Aluminum fluorescent

The concentration of aluminum in serum can be determined by adding 2-hydroxy-1-naphthaldehyde p-methoxybenzoyl-hydrazone and measuring the initial rate of the resulting complexation reaction under pseudo-first-order conditions.The rate of reaction is monitored by the fluorescence of the metal-ligand complex. Initial rates, with units of emission intensity per second, were measured for a set of standard solutions, yielding the following results... 

Quantitative aluminum deterrninations in aluminum and aluminum base alloys is rarely done. The aluminum content is generally inferred as the balance after determining alloying additions and tramp elements. When aluminum is present as an alloying component in alternative alloy systems it is commonly deterrnined by some form of spectroscopy (qv) spark source emission, x-ray fluorescence, plasma emission (both inductively coupled and d-c plasmas), or atomic absorption using a nitrous oxide acetylene flame. 

Zirconium is often deterniined gravimetrically. The most common procedure utilizes mandelic acid (81) which is fairly specific for zirconium plus hafnium. Other precipitants, including nine inorganic and 42 organic reagents, are Hsted in Reference 82. Volumetric procedures for zirconium, which also include hafnium as zirconium, are limited to either EDTA titrations (83) or indirect procedures (84). X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy gives quantitative results for zirconium, without including hafnium, for concentrations from 0.1 to 50% (85). Atomic absorption determines zirconium in aluminum in the presence of hafnium at concentrations of 0.1—3% (86). 

Nineteen bone samples were prepared for analysis of the trace elements strontium (Sr), rubidium (Rb), and zinc (Zn). The outer surface of each bone was removed with an aluminum oxide sanding wheel attached to a Dremel tool and the bone was soaked overnight in a weak acetic acid solution (Krueger and Sullivan 1984, Price et al. 1992). After rinsing to neutrality, the bone was dried then crushed in a mill. Bone powder was dry ashed in a muffle furnace at 700°C for 18 hours. Bone ash was pressed into pellets for analysis by x-ray fluorescence spectrometry. Analyses were carried out in the Department of Geology, University of Calgary. 

The CPF approach gives quantitative reement with the experimental spectroscopic constants (24-25) for the ground state of Cu2 when large one-particle basis sets are used, provided that relativistic effects are included and the 3d electrons are correlated. In addition, CPF calculations have given (26) a potential surface for Cus that confirms the Jahn-Teller stabilization energy and pseudorotational barrier deduced (27-28) from the Cus fluorescence spectra (29). The CPF method has been used (9) to study clusters of up to six aluminum atoms. 

Miyahara, T., Kitamura, H., Narita, K., and Toyo oka, T., Ion-exchange chromatography of aluminum using 3-carboxy-2-naphthylamine-N,N-diacetic acid as a fluorescent post-column chelating reagent, Biomed. Chromatogr., 13, 70, 1999. 

The absorption spectra of the silicon(IV) naphthalocyanines follows the pattern already seen with the analogous zinc(II) (Section 9.22.12.1.4) and aluminum(III) (Section 9.22.13.2) derivatives 354 the red band is shifted about 100 nm further to the red, with intensification. Bis(trihex-ylsiloxy)silicon(IV) naphthalocyanine has Amax(PhH) = 776 nm (e = 650,000 M-1 cm-1) and <1>A 0.35 (oxygen-saturated benzene).389 The solution is fluorescent (main emission at 780 nm, Tf 2.85 ns) the triplet energy (ca. 22 k cal mol-1) is a little less than the energy of the first singlet state of dioxygen, and the process (Equation (9)) is reversible (cf. compounds (40) and (41), Section 9.22.10.2). 

Zhujun Z., Seitz W.R., A fluorescent sensor for aluminum(III), magnesium(II), zinc(II) and cadmium(II) based on electrostatically immobilized quinolin-8-ol sulfonate. Anal. 

Saari L.A., Seitz W.R., Immobilized morin as fluorescence sensor for determination of aluminum(III), Anal. Chem. 1983 55 667. 

The first, and still the most commonly used, of the tunable lasers were those based upon solutions of organic dyes. The first dye laser was developed by Sorokin and Lankard 05), and used a "chloro-aluminum phthalocyanine" (sic) solution. Tunable dye lasers operating throughout the visible spectrum were soon produced, using dyes such as coumarins, fluorescein, rhodamines, etc. Each dye will emit laser radiation which is continuously tunable over approximately the fluorescence wavelength range of the dye. 

Schlautman, M.A., Morgan, JJ. (1993b) Binding of a fluorescent hydrophobic organic probe by dissolved humic substances and organically-coated aluminum oxide surfaces. Environ. Sci. Technol. 27, 2523-2532. 

Haapakka and Kankare have studied this phenomenon and used it to determine various analytes that are active at the electrode surface [44-46], Some metal ions have been shown to catalyze ECL at oxide-covered aluminum electrodes during the reduction of hydrogen peroxide in particular. These include mercu-ry(I), mercury(II), copper(II), silver , and thallium , the latter determined to a detection limit of <10 10 M. The emission is enhanced by organic compounds that are themselves fluorescent or that form fluorescent chelates with the aluminum ion. Both salicylic acid and micelle solubilized polyaromatic hydrocarbons have been determined in this way to a limit of detection in the order of 10 8M. 

The phenomenon of organic EL was first demonstrated using a small-molecule fluorescent emitter in a vapor-deposited OLED device. The Kodak group first used metal oxinoid materials such as the octahedral complex aluminum tris-8-hydroxyquinoline (Alq3) (discussed above as an ETM) as the fluorescent green emitter in their pioneering work on OLED architectures [167],... 

The ligand is hydroxyquinoline-sulfonate (HQS) which forms fluorescent AI-HQS complexes in solution. HQS forms surface complexes with the Al-centers of aluminum oxide surface these surface complexes are also fluorescent. Fluorescence as a function of time during HQS-promoted dissolution of aluminum oxide. Surface-associated fluorescence was calculated from the difference between measured total and dissolved fluorescence. 

There are many interesting derivatives of quinoline and acridine obtained by substitution. In particular, 8-hydroxyquinoline (oxine) is the second complexing agent in importance after EDTA. Sulfonation in position 5 leads to a compound which is soluble in water and that exhibits outstanding fluorogenic properties (i.e. fluorescence enhancement) on complexation with metal ions (e.g. aluminum). 

Figure 8.7. Delayed fluorescence and diffuse reflectance transient absorption spectroscopy on scattering substrates. Example terthicnyl on silica gel excited with = 354 nm (neodymium/yttrium-aluminum-garnet) (Nd/YAG) laser pulse of 10 nsec, 20 mj), recorded with a gated diode array spectrometer.

Some rare-earth-activated materials do show strong fluorescence phenomena at temperatures even up to IOOO°C with a lifetime long enough to be detected without particular difficulties, as demonstrated in the cases of neodymium yttrium-aluminum-garnet(Nd YAG) andScPC>4 Eu3+ by Grattan etal.m and Bugos etal.,m respectively. 

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