1

mdashBiologicaltissues

Polyatom

icinterfe

renceisn

otdetectable

Form

icacid

[74]

69To

talH

gICP-MS

Calcination-iso

tope

dilutio

n2times10minus15M

mdashDiploria

specim

ens

Noiso

baric

interfe

rencew

asfoun

dmdash

[75]

70Hgspeciatio

nICP-MS

Anion

exchange

chromatograph

icseparatio

n

398times10minus11(H

g2+)111

times10minus10(M

eHg)126times

10minus10(EtH

g)and

122times

10minus10(PhH

g)M

mdashFish

samples

mdash3-Mercapto-1-

prop

anesulfonate

[76]

71To

talH

gICP-MS

Ultrason

icslu

rry

samplingele

ctrothermal

vapo

rization

02n

ggminus1

mdashHerbalsam

ples

AsCdandPb

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

Hg

8-Hydroxyqu

inoline

[77]

72To

talH

gICP-MS

Electro

thermal

vapo

rization

598times10minus11M

mdashWater

associated

with

crud

eoil

prod

uctio

nBy

precon

centratio

nof

analyte

interfe

renceisa

voided

mdash[78]

73TH

gICP-MS

Isotop

edilu

tionequatio

n498times10minus11M

forT

Hg

000

05ndash132

1mgkg

forM

eHg

Arctic

cod

mdashmdash

[79]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 Solid-phase

extractio

n2 LLM

Eliq

uid-liq

uidmicroextractio

n3 T

MAHtetramethylammon

ium

hydroxide

4 HF-LP

ME

hallo

wfib

erliq

uidph

asem

icroextractio

nAnalytic

alinstruments

CV-AAS

cloud

vapo

ratom

icabsorptio

nspectro

meterH

G-AAS

hydridegeneratio

nAAS

GF-AAS

graphite

furnaceAAS

ICP-OES

ind

uctiv

elycoup

ledplasmaop

tical

emiss

ion

spectro

meterICP

-MSICP-massspectrometerICP

-AES

ICP

-atomicem

issionspectro

meterH

PLC

high

perfo

rmance

liquidchromatograph

yAFS

atomicflu

orescences

pectrometerA

MAautom

aticmercury

analyzerD

MAdire

ctmercury

analyzer

8 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Table2Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

byspectro

photom

eter

andspectro

fluorom

eter

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

ument

used

forthe

detection

Metho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1Hg(II)

Fluo

rescence

spectro

photom

eter

Fluo

rescence

40times10minus9M

60ndash

450n

MWater

samples

10-fo

ldof

Pb2+C

u2+and

Ag+

show

slt7

influ

ence

onthed

eterminationof

Hg2

+comparedto

repo

rted

ones

CdT

equantum

dots

[80]

2Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

23times10minus9M

000ndash0

31120583M

Riverw

ater

Selectiveinpresence

ofAg+C

d2+C

u2+

Co2

+N

i2+and

Pb2+

Carbon

nano

dots

[81]

3Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

26times10minus9M

0001ndash1120583

MWater

samples

Selectiveinpresence

of20120583M

ofAl3+

Ca

2+C

o2+C

u2+C

d2+Fe3

+M

n2+N

i2+

Pb2+and

Zn2+

Goldnano

particles

[82]

4Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

mdash083ndash86120583gm

Lminus1

Water

samples

Thetolerance

limitof

Cu2+V

5+A

g+

Pd2+P

t4+A

u3+Fe2

+N

i2+C

d2+P

b2+

andCr

6+isin

ther

ange

of011ndash

041120583

gmLminus

1 inthed

eterminationof

191120583

gmLminus

1of

Hg2

+

5-Methylth

ioph

ene-2-

carboxaldehyde

ethylenediam

ine

[83]

5Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

173times

10minus9M

20n

Mndash6

0120583M

mdashInterfe

renceo

fmajor

catio

nsstu

died

ONPC

Rs1

[84]

6Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

50times10minus9M

20ndash

1000

nMWater

samplers

Selectiveinpresence

ofNi2+

Co2

+C

a2+

Cu2+N

a+K

+A

s3+M

g2+C

d2+and

Fe2+

Silver

nano

particles

[85]

7Hg(II)

UV-Vis

spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

135times10minus6M

mdashDrin

king

water

Cd2

+P

b2+Fe3

+and

Ba2+

dono

tinterfe

rein

thed

eterminationof

Hg2

+bu

tMg2

+C

a2+and

Mn2

+interfe

reslightly

Goldnano

particles

[86]

8Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

and

UV-spectro

meter

Colorim

etric

and

fluorescent

sensor

27times10minus8M

0ndash10times10minus6M

Water

samples

and

livingcells

Thefl

uorescentsignalfor

Hg(II)isn

otinflu

encedby

them

ajor

metalions

inclu

ding

Fe(III)Cu

(II)and

Al(III)

24-Dichloroq

uinazolin

e[87]

9Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

53times10minus13M

10times10minus12ndash86times

10minus4M

Water

samples

and

SRM

Selectiveinpresence

ofMn2

+Fe2

+Fe3

+

Ni2+

Co2

+C

d2+and

Pb2+

Chromoion

opho

reV

[88]

10Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescentand

colorim

etric

10times10minus9M

mdashSpiked

water

samples

Na+M

g2+K

+C

r3+M

n2+C

o2+N

i2+

Fe3+C

u2+Z

n2+A

g+C

d2+and

Pb2+

did

notinterfere

Rhod

amineB

[89]

11Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

142times10minus9M

0ndash5times10minus7M

Aqueou

ssolutions

Cd2

+C

u2+and

Ag+

dono

tinterfere

Thioether-append

eddipeptide

[90]

12Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

05times10minus9M

000

05ndash0

01120583

MLake

water

samples

Zn2+P

b2+N

i2+C

a2+M

g2+C

u2+C

o2+

Cd2

+Fe3

+and

Mn2

+didno

tinterfere

Carbon

nano

tubes

[91]

13Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescent

174ndash

383times10minus6M

mdashLiving

cells

Minor

interfe

rencefrom

Ag+C

a2+C

d2+

Co2

+C

u2+Fe2

+Fe3

+K

+M

g2+M

n2+

Na+N

i2+P

b2+R

b+and

Zn2+

Pyrene

[92]

14Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

04times10minus6M

01ndash42120583

gmLminus

1Waterbiological

plantleavesand

soilsamples

Tolerancelim

itof

theC

d2+Z

n2+C

e3+

Ce4

+In3

+C

r3+L

a3+Y

b3+and

Eu3+

is300120583

gmLminus

1andthetolerance

limitof

the

Co2

+C

u2+Fe3

+T

i4+P

b2+N

i2+and

Ag+

is100120583

gmLminus

1andatHg(II)is

20120583

gmLminus

1

247-Triamino-6-ph

enylpteridine

[93]

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 9

Table2Con

tinued

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

ument

used

forthe

detection

Metho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

15Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorop

hotometer

Fluo

rescent

10times10minus7M

20times10minus7 ndash30times

10minus5M

Water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofNa+K

+N

H4+

Ba2+Z

n2+C

d2+M

g2+C

a2+and

Ni2+

Con

jugatedpo

lymer

multilayer

films

[94]

16Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

TGFR

ET3

049ndash0

87times10minus9M

10times10minus9 ndash10times

10minus8M

Water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofMn2

+B

a2+N

i2+

Cu2+C

a2+C

r2+C

o2+C

d2+M

g2+

Zn2+A

l3+Fe3

+and

Pb2+

Goldnano

particles

[95]

17Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescent

1times10minus9M

001ndash0

12120583M

Water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofZn

2+P

b2+N

i2+

Co2

+C

a2+C

u2+M

g2+C

d2+Fe3

+and

Mn2

+Ca

rbon

nano

dots

[96]

18Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescent

0012times10minus6M

0-1120583

MTapandriv

erwater

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofAg+P

b2+N

a+

K+C

r3+C

d2+B

a2+Z

n2+M

g2+C

u2+

Ni2+

Ca2

+A

l3+and

Fe3+

Rhod

amine

[97]

19Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

224times10minus9M

50ndash

100n

MDrin

king

water

20-fo

ldof

Ca2+M

g2+Z

n2+C

r3+P

b2+

Cr6+M

n2+C

d2+Fe3

+A

l3+and

Ni2+

10-fo

ldof

Fe2+and

Co2

+5-fo

ldof

Cu2+

andthes

amec

oncentratio

nof

Ag+

caused

almostn

ointerfe

rence

Goldnano

particles

[98]

20Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Opticalchem

ical

sensor

018times10minus12M

72times10minus13ndash4

7times

10minus4M

Tapwaterriver

waterand

cann

edtuna

fish

Interfe

renceo

fCu(II)elim

inated

with

the

additio

nof

L-histidine

asam

asking

agent

Synthesiz

ediono

phore

[99]

21Hg(II)

UV-Vis

spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

sensor

50times10minus6M

(visu

al)10times10minus7M

(UV-Vis)

mdashAq

ueou

ssolutions

Mg2

+C

a2+Z

n2+C

u2+C

r3+Fe3

+P

b2+

Ni2+

Co2

+and

Ag+

didno

tinterfere

Dim

ethylsulph

oxide

[100]

22Hg(II)

Fluo

rescence

spectro

photom

eter

Fluo

rescence

prob

e16times10minus9M

002ndash10120583M

Aqueou

ssolutions

Selectiveinthed

eterminationof

Hg2

+

over

otherm

etalions

such

asFe

3+C

a2+

Mg2

+M

n2+C

r3+N

i2+C

u2+C

o2+and

Pb2+

Goldnano

particles

[101]

23Hg(II)

mdashColorim

etric

12times10minus9M

2ndash30

nMWater

samples

Na+

(2mM)K+

(2mM)Fe

3+Z

n2+and

Mg2

+(01mM)Ni2+

Co2

+C

d2+P

b2+

andCu

2+(50120583

M)andAg+

(35120583M)d

idno

tinterfere

with

thed

etectio

nof

Hg2

+

(25n

M)inthem

entio

nedam

ounts

Rhod

amineB

thiolacton

e[102]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 ONPC

Rsoxygen-do

pednitro

gen-ric

hph

otolum

inescent

polymer

carbon

nano

ribbo

ns2Limitof

quantifi

catio

n3 T

GFR

ETtim

e-gatedflu

orescencer

eson

ance

energy

transfe

r

10 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Table3Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

byelectro

chem

icalinstruments

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1Hg(II)

DP-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

499times10minus8M

mdashAmbientw

atertapand

wastewaters

Palladium

-naturalph

osph

ate-carbon

paste

electro

deenhances

thes

electiv

ityforH

g2+

Naturalph

osph

ate

electro

des

[103]

2Hg(II)

SW-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

004times10minus6M

02ndash100120583M

Food

stuffs

Simultaneou

slybo

thCd2

+andHg2

+are

determ

ined

and10

00-fo

ldforK

+N

a+L

i+

NH

4+C

a2+M

g2+P

b2+Z

n2+C

r3+Fe2

+

Co2

+and

Al3+

didno

tinterfere

Carbon

paste

electro

de[104

]

3Hg(II)

Differentia

lpulse

voltammeter

Electro

chem

ical

448times10minus10M

02ndash10120583gLminus1

Spiked

fishandplant

samples

Cu(II)M

g(II)As(III)and

Cr(II)were

possibleinterfe

rers

441015840-Bipyridine-silver

polymer

[105]

4Hg(II)

Cyclicv

oltammeter

Electro

chem

ical

08times10minus14M

10minus14ndash10minus

7M

mdashCu

2+P

b2+N

i2+Z

n2+C

r3+C

o3+A

s5+

Fe2+and

Fe3+

didno

tinterfere

Goldatom

icclu

ster-chito

san

[106]

5Hg(II)

Voltammeter

(cyclic

and

differentialpulse)

Biosensor

393times10minus12M

0005ndash0034m

MWater

samples

Thew

orking

potentialcon

trolledto

minim

izethe

interfe

renceo

fother

metalions

intestmedium

PANIand

PANI-co-PDTD

Apo

lymer

films

[107]

6Hg(II)

ASV

Electro

chem

ical

498times10minus9M

4ndash160p

pbAq

uatic

solutio

nsmdash

Glassycarbon

electro

de[108]

7Hg(II)

SW-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

92times10minus5M

01ndash1500n

MSoilgasolin

efishtap

andwastewaters

400-fold

massratio

ofCu

2+M

n2+Z

n2+

Cr3+C

r6+Fe3

+Fe2

+N

i2+and

Co2

+didno

tinterfe

rein

thes

imultaneou

sdetermination

ofCd2

+P

b2+and

Hg2

+

Triphenylpho

sphine

[109]

8Hg(II)

Potentiometer

Electro

chem

ical

977times10minus6M

(PME)

1

776times10minus7M

(CGE)

1

10times10minus1 ndash50times10minus6M

(PME)

10times10minus1 ndash50times10minus7M

(CGE)

Water

samples

Ag+

hassmallinterferenceinthe

determ

inationof

Hg2

+13

-Alternate

thiacalix[4]crow

n[110]

9Hg(II)

Potentiometer

Electro

chem

ical

10times10minus8M

50times10minus8 ndash10times10minus2M

mdashTh

esele

ctivity

coeffi

ciento

fthe

otherion

sis

rang

ingfro

m29to

49

PVCmem

brane

[111]

10Hg(II)

DPS

VElectro

chem

ical

005times10minus12M

1ndash500n

MWater

samples

Pb2+Th

3+C

u2+C

d2+N

i2+and

Al3+

did

notinterfere

Goldnano

particles

[112]

11Hg(II)

SW-ASV

Ultrason

icextractio

nmdash

mdashIndo

ordu

stsamples

mdashGoldnano

particles

[113]

12Hg(II)

Cyclicv

oltammeter

Electro

chem

ical

19times10minus9M

40ndash170120583gLminus1

Wastewaters

mdashBiotinylSomatostatin

-14

peptide

[114]

13Hg(II)

Potentiometer

Electro

chem

ical

3times10minus6M

5times10minus6 ndash1times

10minus2M

Con

taminated

water

Na+K

+M

g2+C

a2+Z

n2+C

u2+C

r3+Fe3

+

andPb

2+didno

tinterfere

inthe

determ

inationof

Hg2

+

Dith

izon

eand

di-n-butyl

phthalate

[115]

14Hg(II)

DP-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

0483times10minus6M

300ndash

700n

gmLminus

1mdash

Nointerfe

renceo

fCdNiZn

and

Cuin

50-

25-100-and

5-fold

inexcessrespectively

Nanocellulosic

fibers

[116]

15Hg(II)

mdashElectro

chem

ical

05times10minus9M

10nM

ndash10120583M

Zn2+M

g2+C

a2+P

b2+C

d2+M

n2+C

u2+

Ni2+

and

Fe3+

didno

tinterfere

G-quadrup

lexndashhemin

(G4ndash

hemin)

[117]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 PME

polymericmem

branee

lectrode

andCG

Ecoated

graphiteele

ctrode

Analyticalinstr

uments

DP-ASV

differentia

lpulse

anod

icstr

ipping

voltammeterSW-ASV

squ

arew

avea

nodics

tripping

voltammeter

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 11

Table4Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

bymisc

ellaneou

stechn

iques

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sed

forthe

detection

Metho

dLimitof

detection(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1Speciatio

nCon

tinuo

usmercury

analyzer

Thermaldesorptio

nmdash

mdashSolid

samples

(fly

ash)

mdashmdash

[118]

2GEM

Portablemercury

analyzer

mdashmdash

mdashAtmosph

ere

mdashmdash

[119]

3Hg(II)

SERS

1mdash

224times10minus12M

0001ndash05n

gmLminus

1Drin

king

water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofZn

2+

Mg2

+Fe3

+C

u2+P

b2+and

Mn2

+Goldnano

particles

[120]

4Hg(II)

HPL

CSP

E19

9times10minus10ndash4

48times10minus9M

27ndash300120583

gLminus1

Water

samples

Simultaneou

slyNi2+

Co2

+and

Hg2

+ared

etermined

Carbon

nano

tubes

[121]

5Hg(II)

SERS

mdash01times

10minus9M

01ndash1000

nMGroun

dwater

Ag+

was

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

Hg2

+andK+

Cu2

+A

g+

Cr3+Fe3

+N

H4+C

a2+C

o2+

Cd2

+and

Zn2+

didno

tinterfere

Oligon

ucleotide-

functio

nalized

magnetic

silicas

phere

[122]

6To

talH

gAMA

Acid

digestion

mdashmdash

Eggs

andbloo

dof

Eretmochelys

imbrica

ta

Along

with

mercury

CdCu

Zn

and

Pbarea

lsodeterm

ined

mdash[123]

7Hg(II)

Luminescence

spectro

meter

Fluo

rescence

30ndash

90times10minus9M

005ndash10120583M

Water

samples

Fairlyselectiveinpresence

ofAg+Fe3

+Z

n2+C

a2+M

n2+

Mg2

+C

o2+P

b2+N

i2+C

d2+

andCu

2+

Silver

nano

cluste

rs[124]

8Hg(II)

X-rayflu

orescence

spectro

meter

Precon

centratio

n498times10minus12M

Upto20

mgLminus1

Drin

king

water

mdashAc

tivated

carbon

[125]

9To

talH

gDMA

014ng

mdashParticulatem

atter

mdashGFCfilters

[126]

10MeH

gand

EtHg

HPL

CCh

emilu

minescence

016

nggminus

105ndash20

ngHg

Soilandsediment

samples

Back

extractio

nandanother

chem

icalprocessm

akethe

metho

dselectivefor

MeH

gand

EtHg

Emetined

ithiocarbam

ate

[127]

11To

talH

gCV

-CCP

M-O

ES2

Microwaved

igestio

n239times10minus11M

027ndash55m

gkgminus

1Soilsamples

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[128]

12Hg(II)

Chem

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eter

Fluo

rescence

171times

10minus9M

10times10minus7 ndash10times

10minus6M

Bloo

dserum

ofmice

mdashRh

odam

ine

[129]

13Hg(0)

XRF

Acid

digestion

997times10minus8M

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from

indu

strial

complex

mdashmdash

[130]

14To

talH

gDMA

Com

bustion

012ng

05ndash5n

gSoilandleafsamples

mdashmdash

[131]

15MeH

gand

Hg(II)

GC-

MS

Matrix

solid

-phase

dispersio

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g)and012

(Hg(II))120583gg

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[132]

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atter

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Analyticalinstr

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RFX

-ray

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12 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

[26 48 52 66 119 126] Various measurement techniquesthat can be available for the determination ofmercury speciesin ambient air were reviewed by Pandey et al [154] Thisstudy also concluded that most of the researchers preferredCV-AAS and CV-AFS technique for the measurement ofdifferent mercury species in ambient air In comparison ofmethods acid digestion and thermal method for the analysisof mercury in ambient air acid digestion is better thanthermal method By the thermal methods the values can beobtained 30 lower than the acid digestion method [155]

In the analysis ofmercury species in various environmen-tal samples selectivity and range of linearity of the methodalso play a major role due to the presence of multielementsin the real samples Based on the present study most ofthe spectrophotometric spectrofluorometric and electroan-alytical methods were discussed regarding the interferingion studies and linearity range of the method These studieswill give a clear picture about the determination of mercuryspecies in presence of other ionswhich validates themethods

Regarding the merits of the different methods for spe-ciation and analysis of mercury the usage of nonchromato-graphic methods has an advantage in terms of speed of anal-ysis inexpensiveness and convenience to find themercury invarious environmental samples But for the complete specia-tion studies of mercury in biological and environmental sam-ples chromatographic methods are useful [156] The validityof analytical methods can be enhanced with the analysis ofthe certified reference materials along with the real samplesIn recent years the researchers mostly preferred GC coupledwith AFS or ICP-MS for the determination and speciation ofmercury in natural waters [157] In electroanalyticalmethodsthe validity of themethods depends on various factors such astype of electrode preconcentration and supportingmaterials[139] and these methods are cost-effective selective andsensitive [143]

3 Conclusions

The present study revealed the recent developments in thedetermination and speciation studies ofmercury by a range ofanalytical techniques Our previous study [2] also describedthe challenges in the methodology for mercury determina-tionThis review showed thatmost researchers focused on thedetermination of Hg(II) rather than speciation studies Onthe other hand the speciation studies [23 24 29 36 37 4447 50 54 58 68 69 76 118] accurately revealed the toxicityof mercury rather than the total mercury or single speciesdeterminations In the papers reviewed most researcherswere aware of the interfering ions in the determination ofmercury and its different forms In the analytical methoda study of interfering ions is very important because it canpredict the selectivity of the method In future studies it willbe important to focus on speciation studies of mercury ratherthan a determination of the total mercury

Conflict of Interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper

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Zn05

Fe2

O4

nanocomposite modified carbon paste elec-trode for highly sensitive and selective simultaneous electro-chemical determination of trace amounts of mercury (II) andcadmium (II)rdquo Journal of the Iranian Chemical Society vol 12no 2 pp 257ndash265 2014

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CatalystsJournal of

4 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Table1Con

tinued

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

16To

talH

gand

MeH

g

CV-AAS(to

talH

g)andCV

-AFS

(MeH

g)Digestio

n003ndash0

1ng

gmdash

Fishvegetablesandmushroo

ms

Selenium

andcadm

ium

also

determ

ined

with

mercury

species

mdash[22]

17Hgspeciatio

nCV

-AAS(to

talH

g)andCV

-AFS

(MeH

g)Ac

iddigestion

mdashWater

samples

mdashmdash

[23]

18Hgspeciatio

nCV

-AAS

LLME2

149times10minus10M

(Hg2

+)

and

18times10minus9M

(MeH

g)05ndash100n

gmLminus

1Water

samples

andCR

Ms

Ther

ecoveryof

Hg2

+in

presence

offoreignions

is95ndash105

andforM

eHgis

96ndash106

mdash[24]

19To

talH

gGF-AAS

Acid

mineralization

697times10minus11M

mdashFish

muscle

samples

mdashCop

pern

itrate

[25]

20GEM

AAS

Ambientair

mdashmdash

[26]

21To

talH

gCV

-AAS

Acid

digestion

00006120583ggminus1

mdashFreshw

ater

fishsamples

mdashStanno

uschlorid

e[27]

22To

talH

gAAS

Com

bustion

001ng

mdashSoilsamples

Interfe

renceo

fvarious

heavymetals

was

overcomeb

yusingsample

pretreatment

mdash[28]

23Hgspeciatio

nAAS(THg)

and

ICP-MS-HPL

C(M

eHg)

Hydrid

egeneration

533times10minus14M

20120583gLminus1

Fish

samples

CdPb

AsandSn

also

measured

alon

gwith

Hg

mdash[29]

24TH

gHG-AAS

Hydrid

egeneration

984

(accuracy)

mdashIrrig

ationwater

wells

Along

with

mercury

PbC

dandAl

Cralso

measured

mdash[30]

25TH

gCV

-AASandAAS

Thermaldecompo

sition

andam

algamation

134times10minus9M

(TD-amalgamation

AAS)

and314times10minus9M

(CV-AAS)

mdashSoilsamples

mdashmdash

[31]

26To

talH

gspeciatio

nHV-AASand

HPL

C-CV

-AFS

Extractio

nmdash

mdashAq

ueou

ssolutions

andfishtissue

mdashMultiw

alledcarbon

nano

tubes

[32]

27To

talH

gCV

-AAS(D

MA)

Microwaveo

vendigestion

mdashmdash

Cann

edfish

Selenium

andtin

also

measuredalon

gwith

mercury

mdash[33]

28TH

gAMA(A

AS)

AASprinciples

and

with

outd

igestio

nprocess

mdashmdash

Fish

redmuscle

and

whitemuscle

mdashmdash

[34]

29TH

gAES

LIBS

andSIBS

2times10minus3M

(LIBS)

and

997times10minus5M

(SIBS)

Soilsamples

At534074n

mhaslessspectral

interfe

rence

mdash[35]

30Hgspeciatio

nCV

-AFS

Extractio

n10

(totalH

g)and

001MeH

gnggminus1

mdashSeaw

ater

andsediments

mdashmdash

[36]

31Hgspeciatio

nCV

-AFS

Extractio

n001times10minus12M

(Hg0)and

0002times10minus12M

(DM

Hg)

mdashSeaw

aters

mdashmdash

[37]

32To

talH

gCV

-AFS

Microwavea

ssisted

digestion

398times10minus13M

mdashNuts

Interfe

renceo

ffatin

nutsisremoved

bytre

atmentw

ithchloroform

and

methano

lmdash

[38]

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 5

Table1Con

tinued

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

33Hg(II)

AFS

Fluo

rescence

optical

sensor

957times10minus12M

227times10minus11ndash113times

10minus3M

Hum

anhair

urineand

wellw

ater

samples

Mosto

fthe

alkalialkalin

eand

transitionmetalions

didno

tinterfere

inthed

eterminationof

Hg2

+

N-(2-Hydroxy

phenyl)-N-(2-mercapto

phenyl)-o-ph

thalylidene

[39]

34GEM

CV-AFS

Goldam

algamation

000

02ng

mdashTo

talsuspend

edparticulates

mdashQFF

(quartzfi

berfi

lters)

[40]

35MeH

gAASandCV

-AFS

Acid

digestion

0005120583

gg

mdashWatersoilsediments

and

food

stuffs

mdashmdash

[41]

36To

talH

gCV

-AFS

Microwavea

ssisted

digestion

05n

ggminus1

mdashSediments

mdashSequ

entia

linjectio

nsyste

m[42]

37To

talH

gCV

-AFS

Acid

digestion

048

nggminus

1mdash

Rice

Interfe

renceo

fother

metalions

iselim

inated

byacid

washandkept

storage

ofsamples

for2

4h

Multisyringe

flow

injectionanalysis

[43]

38Hgspeciatio

nHPL

C-AFS

UV-indu

cedatom

ization

19times10minus9(H

g2+)19times

10minus9(M

eHg)and

20times

10minus9(EtH

g)M

CRMs

mdashmdash

[44]

39Hg(II)

UV-AFS

SPE

149times10minus13ndash398times

10minus13M

1ndash5000

ngLminus

1Naturalwaters

10mgLminus1of

Fe2+Fe3

+C

u2+P

b2+

andAs3+and10gLminus1of

Na+K

+and

Ca2+

didno

tinterfere

inthe

determ

inationof

100n

gLminus1of

Hg2

+

Sodium

diethyldith

iocarbam

ate

[45]

40Hg(II)

AFS

Micro-SPE

598times10minus11M

Upto

5120583gLminus1

Water

samples

mdashMesofl

uidicp

latform

[46]

41Hgspeciatio

nEX

-AFS

05n

ggminus1(to

talH

g)mdash

Wastecalcines

mdashmdash

[47]

42Hgspeciatio

nCV

-AFS

Extractio

nsim05p

gmdash

Atmosph

ericair

mdashPT

FEfilterp

apers

[48]

43MeH

gGC-AFS

SPE

12ng

gminus1

Upto

15ng

mLminus

1Biologicalsamples

mdashmdash

[49]

44Hgspeciatio

nHPL

C-AFS

Liqu

id-liqu

idmicroextractio

n

154times10minus10(H

g2+)74

2times10minus11(M

eHg)1045times

10minus10(EtH

g)and

331times

10minus10M

(PhH

g)

00ndash

20120583gLminus1

Environm

entalw

aters

Nointerfe

rencefrom

otherm

etalions

1-Octyl-3-m

eth-l

imidazolium

hexaflu

orop

hosphate

[50]

45MeH

gCV

-AFS

Extractio

n0515n

ggminus1

mdashPetro

leum

mdashTM

AH

3 KO

HCH

3OH

HCland

acidic

CuSO

4KB

r[51]

46GEM

CV-AFS

mdashmdash

mdashAmbientair

mdashmdash

[52]

47Hg(II)

AFS

Fluo

rescence

007times10minus6M

01ndash45120583

MAq

ueou

ssolutions

Long

erexcitatio

nandem

ission

wavele

ngth

couldshield

the

interfe

rence

Fe3O

4magnetic

nano

particles

[53]

48Hgspeciatio

nCV

-AFS

Thermaldecompo

sition

mdashmdash

Fish

liver

Metho

dvalid

ityisteste

dwith

CRM

mdash[54]

49TH

gAFS

mdashlt498times10minus12M

mdashSn

owmdash

K 2Cr

2O7Sn

Cl2

[55]

50Atmosph

ericHg

CV-AFS

Extractio

nmdash

mdashParticulatem

atter

mdashmdash

[56]

6 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Table1Con

tinued

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

51TH

gCV

-AFS

Flow

injectionmercury

syste

mmdash

mdashHerbalprodu

cts

mdashProtease

papain

[57]

52Hgspeciatio

nLC

-UV-CV

-AFS

Microwaved

igestio

n498times10minus12(to

talH

g)

139times10minus12(M

eHg)and

199times10minus12(H

g2+)M

mdashSeafoo

dSimultaneou

slydeterm

ined

both

Hg(II)a

ndMeH

gmdash

[58]

53MeH

gandtotal

Hg

CV-AAS

Digestio

n0088(M

eHg)

and0005

(totalH

g)120583ggminus1

mdashHaira

ndmilk

ofmothers

mdashmdash

[59]

54Hg(II)

ICP-MS

Microflu

idic

349times10minus10M

02ndash40120583

gLminus1

Aqueou

ssam

ples

Ther

ecoveryof

Hg2

+in

thep

resence

of100120583

gLminus1of

Ca2+C

d2+C

o2+

Cr3+C

u2+K

+M

g2+N

a+N

i2+

Pb2+and

Zn2+

isin

ther

ange

of975ndash1017

Goldnano

particles

[60]

55To

talH

gICP-MS

Acid

digestion

0053ndash001120583ggminus1

mdashPh

armaceutic

alingredients

Lowresid

ualcarbo

ncontentin

digests

isdesir

ableto

minim

izes

ome

interfe

rence

mdash[61]

56Hg(II)

ICP-MS

Adsorptio

nmdash

mdashWastewaters

mdashMultiw

alledcarbon

nano

tubes

[62]

57Hg(II)

ICP-OES

Extractio

n14

9times10minus11M

mdashFish

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofNa+K

+C

s+

Ca2+M

g2+Z

n2+Fe2

+C

u2+C

o2+

Ni2+

Mn2

+C

d2+and

Pb2+

into

1mgLminus1solutio

nsof

Hg(II)inpH

8

Ionim

printedpo

lymer

[63]

58To

talH

gCV

-ICP

-MS

Microwaved

igestio

n3n

ggminus1

mdashPlantsandsoil

mdashmdash

[64]

59To

talH

gICP-MS

Microwavea

ssisted

digestion

mdashmdash

Rice

mdashmdash

[65]

60GEM

CV-ICP

-MS

Thermalanalysis

20times10minus15g

mdashAtmosph

ericparticulates

mdashmdash

[66]

61Hg(II)a

ndMeH

gHPL

C-ICPM

SHF-LP

ME4

548times10minus10(H

g2+)a

nd1times

10minus9(M

eHg)

MUpto

50120583gLminus1

Tapriv

erand

estuarinew

aters

Simultaneou

slyselenium

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

mercury

mdash[67]

62Hgspeciatio

nICP-MS

Ionexchange

chromatograph

y

947times10minus11(H

g2+)12

5times10minus10

(MeH

g)135times

10minus10(EtH

g)and

792times

10minus10(PhH

g)M

01ndash100120583

gLminus1(all

Hgspecies)

Seaw

ater

andmarinefi

shmdash

L-Cy

steineo

rthiou

rea

[68]

63Hgspeciatio

nGC-

ICP-MS

Precon

centratio

n27

(Hg2

+)a

nd12ng

gminus1

(MeH

g)mdash

Hum

anhair

mdashmdash

[69]

64To

talH

gMC-

ICPM

SIsotop

eratio

analysis

01ndash02disin

tegrations

perm

inute

mdashSedimentcore

Mercury

andmercury

isotope

compo

sitions

ared

etermined

mdash[70]

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 7

Table1Con

tinued

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

65Hg(II)a

ndMeH

gCV

G-ICP

-MS

Extractio

n17

(Hg(II))and

23n

ggminus1(M

eHg)

mdashFish

samples

mdashmdash

[71]

66MeH

gHg(II)

and

EtHg

HPL

C-CV

-ICP

MS

Extractio

nandseparatio

n598times10minus11(H

g(II))

217times10minus11(EtH

g)and

18times10minus8(M

eHg)

Mmdash

Plasmaserum

samples

mdashmdash

[72]

67To

talH

gICP-MS

Microwavea

ssisted

digestion

mdashmdash

Freshw

ater

fishsamples

mdashmdash

[73]

68To

talH

gICP-MS

Isotop

edilu

tionand

UV-ph

otochemicalvapo

rgeneratio

n05p

ggminus1

mdashBiologicaltissues

Polyatom

icinterfe

renceisn

otdetectable

Form

icacid

[74]

69To

talH

gICP-MS

Calcination-iso

tope

dilutio

n2times10minus15M

mdashDiploria

specim

ens

Noiso

baric

interfe

rencew

asfoun

dmdash

[75]

70Hgspeciatio

nICP-MS

Anion

exchange

chromatograph

icseparatio

n

398times10minus11(H

g2+)111

times10minus10(M

eHg)126times

10minus10(EtH

g)and

122times

10minus10(PhH

g)M

mdashFish

samples

mdash3-Mercapto-1-

prop

anesulfonate

[76]

71To

talH

gICP-MS

Ultrason

icslu

rry

samplingele

ctrothermal

vapo

rization

02n

ggminus1

mdashHerbalsam

ples

AsCdandPb

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

Hg

8-Hydroxyqu

inoline

[77]

72To

talH

gICP-MS

Electro

thermal

vapo

rization

598times10minus11M

mdashWater

associated

with

crud

eoil

prod

uctio

nBy

precon

centratio

nof

analyte

interfe

renceisa

voided

mdash[78]

73TH

gICP-MS

Isotop

edilu

tionequatio

n498times10minus11M

forT

Hg

000

05ndash132

1mgkg

forM

eHg

Arctic

cod

mdashmdash

[79]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 Solid-phase

extractio

n2 LLM

Eliq

uid-liq

uidmicroextractio

n3 T

MAHtetramethylammon

ium

hydroxide

4 HF-LP

ME

hallo

wfib

erliq

uidph

asem

icroextractio

nAnalytic

alinstruments

CV-AAS

cloud

vapo

ratom

icabsorptio

nspectro

meterH

G-AAS

hydridegeneratio

nAAS

GF-AAS

graphite

furnaceAAS

ICP-OES

ind

uctiv

elycoup

ledplasmaop

tical

emiss

ion

spectro

meterICP

-MSICP-massspectrometerICP

-AES

ICP

-atomicem

issionspectro

meterH

PLC

high

perfo

rmance

liquidchromatograph

yAFS

atomicflu

orescences

pectrometerA

MAautom

aticmercury

analyzerD

MAdire

ctmercury

analyzer

8 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Table2Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

byspectro

photom

eter

andspectro

fluorom

eter

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

ument

used

forthe

detection

Metho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1Hg(II)

Fluo

rescence

spectro

photom

eter

Fluo

rescence

40times10minus9M

60ndash

450n

MWater

samples

10-fo

ldof

Pb2+C

u2+and

Ag+

show

slt7

influ

ence

onthed

eterminationof

Hg2

+comparedto

repo

rted

ones

CdT

equantum

dots

[80]

2Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

23times10minus9M

000ndash0

31120583M

Riverw

ater

Selectiveinpresence

ofAg+C

d2+C

u2+

Co2

+N

i2+and

Pb2+

Carbon

nano

dots

[81]

3Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

26times10minus9M

0001ndash1120583

MWater

samples

Selectiveinpresence

of20120583M

ofAl3+

Ca

2+C

o2+C

u2+C

d2+Fe3

+M

n2+N

i2+

Pb2+and

Zn2+

Goldnano

particles

[82]

4Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

mdash083ndash86120583gm

Lminus1

Water

samples

Thetolerance

limitof

Cu2+V

5+A

g+

Pd2+P

t4+A

u3+Fe2

+N

i2+C

d2+P

b2+

andCr

6+isin

ther

ange

of011ndash

041120583

gmLminus

1 inthed

eterminationof

191120583

gmLminus

1of

Hg2

+

5-Methylth

ioph

ene-2-

carboxaldehyde

ethylenediam

ine

[83]

5Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

173times

10minus9M

20n

Mndash6

0120583M

mdashInterfe

renceo

fmajor

catio

nsstu

died

ONPC

Rs1

[84]

6Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

50times10minus9M

20ndash

1000

nMWater

samplers

Selectiveinpresence

ofNi2+

Co2

+C

a2+

Cu2+N

a+K

+A

s3+M

g2+C

d2+and

Fe2+

Silver

nano

particles

[85]

7Hg(II)

UV-Vis

spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

135times10minus6M

mdashDrin

king

water

Cd2

+P

b2+Fe3

+and

Ba2+

dono

tinterfe

rein

thed

eterminationof

Hg2

+bu

tMg2

+C

a2+and

Mn2

+interfe

reslightly

Goldnano

particles

[86]

8Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

and

UV-spectro

meter

Colorim

etric

and

fluorescent

sensor

27times10minus8M

0ndash10times10minus6M

Water

samples

and

livingcells

Thefl

uorescentsignalfor

Hg(II)isn

otinflu

encedby

them

ajor

metalions

inclu

ding

Fe(III)Cu

(II)and

Al(III)

24-Dichloroq

uinazolin

e[87]

9Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

53times10minus13M

10times10minus12ndash86times

10minus4M

Water

samples

and

SRM

Selectiveinpresence

ofMn2

+Fe2

+Fe3

+

Ni2+

Co2

+C

d2+and

Pb2+

Chromoion

opho

reV

[88]

10Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescentand

colorim

etric

10times10minus9M

mdashSpiked

water

samples

Na+M

g2+K

+C

r3+M

n2+C

o2+N

i2+

Fe3+C

u2+Z

n2+A

g+C

d2+and

Pb2+

did

notinterfere

Rhod

amineB

[89]

11Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

142times10minus9M

0ndash5times10minus7M

Aqueou

ssolutions

Cd2

+C

u2+and

Ag+

dono

tinterfere

Thioether-append

eddipeptide

[90]

12Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

05times10minus9M

000

05ndash0

01120583

MLake

water

samples

Zn2+P

b2+N

i2+C

a2+M

g2+C

u2+C

o2+

Cd2

+Fe3

+and

Mn2

+didno

tinterfere

Carbon

nano

tubes

[91]

13Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescent

174ndash

383times10minus6M

mdashLiving

cells

Minor

interfe

rencefrom

Ag+C

a2+C

d2+

Co2

+C

u2+Fe2

+Fe3

+K

+M

g2+M

n2+

Na+N

i2+P

b2+R

b+and

Zn2+

Pyrene

[92]

14Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

04times10minus6M

01ndash42120583

gmLminus

1Waterbiological

plantleavesand

soilsamples

Tolerancelim

itof

theC

d2+Z

n2+C

e3+

Ce4

+In3

+C

r3+L

a3+Y

b3+and

Eu3+

is300120583

gmLminus

1andthetolerance

limitof

the

Co2

+C

u2+Fe3

+T

i4+P

b2+N

i2+and

Ag+

is100120583

gmLminus

1andatHg(II)is

20120583

gmLminus

1

247-Triamino-6-ph

enylpteridine

[93]

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 9

Table2Con

tinued

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

ument

used

forthe

detection

Metho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

15Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorop

hotometer

Fluo

rescent

10times10minus7M

20times10minus7 ndash30times

10minus5M

Water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofNa+K

+N

H4+

Ba2+Z

n2+C

d2+M

g2+C

a2+and

Ni2+

Con

jugatedpo

lymer

multilayer

films

[94]

16Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

TGFR

ET3

049ndash0

87times10minus9M

10times10minus9 ndash10times

10minus8M

Water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofMn2

+B

a2+N

i2+

Cu2+C

a2+C

r2+C

o2+C

d2+M

g2+

Zn2+A

l3+Fe3

+and

Pb2+

Goldnano

particles

[95]

17Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescent

1times10minus9M

001ndash0

12120583M

Water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofZn

2+P

b2+N

i2+

Co2

+C

a2+C

u2+M

g2+C

d2+Fe3

+and

Mn2

+Ca

rbon

nano

dots

[96]

18Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescent

0012times10minus6M

0-1120583

MTapandriv

erwater

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofAg+P

b2+N

a+

K+C

r3+C

d2+B

a2+Z

n2+M

g2+C

u2+

Ni2+

Ca2

+A

l3+and

Fe3+

Rhod

amine

[97]

19Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

224times10minus9M

50ndash

100n

MDrin

king

water

20-fo

ldof

Ca2+M

g2+Z

n2+C

r3+P

b2+

Cr6+M

n2+C

d2+Fe3

+A

l3+and

Ni2+

10-fo

ldof

Fe2+and

Co2

+5-fo

ldof

Cu2+

andthes

amec

oncentratio

nof

Ag+

caused

almostn

ointerfe

rence

Goldnano

particles

[98]

20Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Opticalchem

ical

sensor

018times10minus12M

72times10minus13ndash4

7times

10minus4M

Tapwaterriver

waterand

cann

edtuna

fish

Interfe

renceo

fCu(II)elim

inated

with

the

additio

nof

L-histidine

asam

asking

agent

Synthesiz

ediono

phore

[99]

21Hg(II)

UV-Vis

spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

sensor

50times10minus6M

(visu

al)10times10minus7M

(UV-Vis)

mdashAq

ueou

ssolutions

Mg2

+C

a2+Z

n2+C

u2+C

r3+Fe3

+P

b2+

Ni2+

Co2

+and

Ag+

didno

tinterfere

Dim

ethylsulph

oxide

[100]

22Hg(II)

Fluo

rescence

spectro

photom

eter

Fluo

rescence

prob

e16times10minus9M

002ndash10120583M

Aqueou

ssolutions

Selectiveinthed

eterminationof

Hg2

+

over

otherm

etalions

such

asFe

3+C

a2+

Mg2

+M

n2+C

r3+N

i2+C

u2+C

o2+and

Pb2+

Goldnano

particles

[101]

23Hg(II)

mdashColorim

etric

12times10minus9M

2ndash30

nMWater

samples

Na+

(2mM)K+

(2mM)Fe

3+Z

n2+and

Mg2

+(01mM)Ni2+

Co2

+C

d2+P

b2+

andCu

2+(50120583

M)andAg+

(35120583M)d

idno

tinterfere

with

thed

etectio

nof

Hg2

+

(25n

M)inthem

entio

nedam

ounts

Rhod

amineB

thiolacton

e[102]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 ONPC

Rsoxygen-do

pednitro

gen-ric

hph

otolum

inescent

polymer

carbon

nano

ribbo

ns2Limitof

quantifi

catio

n3 T

GFR

ETtim

e-gatedflu

orescencer

eson

ance

energy

transfe

r

10 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Table3Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

byelectro

chem

icalinstruments

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1Hg(II)

DP-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

499times10minus8M

mdashAmbientw

atertapand

wastewaters

Palladium

-naturalph

osph

ate-carbon

paste

electro

deenhances

thes

electiv

ityforH

g2+

Naturalph

osph

ate

electro

des

[103]

2Hg(II)

SW-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

004times10minus6M

02ndash100120583M

Food

stuffs

Simultaneou

slybo

thCd2

+andHg2

+are

determ

ined

and10

00-fo

ldforK

+N

a+L

i+

NH

4+C

a2+M

g2+P

b2+Z

n2+C

r3+Fe2

+

Co2

+and

Al3+

didno

tinterfere

Carbon

paste

electro

de[104

]

3Hg(II)

Differentia

lpulse

voltammeter

Electro

chem

ical

448times10minus10M

02ndash10120583gLminus1

Spiked

fishandplant

samples

Cu(II)M

g(II)As(III)and

Cr(II)were

possibleinterfe

rers

441015840-Bipyridine-silver

polymer

[105]

4Hg(II)

Cyclicv

oltammeter

Electro

chem

ical

08times10minus14M

10minus14ndash10minus

7M

mdashCu

2+P

b2+N

i2+Z

n2+C

r3+C

o3+A

s5+

Fe2+and

Fe3+

didno

tinterfere

Goldatom

icclu

ster-chito

san

[106]

5Hg(II)

Voltammeter

(cyclic

and

differentialpulse)

Biosensor

393times10minus12M

0005ndash0034m

MWater

samples

Thew

orking

potentialcon

trolledto

minim

izethe

interfe

renceo

fother

metalions

intestmedium

PANIand

PANI-co-PDTD

Apo

lymer

films

[107]

6Hg(II)

ASV

Electro

chem

ical

498times10minus9M

4ndash160p

pbAq

uatic

solutio

nsmdash

Glassycarbon

electro

de[108]

7Hg(II)

SW-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

92times10minus5M

01ndash1500n

MSoilgasolin

efishtap

andwastewaters

400-fold

massratio

ofCu

2+M

n2+Z

n2+

Cr3+C

r6+Fe3

+Fe2

+N

i2+and

Co2

+didno

tinterfe

rein

thes

imultaneou

sdetermination

ofCd2

+P

b2+and

Hg2

+

Triphenylpho

sphine

[109]

8Hg(II)

Potentiometer

Electro

chem

ical

977times10minus6M

(PME)

1

776times10minus7M

(CGE)

1

10times10minus1 ndash50times10minus6M

(PME)

10times10minus1 ndash50times10minus7M

(CGE)

Water

samples

Ag+

hassmallinterferenceinthe

determ

inationof

Hg2

+13

-Alternate

thiacalix[4]crow

n[110]

9Hg(II)

Potentiometer

Electro

chem

ical

10times10minus8M

50times10minus8 ndash10times10minus2M

mdashTh

esele

ctivity

coeffi

ciento

fthe

otherion

sis

rang

ingfro

m29to

49

PVCmem

brane

[111]

10Hg(II)

DPS

VElectro

chem

ical

005times10minus12M

1ndash500n

MWater

samples

Pb2+Th

3+C

u2+C

d2+N

i2+and

Al3+

did

notinterfere

Goldnano

particles

[112]

11Hg(II)

SW-ASV

Ultrason

icextractio

nmdash

mdashIndo

ordu

stsamples

mdashGoldnano

particles

[113]

12Hg(II)

Cyclicv

oltammeter

Electro

chem

ical

19times10minus9M

40ndash170120583gLminus1

Wastewaters

mdashBiotinylSomatostatin

-14

peptide

[114]

13Hg(II)

Potentiometer

Electro

chem

ical

3times10minus6M

5times10minus6 ndash1times

10minus2M

Con

taminated

water

Na+K

+M

g2+C

a2+Z

n2+C

u2+C

r3+Fe3

+

andPb

2+didno

tinterfere

inthe

determ

inationof

Hg2

+

Dith

izon

eand

di-n-butyl

phthalate

[115]

14Hg(II)

DP-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

0483times10minus6M

300ndash

700n

gmLminus

1mdash

Nointerfe

renceo

fCdNiZn

and

Cuin

50-

25-100-and

5-fold

inexcessrespectively

Nanocellulosic

fibers

[116]

15Hg(II)

mdashElectro

chem

ical

05times10minus9M

10nM

ndash10120583M

Zn2+M

g2+C

a2+P

b2+C

d2+M

n2+C

u2+

Ni2+

and

Fe3+

didno

tinterfere

G-quadrup

lexndashhemin

(G4ndash

hemin)

[117]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 PME

polymericmem

branee

lectrode

andCG

Ecoated

graphiteele

ctrode

Analyticalinstr

uments

DP-ASV

differentia

lpulse

anod

icstr

ipping

voltammeterSW-ASV

squ

arew

avea

nodics

tripping

voltammeter

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 11

Table4Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

bymisc

ellaneou

stechn

iques

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sed

forthe

detection

Metho

dLimitof

detection(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1Speciatio

nCon

tinuo

usmercury

analyzer

Thermaldesorptio

nmdash

mdashSolid

samples

(fly

ash)

mdashmdash

[118]

2GEM

Portablemercury

analyzer

mdashmdash

mdashAtmosph

ere

mdashmdash

[119]

3Hg(II)

SERS

1mdash

224times10minus12M

0001ndash05n

gmLminus

1Drin

king

water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofZn

2+

Mg2

+Fe3

+C

u2+P

b2+and

Mn2

+Goldnano

particles

[120]

4Hg(II)

HPL

CSP

E19

9times10minus10ndash4

48times10minus9M

27ndash300120583

gLminus1

Water

samples

Simultaneou

slyNi2+

Co2

+and

Hg2

+ared

etermined

Carbon

nano

tubes

[121]

5Hg(II)

SERS

mdash01times

10minus9M

01ndash1000

nMGroun

dwater

Ag+

was

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

Hg2

+andK+

Cu2

+A

g+

Cr3+Fe3

+N

H4+C

a2+C

o2+

Cd2

+and

Zn2+

didno

tinterfere

Oligon

ucleotide-

functio

nalized

magnetic

silicas

phere

[122]

6To

talH

gAMA

Acid

digestion

mdashmdash

Eggs

andbloo

dof

Eretmochelys

imbrica

ta

Along

with

mercury

CdCu

Zn

and

Pbarea

lsodeterm

ined

mdash[123]

7Hg(II)

Luminescence

spectro

meter

Fluo

rescence

30ndash

90times10minus9M

005ndash10120583M

Water

samples

Fairlyselectiveinpresence

ofAg+Fe3

+Z

n2+C

a2+M

n2+

Mg2

+C

o2+P

b2+N

i2+C

d2+

andCu

2+

Silver

nano

cluste

rs[124]

8Hg(II)

X-rayflu

orescence

spectro

meter

Precon

centratio

n498times10minus12M

Upto20

mgLminus1

Drin

king

water

mdashAc

tivated

carbon

[125]

9To

talH

gDMA

014ng

mdashParticulatem

atter

mdashGFCfilters

[126]

10MeH

gand

EtHg

HPL

CCh

emilu

minescence

016

nggminus

105ndash20

ngHg

Soilandsediment

samples

Back

extractio

nandanother

chem

icalprocessm

akethe

metho

dselectivefor

MeH

gand

EtHg

Emetined

ithiocarbam

ate

[127]

11To

talH

gCV

-CCP

M-O

ES2

Microwaved

igestio

n239times10minus11M

027ndash55m

gkgminus

1Soilsamples

mdashmdash

[128]

12Hg(II)

Chem

odosim

eter

Fluo

rescence

171times

10minus9M

10times10minus7 ndash10times

10minus6M

Bloo

dserum

ofmice

mdashRh

odam

ine

[129]

13Hg(0)

XRF

Acid

digestion

997times10minus8M

mdashSoils

from

indu

strial

complex

mdashmdash

[130]

14To

talH

gDMA

Com

bustion

012ng

05ndash5n

gSoilandleafsamples

mdashmdash

[131]

15MeH

gand

Hg(II)

GC-

MS

Matrix

solid

-phase

dispersio

n006

(MeH

g)and012

(Hg(II))120583gg

mdashTu

nafishangel

sharkandguitarfish

mdashmdash

[132]

16GEM

mdashCon

centratio

n-weighted

trajectory

mod

elmdash

mdashParticulatem

atter

mdashQFF

[133]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 SER

Ssurfa

ceenhanced

Raman

scatterin

g2 C

V-CC

PM-O

EScold-vapo

rcapacitivelycoup

ledplasmam

icrotorchflu

orescences

pectrometry

Analyticalinstr

uments

HPL

Chigh

perfo

rmance

liquidchromatograph

yAMAautom

aticmercury

analyzerD

MAdire

ctmercury

analyzerX

RFX

-ray

fluorescence

12 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

[26 48 52 66 119 126] Various measurement techniquesthat can be available for the determination ofmercury speciesin ambient air were reviewed by Pandey et al [154] Thisstudy also concluded that most of the researchers preferredCV-AAS and CV-AFS technique for the measurement ofdifferent mercury species in ambient air In comparison ofmethods acid digestion and thermal method for the analysisof mercury in ambient air acid digestion is better thanthermal method By the thermal methods the values can beobtained 30 lower than the acid digestion method [155]

In the analysis ofmercury species in various environmen-tal samples selectivity and range of linearity of the methodalso play a major role due to the presence of multielementsin the real samples Based on the present study most ofthe spectrophotometric spectrofluorometric and electroan-alytical methods were discussed regarding the interferingion studies and linearity range of the method These studieswill give a clear picture about the determination of mercuryspecies in presence of other ionswhich validates themethods

Regarding the merits of the different methods for spe-ciation and analysis of mercury the usage of nonchromato-graphic methods has an advantage in terms of speed of anal-ysis inexpensiveness and convenience to find themercury invarious environmental samples But for the complete specia-tion studies of mercury in biological and environmental sam-ples chromatographic methods are useful [156] The validityof analytical methods can be enhanced with the analysis ofthe certified reference materials along with the real samplesIn recent years the researchers mostly preferred GC coupledwith AFS or ICP-MS for the determination and speciation ofmercury in natural waters [157] In electroanalyticalmethodsthe validity of themethods depends on various factors such astype of electrode preconcentration and supportingmaterials[139] and these methods are cost-effective selective andsensitive [143]

3 Conclusions

The present study revealed the recent developments in thedetermination and speciation studies ofmercury by a range ofanalytical techniques Our previous study [2] also describedthe challenges in the methodology for mercury determina-tionThis review showed thatmost researchers focused on thedetermination of Hg(II) rather than speciation studies Onthe other hand the speciation studies [23 24 29 36 37 4447 50 54 58 68 69 76 118] accurately revealed the toxicityof mercury rather than the total mercury or single speciesdeterminations In the papers reviewed most researcherswere aware of the interfering ions in the determination ofmercury and its different forms In the analytical methoda study of interfering ions is very important because it canpredict the selectivity of the method In future studies it willbe important to focus on speciation studies of mercury ratherthan a determination of the total mercury

Conflict of Interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper

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Zn05

Fe2

O4

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CatalystsJournal of

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 5

Table1Con

tinued

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

33Hg(II)

AFS

Fluo

rescence

optical

sensor

957times10minus12M

227times10minus11ndash113times

10minus3M

Hum

anhair

urineand

wellw

ater

samples

Mosto

fthe

alkalialkalin

eand

transitionmetalions

didno

tinterfere

inthed

eterminationof

Hg2

+

N-(2-Hydroxy

phenyl)-N-(2-mercapto

phenyl)-o-ph

thalylidene

[39]

34GEM

CV-AFS

Goldam

algamation

000

02ng

mdashTo

talsuspend

edparticulates

mdashQFF

(quartzfi

berfi

lters)

[40]

35MeH

gAASandCV

-AFS

Acid

digestion

0005120583

gg

mdashWatersoilsediments

and

food

stuffs

mdashmdash

[41]

36To

talH

gCV

-AFS

Microwavea

ssisted

digestion

05n

ggminus1

mdashSediments

mdashSequ

entia

linjectio

nsyste

m[42]

37To

talH

gCV

-AFS

Acid

digestion

048

nggminus

1mdash

Rice

Interfe

renceo

fother

metalions

iselim

inated

byacid

washandkept

storage

ofsamples

for2

4h

Multisyringe

flow

injectionanalysis

[43]

38Hgspeciatio

nHPL

C-AFS

UV-indu

cedatom

ization

19times10minus9(H

g2+)19times

10minus9(M

eHg)and

20times

10minus9(EtH

g)M

CRMs

mdashmdash

[44]

39Hg(II)

UV-AFS

SPE

149times10minus13ndash398times

10minus13M

1ndash5000

ngLminus

1Naturalwaters

10mgLminus1of

Fe2+Fe3

+C

u2+P

b2+

andAs3+and10gLminus1of

Na+K

+and

Ca2+

didno

tinterfere

inthe

determ

inationof

100n

gLminus1of

Hg2

+

Sodium

diethyldith

iocarbam

ate

[45]

40Hg(II)

AFS

Micro-SPE

598times10minus11M

Upto

5120583gLminus1

Water

samples

mdashMesofl

uidicp

latform

[46]

41Hgspeciatio

nEX

-AFS

05n

ggminus1(to

talH

g)mdash

Wastecalcines

mdashmdash

[47]

42Hgspeciatio

nCV

-AFS

Extractio

nsim05p

gmdash

Atmosph

ericair

mdashPT

FEfilterp

apers

[48]

43MeH

gGC-AFS

SPE

12ng

gminus1

Upto

15ng

mLminus

1Biologicalsamples

mdashmdash

[49]

44Hgspeciatio

nHPL

C-AFS

Liqu

id-liqu

idmicroextractio

n

154times10minus10(H

g2+)74

2times10minus11(M

eHg)1045times

10minus10(EtH

g)and

331times

10minus10M

(PhH

g)

00ndash

20120583gLminus1

Environm

entalw

aters

Nointerfe

rencefrom

otherm

etalions

1-Octyl-3-m

eth-l

imidazolium

hexaflu

orop

hosphate

[50]

45MeH

gCV

-AFS

Extractio

n0515n

ggminus1

mdashPetro

leum

mdashTM

AH

3 KO

HCH

3OH

HCland

acidic

CuSO

4KB

r[51]

46GEM

CV-AFS

mdashmdash

mdashAmbientair

mdashmdash

[52]

47Hg(II)

AFS

Fluo

rescence

007times10minus6M

01ndash45120583

MAq

ueou

ssolutions

Long

erexcitatio

nandem

ission

wavele

ngth

couldshield

the

interfe

rence

Fe3O

4magnetic

nano

particles

[53]

48Hgspeciatio

nCV

-AFS

Thermaldecompo

sition

mdashmdash

Fish

liver

Metho

dvalid

ityisteste

dwith

CRM

mdash[54]

49TH

gAFS

mdashlt498times10minus12M

mdashSn

owmdash

K 2Cr

2O7Sn

Cl2

[55]

50Atmosph

ericHg

CV-AFS

Extractio

nmdash

mdashParticulatem

atter

mdashmdash

[56]

6 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Table1Con

tinued

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

51TH

gCV

-AFS

Flow

injectionmercury

syste

mmdash

mdashHerbalprodu

cts

mdashProtease

papain

[57]

52Hgspeciatio

nLC

-UV-CV

-AFS

Microwaved

igestio

n498times10minus12(to

talH

g)

139times10minus12(M

eHg)and

199times10minus12(H

g2+)M

mdashSeafoo

dSimultaneou

slydeterm

ined

both

Hg(II)a

ndMeH

gmdash

[58]

53MeH

gandtotal

Hg

CV-AAS

Digestio

n0088(M

eHg)

and0005

(totalH

g)120583ggminus1

mdashHaira

ndmilk

ofmothers

mdashmdash

[59]

54Hg(II)

ICP-MS

Microflu

idic

349times10minus10M

02ndash40120583

gLminus1

Aqueou

ssam

ples

Ther

ecoveryof

Hg2

+in

thep

resence

of100120583

gLminus1of

Ca2+C

d2+C

o2+

Cr3+C

u2+K

+M

g2+N

a+N

i2+

Pb2+and

Zn2+

isin

ther

ange

of975ndash1017

Goldnano

particles

[60]

55To

talH

gICP-MS

Acid

digestion

0053ndash001120583ggminus1

mdashPh

armaceutic

alingredients

Lowresid

ualcarbo

ncontentin

digests

isdesir

ableto

minim

izes

ome

interfe

rence

mdash[61]

56Hg(II)

ICP-MS

Adsorptio

nmdash

mdashWastewaters

mdashMultiw

alledcarbon

nano

tubes

[62]

57Hg(II)

ICP-OES

Extractio

n14

9times10minus11M

mdashFish

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofNa+K

+C

s+

Ca2+M

g2+Z

n2+Fe2

+C

u2+C

o2+

Ni2+

Mn2

+C

d2+and

Pb2+

into

1mgLminus1solutio

nsof

Hg(II)inpH

8

Ionim

printedpo

lymer

[63]

58To

talH

gCV

-ICP

-MS

Microwaved

igestio

n3n

ggminus1

mdashPlantsandsoil

mdashmdash

[64]

59To

talH

gICP-MS

Microwavea

ssisted

digestion

mdashmdash

Rice

mdashmdash

[65]

60GEM

CV-ICP

-MS

Thermalanalysis

20times10minus15g

mdashAtmosph

ericparticulates

mdashmdash

[66]

61Hg(II)a

ndMeH

gHPL

C-ICPM

SHF-LP

ME4

548times10minus10(H

g2+)a

nd1times

10minus9(M

eHg)

MUpto

50120583gLminus1

Tapriv

erand

estuarinew

aters

Simultaneou

slyselenium

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

mercury

mdash[67]

62Hgspeciatio

nICP-MS

Ionexchange

chromatograph

y

947times10minus11(H

g2+)12

5times10minus10

(MeH

g)135times

10minus10(EtH

g)and

792times

10minus10(PhH

g)M

01ndash100120583

gLminus1(all

Hgspecies)

Seaw

ater

andmarinefi

shmdash

L-Cy

steineo

rthiou

rea

[68]

63Hgspeciatio

nGC-

ICP-MS

Precon

centratio

n27

(Hg2

+)a

nd12ng

gminus1

(MeH

g)mdash

Hum

anhair

mdashmdash

[69]

64To

talH

gMC-

ICPM

SIsotop

eratio

analysis

01ndash02disin

tegrations

perm

inute

mdashSedimentcore

Mercury

andmercury

isotope

compo

sitions

ared

etermined

mdash[70]

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 7

Table1Con

tinued

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

65Hg(II)a

ndMeH

gCV

G-ICP

-MS

Extractio

n17

(Hg(II))and

23n

ggminus1(M

eHg)

mdashFish

samples

mdashmdash

[71]

66MeH

gHg(II)

and

EtHg

HPL

C-CV

-ICP

MS

Extractio

nandseparatio

n598times10minus11(H

g(II))

217times10minus11(EtH

g)and

18times10minus8(M

eHg)

Mmdash

Plasmaserum

samples

mdashmdash

[72]

67To

talH

gICP-MS

Microwavea

ssisted

digestion

mdashmdash

Freshw

ater

fishsamples

mdashmdash

[73]

68To

talH

gICP-MS

Isotop

edilu

tionand

UV-ph

otochemicalvapo

rgeneratio

n05p

ggminus1

mdashBiologicaltissues

Polyatom

icinterfe

renceisn

otdetectable

Form

icacid

[74]

69To

talH

gICP-MS

Calcination-iso

tope

dilutio

n2times10minus15M

mdashDiploria

specim

ens

Noiso

baric

interfe

rencew

asfoun

dmdash

[75]

70Hgspeciatio

nICP-MS

Anion

exchange

chromatograph

icseparatio

n

398times10minus11(H

g2+)111

times10minus10(M

eHg)126times

10minus10(EtH

g)and

122times

10minus10(PhH

g)M

mdashFish

samples

mdash3-Mercapto-1-

prop

anesulfonate

[76]

71To

talH

gICP-MS

Ultrason

icslu

rry

samplingele

ctrothermal

vapo

rization

02n

ggminus1

mdashHerbalsam

ples

AsCdandPb

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

Hg

8-Hydroxyqu

inoline

[77]

72To

talH

gICP-MS

Electro

thermal

vapo

rization

598times10minus11M

mdashWater

associated

with

crud

eoil

prod

uctio

nBy

precon

centratio

nof

analyte

interfe

renceisa

voided

mdash[78]

73TH

gICP-MS

Isotop

edilu

tionequatio

n498times10minus11M

forT

Hg

000

05ndash132

1mgkg

forM

eHg

Arctic

cod

mdashmdash

[79]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 Solid-phase

extractio

n2 LLM

Eliq

uid-liq

uidmicroextractio

n3 T

MAHtetramethylammon

ium

hydroxide

4 HF-LP

ME

hallo

wfib

erliq

uidph

asem

icroextractio

nAnalytic

alinstruments

CV-AAS

cloud

vapo

ratom

icabsorptio

nspectro

meterH

G-AAS

hydridegeneratio

nAAS

GF-AAS

graphite

furnaceAAS

ICP-OES

ind

uctiv

elycoup

ledplasmaop

tical

emiss

ion

spectro

meterICP

-MSICP-massspectrometerICP

-AES

ICP

-atomicem

issionspectro

meterH

PLC

high

perfo

rmance

liquidchromatograph

yAFS

atomicflu

orescences

pectrometerA

MAautom

aticmercury

analyzerD

MAdire

ctmercury

analyzer

8 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Table2Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

byspectro

photom

eter

andspectro

fluorom

eter

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

ument

used

forthe

detection

Metho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1Hg(II)

Fluo

rescence

spectro

photom

eter

Fluo

rescence

40times10minus9M

60ndash

450n

MWater

samples

10-fo

ldof

Pb2+C

u2+and

Ag+

show

slt7

influ

ence

onthed

eterminationof

Hg2

+comparedto

repo

rted

ones

CdT

equantum

dots

[80]

2Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

23times10minus9M

000ndash0

31120583M

Riverw

ater

Selectiveinpresence

ofAg+C

d2+C

u2+

Co2

+N

i2+and

Pb2+

Carbon

nano

dots

[81]

3Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

26times10minus9M

0001ndash1120583

MWater

samples

Selectiveinpresence

of20120583M

ofAl3+

Ca

2+C

o2+C

u2+C

d2+Fe3

+M

n2+N

i2+

Pb2+and

Zn2+

Goldnano

particles

[82]

4Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

mdash083ndash86120583gm

Lminus1

Water

samples

Thetolerance

limitof

Cu2+V

5+A

g+

Pd2+P

t4+A

u3+Fe2

+N

i2+C

d2+P

b2+

andCr

6+isin

ther

ange

of011ndash

041120583

gmLminus

1 inthed

eterminationof

191120583

gmLminus

1of

Hg2

+

5-Methylth

ioph

ene-2-

carboxaldehyde

ethylenediam

ine

[83]

5Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

173times

10minus9M

20n

Mndash6

0120583M

mdashInterfe

renceo

fmajor

catio

nsstu

died

ONPC

Rs1

[84]

6Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

50times10minus9M

20ndash

1000

nMWater

samplers

Selectiveinpresence

ofNi2+

Co2

+C

a2+

Cu2+N

a+K

+A

s3+M

g2+C

d2+and

Fe2+

Silver

nano

particles

[85]

7Hg(II)

UV-Vis

spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

135times10minus6M

mdashDrin

king

water

Cd2

+P

b2+Fe3

+and

Ba2+

dono

tinterfe

rein

thed

eterminationof

Hg2

+bu

tMg2

+C

a2+and

Mn2

+interfe

reslightly

Goldnano

particles

[86]

8Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

and

UV-spectro

meter

Colorim

etric

and

fluorescent

sensor

27times10minus8M

0ndash10times10minus6M

Water

samples

and

livingcells

Thefl

uorescentsignalfor

Hg(II)isn

otinflu

encedby

them

ajor

metalions

inclu

ding

Fe(III)Cu

(II)and

Al(III)

24-Dichloroq

uinazolin

e[87]

9Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

53times10minus13M

10times10minus12ndash86times

10minus4M

Water

samples

and

SRM

Selectiveinpresence

ofMn2

+Fe2

+Fe3

+

Ni2+

Co2

+C

d2+and

Pb2+

Chromoion

opho

reV

[88]

10Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescentand

colorim

etric

10times10minus9M

mdashSpiked

water

samples

Na+M

g2+K

+C

r3+M

n2+C

o2+N

i2+

Fe3+C

u2+Z

n2+A

g+C

d2+and

Pb2+

did

notinterfere

Rhod

amineB

[89]

11Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

142times10minus9M

0ndash5times10minus7M

Aqueou

ssolutions

Cd2

+C

u2+and

Ag+

dono

tinterfere

Thioether-append

eddipeptide

[90]

12Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

05times10minus9M

000

05ndash0

01120583

MLake

water

samples

Zn2+P

b2+N

i2+C

a2+M

g2+C

u2+C

o2+

Cd2

+Fe3

+and

Mn2

+didno

tinterfere

Carbon

nano

tubes

[91]

13Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescent

174ndash

383times10minus6M

mdashLiving

cells

Minor

interfe

rencefrom

Ag+C

a2+C

d2+

Co2

+C

u2+Fe2

+Fe3

+K

+M

g2+M

n2+

Na+N

i2+P

b2+R

b+and

Zn2+

Pyrene

[92]

14Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

04times10minus6M

01ndash42120583

gmLminus

1Waterbiological

plantleavesand

soilsamples

Tolerancelim

itof

theC

d2+Z

n2+C

e3+

Ce4

+In3

+C

r3+L

a3+Y

b3+and

Eu3+

is300120583

gmLminus

1andthetolerance

limitof

the

Co2

+C

u2+Fe3

+T

i4+P

b2+N

i2+and

Ag+

is100120583

gmLminus

1andatHg(II)is

20120583

gmLminus

1

247-Triamino-6-ph

enylpteridine

[93]

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 9

Table2Con

tinued

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

ument

used

forthe

detection

Metho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

15Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorop

hotometer

Fluo

rescent

10times10minus7M

20times10minus7 ndash30times

10minus5M

Water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofNa+K

+N

H4+

Ba2+Z

n2+C

d2+M

g2+C

a2+and

Ni2+

Con

jugatedpo

lymer

multilayer

films

[94]

16Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

TGFR

ET3

049ndash0

87times10minus9M

10times10minus9 ndash10times

10minus8M

Water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofMn2

+B

a2+N

i2+

Cu2+C

a2+C

r2+C

o2+C

d2+M

g2+

Zn2+A

l3+Fe3

+and

Pb2+

Goldnano

particles

[95]

17Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescent

1times10minus9M

001ndash0

12120583M

Water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofZn

2+P

b2+N

i2+

Co2

+C

a2+C

u2+M

g2+C

d2+Fe3

+and

Mn2

+Ca

rbon

nano

dots

[96]

18Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescent

0012times10minus6M

0-1120583

MTapandriv

erwater

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofAg+P

b2+N

a+

K+C

r3+C

d2+B

a2+Z

n2+M

g2+C

u2+

Ni2+

Ca2

+A

l3+and

Fe3+

Rhod

amine

[97]

19Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

224times10minus9M

50ndash

100n

MDrin

king

water

20-fo

ldof

Ca2+M

g2+Z

n2+C

r3+P

b2+

Cr6+M

n2+C

d2+Fe3

+A

l3+and

Ni2+

10-fo

ldof

Fe2+and

Co2

+5-fo

ldof

Cu2+

andthes

amec

oncentratio

nof

Ag+

caused

almostn

ointerfe

rence

Goldnano

particles

[98]

20Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Opticalchem

ical

sensor

018times10minus12M

72times10minus13ndash4

7times

10minus4M

Tapwaterriver

waterand

cann

edtuna

fish

Interfe

renceo

fCu(II)elim

inated

with

the

additio

nof

L-histidine

asam

asking

agent

Synthesiz

ediono

phore

[99]

21Hg(II)

UV-Vis

spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

sensor

50times10minus6M

(visu

al)10times10minus7M

(UV-Vis)

mdashAq

ueou

ssolutions

Mg2

+C

a2+Z

n2+C

u2+C

r3+Fe3

+P

b2+

Ni2+

Co2

+and

Ag+

didno

tinterfere

Dim

ethylsulph

oxide

[100]

22Hg(II)

Fluo

rescence

spectro

photom

eter

Fluo

rescence

prob

e16times10minus9M

002ndash10120583M

Aqueou

ssolutions

Selectiveinthed

eterminationof

Hg2

+

over

otherm

etalions

such

asFe

3+C

a2+

Mg2

+M

n2+C

r3+N

i2+C

u2+C

o2+and

Pb2+

Goldnano

particles

[101]

23Hg(II)

mdashColorim

etric

12times10minus9M

2ndash30

nMWater

samples

Na+

(2mM)K+

(2mM)Fe

3+Z

n2+and

Mg2

+(01mM)Ni2+

Co2

+C

d2+P

b2+

andCu

2+(50120583

M)andAg+

(35120583M)d

idno

tinterfere

with

thed

etectio

nof

Hg2

+

(25n

M)inthem

entio

nedam

ounts

Rhod

amineB

thiolacton

e[102]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 ONPC

Rsoxygen-do

pednitro

gen-ric

hph

otolum

inescent

polymer

carbon

nano

ribbo

ns2Limitof

quantifi

catio

n3 T

GFR

ETtim

e-gatedflu

orescencer

eson

ance

energy

transfe

r

10 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Table3Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

byelectro

chem

icalinstruments

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1Hg(II)

DP-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

499times10minus8M

mdashAmbientw

atertapand

wastewaters

Palladium

-naturalph

osph

ate-carbon

paste

electro

deenhances

thes

electiv

ityforH

g2+

Naturalph

osph

ate

electro

des

[103]

2Hg(II)

SW-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

004times10minus6M

02ndash100120583M

Food

stuffs

Simultaneou

slybo

thCd2

+andHg2

+are

determ

ined

and10

00-fo

ldforK

+N

a+L

i+

NH

4+C

a2+M

g2+P

b2+Z

n2+C

r3+Fe2

+

Co2

+and

Al3+

didno

tinterfere

Carbon

paste

electro

de[104

]

3Hg(II)

Differentia

lpulse

voltammeter

Electro

chem

ical

448times10minus10M

02ndash10120583gLminus1

Spiked

fishandplant

samples

Cu(II)M

g(II)As(III)and

Cr(II)were

possibleinterfe

rers

441015840-Bipyridine-silver

polymer

[105]

4Hg(II)

Cyclicv

oltammeter

Electro

chem

ical

08times10minus14M

10minus14ndash10minus

7M

mdashCu

2+P

b2+N

i2+Z

n2+C

r3+C

o3+A

s5+

Fe2+and

Fe3+

didno

tinterfere

Goldatom

icclu

ster-chito

san

[106]

5Hg(II)

Voltammeter

(cyclic

and

differentialpulse)

Biosensor

393times10minus12M

0005ndash0034m

MWater

samples

Thew

orking

potentialcon

trolledto

minim

izethe

interfe

renceo

fother

metalions

intestmedium

PANIand

PANI-co-PDTD

Apo

lymer

films

[107]

6Hg(II)

ASV

Electro

chem

ical

498times10minus9M

4ndash160p

pbAq

uatic

solutio

nsmdash

Glassycarbon

electro

de[108]

7Hg(II)

SW-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

92times10minus5M

01ndash1500n

MSoilgasolin

efishtap

andwastewaters

400-fold

massratio

ofCu

2+M

n2+Z

n2+

Cr3+C

r6+Fe3

+Fe2

+N

i2+and

Co2

+didno

tinterfe

rein

thes

imultaneou

sdetermination

ofCd2

+P

b2+and

Hg2

+

Triphenylpho

sphine

[109]

8Hg(II)

Potentiometer

Electro

chem

ical

977times10minus6M

(PME)

1

776times10minus7M

(CGE)

1

10times10minus1 ndash50times10minus6M

(PME)

10times10minus1 ndash50times10minus7M

(CGE)

Water

samples

Ag+

hassmallinterferenceinthe

determ

inationof

Hg2

+13

-Alternate

thiacalix[4]crow

n[110]

9Hg(II)

Potentiometer

Electro

chem

ical

10times10minus8M

50times10minus8 ndash10times10minus2M

mdashTh

esele

ctivity

coeffi

ciento

fthe

otherion

sis

rang

ingfro

m29to

49

PVCmem

brane

[111]

10Hg(II)

DPS

VElectro

chem

ical

005times10minus12M

1ndash500n

MWater

samples

Pb2+Th

3+C

u2+C

d2+N

i2+and

Al3+

did

notinterfere

Goldnano

particles

[112]

11Hg(II)

SW-ASV

Ultrason

icextractio

nmdash

mdashIndo

ordu

stsamples

mdashGoldnano

particles

[113]

12Hg(II)

Cyclicv

oltammeter

Electro

chem

ical

19times10minus9M

40ndash170120583gLminus1

Wastewaters

mdashBiotinylSomatostatin

-14

peptide

[114]

13Hg(II)

Potentiometer

Electro

chem

ical

3times10minus6M

5times10minus6 ndash1times

10minus2M

Con

taminated

water

Na+K

+M

g2+C

a2+Z

n2+C

u2+C

r3+Fe3

+

andPb

2+didno

tinterfere

inthe

determ

inationof

Hg2

+

Dith

izon

eand

di-n-butyl

phthalate

[115]

14Hg(II)

DP-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

0483times10minus6M

300ndash

700n

gmLminus

1mdash

Nointerfe

renceo

fCdNiZn

and

Cuin

50-

25-100-and

5-fold

inexcessrespectively

Nanocellulosic

fibers

[116]

15Hg(II)

mdashElectro

chem

ical

05times10minus9M

10nM

ndash10120583M

Zn2+M

g2+C

a2+P

b2+C

d2+M

n2+C

u2+

Ni2+

and

Fe3+

didno

tinterfere

G-quadrup

lexndashhemin

(G4ndash

hemin)

[117]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 PME

polymericmem

branee

lectrode

andCG

Ecoated

graphiteele

ctrode

Analyticalinstr

uments

DP-ASV

differentia

lpulse

anod

icstr

ipping

voltammeterSW-ASV

squ

arew

avea

nodics

tripping

voltammeter

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 11

Table4Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

bymisc

ellaneou

stechn

iques

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sed

forthe

detection

Metho

dLimitof

detection(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1Speciatio

nCon

tinuo

usmercury

analyzer

Thermaldesorptio

nmdash

mdashSolid

samples

(fly

ash)

mdashmdash

[118]

2GEM

Portablemercury

analyzer

mdashmdash

mdashAtmosph

ere

mdashmdash

[119]

3Hg(II)

SERS

1mdash

224times10minus12M

0001ndash05n

gmLminus

1Drin

king

water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofZn

2+

Mg2

+Fe3

+C

u2+P

b2+and

Mn2

+Goldnano

particles

[120]

4Hg(II)

HPL

CSP

E19

9times10minus10ndash4

48times10minus9M

27ndash300120583

gLminus1

Water

samples

Simultaneou

slyNi2+

Co2

+and

Hg2

+ared

etermined

Carbon

nano

tubes

[121]

5Hg(II)

SERS

mdash01times

10minus9M

01ndash1000

nMGroun

dwater

Ag+

was

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

Hg2

+andK+

Cu2

+A

g+

Cr3+Fe3

+N

H4+C

a2+C

o2+

Cd2

+and

Zn2+

didno

tinterfere

Oligon

ucleotide-

functio

nalized

magnetic

silicas

phere

[122]

6To

talH

gAMA

Acid

digestion

mdashmdash

Eggs

andbloo

dof

Eretmochelys

imbrica

ta

Along

with

mercury

CdCu

Zn

and

Pbarea

lsodeterm

ined

mdash[123]

7Hg(II)

Luminescence

spectro

meter

Fluo

rescence

30ndash

90times10minus9M

005ndash10120583M

Water

samples

Fairlyselectiveinpresence

ofAg+Fe3

+Z

n2+C

a2+M

n2+

Mg2

+C

o2+P

b2+N

i2+C

d2+

andCu

2+

Silver

nano

cluste

rs[124]

8Hg(II)

X-rayflu

orescence

spectro

meter

Precon

centratio

n498times10minus12M

Upto20

mgLminus1

Drin

king

water

mdashAc

tivated

carbon

[125]

9To

talH

gDMA

014ng

mdashParticulatem

atter

mdashGFCfilters

[126]

10MeH

gand

EtHg

HPL

CCh

emilu

minescence

016

nggminus

105ndash20

ngHg

Soilandsediment

samples

Back

extractio

nandanother

chem

icalprocessm

akethe

metho

dselectivefor

MeH

gand

EtHg

Emetined

ithiocarbam

ate

[127]

11To

talH

gCV

-CCP

M-O

ES2

Microwaved

igestio

n239times10minus11M

027ndash55m

gkgminus

1Soilsamples

mdashmdash

[128]

12Hg(II)

Chem

odosim

eter

Fluo

rescence

171times

10minus9M

10times10minus7 ndash10times

10minus6M

Bloo

dserum

ofmice

mdashRh

odam

ine

[129]

13Hg(0)

XRF

Acid

digestion

997times10minus8M

mdashSoils

from

indu

strial

complex

mdashmdash

[130]

14To

talH

gDMA

Com

bustion

012ng

05ndash5n

gSoilandleafsamples

mdashmdash

[131]

15MeH

gand

Hg(II)

GC-

MS

Matrix

solid

-phase

dispersio

n006

(MeH

g)and012

(Hg(II))120583gg

mdashTu

nafishangel

sharkandguitarfish

mdashmdash

[132]

16GEM

mdashCon

centratio

n-weighted

trajectory

mod

elmdash

mdashParticulatem

atter

mdashQFF

[133]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 SER

Ssurfa

ceenhanced

Raman

scatterin

g2 C

V-CC

PM-O

EScold-vapo

rcapacitivelycoup

ledplasmam

icrotorchflu

orescences

pectrometry

Analyticalinstr

uments

HPL

Chigh

perfo

rmance

liquidchromatograph

yAMAautom

aticmercury

analyzerD

MAdire

ctmercury

analyzerX

RFX

-ray

fluorescence

12 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

[26 48 52 66 119 126] Various measurement techniquesthat can be available for the determination ofmercury speciesin ambient air were reviewed by Pandey et al [154] Thisstudy also concluded that most of the researchers preferredCV-AAS and CV-AFS technique for the measurement ofdifferent mercury species in ambient air In comparison ofmethods acid digestion and thermal method for the analysisof mercury in ambient air acid digestion is better thanthermal method By the thermal methods the values can beobtained 30 lower than the acid digestion method [155]

In the analysis ofmercury species in various environmen-tal samples selectivity and range of linearity of the methodalso play a major role due to the presence of multielementsin the real samples Based on the present study most ofthe spectrophotometric spectrofluorometric and electroan-alytical methods were discussed regarding the interferingion studies and linearity range of the method These studieswill give a clear picture about the determination of mercuryspecies in presence of other ionswhich validates themethods

Regarding the merits of the different methods for spe-ciation and analysis of mercury the usage of nonchromato-graphic methods has an advantage in terms of speed of anal-ysis inexpensiveness and convenience to find themercury invarious environmental samples But for the complete specia-tion studies of mercury in biological and environmental sam-ples chromatographic methods are useful [156] The validityof analytical methods can be enhanced with the analysis ofthe certified reference materials along with the real samplesIn recent years the researchers mostly preferred GC coupledwith AFS or ICP-MS for the determination and speciation ofmercury in natural waters [157] In electroanalyticalmethodsthe validity of themethods depends on various factors such astype of electrode preconcentration and supportingmaterials[139] and these methods are cost-effective selective andsensitive [143]

3 Conclusions

The present study revealed the recent developments in thedetermination and speciation studies ofmercury by a range ofanalytical techniques Our previous study [2] also describedthe challenges in the methodology for mercury determina-tionThis review showed thatmost researchers focused on thedetermination of Hg(II) rather than speciation studies Onthe other hand the speciation studies [23 24 29 36 37 4447 50 54 58 68 69 76 118] accurately revealed the toxicityof mercury rather than the total mercury or single speciesdeterminations In the papers reviewed most researcherswere aware of the interfering ions in the determination ofmercury and its different forms In the analytical methoda study of interfering ions is very important because it canpredict the selectivity of the method In future studies it willbe important to focus on speciation studies of mercury ratherthan a determination of the total mercury

Conflict of Interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper

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Zn05

Fe2

O4

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2

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CatalystsJournal of

6 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Table1Con

tinued

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

51TH

gCV

-AFS

Flow

injectionmercury

syste

mmdash

mdashHerbalprodu

cts

mdashProtease

papain

[57]

52Hgspeciatio

nLC

-UV-CV

-AFS

Microwaved

igestio

n498times10minus12(to

talH

g)

139times10minus12(M

eHg)and

199times10minus12(H

g2+)M

mdashSeafoo

dSimultaneou

slydeterm

ined

both

Hg(II)a

ndMeH

gmdash

[58]

53MeH

gandtotal

Hg

CV-AAS

Digestio

n0088(M

eHg)

and0005

(totalH

g)120583ggminus1

mdashHaira

ndmilk

ofmothers

mdashmdash

[59]

54Hg(II)

ICP-MS

Microflu

idic

349times10minus10M

02ndash40120583

gLminus1

Aqueou

ssam

ples

Ther

ecoveryof

Hg2

+in

thep

resence

of100120583

gLminus1of

Ca2+C

d2+C

o2+

Cr3+C

u2+K

+M

g2+N

a+N

i2+

Pb2+and

Zn2+

isin

ther

ange

of975ndash1017

Goldnano

particles

[60]

55To

talH

gICP-MS

Acid

digestion

0053ndash001120583ggminus1

mdashPh

armaceutic

alingredients

Lowresid

ualcarbo

ncontentin

digests

isdesir

ableto

minim

izes

ome

interfe

rence

mdash[61]

56Hg(II)

ICP-MS

Adsorptio

nmdash

mdashWastewaters

mdashMultiw

alledcarbon

nano

tubes

[62]

57Hg(II)

ICP-OES

Extractio

n14

9times10minus11M

mdashFish

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofNa+K

+C

s+

Ca2+M

g2+Z

n2+Fe2

+C

u2+C

o2+

Ni2+

Mn2

+C

d2+and

Pb2+

into

1mgLminus1solutio

nsof

Hg(II)inpH

8

Ionim

printedpo

lymer

[63]

58To

talH

gCV

-ICP

-MS

Microwaved

igestio

n3n

ggminus1

mdashPlantsandsoil

mdashmdash

[64]

59To

talH

gICP-MS

Microwavea

ssisted

digestion

mdashmdash

Rice

mdashmdash

[65]

60GEM

CV-ICP

-MS

Thermalanalysis

20times10minus15g

mdashAtmosph

ericparticulates

mdashmdash

[66]

61Hg(II)a

ndMeH

gHPL

C-ICPM

SHF-LP

ME4

548times10minus10(H

g2+)a

nd1times

10minus9(M

eHg)

MUpto

50120583gLminus1

Tapriv

erand

estuarinew

aters

Simultaneou

slyselenium

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

mercury

mdash[67]

62Hgspeciatio

nICP-MS

Ionexchange

chromatograph

y

947times10minus11(H

g2+)12

5times10minus10

(MeH

g)135times

10minus10(EtH

g)and

792times

10minus10(PhH

g)M

01ndash100120583

gLminus1(all

Hgspecies)

Seaw

ater

andmarinefi

shmdash

L-Cy

steineo

rthiou

rea

[68]

63Hgspeciatio

nGC-

ICP-MS

Precon

centratio

n27

(Hg2

+)a

nd12ng

gminus1

(MeH

g)mdash

Hum

anhair

mdashmdash

[69]

64To

talH

gMC-

ICPM

SIsotop

eratio

analysis

01ndash02disin

tegrations

perm

inute

mdashSedimentcore

Mercury

andmercury

isotope

compo

sitions

ared

etermined

mdash[70]

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 7

Table1Con

tinued

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

65Hg(II)a

ndMeH

gCV

G-ICP

-MS

Extractio

n17

(Hg(II))and

23n

ggminus1(M

eHg)

mdashFish

samples

mdashmdash

[71]

66MeH

gHg(II)

and

EtHg

HPL

C-CV

-ICP

MS

Extractio

nandseparatio

n598times10minus11(H

g(II))

217times10minus11(EtH

g)and

18times10minus8(M

eHg)

Mmdash

Plasmaserum

samples

mdashmdash

[72]

67To

talH

gICP-MS

Microwavea

ssisted

digestion

mdashmdash

Freshw

ater

fishsamples

mdashmdash

[73]

68To

talH

gICP-MS

Isotop

edilu

tionand

UV-ph

otochemicalvapo

rgeneratio

n05p

ggminus1

mdashBiologicaltissues

Polyatom

icinterfe

renceisn

otdetectable

Form

icacid

[74]

69To

talH

gICP-MS

Calcination-iso

tope

dilutio

n2times10minus15M

mdashDiploria

specim

ens

Noiso

baric

interfe

rencew

asfoun

dmdash

[75]

70Hgspeciatio

nICP-MS

Anion

exchange

chromatograph

icseparatio

n

398times10minus11(H

g2+)111

times10minus10(M

eHg)126times

10minus10(EtH

g)and

122times

10minus10(PhH

g)M

mdashFish

samples

mdash3-Mercapto-1-

prop

anesulfonate

[76]

71To

talH

gICP-MS

Ultrason

icslu

rry

samplingele

ctrothermal

vapo

rization

02n

ggminus1

mdashHerbalsam

ples

AsCdandPb

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

Hg

8-Hydroxyqu

inoline

[77]

72To

talH

gICP-MS

Electro

thermal

vapo

rization

598times10minus11M

mdashWater

associated

with

crud

eoil

prod

uctio

nBy

precon

centratio

nof

analyte

interfe

renceisa

voided

mdash[78]

73TH

gICP-MS

Isotop

edilu

tionequatio

n498times10minus11M

forT

Hg

000

05ndash132

1mgkg

forM

eHg

Arctic

cod

mdashmdash

[79]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 Solid-phase

extractio

n2 LLM

Eliq

uid-liq

uidmicroextractio

n3 T

MAHtetramethylammon

ium

hydroxide

4 HF-LP

ME

hallo

wfib

erliq

uidph

asem

icroextractio

nAnalytic

alinstruments

CV-AAS

cloud

vapo

ratom

icabsorptio

nspectro

meterH

G-AAS

hydridegeneratio

nAAS

GF-AAS

graphite

furnaceAAS

ICP-OES

ind

uctiv

elycoup

ledplasmaop

tical

emiss

ion

spectro

meterICP

-MSICP-massspectrometerICP

-AES

ICP

-atomicem

issionspectro

meterH

PLC

high

perfo

rmance

liquidchromatograph

yAFS

atomicflu

orescences

pectrometerA

MAautom

aticmercury

analyzerD

MAdire

ctmercury

analyzer

8 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Table2Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

byspectro

photom

eter

andspectro

fluorom

eter

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

ument

used

forthe

detection

Metho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1Hg(II)

Fluo

rescence

spectro

photom

eter

Fluo

rescence

40times10minus9M

60ndash

450n

MWater

samples

10-fo

ldof

Pb2+C

u2+and

Ag+

show

slt7

influ

ence

onthed

eterminationof

Hg2

+comparedto

repo

rted

ones

CdT

equantum

dots

[80]

2Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

23times10minus9M

000ndash0

31120583M

Riverw

ater

Selectiveinpresence

ofAg+C

d2+C

u2+

Co2

+N

i2+and

Pb2+

Carbon

nano

dots

[81]

3Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

26times10minus9M

0001ndash1120583

MWater

samples

Selectiveinpresence

of20120583M

ofAl3+

Ca

2+C

o2+C

u2+C

d2+Fe3

+M

n2+N

i2+

Pb2+and

Zn2+

Goldnano

particles

[82]

4Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

mdash083ndash86120583gm

Lminus1

Water

samples

Thetolerance

limitof

Cu2+V

5+A

g+

Pd2+P

t4+A

u3+Fe2

+N

i2+C

d2+P

b2+

andCr

6+isin

ther

ange

of011ndash

041120583

gmLminus

1 inthed

eterminationof

191120583

gmLminus

1of

Hg2

+

5-Methylth

ioph

ene-2-

carboxaldehyde

ethylenediam

ine

[83]

5Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

173times

10minus9M

20n

Mndash6

0120583M

mdashInterfe

renceo

fmajor

catio

nsstu

died

ONPC

Rs1

[84]

6Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

50times10minus9M

20ndash

1000

nMWater

samplers

Selectiveinpresence

ofNi2+

Co2

+C

a2+

Cu2+N

a+K

+A

s3+M

g2+C

d2+and

Fe2+

Silver

nano

particles

[85]

7Hg(II)

UV-Vis

spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

135times10minus6M

mdashDrin

king

water

Cd2

+P

b2+Fe3

+and

Ba2+

dono

tinterfe

rein

thed

eterminationof

Hg2

+bu

tMg2

+C

a2+and

Mn2

+interfe

reslightly

Goldnano

particles

[86]

8Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

and

UV-spectro

meter

Colorim

etric

and

fluorescent

sensor

27times10minus8M

0ndash10times10minus6M

Water

samples

and

livingcells

Thefl

uorescentsignalfor

Hg(II)isn

otinflu

encedby

them

ajor

metalions

inclu

ding

Fe(III)Cu

(II)and

Al(III)

24-Dichloroq

uinazolin

e[87]

9Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

53times10minus13M

10times10minus12ndash86times

10minus4M

Water

samples

and

SRM

Selectiveinpresence

ofMn2

+Fe2

+Fe3

+

Ni2+

Co2

+C

d2+and

Pb2+

Chromoion

opho

reV

[88]

10Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescentand

colorim

etric

10times10minus9M

mdashSpiked

water

samples

Na+M

g2+K

+C

r3+M

n2+C

o2+N

i2+

Fe3+C

u2+Z

n2+A

g+C

d2+and

Pb2+

did

notinterfere

Rhod

amineB

[89]

11Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

142times10minus9M

0ndash5times10minus7M

Aqueou

ssolutions

Cd2

+C

u2+and

Ag+

dono

tinterfere

Thioether-append

eddipeptide

[90]

12Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

05times10minus9M

000

05ndash0

01120583

MLake

water

samples

Zn2+P

b2+N

i2+C

a2+M

g2+C

u2+C

o2+

Cd2

+Fe3

+and

Mn2

+didno

tinterfere

Carbon

nano

tubes

[91]

13Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescent

174ndash

383times10minus6M

mdashLiving

cells

Minor

interfe

rencefrom

Ag+C

a2+C

d2+

Co2

+C

u2+Fe2

+Fe3

+K

+M

g2+M

n2+

Na+N

i2+P

b2+R

b+and

Zn2+

Pyrene

[92]

14Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

04times10minus6M

01ndash42120583

gmLminus

1Waterbiological

plantleavesand

soilsamples

Tolerancelim

itof

theC

d2+Z

n2+C

e3+

Ce4

+In3

+C

r3+L

a3+Y

b3+and

Eu3+

is300120583

gmLminus

1andthetolerance

limitof

the

Co2

+C

u2+Fe3

+T

i4+P

b2+N

i2+and

Ag+

is100120583

gmLminus

1andatHg(II)is

20120583

gmLminus

1

247-Triamino-6-ph

enylpteridine

[93]

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 9

Table2Con

tinued

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

ument

used

forthe

detection

Metho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

15Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorop

hotometer

Fluo

rescent

10times10minus7M

20times10minus7 ndash30times

10minus5M

Water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofNa+K

+N

H4+

Ba2+Z

n2+C

d2+M

g2+C

a2+and

Ni2+

Con

jugatedpo

lymer

multilayer

films

[94]

16Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

TGFR

ET3

049ndash0

87times10minus9M

10times10minus9 ndash10times

10minus8M

Water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofMn2

+B

a2+N

i2+

Cu2+C

a2+C

r2+C

o2+C

d2+M

g2+

Zn2+A

l3+Fe3

+and

Pb2+

Goldnano

particles

[95]

17Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescent

1times10minus9M

001ndash0

12120583M

Water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofZn

2+P

b2+N

i2+

Co2

+C

a2+C

u2+M

g2+C

d2+Fe3

+and

Mn2

+Ca

rbon

nano

dots

[96]

18Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescent

0012times10minus6M

0-1120583

MTapandriv

erwater

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofAg+P

b2+N

a+

K+C

r3+C

d2+B

a2+Z

n2+M

g2+C

u2+

Ni2+

Ca2

+A

l3+and

Fe3+

Rhod

amine

[97]

19Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

224times10minus9M

50ndash

100n

MDrin

king

water

20-fo

ldof

Ca2+M

g2+Z

n2+C

r3+P

b2+

Cr6+M

n2+C

d2+Fe3

+A

l3+and

Ni2+

10-fo

ldof

Fe2+and

Co2

+5-fo

ldof

Cu2+

andthes

amec

oncentratio

nof

Ag+

caused

almostn

ointerfe

rence

Goldnano

particles

[98]

20Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Opticalchem

ical

sensor

018times10minus12M

72times10minus13ndash4

7times

10minus4M

Tapwaterriver

waterand

cann

edtuna

fish

Interfe

renceo

fCu(II)elim

inated

with

the

additio

nof

L-histidine

asam

asking

agent

Synthesiz

ediono

phore

[99]

21Hg(II)

UV-Vis

spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

sensor

50times10minus6M

(visu

al)10times10minus7M

(UV-Vis)

mdashAq

ueou

ssolutions

Mg2

+C

a2+Z

n2+C

u2+C

r3+Fe3

+P

b2+

Ni2+

Co2

+and

Ag+

didno

tinterfere

Dim

ethylsulph

oxide

[100]

22Hg(II)

Fluo

rescence

spectro

photom

eter

Fluo

rescence

prob

e16times10minus9M

002ndash10120583M

Aqueou

ssolutions

Selectiveinthed

eterminationof

Hg2

+

over

otherm

etalions

such

asFe

3+C

a2+

Mg2

+M

n2+C

r3+N

i2+C

u2+C

o2+and

Pb2+

Goldnano

particles

[101]

23Hg(II)

mdashColorim

etric

12times10minus9M

2ndash30

nMWater

samples

Na+

(2mM)K+

(2mM)Fe

3+Z

n2+and

Mg2

+(01mM)Ni2+

Co2

+C

d2+P

b2+

andCu

2+(50120583

M)andAg+

(35120583M)d

idno

tinterfere

with

thed

etectio

nof

Hg2

+

(25n

M)inthem

entio

nedam

ounts

Rhod

amineB

thiolacton

e[102]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 ONPC

Rsoxygen-do

pednitro

gen-ric

hph

otolum

inescent

polymer

carbon

nano

ribbo

ns2Limitof

quantifi

catio

n3 T

GFR

ETtim

e-gatedflu

orescencer

eson

ance

energy

transfe

r

10 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Table3Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

byelectro

chem

icalinstruments

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1Hg(II)

DP-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

499times10minus8M

mdashAmbientw

atertapand

wastewaters

Palladium

-naturalph

osph

ate-carbon

paste

electro

deenhances

thes

electiv

ityforH

g2+

Naturalph

osph

ate

electro

des

[103]

2Hg(II)

SW-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

004times10minus6M

02ndash100120583M

Food

stuffs

Simultaneou

slybo

thCd2

+andHg2

+are

determ

ined

and10

00-fo

ldforK

+N

a+L

i+

NH

4+C

a2+M

g2+P

b2+Z

n2+C

r3+Fe2

+

Co2

+and

Al3+

didno

tinterfere

Carbon

paste

electro

de[104

]

3Hg(II)

Differentia

lpulse

voltammeter

Electro

chem

ical

448times10minus10M

02ndash10120583gLminus1

Spiked

fishandplant

samples

Cu(II)M

g(II)As(III)and

Cr(II)were

possibleinterfe

rers

441015840-Bipyridine-silver

polymer

[105]

4Hg(II)

Cyclicv

oltammeter

Electro

chem

ical

08times10minus14M

10minus14ndash10minus

7M

mdashCu

2+P

b2+N

i2+Z

n2+C

r3+C

o3+A

s5+

Fe2+and

Fe3+

didno

tinterfere

Goldatom

icclu

ster-chito

san

[106]

5Hg(II)

Voltammeter

(cyclic

and

differentialpulse)

Biosensor

393times10minus12M

0005ndash0034m

MWater

samples

Thew

orking

potentialcon

trolledto

minim

izethe

interfe

renceo

fother

metalions

intestmedium

PANIand

PANI-co-PDTD

Apo

lymer

films

[107]

6Hg(II)

ASV

Electro

chem

ical

498times10minus9M

4ndash160p

pbAq

uatic

solutio

nsmdash

Glassycarbon

electro

de[108]

7Hg(II)

SW-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

92times10minus5M

01ndash1500n

MSoilgasolin

efishtap

andwastewaters

400-fold

massratio

ofCu

2+M

n2+Z

n2+

Cr3+C

r6+Fe3

+Fe2

+N

i2+and

Co2

+didno

tinterfe

rein

thes

imultaneou

sdetermination

ofCd2

+P

b2+and

Hg2

+

Triphenylpho

sphine

[109]

8Hg(II)

Potentiometer

Electro

chem

ical

977times10minus6M

(PME)

1

776times10minus7M

(CGE)

1

10times10minus1 ndash50times10minus6M

(PME)

10times10minus1 ndash50times10minus7M

(CGE)

Water

samples

Ag+

hassmallinterferenceinthe

determ

inationof

Hg2

+13

-Alternate

thiacalix[4]crow

n[110]

9Hg(II)

Potentiometer

Electro

chem

ical

10times10minus8M

50times10minus8 ndash10times10minus2M

mdashTh

esele

ctivity

coeffi

ciento

fthe

otherion

sis

rang

ingfro

m29to

49

PVCmem

brane

[111]

10Hg(II)

DPS

VElectro

chem

ical

005times10minus12M

1ndash500n

MWater

samples

Pb2+Th

3+C

u2+C

d2+N

i2+and

Al3+

did

notinterfere

Goldnano

particles

[112]

11Hg(II)

SW-ASV

Ultrason

icextractio

nmdash

mdashIndo

ordu

stsamples

mdashGoldnano

particles

[113]

12Hg(II)

Cyclicv

oltammeter

Electro

chem

ical

19times10minus9M

40ndash170120583gLminus1

Wastewaters

mdashBiotinylSomatostatin

-14

peptide

[114]

13Hg(II)

Potentiometer

Electro

chem

ical

3times10minus6M

5times10minus6 ndash1times

10minus2M

Con

taminated

water

Na+K

+M

g2+C

a2+Z

n2+C

u2+C

r3+Fe3

+

andPb

2+didno

tinterfere

inthe

determ

inationof

Hg2

+

Dith

izon

eand

di-n-butyl

phthalate

[115]

14Hg(II)

DP-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

0483times10minus6M

300ndash

700n

gmLminus

1mdash

Nointerfe

renceo

fCdNiZn

and

Cuin

50-

25-100-and

5-fold

inexcessrespectively

Nanocellulosic

fibers

[116]

15Hg(II)

mdashElectro

chem

ical

05times10minus9M

10nM

ndash10120583M

Zn2+M

g2+C

a2+P

b2+C

d2+M

n2+C

u2+

Ni2+

and

Fe3+

didno

tinterfere

G-quadrup

lexndashhemin

(G4ndash

hemin)

[117]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 PME

polymericmem

branee

lectrode

andCG

Ecoated

graphiteele

ctrode

Analyticalinstr

uments

DP-ASV

differentia

lpulse

anod

icstr

ipping

voltammeterSW-ASV

squ

arew

avea

nodics

tripping

voltammeter

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 11

Table4Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

bymisc

ellaneou

stechn

iques

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sed

forthe

detection

Metho

dLimitof

detection(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1Speciatio

nCon

tinuo

usmercury

analyzer

Thermaldesorptio

nmdash

mdashSolid

samples

(fly

ash)

mdashmdash

[118]

2GEM

Portablemercury

analyzer

mdashmdash

mdashAtmosph

ere

mdashmdash

[119]

3Hg(II)

SERS

1mdash

224times10minus12M

0001ndash05n

gmLminus

1Drin

king

water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofZn

2+

Mg2

+Fe3

+C

u2+P

b2+and

Mn2

+Goldnano

particles

[120]

4Hg(II)

HPL

CSP

E19

9times10minus10ndash4

48times10minus9M

27ndash300120583

gLminus1

Water

samples

Simultaneou

slyNi2+

Co2

+and

Hg2

+ared

etermined

Carbon

nano

tubes

[121]

5Hg(II)

SERS

mdash01times

10minus9M

01ndash1000

nMGroun

dwater

Ag+

was

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

Hg2

+andK+

Cu2

+A

g+

Cr3+Fe3

+N

H4+C

a2+C

o2+

Cd2

+and

Zn2+

didno

tinterfere

Oligon

ucleotide-

functio

nalized

magnetic

silicas

phere

[122]

6To

talH

gAMA

Acid

digestion

mdashmdash

Eggs

andbloo

dof

Eretmochelys

imbrica

ta

Along

with

mercury

CdCu

Zn

and

Pbarea

lsodeterm

ined

mdash[123]

7Hg(II)

Luminescence

spectro

meter

Fluo

rescence

30ndash

90times10minus9M

005ndash10120583M

Water

samples

Fairlyselectiveinpresence

ofAg+Fe3

+Z

n2+C

a2+M

n2+

Mg2

+C

o2+P

b2+N

i2+C

d2+

andCu

2+

Silver

nano

cluste

rs[124]

8Hg(II)

X-rayflu

orescence

spectro

meter

Precon

centratio

n498times10minus12M

Upto20

mgLminus1

Drin

king

water

mdashAc

tivated

carbon

[125]

9To

talH

gDMA

014ng

mdashParticulatem

atter

mdashGFCfilters

[126]

10MeH

gand

EtHg

HPL

CCh

emilu

minescence

016

nggminus

105ndash20

ngHg

Soilandsediment

samples

Back

extractio

nandanother

chem

icalprocessm

akethe

metho

dselectivefor

MeH

gand

EtHg

Emetined

ithiocarbam

ate

[127]

11To

talH

gCV

-CCP

M-O

ES2

Microwaved

igestio

n239times10minus11M

027ndash55m

gkgminus

1Soilsamples

mdashmdash

[128]

12Hg(II)

Chem

odosim

eter

Fluo

rescence

171times

10minus9M

10times10minus7 ndash10times

10minus6M

Bloo

dserum

ofmice

mdashRh

odam

ine

[129]

13Hg(0)

XRF

Acid

digestion

997times10minus8M

mdashSoils

from

indu

strial

complex

mdashmdash

[130]

14To

talH

gDMA

Com

bustion

012ng

05ndash5n

gSoilandleafsamples

mdashmdash

[131]

15MeH

gand

Hg(II)

GC-

MS

Matrix

solid

-phase

dispersio

n006

(MeH

g)and012

(Hg(II))120583gg

mdashTu

nafishangel

sharkandguitarfish

mdashmdash

[132]

16GEM

mdashCon

centratio

n-weighted

trajectory

mod

elmdash

mdashParticulatem

atter

mdashQFF

[133]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 SER

Ssurfa

ceenhanced

Raman

scatterin

g2 C

V-CC

PM-O

EScold-vapo

rcapacitivelycoup

ledplasmam

icrotorchflu

orescences

pectrometry

Analyticalinstr

uments

HPL

Chigh

perfo

rmance

liquidchromatograph

yAMAautom

aticmercury

analyzerD

MAdire

ctmercury

analyzerX

RFX

-ray

fluorescence

12 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

[26 48 52 66 119 126] Various measurement techniquesthat can be available for the determination ofmercury speciesin ambient air were reviewed by Pandey et al [154] Thisstudy also concluded that most of the researchers preferredCV-AAS and CV-AFS technique for the measurement ofdifferent mercury species in ambient air In comparison ofmethods acid digestion and thermal method for the analysisof mercury in ambient air acid digestion is better thanthermal method By the thermal methods the values can beobtained 30 lower than the acid digestion method [155]

In the analysis ofmercury species in various environmen-tal samples selectivity and range of linearity of the methodalso play a major role due to the presence of multielementsin the real samples Based on the present study most ofthe spectrophotometric spectrofluorometric and electroan-alytical methods were discussed regarding the interferingion studies and linearity range of the method These studieswill give a clear picture about the determination of mercuryspecies in presence of other ionswhich validates themethods

Regarding the merits of the different methods for spe-ciation and analysis of mercury the usage of nonchromato-graphic methods has an advantage in terms of speed of anal-ysis inexpensiveness and convenience to find themercury invarious environmental samples But for the complete specia-tion studies of mercury in biological and environmental sam-ples chromatographic methods are useful [156] The validityof analytical methods can be enhanced with the analysis ofthe certified reference materials along with the real samplesIn recent years the researchers mostly preferred GC coupledwith AFS or ICP-MS for the determination and speciation ofmercury in natural waters [157] In electroanalyticalmethodsthe validity of themethods depends on various factors such astype of electrode preconcentration and supportingmaterials[139] and these methods are cost-effective selective andsensitive [143]

3 Conclusions

The present study revealed the recent developments in thedetermination and speciation studies ofmercury by a range ofanalytical techniques Our previous study [2] also describedthe challenges in the methodology for mercury determina-tionThis review showed thatmost researchers focused on thedetermination of Hg(II) rather than speciation studies Onthe other hand the speciation studies [23 24 29 36 37 4447 50 54 58 68 69 76 118] accurately revealed the toxicityof mercury rather than the total mercury or single speciesdeterminations In the papers reviewed most researcherswere aware of the interfering ions in the determination ofmercury and its different forms In the analytical methoda study of interfering ions is very important because it canpredict the selectivity of the method In future studies it willbe important to focus on speciation studies of mercury ratherthan a determination of the total mercury

Conflict of Interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper

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CatalystsJournal of

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 7

Table1Con

tinued

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

65Hg(II)a

ndMeH

gCV

G-ICP

-MS

Extractio

n17

(Hg(II))and

23n

ggminus1(M

eHg)

mdashFish

samples

mdashmdash

[71]

66MeH

gHg(II)

and

EtHg

HPL

C-CV

-ICP

MS

Extractio

nandseparatio

n598times10minus11(H

g(II))

217times10minus11(EtH

g)and

18times10minus8(M

eHg)

Mmdash

Plasmaserum

samples

mdashmdash

[72]

67To

talH

gICP-MS

Microwavea

ssisted

digestion

mdashmdash

Freshw

ater

fishsamples

mdashmdash

[73]

68To

talH

gICP-MS

Isotop

edilu

tionand

UV-ph

otochemicalvapo

rgeneratio

n05p

ggminus1

mdashBiologicaltissues

Polyatom

icinterfe

renceisn

otdetectable

Form

icacid

[74]

69To

talH

gICP-MS

Calcination-iso

tope

dilutio

n2times10minus15M

mdashDiploria

specim

ens

Noiso

baric

interfe

rencew

asfoun

dmdash

[75]

70Hgspeciatio

nICP-MS

Anion

exchange

chromatograph

icseparatio

n

398times10minus11(H

g2+)111

times10minus10(M

eHg)126times

10minus10(EtH

g)and

122times

10minus10(PhH

g)M

mdashFish

samples

mdash3-Mercapto-1-

prop

anesulfonate

[76]

71To

talH

gICP-MS

Ultrason

icslu

rry

samplingele

ctrothermal

vapo

rization

02n

ggminus1

mdashHerbalsam

ples

AsCdandPb

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

Hg

8-Hydroxyqu

inoline

[77]

72To

talH

gICP-MS

Electro

thermal

vapo

rization

598times10minus11M

mdashWater

associated

with

crud

eoil

prod

uctio

nBy

precon

centratio

nof

analyte

interfe

renceisa

voided

mdash[78]

73TH

gICP-MS

Isotop

edilu

tionequatio

n498times10minus11M

forT

Hg

000

05ndash132

1mgkg

forM

eHg

Arctic

cod

mdashmdash

[79]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 Solid-phase

extractio

n2 LLM

Eliq

uid-liq

uidmicroextractio

n3 T

MAHtetramethylammon

ium

hydroxide

4 HF-LP

ME

hallo

wfib

erliq

uidph

asem

icroextractio

nAnalytic

alinstruments

CV-AAS

cloud

vapo

ratom

icabsorptio

nspectro

meterH

G-AAS

hydridegeneratio

nAAS

GF-AAS

graphite

furnaceAAS

ICP-OES

ind

uctiv

elycoup

ledplasmaop

tical

emiss

ion

spectro

meterICP

-MSICP-massspectrometerICP

-AES

ICP

-atomicem

issionspectro

meterH

PLC

high

perfo

rmance

liquidchromatograph

yAFS

atomicflu

orescences

pectrometerA

MAautom

aticmercury

analyzerD

MAdire

ctmercury

analyzer

8 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Table2Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

byspectro

photom

eter

andspectro

fluorom

eter

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

ument

used

forthe

detection

Metho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1Hg(II)

Fluo

rescence

spectro

photom

eter

Fluo

rescence

40times10minus9M

60ndash

450n

MWater

samples

10-fo

ldof

Pb2+C

u2+and

Ag+

show

slt7

influ

ence

onthed

eterminationof

Hg2

+comparedto

repo

rted

ones

CdT

equantum

dots

[80]

2Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

23times10minus9M

000ndash0

31120583M

Riverw

ater

Selectiveinpresence

ofAg+C

d2+C

u2+

Co2

+N

i2+and

Pb2+

Carbon

nano

dots

[81]

3Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

26times10minus9M

0001ndash1120583

MWater

samples

Selectiveinpresence

of20120583M

ofAl3+

Ca

2+C

o2+C

u2+C

d2+Fe3

+M

n2+N

i2+

Pb2+and

Zn2+

Goldnano

particles

[82]

4Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

mdash083ndash86120583gm

Lminus1

Water

samples

Thetolerance

limitof

Cu2+V

5+A

g+

Pd2+P

t4+A

u3+Fe2

+N

i2+C

d2+P

b2+

andCr

6+isin

ther

ange

of011ndash

041120583

gmLminus

1 inthed

eterminationof

191120583

gmLminus

1of

Hg2

+

5-Methylth

ioph

ene-2-

carboxaldehyde

ethylenediam

ine

[83]

5Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

173times

10minus9M

20n

Mndash6

0120583M

mdashInterfe

renceo

fmajor

catio

nsstu

died

ONPC

Rs1

[84]

6Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

50times10minus9M

20ndash

1000

nMWater

samplers

Selectiveinpresence

ofNi2+

Co2

+C

a2+

Cu2+N

a+K

+A

s3+M

g2+C

d2+and

Fe2+

Silver

nano

particles

[85]

7Hg(II)

UV-Vis

spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

135times10minus6M

mdashDrin

king

water

Cd2

+P

b2+Fe3

+and

Ba2+

dono

tinterfe

rein

thed

eterminationof

Hg2

+bu

tMg2

+C

a2+and

Mn2

+interfe

reslightly

Goldnano

particles

[86]

8Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

and

UV-spectro

meter

Colorim

etric

and

fluorescent

sensor

27times10minus8M

0ndash10times10minus6M

Water

samples

and

livingcells

Thefl

uorescentsignalfor

Hg(II)isn

otinflu

encedby

them

ajor

metalions

inclu

ding

Fe(III)Cu

(II)and

Al(III)

24-Dichloroq

uinazolin

e[87]

9Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

53times10minus13M

10times10minus12ndash86times

10minus4M

Water

samples

and

SRM

Selectiveinpresence

ofMn2

+Fe2

+Fe3

+

Ni2+

Co2

+C

d2+and

Pb2+

Chromoion

opho

reV

[88]

10Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescentand

colorim

etric

10times10minus9M

mdashSpiked

water

samples

Na+M

g2+K

+C

r3+M

n2+C

o2+N

i2+

Fe3+C

u2+Z

n2+A

g+C

d2+and

Pb2+

did

notinterfere

Rhod

amineB

[89]

11Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

142times10minus9M

0ndash5times10minus7M

Aqueou

ssolutions

Cd2

+C

u2+and

Ag+

dono

tinterfere

Thioether-append

eddipeptide

[90]

12Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

05times10minus9M

000

05ndash0

01120583

MLake

water

samples

Zn2+P

b2+N

i2+C

a2+M

g2+C

u2+C

o2+

Cd2

+Fe3

+and

Mn2

+didno

tinterfere

Carbon

nano

tubes

[91]

13Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescent

174ndash

383times10minus6M

mdashLiving

cells

Minor

interfe

rencefrom

Ag+C

a2+C

d2+

Co2

+C

u2+Fe2

+Fe3

+K

+M

g2+M

n2+

Na+N

i2+P

b2+R

b+and

Zn2+

Pyrene

[92]

14Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

04times10minus6M

01ndash42120583

gmLminus

1Waterbiological

plantleavesand

soilsamples

Tolerancelim

itof

theC

d2+Z

n2+C

e3+

Ce4

+In3

+C

r3+L

a3+Y

b3+and

Eu3+

is300120583

gmLminus

1andthetolerance

limitof

the

Co2

+C

u2+Fe3

+T

i4+P

b2+N

i2+and

Ag+

is100120583

gmLminus

1andatHg(II)is

20120583

gmLminus

1

247-Triamino-6-ph

enylpteridine

[93]

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 9

Table2Con

tinued

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

ument

used

forthe

detection

Metho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

15Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorop

hotometer

Fluo

rescent

10times10minus7M

20times10minus7 ndash30times

10minus5M

Water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofNa+K

+N

H4+

Ba2+Z

n2+C

d2+M

g2+C

a2+and

Ni2+

Con

jugatedpo

lymer

multilayer

films

[94]

16Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

TGFR

ET3

049ndash0

87times10minus9M

10times10minus9 ndash10times

10minus8M

Water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofMn2

+B

a2+N

i2+

Cu2+C

a2+C

r2+C

o2+C

d2+M

g2+

Zn2+A

l3+Fe3

+and

Pb2+

Goldnano

particles

[95]

17Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescent

1times10minus9M

001ndash0

12120583M

Water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofZn

2+P

b2+N

i2+

Co2

+C

a2+C

u2+M

g2+C

d2+Fe3

+and

Mn2

+Ca

rbon

nano

dots

[96]

18Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescent

0012times10minus6M

0-1120583

MTapandriv

erwater

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofAg+P

b2+N

a+

K+C

r3+C

d2+B

a2+Z

n2+M

g2+C

u2+

Ni2+

Ca2

+A

l3+and

Fe3+

Rhod

amine

[97]

19Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

224times10minus9M

50ndash

100n

MDrin

king

water

20-fo

ldof

Ca2+M

g2+Z

n2+C

r3+P

b2+

Cr6+M

n2+C

d2+Fe3

+A

l3+and

Ni2+

10-fo

ldof

Fe2+and

Co2

+5-fo

ldof

Cu2+

andthes

amec

oncentratio

nof

Ag+

caused

almostn

ointerfe

rence

Goldnano

particles

[98]

20Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Opticalchem

ical

sensor

018times10minus12M

72times10minus13ndash4

7times

10minus4M

Tapwaterriver

waterand

cann

edtuna

fish

Interfe

renceo

fCu(II)elim

inated

with

the

additio

nof

L-histidine

asam

asking

agent

Synthesiz

ediono

phore

[99]

21Hg(II)

UV-Vis

spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

sensor

50times10minus6M

(visu

al)10times10minus7M

(UV-Vis)

mdashAq

ueou

ssolutions

Mg2

+C

a2+Z

n2+C

u2+C

r3+Fe3

+P

b2+

Ni2+

Co2

+and

Ag+

didno

tinterfere

Dim

ethylsulph

oxide

[100]

22Hg(II)

Fluo

rescence

spectro

photom

eter

Fluo

rescence

prob

e16times10minus9M

002ndash10120583M

Aqueou

ssolutions

Selectiveinthed

eterminationof

Hg2

+

over

otherm

etalions

such

asFe

3+C

a2+

Mg2

+M

n2+C

r3+N

i2+C

u2+C

o2+and

Pb2+

Goldnano

particles

[101]

23Hg(II)

mdashColorim

etric

12times10minus9M

2ndash30

nMWater

samples

Na+

(2mM)K+

(2mM)Fe

3+Z

n2+and

Mg2

+(01mM)Ni2+

Co2

+C

d2+P

b2+

andCu

2+(50120583

M)andAg+

(35120583M)d

idno

tinterfere

with

thed

etectio

nof

Hg2

+

(25n

M)inthem

entio

nedam

ounts

Rhod

amineB

thiolacton

e[102]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 ONPC

Rsoxygen-do

pednitro

gen-ric

hph

otolum

inescent

polymer

carbon

nano

ribbo

ns2Limitof

quantifi

catio

n3 T

GFR

ETtim

e-gatedflu

orescencer

eson

ance

energy

transfe

r

10 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Table3Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

byelectro

chem

icalinstruments

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1Hg(II)

DP-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

499times10minus8M

mdashAmbientw

atertapand

wastewaters

Palladium

-naturalph

osph

ate-carbon

paste

electro

deenhances

thes

electiv

ityforH

g2+

Naturalph

osph

ate

electro

des

[103]

2Hg(II)

SW-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

004times10minus6M

02ndash100120583M

Food

stuffs

Simultaneou

slybo

thCd2

+andHg2

+are

determ

ined

and10

00-fo

ldforK

+N

a+L

i+

NH

4+C

a2+M

g2+P

b2+Z

n2+C

r3+Fe2

+

Co2

+and

Al3+

didno

tinterfere

Carbon

paste

electro

de[104

]

3Hg(II)

Differentia

lpulse

voltammeter

Electro

chem

ical

448times10minus10M

02ndash10120583gLminus1

Spiked

fishandplant

samples

Cu(II)M

g(II)As(III)and

Cr(II)were

possibleinterfe

rers

441015840-Bipyridine-silver

polymer

[105]

4Hg(II)

Cyclicv

oltammeter

Electro

chem

ical

08times10minus14M

10minus14ndash10minus

7M

mdashCu

2+P

b2+N

i2+Z

n2+C

r3+C

o3+A

s5+

Fe2+and

Fe3+

didno

tinterfere

Goldatom

icclu

ster-chito

san

[106]

5Hg(II)

Voltammeter

(cyclic

and

differentialpulse)

Biosensor

393times10minus12M

0005ndash0034m

MWater

samples

Thew

orking

potentialcon

trolledto

minim

izethe

interfe

renceo

fother

metalions

intestmedium

PANIand

PANI-co-PDTD

Apo

lymer

films

[107]

6Hg(II)

ASV

Electro

chem

ical

498times10minus9M

4ndash160p

pbAq

uatic

solutio

nsmdash

Glassycarbon

electro

de[108]

7Hg(II)

SW-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

92times10minus5M

01ndash1500n

MSoilgasolin

efishtap

andwastewaters

400-fold

massratio

ofCu

2+M

n2+Z

n2+

Cr3+C

r6+Fe3

+Fe2

+N

i2+and

Co2

+didno

tinterfe

rein

thes

imultaneou

sdetermination

ofCd2

+P

b2+and

Hg2

+

Triphenylpho

sphine

[109]

8Hg(II)

Potentiometer

Electro

chem

ical

977times10minus6M

(PME)

1

776times10minus7M

(CGE)

1

10times10minus1 ndash50times10minus6M

(PME)

10times10minus1 ndash50times10minus7M

(CGE)

Water

samples

Ag+

hassmallinterferenceinthe

determ

inationof

Hg2

+13

-Alternate

thiacalix[4]crow

n[110]

9Hg(II)

Potentiometer

Electro

chem

ical

10times10minus8M

50times10minus8 ndash10times10minus2M

mdashTh

esele

ctivity

coeffi

ciento

fthe

otherion

sis

rang

ingfro

m29to

49

PVCmem

brane

[111]

10Hg(II)

DPS

VElectro

chem

ical

005times10minus12M

1ndash500n

MWater

samples

Pb2+Th

3+C

u2+C

d2+N

i2+and

Al3+

did

notinterfere

Goldnano

particles

[112]

11Hg(II)

SW-ASV

Ultrason

icextractio

nmdash

mdashIndo

ordu

stsamples

mdashGoldnano

particles

[113]

12Hg(II)

Cyclicv

oltammeter

Electro

chem

ical

19times10minus9M

40ndash170120583gLminus1

Wastewaters

mdashBiotinylSomatostatin

-14

peptide

[114]

13Hg(II)

Potentiometer

Electro

chem

ical

3times10minus6M

5times10minus6 ndash1times

10minus2M

Con

taminated

water

Na+K

+M

g2+C

a2+Z

n2+C

u2+C

r3+Fe3

+

andPb

2+didno

tinterfere

inthe

determ

inationof

Hg2

+

Dith

izon

eand

di-n-butyl

phthalate

[115]

14Hg(II)

DP-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

0483times10minus6M

300ndash

700n

gmLminus

1mdash

Nointerfe

renceo

fCdNiZn

and

Cuin

50-

25-100-and

5-fold

inexcessrespectively

Nanocellulosic

fibers

[116]

15Hg(II)

mdashElectro

chem

ical

05times10minus9M

10nM

ndash10120583M

Zn2+M

g2+C

a2+P

b2+C

d2+M

n2+C

u2+

Ni2+

and

Fe3+

didno

tinterfere

G-quadrup

lexndashhemin

(G4ndash

hemin)

[117]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 PME

polymericmem

branee

lectrode

andCG

Ecoated

graphiteele

ctrode

Analyticalinstr

uments

DP-ASV

differentia

lpulse

anod

icstr

ipping

voltammeterSW-ASV

squ

arew

avea

nodics

tripping

voltammeter

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 11

Table4Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

bymisc

ellaneou

stechn

iques

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sed

forthe

detection

Metho

dLimitof

detection(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1Speciatio

nCon

tinuo

usmercury

analyzer

Thermaldesorptio

nmdash

mdashSolid

samples

(fly

ash)

mdashmdash

[118]

2GEM

Portablemercury

analyzer

mdashmdash

mdashAtmosph

ere

mdashmdash

[119]

3Hg(II)

SERS

1mdash

224times10minus12M

0001ndash05n

gmLminus

1Drin

king

water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofZn

2+

Mg2

+Fe3

+C

u2+P

b2+and

Mn2

+Goldnano

particles

[120]

4Hg(II)

HPL

CSP

E19

9times10minus10ndash4

48times10minus9M

27ndash300120583

gLminus1

Water

samples

Simultaneou

slyNi2+

Co2

+and

Hg2

+ared

etermined

Carbon

nano

tubes

[121]

5Hg(II)

SERS

mdash01times

10minus9M

01ndash1000

nMGroun

dwater

Ag+

was

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

Hg2

+andK+

Cu2

+A

g+

Cr3+Fe3

+N

H4+C

a2+C

o2+

Cd2

+and

Zn2+

didno

tinterfere

Oligon

ucleotide-

functio

nalized

magnetic

silicas

phere

[122]

6To

talH

gAMA

Acid

digestion

mdashmdash

Eggs

andbloo

dof

Eretmochelys

imbrica

ta

Along

with

mercury

CdCu

Zn

and

Pbarea

lsodeterm

ined

mdash[123]

7Hg(II)

Luminescence

spectro

meter

Fluo

rescence

30ndash

90times10minus9M

005ndash10120583M

Water

samples

Fairlyselectiveinpresence

ofAg+Fe3

+Z

n2+C

a2+M

n2+

Mg2

+C

o2+P

b2+N

i2+C

d2+

andCu

2+

Silver

nano

cluste

rs[124]

8Hg(II)

X-rayflu

orescence

spectro

meter

Precon

centratio

n498times10minus12M

Upto20

mgLminus1

Drin

king

water

mdashAc

tivated

carbon

[125]

9To

talH

gDMA

014ng

mdashParticulatem

atter

mdashGFCfilters

[126]

10MeH

gand

EtHg

HPL

CCh

emilu

minescence

016

nggminus

105ndash20

ngHg

Soilandsediment

samples

Back

extractio

nandanother

chem

icalprocessm

akethe

metho

dselectivefor

MeH

gand

EtHg

Emetined

ithiocarbam

ate

[127]

11To

talH

gCV

-CCP

M-O

ES2

Microwaved

igestio

n239times10minus11M

027ndash55m

gkgminus

1Soilsamples

mdashmdash

[128]

12Hg(II)

Chem

odosim

eter

Fluo

rescence

171times

10minus9M

10times10minus7 ndash10times

10minus6M

Bloo

dserum

ofmice

mdashRh

odam

ine

[129]

13Hg(0)

XRF

Acid

digestion

997times10minus8M

mdashSoils

from

indu

strial

complex

mdashmdash

[130]

14To

talH

gDMA

Com

bustion

012ng

05ndash5n

gSoilandleafsamples

mdashmdash

[131]

15MeH

gand

Hg(II)

GC-

MS

Matrix

solid

-phase

dispersio

n006

(MeH

g)and012

(Hg(II))120583gg

mdashTu

nafishangel

sharkandguitarfish

mdashmdash

[132]

16GEM

mdashCon

centratio

n-weighted

trajectory

mod

elmdash

mdashParticulatem

atter

mdashQFF

[133]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 SER

Ssurfa

ceenhanced

Raman

scatterin

g2 C

V-CC

PM-O

EScold-vapo

rcapacitivelycoup

ledplasmam

icrotorchflu

orescences

pectrometry

Analyticalinstr

uments

HPL

Chigh

perfo

rmance

liquidchromatograph

yAMAautom

aticmercury

analyzerD

MAdire

ctmercury

analyzerX

RFX

-ray

fluorescence

12 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

[26 48 52 66 119 126] Various measurement techniquesthat can be available for the determination ofmercury speciesin ambient air were reviewed by Pandey et al [154] Thisstudy also concluded that most of the researchers preferredCV-AAS and CV-AFS technique for the measurement ofdifferent mercury species in ambient air In comparison ofmethods acid digestion and thermal method for the analysisof mercury in ambient air acid digestion is better thanthermal method By the thermal methods the values can beobtained 30 lower than the acid digestion method [155]

In the analysis ofmercury species in various environmen-tal samples selectivity and range of linearity of the methodalso play a major role due to the presence of multielementsin the real samples Based on the present study most ofthe spectrophotometric spectrofluorometric and electroan-alytical methods were discussed regarding the interferingion studies and linearity range of the method These studieswill give a clear picture about the determination of mercuryspecies in presence of other ionswhich validates themethods

Regarding the merits of the different methods for spe-ciation and analysis of mercury the usage of nonchromato-graphic methods has an advantage in terms of speed of anal-ysis inexpensiveness and convenience to find themercury invarious environmental samples But for the complete specia-tion studies of mercury in biological and environmental sam-ples chromatographic methods are useful [156] The validityof analytical methods can be enhanced with the analysis ofthe certified reference materials along with the real samplesIn recent years the researchers mostly preferred GC coupledwith AFS or ICP-MS for the determination and speciation ofmercury in natural waters [157] In electroanalyticalmethodsthe validity of themethods depends on various factors such astype of electrode preconcentration and supportingmaterials[139] and these methods are cost-effective selective andsensitive [143]

3 Conclusions

The present study revealed the recent developments in thedetermination and speciation studies ofmercury by a range ofanalytical techniques Our previous study [2] also describedthe challenges in the methodology for mercury determina-tionThis review showed thatmost researchers focused on thedetermination of Hg(II) rather than speciation studies Onthe other hand the speciation studies [23 24 29 36 37 4447 50 54 58 68 69 76 118] accurately revealed the toxicityof mercury rather than the total mercury or single speciesdeterminations In the papers reviewed most researcherswere aware of the interfering ions in the determination ofmercury and its different forms In the analytical methoda study of interfering ions is very important because it canpredict the selectivity of the method In future studies it willbe important to focus on speciation studies of mercury ratherthan a determination of the total mercury

Conflict of Interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper

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Fe2

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8 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Table2Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

byspectro

photom

eter

andspectro

fluorom

eter

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

ument

used

forthe

detection

Metho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1Hg(II)

Fluo

rescence

spectro

photom

eter

Fluo

rescence

40times10minus9M

60ndash

450n

MWater

samples

10-fo

ldof

Pb2+C

u2+and

Ag+

show

slt7

influ

ence

onthed

eterminationof

Hg2

+comparedto

repo

rted

ones

CdT

equantum

dots

[80]

2Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

23times10minus9M

000ndash0

31120583M

Riverw

ater

Selectiveinpresence

ofAg+C

d2+C

u2+

Co2

+N

i2+and

Pb2+

Carbon

nano

dots

[81]

3Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

26times10minus9M

0001ndash1120583

MWater

samples

Selectiveinpresence

of20120583M

ofAl3+

Ca

2+C

o2+C

u2+C

d2+Fe3

+M

n2+N

i2+

Pb2+and

Zn2+

Goldnano

particles

[82]

4Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

mdash083ndash86120583gm

Lminus1

Water

samples

Thetolerance

limitof

Cu2+V

5+A

g+

Pd2+P

t4+A

u3+Fe2

+N

i2+C

d2+P

b2+

andCr

6+isin

ther

ange

of011ndash

041120583

gmLminus

1 inthed

eterminationof

191120583

gmLminus

1of

Hg2

+

5-Methylth

ioph

ene-2-

carboxaldehyde

ethylenediam

ine

[83]

5Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

173times

10minus9M

20n

Mndash6

0120583M

mdashInterfe

renceo

fmajor

catio

nsstu

died

ONPC

Rs1

[84]

6Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

50times10minus9M

20ndash

1000

nMWater

samplers

Selectiveinpresence

ofNi2+

Co2

+C

a2+

Cu2+N

a+K

+A

s3+M

g2+C

d2+and

Fe2+

Silver

nano

particles

[85]

7Hg(II)

UV-Vis

spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

135times10minus6M

mdashDrin

king

water

Cd2

+P

b2+Fe3

+and

Ba2+

dono

tinterfe

rein

thed

eterminationof

Hg2

+bu

tMg2

+C

a2+and

Mn2

+interfe

reslightly

Goldnano

particles

[86]

8Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

and

UV-spectro

meter

Colorim

etric

and

fluorescent

sensor

27times10minus8M

0ndash10times10minus6M

Water

samples

and

livingcells

Thefl

uorescentsignalfor

Hg(II)isn

otinflu

encedby

them

ajor

metalions

inclu

ding

Fe(III)Cu

(II)and

Al(III)

24-Dichloroq

uinazolin

e[87]

9Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

53times10minus13M

10times10minus12ndash86times

10minus4M

Water

samples

and

SRM

Selectiveinpresence

ofMn2

+Fe2

+Fe3

+

Ni2+

Co2

+C

d2+and

Pb2+

Chromoion

opho

reV

[88]

10Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescentand

colorim

etric

10times10minus9M

mdashSpiked

water

samples

Na+M

g2+K

+C

r3+M

n2+C

o2+N

i2+

Fe3+C

u2+Z

n2+A

g+C

d2+and

Pb2+

did

notinterfere

Rhod

amineB

[89]

11Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

142times10minus9M

0ndash5times10minus7M

Aqueou

ssolutions

Cd2

+C

u2+and

Ag+

dono

tinterfere

Thioether-append

eddipeptide

[90]

12Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

05times10minus9M

000

05ndash0

01120583

MLake

water

samples

Zn2+P

b2+N

i2+C

a2+M

g2+C

u2+C

o2+

Cd2

+Fe3

+and

Mn2

+didno

tinterfere

Carbon

nano

tubes

[91]

13Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescent

174ndash

383times10minus6M

mdashLiving

cells

Minor

interfe

rencefrom

Ag+C

a2+C

d2+

Co2

+C

u2+Fe2

+Fe3

+K

+M

g2+M

n2+

Na+N

i2+P

b2+R

b+and

Zn2+

Pyrene

[92]

14Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

04times10minus6M

01ndash42120583

gmLminus

1Waterbiological

plantleavesand

soilsamples

Tolerancelim

itof

theC

d2+Z

n2+C

e3+

Ce4

+In3

+C

r3+L

a3+Y

b3+and

Eu3+

is300120583

gmLminus

1andthetolerance

limitof

the

Co2

+C

u2+Fe3

+T

i4+P

b2+N

i2+and

Ag+

is100120583

gmLminus

1andatHg(II)is

20120583

gmLminus

1

247-Triamino-6-ph

enylpteridine

[93]

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 9

Table2Con

tinued

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

ument

used

forthe

detection

Metho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

15Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorop

hotometer

Fluo

rescent

10times10minus7M

20times10minus7 ndash30times

10minus5M

Water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofNa+K

+N

H4+

Ba2+Z

n2+C

d2+M

g2+C

a2+and

Ni2+

Con

jugatedpo

lymer

multilayer

films

[94]

16Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

TGFR

ET3

049ndash0

87times10minus9M

10times10minus9 ndash10times

10minus8M

Water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofMn2

+B

a2+N

i2+

Cu2+C

a2+C

r2+C

o2+C

d2+M

g2+

Zn2+A

l3+Fe3

+and

Pb2+

Goldnano

particles

[95]

17Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescent

1times10minus9M

001ndash0

12120583M

Water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofZn

2+P

b2+N

i2+

Co2

+C

a2+C

u2+M

g2+C

d2+Fe3

+and

Mn2

+Ca

rbon

nano

dots

[96]

18Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescent

0012times10minus6M

0-1120583

MTapandriv

erwater

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofAg+P

b2+N

a+

K+C

r3+C

d2+B

a2+Z

n2+M

g2+C

u2+

Ni2+

Ca2

+A

l3+and

Fe3+

Rhod

amine

[97]

19Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

224times10minus9M

50ndash

100n

MDrin

king

water

20-fo

ldof

Ca2+M

g2+Z

n2+C

r3+P

b2+

Cr6+M

n2+C

d2+Fe3

+A

l3+and

Ni2+

10-fo

ldof

Fe2+and

Co2

+5-fo

ldof

Cu2+

andthes

amec

oncentratio

nof

Ag+

caused

almostn

ointerfe

rence

Goldnano

particles

[98]

20Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Opticalchem

ical

sensor

018times10minus12M

72times10minus13ndash4

7times

10minus4M

Tapwaterriver

waterand

cann

edtuna

fish

Interfe

renceo

fCu(II)elim

inated

with

the

additio

nof

L-histidine

asam

asking

agent

Synthesiz

ediono

phore

[99]

21Hg(II)

UV-Vis

spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

sensor

50times10minus6M

(visu

al)10times10minus7M

(UV-Vis)

mdashAq

ueou

ssolutions

Mg2

+C

a2+Z

n2+C

u2+C

r3+Fe3

+P

b2+

Ni2+

Co2

+and

Ag+

didno

tinterfere

Dim

ethylsulph

oxide

[100]

22Hg(II)

Fluo

rescence

spectro

photom

eter

Fluo

rescence

prob

e16times10minus9M

002ndash10120583M

Aqueou

ssolutions

Selectiveinthed

eterminationof

Hg2

+

over

otherm

etalions

such

asFe

3+C

a2+

Mg2

+M

n2+C

r3+N

i2+C

u2+C

o2+and

Pb2+

Goldnano

particles

[101]

23Hg(II)

mdashColorim

etric

12times10minus9M

2ndash30

nMWater

samples

Na+

(2mM)K+

(2mM)Fe

3+Z

n2+and

Mg2

+(01mM)Ni2+

Co2

+C

d2+P

b2+

andCu

2+(50120583

M)andAg+

(35120583M)d

idno

tinterfere

with

thed

etectio

nof

Hg2

+

(25n

M)inthem

entio

nedam

ounts

Rhod

amineB

thiolacton

e[102]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 ONPC

Rsoxygen-do

pednitro

gen-ric

hph

otolum

inescent

polymer

carbon

nano

ribbo

ns2Limitof

quantifi

catio

n3 T

GFR

ETtim

e-gatedflu

orescencer

eson

ance

energy

transfe

r

10 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Table3Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

byelectro

chem

icalinstruments

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1Hg(II)

DP-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

499times10minus8M

mdashAmbientw

atertapand

wastewaters

Palladium

-naturalph

osph

ate-carbon

paste

electro

deenhances

thes

electiv

ityforH

g2+

Naturalph

osph

ate

electro

des

[103]

2Hg(II)

SW-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

004times10minus6M

02ndash100120583M

Food

stuffs

Simultaneou

slybo

thCd2

+andHg2

+are

determ

ined

and10

00-fo

ldforK

+N

a+L

i+

NH

4+C

a2+M

g2+P

b2+Z

n2+C

r3+Fe2

+

Co2

+and

Al3+

didno

tinterfere

Carbon

paste

electro

de[104

]

3Hg(II)

Differentia

lpulse

voltammeter

Electro

chem

ical

448times10minus10M

02ndash10120583gLminus1

Spiked

fishandplant

samples

Cu(II)M

g(II)As(III)and

Cr(II)were

possibleinterfe

rers

441015840-Bipyridine-silver

polymer

[105]

4Hg(II)

Cyclicv

oltammeter

Electro

chem

ical

08times10minus14M

10minus14ndash10minus

7M

mdashCu

2+P

b2+N

i2+Z

n2+C

r3+C

o3+A

s5+

Fe2+and

Fe3+

didno

tinterfere

Goldatom

icclu

ster-chito

san

[106]

5Hg(II)

Voltammeter

(cyclic

and

differentialpulse)

Biosensor

393times10minus12M

0005ndash0034m

MWater

samples

Thew

orking

potentialcon

trolledto

minim

izethe

interfe

renceo

fother

metalions

intestmedium

PANIand

PANI-co-PDTD

Apo

lymer

films

[107]

6Hg(II)

ASV

Electro

chem

ical

498times10minus9M

4ndash160p

pbAq

uatic

solutio

nsmdash

Glassycarbon

electro

de[108]

7Hg(II)

SW-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

92times10minus5M

01ndash1500n

MSoilgasolin

efishtap

andwastewaters

400-fold

massratio

ofCu

2+M

n2+Z

n2+

Cr3+C

r6+Fe3

+Fe2

+N

i2+and

Co2

+didno

tinterfe

rein

thes

imultaneou

sdetermination

ofCd2

+P

b2+and

Hg2

+

Triphenylpho

sphine

[109]

8Hg(II)

Potentiometer

Electro

chem

ical

977times10minus6M

(PME)

1

776times10minus7M

(CGE)

1

10times10minus1 ndash50times10minus6M

(PME)

10times10minus1 ndash50times10minus7M

(CGE)

Water

samples

Ag+

hassmallinterferenceinthe

determ

inationof

Hg2

+13

-Alternate

thiacalix[4]crow

n[110]

9Hg(II)

Potentiometer

Electro

chem

ical

10times10minus8M

50times10minus8 ndash10times10minus2M

mdashTh

esele

ctivity

coeffi

ciento

fthe

otherion

sis

rang

ingfro

m29to

49

PVCmem

brane

[111]

10Hg(II)

DPS

VElectro

chem

ical

005times10minus12M

1ndash500n

MWater

samples

Pb2+Th

3+C

u2+C

d2+N

i2+and

Al3+

did

notinterfere

Goldnano

particles

[112]

11Hg(II)

SW-ASV

Ultrason

icextractio

nmdash

mdashIndo

ordu

stsamples

mdashGoldnano

particles

[113]

12Hg(II)

Cyclicv

oltammeter

Electro

chem

ical

19times10minus9M

40ndash170120583gLminus1

Wastewaters

mdashBiotinylSomatostatin

-14

peptide

[114]

13Hg(II)

Potentiometer

Electro

chem

ical

3times10minus6M

5times10minus6 ndash1times

10minus2M

Con

taminated

water

Na+K

+M

g2+C

a2+Z

n2+C

u2+C

r3+Fe3

+

andPb

2+didno

tinterfere

inthe

determ

inationof

Hg2

+

Dith

izon

eand

di-n-butyl

phthalate

[115]

14Hg(II)

DP-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

0483times10minus6M

300ndash

700n

gmLminus

1mdash

Nointerfe

renceo

fCdNiZn

and

Cuin

50-

25-100-and

5-fold

inexcessrespectively

Nanocellulosic

fibers

[116]

15Hg(II)

mdashElectro

chem

ical

05times10minus9M

10nM

ndash10120583M

Zn2+M

g2+C

a2+P

b2+C

d2+M

n2+C

u2+

Ni2+

and

Fe3+

didno

tinterfere

G-quadrup

lexndashhemin

(G4ndash

hemin)

[117]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 PME

polymericmem

branee

lectrode

andCG

Ecoated

graphiteele

ctrode

Analyticalinstr

uments

DP-ASV

differentia

lpulse

anod

icstr

ipping

voltammeterSW-ASV

squ

arew

avea

nodics

tripping

voltammeter

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 11

Table4Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

bymisc

ellaneou

stechn

iques

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sed

forthe

detection

Metho

dLimitof

detection(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1Speciatio

nCon

tinuo

usmercury

analyzer

Thermaldesorptio

nmdash

mdashSolid

samples

(fly

ash)

mdashmdash

[118]

2GEM

Portablemercury

analyzer

mdashmdash

mdashAtmosph

ere

mdashmdash

[119]

3Hg(II)

SERS

1mdash

224times10minus12M

0001ndash05n

gmLminus

1Drin

king

water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofZn

2+

Mg2

+Fe3

+C

u2+P

b2+and

Mn2

+Goldnano

particles

[120]

4Hg(II)

HPL

CSP

E19

9times10minus10ndash4

48times10minus9M

27ndash300120583

gLminus1

Water

samples

Simultaneou

slyNi2+

Co2

+and

Hg2

+ared

etermined

Carbon

nano

tubes

[121]

5Hg(II)

SERS

mdash01times

10minus9M

01ndash1000

nMGroun

dwater

Ag+

was

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

Hg2

+andK+

Cu2

+A

g+

Cr3+Fe3

+N

H4+C

a2+C

o2+

Cd2

+and

Zn2+

didno

tinterfere

Oligon

ucleotide-

functio

nalized

magnetic

silicas

phere

[122]

6To

talH

gAMA

Acid

digestion

mdashmdash

Eggs

andbloo

dof

Eretmochelys

imbrica

ta

Along

with

mercury

CdCu

Zn

and

Pbarea

lsodeterm

ined

mdash[123]

7Hg(II)

Luminescence

spectro

meter

Fluo

rescence

30ndash

90times10minus9M

005ndash10120583M

Water

samples

Fairlyselectiveinpresence

ofAg+Fe3

+Z

n2+C

a2+M

n2+

Mg2

+C

o2+P

b2+N

i2+C

d2+

andCu

2+

Silver

nano

cluste

rs[124]

8Hg(II)

X-rayflu

orescence

spectro

meter

Precon

centratio

n498times10minus12M

Upto20

mgLminus1

Drin

king

water

mdashAc

tivated

carbon

[125]

9To

talH

gDMA

014ng

mdashParticulatem

atter

mdashGFCfilters

[126]

10MeH

gand

EtHg

HPL

CCh

emilu

minescence

016

nggminus

105ndash20

ngHg

Soilandsediment

samples

Back

extractio

nandanother

chem

icalprocessm

akethe

metho

dselectivefor

MeH

gand

EtHg

Emetined

ithiocarbam

ate

[127]

11To

talH

gCV

-CCP

M-O

ES2

Microwaved

igestio

n239times10minus11M

027ndash55m

gkgminus

1Soilsamples

mdashmdash

[128]

12Hg(II)

Chem

odosim

eter

Fluo

rescence

171times

10minus9M

10times10minus7 ndash10times

10minus6M

Bloo

dserum

ofmice

mdashRh

odam

ine

[129]

13Hg(0)

XRF

Acid

digestion

997times10minus8M

mdashSoils

from

indu

strial

complex

mdashmdash

[130]

14To

talH

gDMA

Com

bustion

012ng

05ndash5n

gSoilandleafsamples

mdashmdash

[131]

15MeH

gand

Hg(II)

GC-

MS

Matrix

solid

-phase

dispersio

n006

(MeH

g)and012

(Hg(II))120583gg

mdashTu

nafishangel

sharkandguitarfish

mdashmdash

[132]

16GEM

mdashCon

centratio

n-weighted

trajectory

mod

elmdash

mdashParticulatem

atter

mdashQFF

[133]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 SER

Ssurfa

ceenhanced

Raman

scatterin

g2 C

V-CC

PM-O

EScold-vapo

rcapacitivelycoup

ledplasmam

icrotorchflu

orescences

pectrometry

Analyticalinstr

uments

HPL

Chigh

perfo

rmance

liquidchromatograph

yAMAautom

aticmercury

analyzerD

MAdire

ctmercury

analyzerX

RFX

-ray

fluorescence

12 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

[26 48 52 66 119 126] Various measurement techniquesthat can be available for the determination ofmercury speciesin ambient air were reviewed by Pandey et al [154] Thisstudy also concluded that most of the researchers preferredCV-AAS and CV-AFS technique for the measurement ofdifferent mercury species in ambient air In comparison ofmethods acid digestion and thermal method for the analysisof mercury in ambient air acid digestion is better thanthermal method By the thermal methods the values can beobtained 30 lower than the acid digestion method [155]

In the analysis ofmercury species in various environmen-tal samples selectivity and range of linearity of the methodalso play a major role due to the presence of multielementsin the real samples Based on the present study most ofthe spectrophotometric spectrofluorometric and electroan-alytical methods were discussed regarding the interferingion studies and linearity range of the method These studieswill give a clear picture about the determination of mercuryspecies in presence of other ionswhich validates themethods

Regarding the merits of the different methods for spe-ciation and analysis of mercury the usage of nonchromato-graphic methods has an advantage in terms of speed of anal-ysis inexpensiveness and convenience to find themercury invarious environmental samples But for the complete specia-tion studies of mercury in biological and environmental sam-ples chromatographic methods are useful [156] The validityof analytical methods can be enhanced with the analysis ofthe certified reference materials along with the real samplesIn recent years the researchers mostly preferred GC coupledwith AFS or ICP-MS for the determination and speciation ofmercury in natural waters [157] In electroanalyticalmethodsthe validity of themethods depends on various factors such astype of electrode preconcentration and supportingmaterials[139] and these methods are cost-effective selective andsensitive [143]

3 Conclusions

The present study revealed the recent developments in thedetermination and speciation studies ofmercury by a range ofanalytical techniques Our previous study [2] also describedthe challenges in the methodology for mercury determina-tionThis review showed thatmost researchers focused on thedetermination of Hg(II) rather than speciation studies Onthe other hand the speciation studies [23 24 29 36 37 4447 50 54 58 68 69 76 118] accurately revealed the toxicityof mercury rather than the total mercury or single speciesdeterminations In the papers reviewed most researcherswere aware of the interfering ions in the determination ofmercury and its different forms In the analytical methoda study of interfering ions is very important because it canpredict the selectivity of the method In future studies it willbe important to focus on speciation studies of mercury ratherthan a determination of the total mercury

Conflict of Interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper

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2

andmulti-walled carbon nanotubes composites dispersed in a novelcationic surfactantrdquo Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry vol751 pp 23ndash29 2015

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CatalystsJournal of

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 9

Table2Con

tinued

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

ument

used

forthe

detection

Metho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

15Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorop

hotometer

Fluo

rescent

10times10minus7M

20times10minus7 ndash30times

10minus5M

Water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofNa+K

+N

H4+

Ba2+Z

n2+C

d2+M

g2+C

a2+and

Ni2+

Con

jugatedpo

lymer

multilayer

films

[94]

16Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

TGFR

ET3

049ndash0

87times10minus9M

10times10minus9 ndash10times

10minus8M

Water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofMn2

+B

a2+N

i2+

Cu2+C

a2+C

r2+C

o2+C

d2+M

g2+

Zn2+A

l3+Fe3

+and

Pb2+

Goldnano

particles

[95]

17Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescent

1times10minus9M

001ndash0

12120583M

Water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofZn

2+P

b2+N

i2+

Co2

+C

a2+C

u2+M

g2+C

d2+Fe3

+and

Mn2

+Ca

rbon

nano

dots

[96]

18Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescent

0012times10minus6M

0-1120583

MTapandriv

erwater

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofAg+P

b2+N

a+

K+C

r3+C

d2+B

a2+Z

n2+M

g2+C

u2+

Ni2+

Ca2

+A

l3+and

Fe3+

Rhod

amine

[97]

19Hg(II)

Spectro

fluorom

eter

Fluo

rescence

224times10minus9M

50ndash

100n

MDrin

king

water

20-fo

ldof

Ca2+M

g2+Z

n2+C

r3+P

b2+

Cr6+M

n2+C

d2+Fe3

+A

l3+and

Ni2+

10-fo

ldof

Fe2+and

Co2

+5-fo

ldof

Cu2+

andthes

amec

oncentratio

nof

Ag+

caused

almostn

ointerfe

rence

Goldnano

particles

[98]

20Hg(II)

Spectro

photom

eter

Opticalchem

ical

sensor

018times10minus12M

72times10minus13ndash4

7times

10minus4M

Tapwaterriver

waterand

cann

edtuna

fish

Interfe

renceo

fCu(II)elim

inated

with

the

additio

nof

L-histidine

asam

asking

agent

Synthesiz

ediono

phore

[99]

21Hg(II)

UV-Vis

spectro

photom

eter

Colorim

etric

sensor

50times10minus6M

(visu

al)10times10minus7M

(UV-Vis)

mdashAq

ueou

ssolutions

Mg2

+C

a2+Z

n2+C

u2+C

r3+Fe3

+P

b2+

Ni2+

Co2

+and

Ag+

didno

tinterfere

Dim

ethylsulph

oxide

[100]

22Hg(II)

Fluo

rescence

spectro

photom

eter

Fluo

rescence

prob

e16times10minus9M

002ndash10120583M

Aqueou

ssolutions

Selectiveinthed

eterminationof

Hg2

+

over

otherm

etalions

such

asFe

3+C

a2+

Mg2

+M

n2+C

r3+N

i2+C

u2+C

o2+and

Pb2+

Goldnano

particles

[101]

23Hg(II)

mdashColorim

etric

12times10minus9M

2ndash30

nMWater

samples

Na+

(2mM)K+

(2mM)Fe

3+Z

n2+and

Mg2

+(01mM)Ni2+

Co2

+C

d2+P

b2+

andCu

2+(50120583

M)andAg+

(35120583M)d

idno

tinterfere

with

thed

etectio

nof

Hg2

+

(25n

M)inthem

entio

nedam

ounts

Rhod

amineB

thiolacton

e[102]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 ONPC

Rsoxygen-do

pednitro

gen-ric

hph

otolum

inescent

polymer

carbon

nano

ribbo

ns2Limitof

quantifi

catio

n3 T

GFR

ETtim

e-gatedflu

orescencer

eson

ance

energy

transfe

r

10 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Table3Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

byelectro

chem

icalinstruments

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1Hg(II)

DP-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

499times10minus8M

mdashAmbientw

atertapand

wastewaters

Palladium

-naturalph

osph

ate-carbon

paste

electro

deenhances

thes

electiv

ityforH

g2+

Naturalph

osph

ate

electro

des

[103]

2Hg(II)

SW-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

004times10minus6M

02ndash100120583M

Food

stuffs

Simultaneou

slybo

thCd2

+andHg2

+are

determ

ined

and10

00-fo

ldforK

+N

a+L

i+

NH

4+C

a2+M

g2+P

b2+Z

n2+C

r3+Fe2

+

Co2

+and

Al3+

didno

tinterfere

Carbon

paste

electro

de[104

]

3Hg(II)

Differentia

lpulse

voltammeter

Electro

chem

ical

448times10minus10M

02ndash10120583gLminus1

Spiked

fishandplant

samples

Cu(II)M

g(II)As(III)and

Cr(II)were

possibleinterfe

rers

441015840-Bipyridine-silver

polymer

[105]

4Hg(II)

Cyclicv

oltammeter

Electro

chem

ical

08times10minus14M

10minus14ndash10minus

7M

mdashCu

2+P

b2+N

i2+Z

n2+C

r3+C

o3+A

s5+

Fe2+and

Fe3+

didno

tinterfere

Goldatom

icclu

ster-chito

san

[106]

5Hg(II)

Voltammeter

(cyclic

and

differentialpulse)

Biosensor

393times10minus12M

0005ndash0034m

MWater

samples

Thew

orking

potentialcon

trolledto

minim

izethe

interfe

renceo

fother

metalions

intestmedium

PANIand

PANI-co-PDTD

Apo

lymer

films

[107]

6Hg(II)

ASV

Electro

chem

ical

498times10minus9M

4ndash160p

pbAq

uatic

solutio

nsmdash

Glassycarbon

electro

de[108]

7Hg(II)

SW-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

92times10minus5M

01ndash1500n

MSoilgasolin

efishtap

andwastewaters

400-fold

massratio

ofCu

2+M

n2+Z

n2+

Cr3+C

r6+Fe3

+Fe2

+N

i2+and

Co2

+didno

tinterfe

rein

thes

imultaneou

sdetermination

ofCd2

+P

b2+and

Hg2

+

Triphenylpho

sphine

[109]

8Hg(II)

Potentiometer

Electro

chem

ical

977times10minus6M

(PME)

1

776times10minus7M

(CGE)

1

10times10minus1 ndash50times10minus6M

(PME)

10times10minus1 ndash50times10minus7M

(CGE)

Water

samples

Ag+

hassmallinterferenceinthe

determ

inationof

Hg2

+13

-Alternate

thiacalix[4]crow

n[110]

9Hg(II)

Potentiometer

Electro

chem

ical

10times10minus8M

50times10minus8 ndash10times10minus2M

mdashTh

esele

ctivity

coeffi

ciento

fthe

otherion

sis

rang

ingfro

m29to

49

PVCmem

brane

[111]

10Hg(II)

DPS

VElectro

chem

ical

005times10minus12M

1ndash500n

MWater

samples

Pb2+Th

3+C

u2+C

d2+N

i2+and

Al3+

did

notinterfere

Goldnano

particles

[112]

11Hg(II)

SW-ASV

Ultrason

icextractio

nmdash

mdashIndo

ordu

stsamples

mdashGoldnano

particles

[113]

12Hg(II)

Cyclicv

oltammeter

Electro

chem

ical

19times10minus9M

40ndash170120583gLminus1

Wastewaters

mdashBiotinylSomatostatin

-14

peptide

[114]

13Hg(II)

Potentiometer

Electro

chem

ical

3times10minus6M

5times10minus6 ndash1times

10minus2M

Con

taminated

water

Na+K

+M

g2+C

a2+Z

n2+C

u2+C

r3+Fe3

+

andPb

2+didno

tinterfere

inthe

determ

inationof

Hg2

+

Dith

izon

eand

di-n-butyl

phthalate

[115]

14Hg(II)

DP-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

0483times10minus6M

300ndash

700n

gmLminus

1mdash

Nointerfe

renceo

fCdNiZn

and

Cuin

50-

25-100-and

5-fold

inexcessrespectively

Nanocellulosic

fibers

[116]

15Hg(II)

mdashElectro

chem

ical

05times10minus9M

10nM

ndash10120583M

Zn2+M

g2+C

a2+P

b2+C

d2+M

n2+C

u2+

Ni2+

and

Fe3+

didno

tinterfere

G-quadrup

lexndashhemin

(G4ndash

hemin)

[117]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 PME

polymericmem

branee

lectrode

andCG

Ecoated

graphiteele

ctrode

Analyticalinstr

uments

DP-ASV

differentia

lpulse

anod

icstr

ipping

voltammeterSW-ASV

squ

arew

avea

nodics

tripping

voltammeter

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 11

Table4Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

bymisc

ellaneou

stechn

iques

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sed

forthe

detection

Metho

dLimitof

detection(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1Speciatio

nCon

tinuo

usmercury

analyzer

Thermaldesorptio

nmdash

mdashSolid

samples

(fly

ash)

mdashmdash

[118]

2GEM

Portablemercury

analyzer

mdashmdash

mdashAtmosph

ere

mdashmdash

[119]

3Hg(II)

SERS

1mdash

224times10minus12M

0001ndash05n

gmLminus

1Drin

king

water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofZn

2+

Mg2

+Fe3

+C

u2+P

b2+and

Mn2

+Goldnano

particles

[120]

4Hg(II)

HPL

CSP

E19

9times10minus10ndash4

48times10minus9M

27ndash300120583

gLminus1

Water

samples

Simultaneou

slyNi2+

Co2

+and

Hg2

+ared

etermined

Carbon

nano

tubes

[121]

5Hg(II)

SERS

mdash01times

10minus9M

01ndash1000

nMGroun

dwater

Ag+

was

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

Hg2

+andK+

Cu2

+A

g+

Cr3+Fe3

+N

H4+C

a2+C

o2+

Cd2

+and

Zn2+

didno

tinterfere

Oligon

ucleotide-

functio

nalized

magnetic

silicas

phere

[122]

6To

talH

gAMA

Acid

digestion

mdashmdash

Eggs

andbloo

dof

Eretmochelys

imbrica

ta

Along

with

mercury

CdCu

Zn

and

Pbarea

lsodeterm

ined

mdash[123]

7Hg(II)

Luminescence

spectro

meter

Fluo

rescence

30ndash

90times10minus9M

005ndash10120583M

Water

samples

Fairlyselectiveinpresence

ofAg+Fe3

+Z

n2+C

a2+M

n2+

Mg2

+C

o2+P

b2+N

i2+C

d2+

andCu

2+

Silver

nano

cluste

rs[124]

8Hg(II)

X-rayflu

orescence

spectro

meter

Precon

centratio

n498times10minus12M

Upto20

mgLminus1

Drin

king

water

mdashAc

tivated

carbon

[125]

9To

talH

gDMA

014ng

mdashParticulatem

atter

mdashGFCfilters

[126]

10MeH

gand

EtHg

HPL

CCh

emilu

minescence

016

nggminus

105ndash20

ngHg

Soilandsediment

samples

Back

extractio

nandanother

chem

icalprocessm

akethe

metho

dselectivefor

MeH

gand

EtHg

Emetined

ithiocarbam

ate

[127]

11To

talH

gCV

-CCP

M-O

ES2

Microwaved

igestio

n239times10minus11M

027ndash55m

gkgminus

1Soilsamples

mdashmdash

[128]

12Hg(II)

Chem

odosim

eter

Fluo

rescence

171times

10minus9M

10times10minus7 ndash10times

10minus6M

Bloo

dserum

ofmice

mdashRh

odam

ine

[129]

13Hg(0)

XRF

Acid

digestion

997times10minus8M

mdashSoils

from

indu

strial

complex

mdashmdash

[130]

14To

talH

gDMA

Com

bustion

012ng

05ndash5n

gSoilandleafsamples

mdashmdash

[131]

15MeH

gand

Hg(II)

GC-

MS

Matrix

solid

-phase

dispersio

n006

(MeH

g)and012

(Hg(II))120583gg

mdashTu

nafishangel

sharkandguitarfish

mdashmdash

[132]

16GEM

mdashCon

centratio

n-weighted

trajectory

mod

elmdash

mdashParticulatem

atter

mdashQFF

[133]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 SER

Ssurfa

ceenhanced

Raman

scatterin

g2 C

V-CC

PM-O

EScold-vapo

rcapacitivelycoup

ledplasmam

icrotorchflu

orescences

pectrometry

Analyticalinstr

uments

HPL

Chigh

perfo

rmance

liquidchromatograph

yAMAautom

aticmercury

analyzerD

MAdire

ctmercury

analyzerX

RFX

-ray

fluorescence

12 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

[26 48 52 66 119 126] Various measurement techniquesthat can be available for the determination ofmercury speciesin ambient air were reviewed by Pandey et al [154] Thisstudy also concluded that most of the researchers preferredCV-AAS and CV-AFS technique for the measurement ofdifferent mercury species in ambient air In comparison ofmethods acid digestion and thermal method for the analysisof mercury in ambient air acid digestion is better thanthermal method By the thermal methods the values can beobtained 30 lower than the acid digestion method [155]

In the analysis ofmercury species in various environmen-tal samples selectivity and range of linearity of the methodalso play a major role due to the presence of multielementsin the real samples Based on the present study most ofthe spectrophotometric spectrofluorometric and electroan-alytical methods were discussed regarding the interferingion studies and linearity range of the method These studieswill give a clear picture about the determination of mercuryspecies in presence of other ionswhich validates themethods

Regarding the merits of the different methods for spe-ciation and analysis of mercury the usage of nonchromato-graphic methods has an advantage in terms of speed of anal-ysis inexpensiveness and convenience to find themercury invarious environmental samples But for the complete specia-tion studies of mercury in biological and environmental sam-ples chromatographic methods are useful [156] The validityof analytical methods can be enhanced with the analysis ofthe certified reference materials along with the real samplesIn recent years the researchers mostly preferred GC coupledwith AFS or ICP-MS for the determination and speciation ofmercury in natural waters [157] In electroanalyticalmethodsthe validity of themethods depends on various factors such astype of electrode preconcentration and supportingmaterials[139] and these methods are cost-effective selective andsensitive [143]

3 Conclusions

The present study revealed the recent developments in thedetermination and speciation studies ofmercury by a range ofanalytical techniques Our previous study [2] also describedthe challenges in the methodology for mercury determina-tionThis review showed thatmost researchers focused on thedetermination of Hg(II) rather than speciation studies Onthe other hand the speciation studies [23 24 29 36 37 4447 50 54 58 68 69 76 118] accurately revealed the toxicityof mercury rather than the total mercury or single speciesdeterminations In the papers reviewed most researcherswere aware of the interfering ions in the determination ofmercury and its different forms In the analytical methoda study of interfering ions is very important because it canpredict the selectivity of the method In future studies it willbe important to focus on speciation studies of mercury ratherthan a determination of the total mercury

Conflict of Interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper

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[101] D Tan Y He X Xing Y Zhao H Tang and D Pang ldquoAptamerfunctionalized gold nanoparticles based fluorescent probe forthe detection of mercury (II) ion in aqueous solutionrdquo Talantavol 113 pp 26ndash30 2013

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Zn05

Fe2

O4

nanocomposite modified carbon paste elec-trode for highly sensitive and selective simultaneous electro-chemical determination of trace amounts of mercury (II) andcadmium (II)rdquo Journal of the Iranian Chemical Society vol 12no 2 pp 257ndash265 2014

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2

andmulti-walled carbon nanotubes composites dispersed in a novelcationic surfactantrdquo Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry vol751 pp 23ndash29 2015

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10 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Table3Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

byelectro

chem

icalinstruments

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sedfor

thed

etectio

nMetho

dLimitof

detection

(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1Hg(II)

DP-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

499times10minus8M

mdashAmbientw

atertapand

wastewaters

Palladium

-naturalph

osph

ate-carbon

paste

electro

deenhances

thes

electiv

ityforH

g2+

Naturalph

osph

ate

electro

des

[103]

2Hg(II)

SW-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

004times10minus6M

02ndash100120583M

Food

stuffs

Simultaneou

slybo

thCd2

+andHg2

+are

determ

ined

and10

00-fo

ldforK

+N

a+L

i+

NH

4+C

a2+M

g2+P

b2+Z

n2+C

r3+Fe2

+

Co2

+and

Al3+

didno

tinterfere

Carbon

paste

electro

de[104

]

3Hg(II)

Differentia

lpulse

voltammeter

Electro

chem

ical

448times10minus10M

02ndash10120583gLminus1

Spiked

fishandplant

samples

Cu(II)M

g(II)As(III)and

Cr(II)were

possibleinterfe

rers

441015840-Bipyridine-silver

polymer

[105]

4Hg(II)

Cyclicv

oltammeter

Electro

chem

ical

08times10minus14M

10minus14ndash10minus

7M

mdashCu

2+P

b2+N

i2+Z

n2+C

r3+C

o3+A

s5+

Fe2+and

Fe3+

didno

tinterfere

Goldatom

icclu

ster-chito

san

[106]

5Hg(II)

Voltammeter

(cyclic

and

differentialpulse)

Biosensor

393times10minus12M

0005ndash0034m

MWater

samples

Thew

orking

potentialcon

trolledto

minim

izethe

interfe

renceo

fother

metalions

intestmedium

PANIand

PANI-co-PDTD

Apo

lymer

films

[107]

6Hg(II)

ASV

Electro

chem

ical

498times10minus9M

4ndash160p

pbAq

uatic

solutio

nsmdash

Glassycarbon

electro

de[108]

7Hg(II)

SW-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

92times10minus5M

01ndash1500n

MSoilgasolin

efishtap

andwastewaters

400-fold

massratio

ofCu

2+M

n2+Z

n2+

Cr3+C

r6+Fe3

+Fe2

+N

i2+and

Co2

+didno

tinterfe

rein

thes

imultaneou

sdetermination

ofCd2

+P

b2+and

Hg2

+

Triphenylpho

sphine

[109]

8Hg(II)

Potentiometer

Electro

chem

ical

977times10minus6M

(PME)

1

776times10minus7M

(CGE)

1

10times10minus1 ndash50times10minus6M

(PME)

10times10minus1 ndash50times10minus7M

(CGE)

Water

samples

Ag+

hassmallinterferenceinthe

determ

inationof

Hg2

+13

-Alternate

thiacalix[4]crow

n[110]

9Hg(II)

Potentiometer

Electro

chem

ical

10times10minus8M

50times10minus8 ndash10times10minus2M

mdashTh

esele

ctivity

coeffi

ciento

fthe

otherion

sis

rang

ingfro

m29to

49

PVCmem

brane

[111]

10Hg(II)

DPS

VElectro

chem

ical

005times10minus12M

1ndash500n

MWater

samples

Pb2+Th

3+C

u2+C

d2+N

i2+and

Al3+

did

notinterfere

Goldnano

particles

[112]

11Hg(II)

SW-ASV

Ultrason

icextractio

nmdash

mdashIndo

ordu

stsamples

mdashGoldnano

particles

[113]

12Hg(II)

Cyclicv

oltammeter

Electro

chem

ical

19times10minus9M

40ndash170120583gLminus1

Wastewaters

mdashBiotinylSomatostatin

-14

peptide

[114]

13Hg(II)

Potentiometer

Electro

chem

ical

3times10minus6M

5times10minus6 ndash1times

10minus2M

Con

taminated

water

Na+K

+M

g2+C

a2+Z

n2+C

u2+C

r3+Fe3

+

andPb

2+didno

tinterfere

inthe

determ

inationof

Hg2

+

Dith

izon

eand

di-n-butyl

phthalate

[115]

14Hg(II)

DP-ASV

Electro

chem

ical

0483times10minus6M

300ndash

700n

gmLminus

1mdash

Nointerfe

renceo

fCdNiZn

and

Cuin

50-

25-100-and

5-fold

inexcessrespectively

Nanocellulosic

fibers

[116]

15Hg(II)

mdashElectro

chem

ical

05times10minus9M

10nM

ndash10120583M

Zn2+M

g2+C

a2+P

b2+C

d2+M

n2+C

u2+

Ni2+

and

Fe3+

didno

tinterfere

G-quadrup

lexndashhemin

(G4ndash

hemin)

[117]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 PME

polymericmem

branee

lectrode

andCG

Ecoated

graphiteele

ctrode

Analyticalinstr

uments

DP-ASV

differentia

lpulse

anod

icstr

ipping

voltammeterSW-ASV

squ

arew

avea

nodics

tripping

voltammeter

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 11

Table4Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

bymisc

ellaneou

stechn

iques

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sed

forthe

detection

Metho

dLimitof

detection(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1Speciatio

nCon

tinuo

usmercury

analyzer

Thermaldesorptio

nmdash

mdashSolid

samples

(fly

ash)

mdashmdash

[118]

2GEM

Portablemercury

analyzer

mdashmdash

mdashAtmosph

ere

mdashmdash

[119]

3Hg(II)

SERS

1mdash

224times10minus12M

0001ndash05n

gmLminus

1Drin

king

water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofZn

2+

Mg2

+Fe3

+C

u2+P

b2+and

Mn2

+Goldnano

particles

[120]

4Hg(II)

HPL

CSP

E19

9times10minus10ndash4

48times10minus9M

27ndash300120583

gLminus1

Water

samples

Simultaneou

slyNi2+

Co2

+and

Hg2

+ared

etermined

Carbon

nano

tubes

[121]

5Hg(II)

SERS

mdash01times

10minus9M

01ndash1000

nMGroun

dwater

Ag+

was

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

Hg2

+andK+

Cu2

+A

g+

Cr3+Fe3

+N

H4+C

a2+C

o2+

Cd2

+and

Zn2+

didno

tinterfere

Oligon

ucleotide-

functio

nalized

magnetic

silicas

phere

[122]

6To

talH

gAMA

Acid

digestion

mdashmdash

Eggs

andbloo

dof

Eretmochelys

imbrica

ta

Along

with

mercury

CdCu

Zn

and

Pbarea

lsodeterm

ined

mdash[123]

7Hg(II)

Luminescence

spectro

meter

Fluo

rescence

30ndash

90times10minus9M

005ndash10120583M

Water

samples

Fairlyselectiveinpresence

ofAg+Fe3

+Z

n2+C

a2+M

n2+

Mg2

+C

o2+P

b2+N

i2+C

d2+

andCu

2+

Silver

nano

cluste

rs[124]

8Hg(II)

X-rayflu

orescence

spectro

meter

Precon

centratio

n498times10minus12M

Upto20

mgLminus1

Drin

king

water

mdashAc

tivated

carbon

[125]

9To

talH

gDMA

014ng

mdashParticulatem

atter

mdashGFCfilters

[126]

10MeH

gand

EtHg

HPL

CCh

emilu

minescence

016

nggminus

105ndash20

ngHg

Soilandsediment

samples

Back

extractio

nandanother

chem

icalprocessm

akethe

metho

dselectivefor

MeH

gand

EtHg

Emetined

ithiocarbam

ate

[127]

11To

talH

gCV

-CCP

M-O

ES2

Microwaved

igestio

n239times10minus11M

027ndash55m

gkgminus

1Soilsamples

mdashmdash

[128]

12Hg(II)

Chem

odosim

eter

Fluo

rescence

171times

10minus9M

10times10minus7 ndash10times

10minus6M

Bloo

dserum

ofmice

mdashRh

odam

ine

[129]

13Hg(0)

XRF

Acid

digestion

997times10minus8M

mdashSoils

from

indu

strial

complex

mdashmdash

[130]

14To

talH

gDMA

Com

bustion

012ng

05ndash5n

gSoilandleafsamples

mdashmdash

[131]

15MeH

gand

Hg(II)

GC-

MS

Matrix

solid

-phase

dispersio

n006

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g)and012

(Hg(II))120583gg

mdashTu

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sharkandguitarfish

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[132]

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centratio

n-weighted

trajectory

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atter

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[133]

For

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2295

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Raman

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Analyticalinstr

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aticmercury

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RFX

-ray

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12 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

[26 48 52 66 119 126] Various measurement techniquesthat can be available for the determination ofmercury speciesin ambient air were reviewed by Pandey et al [154] Thisstudy also concluded that most of the researchers preferredCV-AAS and CV-AFS technique for the measurement ofdifferent mercury species in ambient air In comparison ofmethods acid digestion and thermal method for the analysisof mercury in ambient air acid digestion is better thanthermal method By the thermal methods the values can beobtained 30 lower than the acid digestion method [155]

In the analysis ofmercury species in various environmen-tal samples selectivity and range of linearity of the methodalso play a major role due to the presence of multielementsin the real samples Based on the present study most ofthe spectrophotometric spectrofluorometric and electroan-alytical methods were discussed regarding the interferingion studies and linearity range of the method These studieswill give a clear picture about the determination of mercuryspecies in presence of other ionswhich validates themethods

Regarding the merits of the different methods for spe-ciation and analysis of mercury the usage of nonchromato-graphic methods has an advantage in terms of speed of anal-ysis inexpensiveness and convenience to find themercury invarious environmental samples But for the complete specia-tion studies of mercury in biological and environmental sam-ples chromatographic methods are useful [156] The validityof analytical methods can be enhanced with the analysis ofthe certified reference materials along with the real samplesIn recent years the researchers mostly preferred GC coupledwith AFS or ICP-MS for the determination and speciation ofmercury in natural waters [157] In electroanalyticalmethodsthe validity of themethods depends on various factors such astype of electrode preconcentration and supportingmaterials[139] and these methods are cost-effective selective andsensitive [143]

3 Conclusions

The present study revealed the recent developments in thedetermination and speciation studies ofmercury by a range ofanalytical techniques Our previous study [2] also describedthe challenges in the methodology for mercury determina-tionThis review showed thatmost researchers focused on thedetermination of Hg(II) rather than speciation studies Onthe other hand the speciation studies [23 24 29 36 37 4447 50 54 58 68 69 76 118] accurately revealed the toxicityof mercury rather than the total mercury or single speciesdeterminations In the papers reviewed most researcherswere aware of the interfering ions in the determination ofmercury and its different forms In the analytical methoda study of interfering ions is very important because it canpredict the selectivity of the method In future studies it willbe important to focus on speciation studies of mercury ratherthan a determination of the total mercury

Conflict of Interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper

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Fe2

O4

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CatalystsJournal of

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 11

Table4Analytic

alparameterso

freviewed

research

papersabou

tthe

speciatio

nanddeterm

inationof

mercury

bymisc

ellaneou

stechn

iques

S number

Analyte

Analytic

alinstr

umentu

sed

forthe

detection

Metho

dLimitof

detection(LOD)

Linearity

rang

eAnalyzedsamples

Interfe

rences

tudy

Supp

ortin

gmedia

Reference

1Speciatio

nCon

tinuo

usmercury

analyzer

Thermaldesorptio

nmdash

mdashSolid

samples

(fly

ash)

mdashmdash

[118]

2GEM

Portablemercury

analyzer

mdashmdash

mdashAtmosph

ere

mdashmdash

[119]

3Hg(II)

SERS

1mdash

224times10minus12M

0001ndash05n

gmLminus

1Drin

king

water

samples

Selectiveinpresence

ofZn

2+

Mg2

+Fe3

+C

u2+P

b2+and

Mn2

+Goldnano

particles

[120]

4Hg(II)

HPL

CSP

E19

9times10minus10ndash4

48times10minus9M

27ndash300120583

gLminus1

Water

samples

Simultaneou

slyNi2+

Co2

+and

Hg2

+ared

etermined

Carbon

nano

tubes

[121]

5Hg(II)

SERS

mdash01times

10minus9M

01ndash1000

nMGroun

dwater

Ag+

was

also

determ

ined

alon

gwith

Hg2

+andK+

Cu2

+A

g+

Cr3+Fe3

+N

H4+C

a2+C

o2+

Cd2

+and

Zn2+

didno

tinterfere

Oligon

ucleotide-

functio

nalized

magnetic

silicas

phere

[122]

6To

talH

gAMA

Acid

digestion

mdashmdash

Eggs

andbloo

dof

Eretmochelys

imbrica

ta

Along

with

mercury

CdCu

Zn

and

Pbarea

lsodeterm

ined

mdash[123]

7Hg(II)

Luminescence

spectro

meter

Fluo

rescence

30ndash

90times10minus9M

005ndash10120583M

Water

samples

Fairlyselectiveinpresence

ofAg+Fe3

+Z

n2+C

a2+M

n2+

Mg2

+C

o2+P

b2+N

i2+C

d2+

andCu

2+

Silver

nano

cluste

rs[124]

8Hg(II)

X-rayflu

orescence

spectro

meter

Precon

centratio

n498times10minus12M

Upto20

mgLminus1

Drin

king

water

mdashAc

tivated

carbon

[125]

9To

talH

gDMA

014ng

mdashParticulatem

atter

mdashGFCfilters

[126]

10MeH

gand

EtHg

HPL

CCh

emilu

minescence

016

nggminus

105ndash20

ngHg

Soilandsediment

samples

Back

extractio

nandanother

chem

icalprocessm

akethe

metho

dselectivefor

MeH

gand

EtHg

Emetined

ithiocarbam

ate

[127]

11To

talH

gCV

-CCP

M-O

ES2

Microwaved

igestio

n239times10minus11M

027ndash55m

gkgminus

1Soilsamples

mdashmdash

[128]

12Hg(II)

Chem

odosim

eter

Fluo

rescence

171times

10minus9M

10times10minus7 ndash10times

10minus6M

Bloo

dserum

ofmice

mdashRh

odam

ine

[129]

13Hg(0)

XRF

Acid

digestion

997times10minus8M

mdashSoils

from

indu

strial

complex

mdashmdash

[130]

14To

talH

gDMA

Com

bustion

012ng

05ndash5n

gSoilandleafsamples

mdashmdash

[131]

15MeH

gand

Hg(II)

GC-

MS

Matrix

solid

-phase

dispersio

n006

(MeH

g)and012

(Hg(II))120583gg

mdashTu

nafishangel

sharkandguitarfish

mdashmdash

[132]

16GEM

mdashCon

centratio

n-weighted

trajectory

mod

elmdash

mdashParticulatem

atter

mdashQFF

[133]

For

thec

onversionof

limitof

detectionvalues

into

moles

perliter(M)the

atom

icweighto

fHgistakenas

20059

gMeH

gas

21559

gEtHgas

2295

9gand

PhHgas

2775

9g

1 SER

Ssurfa

ceenhanced

Raman

scatterin

g2 C

V-CC

PM-O

EScold-vapo

rcapacitivelycoup

ledplasmam

icrotorchflu

orescences

pectrometry

Analyticalinstr

uments

HPL

Chigh

perfo

rmance

liquidchromatograph

yAMAautom

aticmercury

analyzerD

MAdire

ctmercury

analyzerX

RFX

-ray

fluorescence

12 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

[26 48 52 66 119 126] Various measurement techniquesthat can be available for the determination ofmercury speciesin ambient air were reviewed by Pandey et al [154] Thisstudy also concluded that most of the researchers preferredCV-AAS and CV-AFS technique for the measurement ofdifferent mercury species in ambient air In comparison ofmethods acid digestion and thermal method for the analysisof mercury in ambient air acid digestion is better thanthermal method By the thermal methods the values can beobtained 30 lower than the acid digestion method [155]

In the analysis ofmercury species in various environmen-tal samples selectivity and range of linearity of the methodalso play a major role due to the presence of multielementsin the real samples Based on the present study most ofthe spectrophotometric spectrofluorometric and electroan-alytical methods were discussed regarding the interferingion studies and linearity range of the method These studieswill give a clear picture about the determination of mercuryspecies in presence of other ionswhich validates themethods

Regarding the merits of the different methods for spe-ciation and analysis of mercury the usage of nonchromato-graphic methods has an advantage in terms of speed of anal-ysis inexpensiveness and convenience to find themercury invarious environmental samples But for the complete specia-tion studies of mercury in biological and environmental sam-ples chromatographic methods are useful [156] The validityof analytical methods can be enhanced with the analysis ofthe certified reference materials along with the real samplesIn recent years the researchers mostly preferred GC coupledwith AFS or ICP-MS for the determination and speciation ofmercury in natural waters [157] In electroanalyticalmethodsthe validity of themethods depends on various factors such astype of electrode preconcentration and supportingmaterials[139] and these methods are cost-effective selective andsensitive [143]

3 Conclusions

The present study revealed the recent developments in thedetermination and speciation studies ofmercury by a range ofanalytical techniques Our previous study [2] also describedthe challenges in the methodology for mercury determina-tionThis review showed thatmost researchers focused on thedetermination of Hg(II) rather than speciation studies Onthe other hand the speciation studies [23 24 29 36 37 4447 50 54 58 68 69 76 118] accurately revealed the toxicityof mercury rather than the total mercury or single speciesdeterminations In the papers reviewed most researcherswere aware of the interfering ions in the determination ofmercury and its different forms In the analytical methoda study of interfering ions is very important because it canpredict the selectivity of the method In future studies it willbe important to focus on speciation studies of mercury ratherthan a determination of the total mercury

Conflict of Interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper

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Fe2

O4

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2

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[26 48 52 66 119 126] Various measurement techniquesthat can be available for the determination ofmercury speciesin ambient air were reviewed by Pandey et al [154] Thisstudy also concluded that most of the researchers preferredCV-AAS and CV-AFS technique for the measurement ofdifferent mercury species in ambient air In comparison ofmethods acid digestion and thermal method for the analysisof mercury in ambient air acid digestion is better thanthermal method By the thermal methods the values can beobtained 30 lower than the acid digestion method [155]

In the analysis ofmercury species in various environmen-tal samples selectivity and range of linearity of the methodalso play a major role due to the presence of multielementsin the real samples Based on the present study most ofthe spectrophotometric spectrofluorometric and electroan-alytical methods were discussed regarding the interferingion studies and linearity range of the method These studieswill give a clear picture about the determination of mercuryspecies in presence of other ionswhich validates themethods

Regarding the merits of the different methods for spe-ciation and analysis of mercury the usage of nonchromato-graphic methods has an advantage in terms of speed of anal-ysis inexpensiveness and convenience to find themercury invarious environmental samples But for the complete specia-tion studies of mercury in biological and environmental sam-ples chromatographic methods are useful [156] The validityof analytical methods can be enhanced with the analysis ofthe certified reference materials along with the real samplesIn recent years the researchers mostly preferred GC coupledwith AFS or ICP-MS for the determination and speciation ofmercury in natural waters [157] In electroanalyticalmethodsthe validity of themethods depends on various factors such astype of electrode preconcentration and supportingmaterials[139] and these methods are cost-effective selective andsensitive [143]

3 Conclusions

The present study revealed the recent developments in thedetermination and speciation studies ofmercury by a range ofanalytical techniques Our previous study [2] also describedthe challenges in the methodology for mercury determina-tionThis review showed thatmost researchers focused on thedetermination of Hg(II) rather than speciation studies Onthe other hand the speciation studies [23 24 29 36 37 4447 50 54 58 68 69 76 118] accurately revealed the toxicityof mercury rather than the total mercury or single speciesdeterminations In the papers reviewed most researcherswere aware of the interfering ions in the determination ofmercury and its different forms In the analytical methoda study of interfering ions is very important because it canpredict the selectivity of the method In future studies it willbe important to focus on speciation studies of mercury ratherthan a determination of the total mercury

Conflict of Interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper

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Fe2

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[67] F Moreno T Garcıa-Barrera and J L Gomez-Ariza ldquoSimul-taneous speciation and preconcentration of ultra trace concen-trations of mercury and selenium species in environmental andbiological samples by hollow fiber liquid phase microextractionprior to high performance liquid chromatography coupledto inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometryrdquo Journal ofChromatography A vol 1300 pp 43ndash50 2013

[68] X Chen C Han H Cheng et al ldquoRapid speciation analysisof mercury in seawater and marine fish by cation exchangechromatography hyphenated with inductively coupled plasmamass spectrometryrdquo Journal of Chromatography A vol 1314 pp86ndash93 2013

[69] L Laffont L Maurice D Amouroux et al ldquoMercury speciationanalysis in human hair by species-specific isotope-dilutionusingGC-ICP-MSrdquoAnalytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry vol405 no 9 pp 3001ndash3010 2013

[70] J Ma H Hintelmann J L Kirk and D C G Muir ldquoMercuryconcentrations and mercury isotope composition in lake sedi-ment cores from the vicinity of a metal smelting facility in FlinFlon Manitobardquo Chemical Geology vol 336 pp 96ndash102 2013

[71] L Schmidt C A Bizzi F A Duarte V L Dressler and EM M Flores ldquoEvaluation of drying conditions of fish tissuesfor inorganic mercury and methylmercury speciation analysisrdquoMicrochemical Journal vol 108 pp 53ndash59 2013

[72] S S de Souza A D Campiglia and F Barbosa Jr ldquoA simplemethod for methylmercury inorganic mercury and ethylmer-cury determination in plasma samples by high performanceliquid chromatography-cold-vapor-inductively coupled plasmamass spectrometryrdquo Analytica Chimica Acta vol 761 pp 11ndash172013

[73] L Noel R Chekri S Millour M Merlo J-C Leblanc and TGuerin ldquoDistribution and relationships of As Cd Pb and Hgin freshwater fish from five French fishing areasrdquo Chemospherevol 90 no 6 pp 1900ndash1910 2013

[74] R Liu M Xu Z Shi J Zhang Y Gao and L Yang ldquoDetermi-nation of total mercury in biological tissue by isotope dilutionICPMS afterUVphotochemical vapor generationrdquoTalanta vol117 pp 371ndash375 2013

[75] C H Lamborg G Swarr K Hughen et al ldquoDetermination oflow-level mercury in coralline aragonite by calcination-isotopedilution-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry andits application to Diploria specimens from Castle HarbourBermudardquo Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta vol 109 pp 27ndash37 2013

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Fe2

O4

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[67] F Moreno T Garcıa-Barrera and J L Gomez-Ariza ldquoSimul-taneous speciation and preconcentration of ultra trace concen-trations of mercury and selenium species in environmental andbiological samples by hollow fiber liquid phase microextractionprior to high performance liquid chromatography coupledto inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometryrdquo Journal ofChromatography A vol 1300 pp 43ndash50 2013

[68] X Chen C Han H Cheng et al ldquoRapid speciation analysisof mercury in seawater and marine fish by cation exchangechromatography hyphenated with inductively coupled plasmamass spectrometryrdquo Journal of Chromatography A vol 1314 pp86ndash93 2013

[69] L Laffont L Maurice D Amouroux et al ldquoMercury speciationanalysis in human hair by species-specific isotope-dilutionusingGC-ICP-MSrdquoAnalytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry vol405 no 9 pp 3001ndash3010 2013

[70] J Ma H Hintelmann J L Kirk and D C G Muir ldquoMercuryconcentrations and mercury isotope composition in lake sedi-ment cores from the vicinity of a metal smelting facility in FlinFlon Manitobardquo Chemical Geology vol 336 pp 96ndash102 2013

[71] L Schmidt C A Bizzi F A Duarte V L Dressler and EM M Flores ldquoEvaluation of drying conditions of fish tissuesfor inorganic mercury and methylmercury speciation analysisrdquoMicrochemical Journal vol 108 pp 53ndash59 2013

[72] S S de Souza A D Campiglia and F Barbosa Jr ldquoA simplemethod for methylmercury inorganic mercury and ethylmer-cury determination in plasma samples by high performanceliquid chromatography-cold-vapor-inductively coupled plasmamass spectrometryrdquo Analytica Chimica Acta vol 761 pp 11ndash172013

[73] L Noel R Chekri S Millour M Merlo J-C Leblanc and TGuerin ldquoDistribution and relationships of As Cd Pb and Hgin freshwater fish from five French fishing areasrdquo Chemospherevol 90 no 6 pp 1900ndash1910 2013

[74] R Liu M Xu Z Shi J Zhang Y Gao and L Yang ldquoDetermi-nation of total mercury in biological tissue by isotope dilutionICPMS afterUVphotochemical vapor generationrdquoTalanta vol117 pp 371ndash375 2013

[75] C H Lamborg G Swarr K Hughen et al ldquoDetermination oflow-level mercury in coralline aragonite by calcination-isotopedilution-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry andits application to Diploria specimens from Castle HarbourBermudardquo Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta vol 109 pp 27ndash37 2013

[76] X Chen C Han H Cheng J Liu Z Xu and X YinldquoDetermination of mercurial species in fish by inductivelycoupled plasma mass spectrometry with anion exchange chro-matographic separationrdquo Analytica Chimica Acta vol 796 pp7ndash13 2013

[77] M-L Lin and S-J Jiang ldquoDetermination of As Cd Hg andPb in herbs using slurry sampling electrothermal vaporisationinductively coupled plasma mass spectrometryrdquo Food Chem-istry vol 141 no 3 pp 2158ndash2162 2013

[78] T D S Pierre R C C Rocha and C B Duyck ldquoDetermi-nation of Hg in water associate to crude oil production byelectrothermal vaporization inductively coupled plasma massspectrometryrdquoMicrochemical Journal vol 109 pp 41ndash45 2013

[79] K Julshamn A Duinker B M Nilsen et al ldquoA baseline studyof levels of mercury arsenic cadmium and lead in Northeast

Arctic cod (Gadus morhua) from different parts of the BarentsSeardquoMarine Pollution Bulletin vol 67 no 1-2 pp 187ndash195 2013

[80] X Ding L Qu R Yang Y Zhou and J Li ldquoA highly selectiveand simple fluorescent sensor for mercury (II) ion detectionbased on cysteamine-capped CdTe quantum dots synthesizedby the refluxmethodrdquo Luminescence vol 30 no 4 pp 465ndash4712015

[81] Z Mohammadpour A Safavi and M Shamsipur ldquoA new labelfree colorimetric chemosensor for detection of mercury ionwith tunable dynamic range using carbon nanodots as enzymemimicsrdquo Chemical Engineering Journal vol 255 pp 1ndash7 2014

[82] R M Tripathi R K Gupta P Singh et al ldquoUltra-sensitivedetection of mercury(II) ions in water sample using goldnanoparticles synthesized by Trichoderma harzianum and theirmechanistic approachrdquo Sensors and Actuators B Chemical vol204 pp 637ndash646 2014

[83] K Deepa Y P Raj and Y Lingappa ldquoSpectrophotomet-ric determination of mercury in environmental samplesusing 5-methylthiophene-2-carboxaldehyde ehtylenediamine(MTCED)rdquoDer Pharma Chemica vol 6 no 3 pp 48ndash55 2014

[84] Z X Wang and S N Ding ldquoOne-pot green synthesis of highquantumyield oxygen-doped nitrogen-rich photoluminescentpolymer carbon nanoribbons as an effective fluorescent sensingplatform for sensitive and selective detection of silver(I) andmercury(II) ionsrdquo Analytical Chemistry vol 86 no 15 pp7436ndash7445 2014

[85] L Rastogi R B SashidharDKarunasagar and J ArunachalamldquoGum kondagogu reducedstabilized silver nanoparticles asdirect colorimetric sensor for the sensitive detection of Hg2+ inaqueous systemrdquo Talanta vol 118 pp 111ndash117 2014

[86] Z Chen C Zhang Y Tan et al ldquoChitosan-functionalized goldnanoparticles for colorimetric detection of mercury ions basedon chelation-induced aggregationrdquoMicrochimica Acta vol 182no 3-4 pp 611ndash616 2014

[87] MWang F-Y Yan Y ZouNYang L Chen andL-GChen ldquoArhodamine derivative as selective fluorescent and colorimetricchemosensor for mercury (II) in buffer solution test stripsand living cellsrdquo Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular andBiomolecular Spectroscopy vol 123 pp 216ndash223 2014

[88] A R FiroozAA Ensafi andZHajyani ldquoAhighly sensitive andselective bulk optode based ondithiacyclooctadecane derivativeincorporating chromoionophore V for determination of ultra-race amounts of Hg(II)rdquo Sensors and Actuators B Chemical vol177 pp 710ndash716 2013

[89] S Mandal A Banerjee S Lohar et al ldquoSelective sensing ofHg2+ using rhodamine-thiophene conjugate red light emissionand visual detection of intracellular Hg2+ at nanomolar levelrdquoJournal of Hazardous Materials vol 261 pp 198ndash205 2013

[90] L N Neupane and K-H Lee ldquoSelective and sensitive turnon detection of Hg2+ in aqueous solution using a thioether-appended dipeptiderdquo Tetrahedron Letters vol 54 no 37 pp5007ndash5010 2013

[91] X Qin W Lu A M Asiri A O Al-Youbi and X SunldquoMicrowave-assisted rapid green synthesis of photoluminescentcarbon nanodots from flour and their applications for sensitiveand selective detection of mercury(II) ionsrdquo Sensors and Actu-ators B Chemical vol 184 pp 156ndash162 2013

[92] H-F Wang and S-P Wu ldquoHighly selective fluorescent sensorsfor mercury(II) ions and their applications in living cell imag-ingrdquo Tetrahedron vol 69 no 8 pp 1965ndash1969 2013

[93] A S Al-Kady and F I Abdelmonem ldquoHighly sensitive andselective spectrophotometric detection of trace amounts of

16 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Hg2+ in environmental and biological samples based on 247-triamino-6-phenylpteridinerdquo Sensors and Actuators B Chemi-cal vol 182 pp 87ndash94 2013

[94] Y Li H Huang Y Li and X Su ldquoHighly sensitive fluo-rescent sensor for mercury (II) ion based on layer-by-layerself-assembled films fabricated with water-soluble fluorescentconjugated polymerrdquo Sensors and Actuators B Chemical vol188 pp 772ndash777 2013

[95] D Huang C Niu M Ruan X Wang G Zeng and C DengldquoHighly sensitive strategy for Hg2+ detection in environmentalwater samples using long lifetime fluorescence quantum dotsand gold nanoparticlesrdquo Environmental Science amp Technologyvol 47 no 9 pp 4392ndash4398 2013

[96] W Lu X Qin A M Asiri A O Al-Youbi and X SunldquoGreen synthesis of carbon nanodots as an effective fluorescentprobe for sensitive and selective detection of mercury(II) ionsrdquoJournal of Nanoparticle Research vol 15 pp 1344ndash1350 2013

[97] J Zhang Y Zhou W Hu L Zhang Q Huang and T MaldquoHighly selective fluorescence enhancement chemosensor forHg2+ based on rhodamine and its application in living cells andaqueousmediardquo Sensors andActuators B Chemical vol 183 pp290ndash296 2013

[98] L Yan Z Chen Z Zhang C Qu L Chen and D ShenldquoFluorescent sensing of mercury(II) based on formation ofcatalytic gold nanoparticlesrdquo Analyst vol 138 no 15 pp 4280ndash4283 2013

[99] A R Firooz A A Ensafi K Karimi and H Sharghi ldquoDevel-opment of a specific and highly sensitive optical chemicalsensor for determination of Hg(II) based on a new synthesizedionophorerdquo Materials Science and Engineering C vol 33 no 7pp 4167ndash4172 2013

[100] Q Lin Y-P Fu P Chen T-B Wei and Y-M Zhang ldquoColori-metric chemosensors designed to provide high sensitivity forHg2+ in aqueous solutionsrdquo Dyes and Pigments vol 96 no 1pp 1ndash6 2013

[101] D Tan Y He X Xing Y Zhao H Tang and D Pang ldquoAptamerfunctionalized gold nanoparticles based fluorescent probe forthe detection of mercury (II) ion in aqueous solutionrdquo Talantavol 113 pp 26ndash30 2013

[102] J Liu D Wu X Yan and Y Guan ldquoNaked-eye sensor for rapiddetermination of mercury ionrdquo Talanta vol 116 pp 563ndash5682013

[103] F El Aroui S Lahrich A Farahi et al ldquoPalladium particles-impregnated natural phosphate electrodes for electrochemicaldetermination of mercury in ambient water samplesrdquo Electro-analysis vol 26 pp 1751ndash1760 2014

[104] A Afkhami S Sayari F Soltani-Felehgari and T MadrakianldquoNi05

Zn05

Fe2

O4

nanocomposite modified carbon paste elec-trode for highly sensitive and selective simultaneous electro-chemical determination of trace amounts of mercury (II) andcadmium (II)rdquo Journal of the Iranian Chemical Society vol 12no 2 pp 257ndash265 2014

[105] A Chira B Bucur M P Bucur and G L Radu ldquoElectrode-modifiedwith nanoparticles composed of 441015840-bipyridine-silvercoordination polymer for sensitive determination of Hg(II)Cu(II) and Pb(II)rdquo New Journal of Chemistry vol 38 no 11 pp5641ndash5646 2014

[106] P K Aneesh S R Nambiar T P Rao and A AjayaghoshldquoElectrochemical synthesis of a gold atomic cluster-chitosannanocomposite film modified gold electrode for ultra-tracedetermination of mercuryrdquo Physical Chemistry ChemicalPhysics vol 16 no 18 pp 8529ndash8535 2014

[107] B Silwana C van der Horst E Iwuoha and V SomersetldquoAmperometric determination of cadmium lead and mercurymetal ions using a novel polymer immobilised horseradishperoxidase biosensor systemrdquo Journal of Environmental Scienceand Health Part A vol 49 no 13 pp 1501ndash1511 2014

[108] T Shahar N Tal andDMandler ldquoThe synthesis and character-ization of thiol-based aryl diazonium modified glassy carbonelectrode for the voltammetric determination of low levels ofHg(II)rdquo Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry vol 17 no 6 pp1543ndash1552 2013

[109] H Bagheri A Afkhami H Khoshsafar M Rezaei and AShirzadmehr ldquoSimultaneous electrochemical determination ofheavy metals using a triphenylphosphineMWCNTs compositecarbon ionic liquid electroderdquo Sensors and Actuators B Chem-ical vol 186 pp 451ndash460 2013

[110] R K Mahajan A Kamal N Kumar V Bhalla and MKumar ldquoSelective sensing of mercury(II) using PVC-basedmembranes incorporating recently synthesized 13-alternatethiacalix[4]crown ionophorerdquo Environmental Science and Pol-lution Research vol 20 no 5 pp 3086ndash3097 2013

[111] V K Gupta B Sethi R A Sharma S Agarwal and ABharti ldquoMercury selective potentiometric sensor based on lowrim functionalized thiacalix [4]-arene as a cationic receptorrdquoJournal of Molecular Liquids vol 177 pp 114ndash118 2013

[112] M Behzad M Asgari M Shamsipur and M G MaraghehaldquoImpedimetric and stripping voltammetric detection of sub-nanomolar amounts ofmercury at a gold nanoparticlemodifiedglassy carbon electroderdquo Journal of the Electrochemical Societyvol 160 no 3 pp B31ndashB36 2013

[113] E Bernalte C M Sanchez and E P Gil ldquoHigh-throughputmercury monitoring in indoor dust microsamples by bathultrasonic extraction and anodic stripping voltammetry on goldnanoparticles-modified screen-printed electrodesrdquo Electroanal-ysis vol 25 no 1 pp 289ndash294 2013

[114] N Daud N A Yusof and S M M Nor ldquoElectrochemi-cal characteristic of biotinyl somatostatin-14Nafion modifiedgold electrode in development of sensor for determination ofHg(II)rdquo International Journal of Electrochemical Science vol 8no 7 pp 10086ndash10099 2013

[115] A K Hassan ldquoChemical sensor for determination of mercuryin contaminated waterrdquoModern Chemistry amp Applications vol1 no 4 pp 1ndash4 2013

[116] D S Rajawat A Kardam S Srivastava and S P SatsangeeldquoAdsorptive stripping voltammetric technique for monitoringof mercury ions in aqueous solution using nano cellulosic fibersmodified carbon paste electroderdquo National Academy ScienceLetters vol 36 no 2 pp 181ndash189 2013

[117] Z Zhang J Yin Z Wu and R Yu ldquoElectrocatalytic assay ofmercury(II) ions using a bifunctional oligonucleotide signalproberdquo Analytica Chimica Acta vol 762 pp 47ndash53 2013

[118] M Rumayor M Diaz-Somoano M A Lopez-Anton and MR Martinez-Tarazona ldquoApplication of thermal desorption forthe identification of mercury species in solids derived from coalutilizationrdquo Chemosphere vol 119 pp 459ndash465 2015

[119] P Higueras R Oyarzun J Kotnik et al ldquoA compilation of fieldsurveys on gaseous elemental mercury (GEM) from contrast-ing environmental settings in Europe South America SouthAfrica and China separating fads from factsrdquo EnvironmentalGeochemistry and Health vol 36 pp 713ndash734 2013

[120] L Xu H YinWMa H Kuang LWang and C Xu ldquoUltrasen-sitive SERS detection of mercury based on the assembled gold

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 17

nanochainsrdquo Biosensors and Bioelectronics vol 67 pp 472ndash4762015

[121] Q Zhou A Xing and K Zhao ldquoSimultaneous determina-tion of nickel cobalt and mercury ions in water samples bysolid phase extraction using multiwalled carbon nanotubes asadsorbent after chelating with sodium diethyldithiocarbamateprior to high performance liquid chromatographyrdquo Journal ofChromatography A vol 1360 pp 76ndash81 2014

[122] M Liu Z Wang S Zong et al ldquoSERS detection and removalof mercury(II)silver(I) using oligonucleotide-functionalizedcoreshell magnetic silica sphereAu nanoparticlesrdquo ACSAppliedMaterials amp Interfaces vol 6 no 10 pp 7371ndash7379 2014

[123] M Ehsanpour M Afkhami R Khoshnood and K J ReichldquoDetermination and maternal transfer of heavy metals (CdCu Zn Pb and Hg) in the Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelysimbricata) from a nesting colony of Qeshm Island IranrdquoBulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology vol92 no 6 pp 667ndash673 2014

[124] R-ZWangD-L ZhouHHuangMZhang J-J Feng andA-J Wang ldquoWater-soluble homo-oligonucleotide stabilized fluo-rescent silver nanoclusters as fluorescent probes for mercuryionrdquoMicrochimica Acta vol 180 no 13-14 pp 1287ndash1293 2013

[125] P R Aranda L Colombo E Perino I E De Vito andJ Raba ldquoSolid-phase preconcentration and determination ofmercury(II) using activated carbon in drinking water by X-rayfluorescence spectrometryrdquo X-Ray Spectrometry vol 42 no 2pp 100ndash104 2013

[126] H Jin and G Liebezeit ldquoTidal cycles of total particulate mer-cury in the jade bay lower saxonianwadden sea southern northseardquo Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicologyvol 90 no 1 pp 97ndash102 2013

[127] H Kodamatani and T Tomiyasu ldquoSelective determinationmethod for measurement of methylmercury and ethylmer-cury in soilsediment samples using high-performance liquidchromatography-chemiluminescence detection coupled withsimple extraction techniquerdquo Journal of Chromatography A vol1288 pp 155ndash159 2013

[128] T Frentiu A IMihaltanM Senila et al ldquoNewmethod former-cury determination in microwave digested soil samples basedon cold vapor capacitively coupled plasma microtorch opticalemission spectrometry comparison with atomic fluorescencespectrometryrdquo Microchemical Journal vol 110 pp 545ndash5522013

[129] W-Y Liu S-L Shen H-Y Li J-Y Miao and B-X ZhaoldquoFluorescence turn-on chemodosimeter for rapid detection ofmercury (II) ions in aqueous solution and blood frommicewithtoxicosisrdquo Analytica Chimica Acta vol 791 pp 65ndash71 2013

[130] C L Miller D B Watson B P Lester K A Lowe E M Pierceand L Liang ldquoCharacterization of soils from an industrialcomplex contaminatedwith elementalmercuryrdquoEnvironmentalResearch vol 125 pp 20ndash29 2013

[131] J J Melendez-Perez and A H Fostier ldquoAssessment of directmercury analyzer to quantifymercury in soils and leaf samplesrdquoJournal of the Brazilian Chemical Society vol 24 no 11 pp1880ndash1886 2013

[132] K Duarte C I L Justino A C Freitas A M P GomesA C Duarte and T A P Rocha-Santos ldquoDisposable sensorsfor environmental monitoring of lead cadmium and mercuryrdquoTrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry vol 64 pp 183ndash190 2015

[133] I Cheng L Zhang P Blanchard J Dalziel and R TordonldquoConcentration-weighted trajectory approach to identifyingpotential sources of speciated atmospheric mercury at an urban

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[134] L N Suvarapu Y K Seo and S O Baek ldquoDetermination ofmercury in various environmental samplesrdquo Asian Journal ofChemistry vol 25 no 10 pp 5599ndash5601 2013

[135] M S El-Shahawi and H M Al-Saidi ldquoDispersive liquid-liquidmicroextraction for chemical speciation and determination ofultra-trace concentrations of metal ionsrdquo Trends in AnalyticalChemistry vol 44 pp 12ndash24 2013

[136] S L C Ferreira L O B Silva F A de Santana M M S JuniorGDMatos andWN L dos Santos ldquoA review of reflux systemsusing cold finger for sample preparation in the determination ofvolatile elementsrdquoMicrochemical Journal vol 106 pp 307ndash3102013

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[139] D Martın-Yerga M B Gonzalez-Garcıa and A Costa-GarcıaldquoElectrochemical determination of mercury a reviewrdquo Talantavol 116 pp 1091ndash1104 2013

[140] J Chang G Zhou E R Christensen R Heideman and JChen ldquoGraphene-based sensors for detection of heavy metalsin water a reviewrdquo Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry vol406 pp 3957ndash3975 2014

[141] Y L Yu and J HWang ldquoRecent advances in flow-based samplepretreatment for the determination of metal species by atomicspectrometryrdquo Chinese Science Bulletin vol 58 no 17 pp 1992ndash2002 2013

[142] Y Yin J Liu and G Jiang ldquoRecent advances in speciationanalysis of mercury arsenic and seleniumrdquo Chinese ScienceBulletin vol 58 no 2 pp 150ndash161 2013

[143] C Gao and X-J Huang ldquoVoltammetric determination ofmercury(II)rdquo Trends in Analytical Chemistry vol 51 pp 1ndash122013

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Hg+ and Hg2+ in fishrdquo AnalyticalChemistry vol 85 no 10 pp 5015ndash5022 2013

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[146] A F Lima M C Da Costa D C Ferreira E M Richter and RA A Munoz ldquoFast ultrasound-assisted treatment of inorganicfertilizers for mercury determination by atomic absorptionspectrometry and microwave-induced plasma spectrometrywith the aid of the cold-vapor techniquerdquo Microchemical Jour-nal vol 118 pp 40ndash44 2015

[147] P Pelcova H Docekalova and A Kleckerova ldquoDeterminationof mercury species by the diffusive gradient in thin filmtechnique and liquid chromatographymdashatomic fluorescencespectrometry after microwave extractionrdquo Analytica ChimicaActa vol 866 pp 21ndash26 2015

[148] Z Chen C Zhang H Ma et al ldquoA non-aggregation spectro-metric determination for mercury ions based on gold nanopar-ticles and thiocyanuric acidrdquo Talanta vol 134 pp 603ndash6062015

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[150] M M Silva L O Bastos Silva D J Leao W N Lopes dosSantos B Welz and S L Costa Ferreira ldquoDetermination ofmercury in alcohol vinegar samples from Salvador BahiaBrazilrdquo Food Control vol 47 pp 623ndash627 2015

[151] P Jarujamrus M Amatatongchai A Thima T Khongrangdeeand C Mongkontong ldquoSelective colorimetric sensors based onthe monitoring of an unmodified silver nanoparticles (AgNPs)reduction for a simple and rapid determination of mercuryrdquoSpectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spec-troscopy vol 142 pp 86ndash93 2015

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2

andmulti-walled carbon nanotubes composites dispersed in a novelcationic surfactantrdquo Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry vol751 pp 23ndash29 2015

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[155] M M Lynam and G J Keeler ldquoComparison of methods forparticulate phase mercury analysis sampling and analysisrdquoAnalytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry vol 374 no 6 pp 1009ndash1014 2002

[156] Y Gao Z Shi Z Long P Wu C Zheng and X HouldquoDetermination and speciation of mercury in environmentaland biological samples by analytical atomic spectrometryrdquoMicrochemical Journal vol 103 pp 1ndash14 2012

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Hg2+ in environmental and biological samples based on 247-triamino-6-phenylpteridinerdquo Sensors and Actuators B Chemi-cal vol 182 pp 87ndash94 2013

[94] Y Li H Huang Y Li and X Su ldquoHighly sensitive fluo-rescent sensor for mercury (II) ion based on layer-by-layerself-assembled films fabricated with water-soluble fluorescentconjugated polymerrdquo Sensors and Actuators B Chemical vol188 pp 772ndash777 2013

[95] D Huang C Niu M Ruan X Wang G Zeng and C DengldquoHighly sensitive strategy for Hg2+ detection in environmentalwater samples using long lifetime fluorescence quantum dotsand gold nanoparticlesrdquo Environmental Science amp Technologyvol 47 no 9 pp 4392ndash4398 2013

[96] W Lu X Qin A M Asiri A O Al-Youbi and X SunldquoGreen synthesis of carbon nanodots as an effective fluorescentprobe for sensitive and selective detection of mercury(II) ionsrdquoJournal of Nanoparticle Research vol 15 pp 1344ndash1350 2013

[97] J Zhang Y Zhou W Hu L Zhang Q Huang and T MaldquoHighly selective fluorescence enhancement chemosensor forHg2+ based on rhodamine and its application in living cells andaqueousmediardquo Sensors andActuators B Chemical vol 183 pp290ndash296 2013

[98] L Yan Z Chen Z Zhang C Qu L Chen and D ShenldquoFluorescent sensing of mercury(II) based on formation ofcatalytic gold nanoparticlesrdquo Analyst vol 138 no 15 pp 4280ndash4283 2013

[99] A R Firooz A A Ensafi K Karimi and H Sharghi ldquoDevel-opment of a specific and highly sensitive optical chemicalsensor for determination of Hg(II) based on a new synthesizedionophorerdquo Materials Science and Engineering C vol 33 no 7pp 4167ndash4172 2013

[100] Q Lin Y-P Fu P Chen T-B Wei and Y-M Zhang ldquoColori-metric chemosensors designed to provide high sensitivity forHg2+ in aqueous solutionsrdquo Dyes and Pigments vol 96 no 1pp 1ndash6 2013

[101] D Tan Y He X Xing Y Zhao H Tang and D Pang ldquoAptamerfunctionalized gold nanoparticles based fluorescent probe forthe detection of mercury (II) ion in aqueous solutionrdquo Talantavol 113 pp 26ndash30 2013

[102] J Liu D Wu X Yan and Y Guan ldquoNaked-eye sensor for rapiddetermination of mercury ionrdquo Talanta vol 116 pp 563ndash5682013

[103] F El Aroui S Lahrich A Farahi et al ldquoPalladium particles-impregnated natural phosphate electrodes for electrochemicaldetermination of mercury in ambient water samplesrdquo Electro-analysis vol 26 pp 1751ndash1760 2014

[104] A Afkhami S Sayari F Soltani-Felehgari and T MadrakianldquoNi05

Zn05

Fe2

O4

nanocomposite modified carbon paste elec-trode for highly sensitive and selective simultaneous electro-chemical determination of trace amounts of mercury (II) andcadmium (II)rdquo Journal of the Iranian Chemical Society vol 12no 2 pp 257ndash265 2014

[105] A Chira B Bucur M P Bucur and G L Radu ldquoElectrode-modifiedwith nanoparticles composed of 441015840-bipyridine-silvercoordination polymer for sensitive determination of Hg(II)Cu(II) and Pb(II)rdquo New Journal of Chemistry vol 38 no 11 pp5641ndash5646 2014

[106] P K Aneesh S R Nambiar T P Rao and A AjayaghoshldquoElectrochemical synthesis of a gold atomic cluster-chitosannanocomposite film modified gold electrode for ultra-tracedetermination of mercuryrdquo Physical Chemistry ChemicalPhysics vol 16 no 18 pp 8529ndash8535 2014

[107] B Silwana C van der Horst E Iwuoha and V SomersetldquoAmperometric determination of cadmium lead and mercurymetal ions using a novel polymer immobilised horseradishperoxidase biosensor systemrdquo Journal of Environmental Scienceand Health Part A vol 49 no 13 pp 1501ndash1511 2014

[108] T Shahar N Tal andDMandler ldquoThe synthesis and character-ization of thiol-based aryl diazonium modified glassy carbonelectrode for the voltammetric determination of low levels ofHg(II)rdquo Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry vol 17 no 6 pp1543ndash1552 2013

[109] H Bagheri A Afkhami H Khoshsafar M Rezaei and AShirzadmehr ldquoSimultaneous electrochemical determination ofheavy metals using a triphenylphosphineMWCNTs compositecarbon ionic liquid electroderdquo Sensors and Actuators B Chem-ical vol 186 pp 451ndash460 2013

[110] R K Mahajan A Kamal N Kumar V Bhalla and MKumar ldquoSelective sensing of mercury(II) using PVC-basedmembranes incorporating recently synthesized 13-alternatethiacalix[4]crown ionophorerdquo Environmental Science and Pol-lution Research vol 20 no 5 pp 3086ndash3097 2013

[111] V K Gupta B Sethi R A Sharma S Agarwal and ABharti ldquoMercury selective potentiometric sensor based on lowrim functionalized thiacalix [4]-arene as a cationic receptorrdquoJournal of Molecular Liquids vol 177 pp 114ndash118 2013

[112] M Behzad M Asgari M Shamsipur and M G MaraghehaldquoImpedimetric and stripping voltammetric detection of sub-nanomolar amounts ofmercury at a gold nanoparticlemodifiedglassy carbon electroderdquo Journal of the Electrochemical Societyvol 160 no 3 pp B31ndashB36 2013

[113] E Bernalte C M Sanchez and E P Gil ldquoHigh-throughputmercury monitoring in indoor dust microsamples by bathultrasonic extraction and anodic stripping voltammetry on goldnanoparticles-modified screen-printed electrodesrdquo Electroanal-ysis vol 25 no 1 pp 289ndash294 2013

[114] N Daud N A Yusof and S M M Nor ldquoElectrochemi-cal characteristic of biotinyl somatostatin-14Nafion modifiedgold electrode in development of sensor for determination ofHg(II)rdquo International Journal of Electrochemical Science vol 8no 7 pp 10086ndash10099 2013

[115] A K Hassan ldquoChemical sensor for determination of mercuryin contaminated waterrdquoModern Chemistry amp Applications vol1 no 4 pp 1ndash4 2013

[116] D S Rajawat A Kardam S Srivastava and S P SatsangeeldquoAdsorptive stripping voltammetric technique for monitoringof mercury ions in aqueous solution using nano cellulosic fibersmodified carbon paste electroderdquo National Academy ScienceLetters vol 36 no 2 pp 181ndash189 2013

[117] Z Zhang J Yin Z Wu and R Yu ldquoElectrocatalytic assay ofmercury(II) ions using a bifunctional oligonucleotide signalproberdquo Analytica Chimica Acta vol 762 pp 47ndash53 2013

[118] M Rumayor M Diaz-Somoano M A Lopez-Anton and MR Martinez-Tarazona ldquoApplication of thermal desorption forthe identification of mercury species in solids derived from coalutilizationrdquo Chemosphere vol 119 pp 459ndash465 2015

[119] P Higueras R Oyarzun J Kotnik et al ldquoA compilation of fieldsurveys on gaseous elemental mercury (GEM) from contrast-ing environmental settings in Europe South America SouthAfrica and China separating fads from factsrdquo EnvironmentalGeochemistry and Health vol 36 pp 713ndash734 2013

[120] L Xu H YinWMa H Kuang LWang and C Xu ldquoUltrasen-sitive SERS detection of mercury based on the assembled gold

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 17

nanochainsrdquo Biosensors and Bioelectronics vol 67 pp 472ndash4762015

[121] Q Zhou A Xing and K Zhao ldquoSimultaneous determina-tion of nickel cobalt and mercury ions in water samples bysolid phase extraction using multiwalled carbon nanotubes asadsorbent after chelating with sodium diethyldithiocarbamateprior to high performance liquid chromatographyrdquo Journal ofChromatography A vol 1360 pp 76ndash81 2014

[122] M Liu Z Wang S Zong et al ldquoSERS detection and removalof mercury(II)silver(I) using oligonucleotide-functionalizedcoreshell magnetic silica sphereAu nanoparticlesrdquo ACSAppliedMaterials amp Interfaces vol 6 no 10 pp 7371ndash7379 2014

[123] M Ehsanpour M Afkhami R Khoshnood and K J ReichldquoDetermination and maternal transfer of heavy metals (CdCu Zn Pb and Hg) in the Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelysimbricata) from a nesting colony of Qeshm Island IranrdquoBulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology vol92 no 6 pp 667ndash673 2014

[124] R-ZWangD-L ZhouHHuangMZhang J-J Feng andA-J Wang ldquoWater-soluble homo-oligonucleotide stabilized fluo-rescent silver nanoclusters as fluorescent probes for mercuryionrdquoMicrochimica Acta vol 180 no 13-14 pp 1287ndash1293 2013

[125] P R Aranda L Colombo E Perino I E De Vito andJ Raba ldquoSolid-phase preconcentration and determination ofmercury(II) using activated carbon in drinking water by X-rayfluorescence spectrometryrdquo X-Ray Spectrometry vol 42 no 2pp 100ndash104 2013

[126] H Jin and G Liebezeit ldquoTidal cycles of total particulate mer-cury in the jade bay lower saxonianwadden sea southern northseardquo Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicologyvol 90 no 1 pp 97ndash102 2013

[127] H Kodamatani and T Tomiyasu ldquoSelective determinationmethod for measurement of methylmercury and ethylmer-cury in soilsediment samples using high-performance liquidchromatography-chemiluminescence detection coupled withsimple extraction techniquerdquo Journal of Chromatography A vol1288 pp 155ndash159 2013

[128] T Frentiu A IMihaltanM Senila et al ldquoNewmethod former-cury determination in microwave digested soil samples basedon cold vapor capacitively coupled plasma microtorch opticalemission spectrometry comparison with atomic fluorescencespectrometryrdquo Microchemical Journal vol 110 pp 545ndash5522013

[129] W-Y Liu S-L Shen H-Y Li J-Y Miao and B-X ZhaoldquoFluorescence turn-on chemodosimeter for rapid detection ofmercury (II) ions in aqueous solution and blood frommicewithtoxicosisrdquo Analytica Chimica Acta vol 791 pp 65ndash71 2013

[130] C L Miller D B Watson B P Lester K A Lowe E M Pierceand L Liang ldquoCharacterization of soils from an industrialcomplex contaminatedwith elementalmercuryrdquoEnvironmentalResearch vol 125 pp 20ndash29 2013

[131] J J Melendez-Perez and A H Fostier ldquoAssessment of directmercury analyzer to quantifymercury in soils and leaf samplesrdquoJournal of the Brazilian Chemical Society vol 24 no 11 pp1880ndash1886 2013

[132] K Duarte C I L Justino A C Freitas A M P GomesA C Duarte and T A P Rocha-Santos ldquoDisposable sensorsfor environmental monitoring of lead cadmium and mercuryrdquoTrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry vol 64 pp 183ndash190 2015

[133] I Cheng L Zhang P Blanchard J Dalziel and R TordonldquoConcentration-weighted trajectory approach to identifyingpotential sources of speciated atmospheric mercury at an urban

coastal site inNova Scotia CanadardquoAtmospheric Chemistry andPhysics vol 13 no 12 pp 6031ndash6048 2013

[134] L N Suvarapu Y K Seo and S O Baek ldquoDetermination ofmercury in various environmental samplesrdquo Asian Journal ofChemistry vol 25 no 10 pp 5599ndash5601 2013

[135] M S El-Shahawi and H M Al-Saidi ldquoDispersive liquid-liquidmicroextraction for chemical speciation and determination ofultra-trace concentrations of metal ionsrdquo Trends in AnalyticalChemistry vol 44 pp 12ndash24 2013

[136] S L C Ferreira L O B Silva F A de Santana M M S JuniorGDMatos andWN L dos Santos ldquoA review of reflux systemsusing cold finger for sample preparation in the determination ofvolatile elementsrdquoMicrochemical Journal vol 106 pp 307ndash3102013

[137] Y Gao R Liu and L Yang ldquoApplication of chemical vaporgeneration in ICP-MS a reviewrdquo Chinese Science Bulletin vol58 no 17 pp 1980ndash1991 2013

[138] R Sanchez J L Todolı C-P Lienemann and J-M MermetldquoDetermination of trace elements in petroleum products byinductively coupled plasma techniques a critical reviewrdquo Spec-trochimica Acta Part B Atomic Spectroscopy vol 88 pp 104ndash126 2013

[139] D Martın-Yerga M B Gonzalez-Garcıa and A Costa-GarcıaldquoElectrochemical determination of mercury a reviewrdquo Talantavol 116 pp 1091ndash1104 2013

[140] J Chang G Zhou E R Christensen R Heideman and JChen ldquoGraphene-based sensors for detection of heavy metalsin water a reviewrdquo Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry vol406 pp 3957ndash3975 2014

[141] Y L Yu and J HWang ldquoRecent advances in flow-based samplepretreatment for the determination of metal species by atomicspectrometryrdquo Chinese Science Bulletin vol 58 no 17 pp 1992ndash2002 2013

[142] Y Yin J Liu and G Jiang ldquoRecent advances in speciationanalysis of mercury arsenic and seleniumrdquo Chinese ScienceBulletin vol 58 no 2 pp 150ndash161 2013

[143] C Gao and X-J Huang ldquoVoltammetric determination ofmercury(II)rdquo Trends in Analytical Chemistry vol 51 pp 1ndash122013

[144] F A Duarte B M Soares A A Vieira et al ldquoAssessment ofmodified matrix solid-phase dispersion as sample preparationfor the determination of CH

3

Hg+ and Hg2+ in fishrdquo AnalyticalChemistry vol 85 no 10 pp 5015ndash5022 2013

[145] S L C Ferreira V A Lemos L O B Silva et al ldquoAnalyticalstrategies of sample preparation for the determination of mer-cury in food matricesmdasha reviewrdquo Microchemical Journal vol121 pp 227ndash236 2015

[146] A F Lima M C Da Costa D C Ferreira E M Richter and RA A Munoz ldquoFast ultrasound-assisted treatment of inorganicfertilizers for mercury determination by atomic absorptionspectrometry and microwave-induced plasma spectrometrywith the aid of the cold-vapor techniquerdquo Microchemical Jour-nal vol 118 pp 40ndash44 2015

[147] P Pelcova H Docekalova and A Kleckerova ldquoDeterminationof mercury species by the diffusive gradient in thin filmtechnique and liquid chromatographymdashatomic fluorescencespectrometry after microwave extractionrdquo Analytica ChimicaActa vol 866 pp 21ndash26 2015

[148] Z Chen C Zhang H Ma et al ldquoA non-aggregation spectro-metric determination for mercury ions based on gold nanopar-ticles and thiocyanuric acidrdquo Talanta vol 134 pp 603ndash6062015

18 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

[149] E Fernandez L Vidal D Martın-Yerga M D C BlancoA Canals and A Costa-Garcıa ldquoScreen-printed electrodebased electrochemical detector coupled with ionic liquid dis-persive liquidndashliquid microextraction and microvolume back-extraction for determination of mercury in water samplesrdquoTalanta vol 135 pp 34ndash40 2015

[150] M M Silva L O Bastos Silva D J Leao W N Lopes dosSantos B Welz and S L Costa Ferreira ldquoDetermination ofmercury in alcohol vinegar samples from Salvador BahiaBrazilrdquo Food Control vol 47 pp 623ndash627 2015

[151] P Jarujamrus M Amatatongchai A Thima T Khongrangdeeand C Mongkontong ldquoSelective colorimetric sensors based onthe monitoring of an unmodified silver nanoparticles (AgNPs)reduction for a simple and rapid determination of mercuryrdquoSpectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spec-troscopy vol 142 pp 86ndash93 2015

[152] A Mao H Li Z Cai and X Hu ldquoDetermination of mercuryusing a glassy carbon electrode modified with nano TiO

2

andmulti-walled carbon nanotubes composites dispersed in a novelcationic surfactantrdquo Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry vol751 pp 23ndash29 2015

[153] M Popp S Hann and G Koellensperger ldquoEnvironmentalapplication of elemental speciation analysis based on liquid orgas chromatography hyphenated to inductively coupled plasmamass spectrometrymdasha reviewrdquo Analytica Chimica Acta vol668 no 2 pp 114ndash129 2010

[154] S K Pandey K-H Kim and R J C Brown ldquoMeasurementtechniques for mercury species in ambient airrdquo TrACmdashTrendsin Analytical Chemistry vol 30 no 6 pp 899ndash917 2011

[155] M M Lynam and G J Keeler ldquoComparison of methods forparticulate phase mercury analysis sampling and analysisrdquoAnalytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry vol 374 no 6 pp 1009ndash1014 2002

[156] Y Gao Z Shi Z Long P Wu C Zheng and X HouldquoDetermination and speciation of mercury in environmentaland biological samples by analytical atomic spectrometryrdquoMicrochemical Journal vol 103 pp 1ndash14 2012

[157] K Leopold M Foulkes and P Worsfold ldquoMethods for thedetermination and speciation of mercury in natural watersmdasha reviewrdquo Analytica Chimica Acta vol 663 no 2 pp 127ndash1382010

Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Inorganic ChemistryInternational Journal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

International Journal ofPhotoenergy

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Carbohydrate Chemistry

International Journal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Journal of

Chemistry

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Advances in

Physical Chemistry

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom

Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Journal of

Volume 2014

Bioinorganic Chemistry and ApplicationsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

SpectroscopyInternational Journal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Medicinal ChemistryInternational Journal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Chromatography Research International

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Applied ChemistryJournal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Theoretical ChemistryJournal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Journal of

Spectroscopy

Analytical ChemistryInternational Journal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Journal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Quantum Chemistry

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Organic Chemistry International

ElectrochemistryInternational Journal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

CatalystsJournal of

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry 17

nanochainsrdquo Biosensors and Bioelectronics vol 67 pp 472ndash4762015

[121] Q Zhou A Xing and K Zhao ldquoSimultaneous determina-tion of nickel cobalt and mercury ions in water samples bysolid phase extraction using multiwalled carbon nanotubes asadsorbent after chelating with sodium diethyldithiocarbamateprior to high performance liquid chromatographyrdquo Journal ofChromatography A vol 1360 pp 76ndash81 2014

[122] M Liu Z Wang S Zong et al ldquoSERS detection and removalof mercury(II)silver(I) using oligonucleotide-functionalizedcoreshell magnetic silica sphereAu nanoparticlesrdquo ACSAppliedMaterials amp Interfaces vol 6 no 10 pp 7371ndash7379 2014

[123] M Ehsanpour M Afkhami R Khoshnood and K J ReichldquoDetermination and maternal transfer of heavy metals (CdCu Zn Pb and Hg) in the Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelysimbricata) from a nesting colony of Qeshm Island IranrdquoBulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology vol92 no 6 pp 667ndash673 2014

[124] R-ZWangD-L ZhouHHuangMZhang J-J Feng andA-J Wang ldquoWater-soluble homo-oligonucleotide stabilized fluo-rescent silver nanoclusters as fluorescent probes for mercuryionrdquoMicrochimica Acta vol 180 no 13-14 pp 1287ndash1293 2013

[125] P R Aranda L Colombo E Perino I E De Vito andJ Raba ldquoSolid-phase preconcentration and determination ofmercury(II) using activated carbon in drinking water by X-rayfluorescence spectrometryrdquo X-Ray Spectrometry vol 42 no 2pp 100ndash104 2013

[126] H Jin and G Liebezeit ldquoTidal cycles of total particulate mer-cury in the jade bay lower saxonianwadden sea southern northseardquo Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicologyvol 90 no 1 pp 97ndash102 2013

[127] H Kodamatani and T Tomiyasu ldquoSelective determinationmethod for measurement of methylmercury and ethylmer-cury in soilsediment samples using high-performance liquidchromatography-chemiluminescence detection coupled withsimple extraction techniquerdquo Journal of Chromatography A vol1288 pp 155ndash159 2013

[128] T Frentiu A IMihaltanM Senila et al ldquoNewmethod former-cury determination in microwave digested soil samples basedon cold vapor capacitively coupled plasma microtorch opticalemission spectrometry comparison with atomic fluorescencespectrometryrdquo Microchemical Journal vol 110 pp 545ndash5522013

[129] W-Y Liu S-L Shen H-Y Li J-Y Miao and B-X ZhaoldquoFluorescence turn-on chemodosimeter for rapid detection ofmercury (II) ions in aqueous solution and blood frommicewithtoxicosisrdquo Analytica Chimica Acta vol 791 pp 65ndash71 2013

[130] C L Miller D B Watson B P Lester K A Lowe E M Pierceand L Liang ldquoCharacterization of soils from an industrialcomplex contaminatedwith elementalmercuryrdquoEnvironmentalResearch vol 125 pp 20ndash29 2013

[131] J J Melendez-Perez and A H Fostier ldquoAssessment of directmercury analyzer to quantifymercury in soils and leaf samplesrdquoJournal of the Brazilian Chemical Society vol 24 no 11 pp1880ndash1886 2013

[132] K Duarte C I L Justino A C Freitas A M P GomesA C Duarte and T A P Rocha-Santos ldquoDisposable sensorsfor environmental monitoring of lead cadmium and mercuryrdquoTrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry vol 64 pp 183ndash190 2015

[133] I Cheng L Zhang P Blanchard J Dalziel and R TordonldquoConcentration-weighted trajectory approach to identifyingpotential sources of speciated atmospheric mercury at an urban

coastal site inNova Scotia CanadardquoAtmospheric Chemistry andPhysics vol 13 no 12 pp 6031ndash6048 2013

[134] L N Suvarapu Y K Seo and S O Baek ldquoDetermination ofmercury in various environmental samplesrdquo Asian Journal ofChemistry vol 25 no 10 pp 5599ndash5601 2013

[135] M S El-Shahawi and H M Al-Saidi ldquoDispersive liquid-liquidmicroextraction for chemical speciation and determination ofultra-trace concentrations of metal ionsrdquo Trends in AnalyticalChemistry vol 44 pp 12ndash24 2013

[136] S L C Ferreira L O B Silva F A de Santana M M S JuniorGDMatos andWN L dos Santos ldquoA review of reflux systemsusing cold finger for sample preparation in the determination ofvolatile elementsrdquoMicrochemical Journal vol 106 pp 307ndash3102013

[137] Y Gao R Liu and L Yang ldquoApplication of chemical vaporgeneration in ICP-MS a reviewrdquo Chinese Science Bulletin vol58 no 17 pp 1980ndash1991 2013

[138] R Sanchez J L Todolı C-P Lienemann and J-M MermetldquoDetermination of trace elements in petroleum products byinductively coupled plasma techniques a critical reviewrdquo Spec-trochimica Acta Part B Atomic Spectroscopy vol 88 pp 104ndash126 2013

[139] D Martın-Yerga M B Gonzalez-Garcıa and A Costa-GarcıaldquoElectrochemical determination of mercury a reviewrdquo Talantavol 116 pp 1091ndash1104 2013

[140] J Chang G Zhou E R Christensen R Heideman and JChen ldquoGraphene-based sensors for detection of heavy metalsin water a reviewrdquo Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry vol406 pp 3957ndash3975 2014

[141] Y L Yu and J HWang ldquoRecent advances in flow-based samplepretreatment for the determination of metal species by atomicspectrometryrdquo Chinese Science Bulletin vol 58 no 17 pp 1992ndash2002 2013

[142] Y Yin J Liu and G Jiang ldquoRecent advances in speciationanalysis of mercury arsenic and seleniumrdquo Chinese ScienceBulletin vol 58 no 2 pp 150ndash161 2013

[143] C Gao and X-J Huang ldquoVoltammetric determination ofmercury(II)rdquo Trends in Analytical Chemistry vol 51 pp 1ndash122013

[144] F A Duarte B M Soares A A Vieira et al ldquoAssessment ofmodified matrix solid-phase dispersion as sample preparationfor the determination of CH

3

Hg+ and Hg2+ in fishrdquo AnalyticalChemistry vol 85 no 10 pp 5015ndash5022 2013

[145] S L C Ferreira V A Lemos L O B Silva et al ldquoAnalyticalstrategies of sample preparation for the determination of mer-cury in food matricesmdasha reviewrdquo Microchemical Journal vol121 pp 227ndash236 2015

[146] A F Lima M C Da Costa D C Ferreira E M Richter and RA A Munoz ldquoFast ultrasound-assisted treatment of inorganicfertilizers for mercury determination by atomic absorptionspectrometry and microwave-induced plasma spectrometrywith the aid of the cold-vapor techniquerdquo Microchemical Jour-nal vol 118 pp 40ndash44 2015

[147] P Pelcova H Docekalova and A Kleckerova ldquoDeterminationof mercury species by the diffusive gradient in thin filmtechnique and liquid chromatographymdashatomic fluorescencespectrometry after microwave extractionrdquo Analytica ChimicaActa vol 866 pp 21ndash26 2015

[148] Z Chen C Zhang H Ma et al ldquoA non-aggregation spectro-metric determination for mercury ions based on gold nanopar-ticles and thiocyanuric acidrdquo Talanta vol 134 pp 603ndash6062015

18 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

[149] E Fernandez L Vidal D Martın-Yerga M D C BlancoA Canals and A Costa-Garcıa ldquoScreen-printed electrodebased electrochemical detector coupled with ionic liquid dis-persive liquidndashliquid microextraction and microvolume back-extraction for determination of mercury in water samplesrdquoTalanta vol 135 pp 34ndash40 2015

[150] M M Silva L O Bastos Silva D J Leao W N Lopes dosSantos B Welz and S L Costa Ferreira ldquoDetermination ofmercury in alcohol vinegar samples from Salvador BahiaBrazilrdquo Food Control vol 47 pp 623ndash627 2015

[151] P Jarujamrus M Amatatongchai A Thima T Khongrangdeeand C Mongkontong ldquoSelective colorimetric sensors based onthe monitoring of an unmodified silver nanoparticles (AgNPs)reduction for a simple and rapid determination of mercuryrdquoSpectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spec-troscopy vol 142 pp 86ndash93 2015

[152] A Mao H Li Z Cai and X Hu ldquoDetermination of mercuryusing a glassy carbon electrode modified with nano TiO

2

andmulti-walled carbon nanotubes composites dispersed in a novelcationic surfactantrdquo Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry vol751 pp 23ndash29 2015

[153] M Popp S Hann and G Koellensperger ldquoEnvironmentalapplication of elemental speciation analysis based on liquid orgas chromatography hyphenated to inductively coupled plasmamass spectrometrymdasha reviewrdquo Analytica Chimica Acta vol668 no 2 pp 114ndash129 2010

[154] S K Pandey K-H Kim and R J C Brown ldquoMeasurementtechniques for mercury species in ambient airrdquo TrACmdashTrendsin Analytical Chemistry vol 30 no 6 pp 899ndash917 2011

[155] M M Lynam and G J Keeler ldquoComparison of methods forparticulate phase mercury analysis sampling and analysisrdquoAnalytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry vol 374 no 6 pp 1009ndash1014 2002

[156] Y Gao Z Shi Z Long P Wu C Zheng and X HouldquoDetermination and speciation of mercury in environmentaland biological samples by analytical atomic spectrometryrdquoMicrochemical Journal vol 103 pp 1ndash14 2012

[157] K Leopold M Foulkes and P Worsfold ldquoMethods for thedetermination and speciation of mercury in natural watersmdasha reviewrdquo Analytica Chimica Acta vol 663 no 2 pp 127ndash1382010

Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Inorganic ChemistryInternational Journal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

International Journal ofPhotoenergy

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Carbohydrate Chemistry

International Journal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Journal of

Chemistry

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Advances in

Physical Chemistry

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom

Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Journal of

Volume 2014

Bioinorganic Chemistry and ApplicationsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

SpectroscopyInternational Journal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Medicinal ChemistryInternational Journal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Chromatography Research International

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Applied ChemistryJournal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Theoretical ChemistryJournal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Journal of

Spectroscopy

Analytical ChemistryInternational Journal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Journal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Quantum Chemistry

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Organic Chemistry International

ElectrochemistryInternational Journal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

CatalystsJournal of

18 Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

[149] E Fernandez L Vidal D Martın-Yerga M D C BlancoA Canals and A Costa-Garcıa ldquoScreen-printed electrodebased electrochemical detector coupled with ionic liquid dis-persive liquidndashliquid microextraction and microvolume back-extraction for determination of mercury in water samplesrdquoTalanta vol 135 pp 34ndash40 2015

[150] M M Silva L O Bastos Silva D J Leao W N Lopes dosSantos B Welz and S L Costa Ferreira ldquoDetermination ofmercury in alcohol vinegar samples from Salvador BahiaBrazilrdquo Food Control vol 47 pp 623ndash627 2015

[151] P Jarujamrus M Amatatongchai A Thima T Khongrangdeeand C Mongkontong ldquoSelective colorimetric sensors based onthe monitoring of an unmodified silver nanoparticles (AgNPs)reduction for a simple and rapid determination of mercuryrdquoSpectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spec-troscopy vol 142 pp 86ndash93 2015

[152] A Mao H Li Z Cai and X Hu ldquoDetermination of mercuryusing a glassy carbon electrode modified with nano TiO

2

andmulti-walled carbon nanotubes composites dispersed in a novelcationic surfactantrdquo Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry vol751 pp 23ndash29 2015

[153] M Popp S Hann and G Koellensperger ldquoEnvironmentalapplication of elemental speciation analysis based on liquid orgas chromatography hyphenated to inductively coupled plasmamass spectrometrymdasha reviewrdquo Analytica Chimica Acta vol668 no 2 pp 114ndash129 2010

[154] S K Pandey K-H Kim and R J C Brown ldquoMeasurementtechniques for mercury species in ambient airrdquo TrACmdashTrendsin Analytical Chemistry vol 30 no 6 pp 899ndash917 2011

[155] M M Lynam and G J Keeler ldquoComparison of methods forparticulate phase mercury analysis sampling and analysisrdquoAnalytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry vol 374 no 6 pp 1009ndash1014 2002

[156] Y Gao Z Shi Z Long P Wu C Zheng and X HouldquoDetermination and speciation of mercury in environmentaland biological samples by analytical atomic spectrometryrdquoMicrochemical Journal vol 103 pp 1ndash14 2012

[157] K Leopold M Foulkes and P Worsfold ldquoMethods for thedetermination and speciation of mercury in natural watersmdasha reviewrdquo Analytica Chimica Acta vol 663 no 2 pp 127ndash1382010

Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Inorganic ChemistryInternational Journal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

International Journal ofPhotoenergy

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Carbohydrate Chemistry

International Journal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Journal of

Chemistry

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Advances in

Physical Chemistry

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom

Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Journal of

Volume 2014

Bioinorganic Chemistry and ApplicationsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

SpectroscopyInternational Journal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Medicinal ChemistryInternational Journal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Chromatography Research International

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Applied ChemistryJournal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Theoretical ChemistryJournal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Journal of

Spectroscopy

Analytical ChemistryInternational Journal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Journal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Quantum Chemistry

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Organic Chemistry International

ElectrochemistryInternational Journal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

CatalystsJournal of

Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Inorganic ChemistryInternational Journal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

International Journal ofPhotoenergy

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Carbohydrate Chemistry

International Journal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Journal of

Chemistry

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Advances in

Physical Chemistry

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom

Analytical Methods in Chemistry

Journal of

Volume 2014

Bioinorganic Chemistry and ApplicationsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

SpectroscopyInternational Journal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Medicinal ChemistryInternational Journal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Chromatography Research International

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Applied ChemistryJournal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Theoretical ChemistryJournal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Journal of

Spectroscopy

Analytical ChemistryInternational Journal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Journal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Quantum Chemistry

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Organic Chemistry International

ElectrochemistryInternational Journal of

Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014

CatalystsJournal of