Antimony-containing organic species

This review considers the literature of the past years (up to 1979) that treats the preconcentration of the priority pollution metals antimony, arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, mercury, nickel, selenium, silver, thallium, and zinc. In some cases, a brief outline is given or some discussion of the method, but in most instances, the number of methods available precludes more than a mention of their specific application or special feature. For some elements such as mercury many methods of preconcentration are available, for others such as beryllium and thallium only a few are reported. Relatively few procedures actually detail the analysis of a sample containing several species both organic and inorganic, although this area is of major concern, because of large differences in the relative toxicity of the various species. 

Resonance (ESR). The effects of radiation on arsenic, antimony and bismuth compounds are, however, considerably less documented a compilation of the corresponding information has been published in Landolt-Bomstein and this subject is periodically reviewed in Specialist Reports of the Royal Chemical Society. The purpose of this chapter is not to present an exhaustive compilation of all the species produced by radiolysis of organic compounds which contain an As, Sb or Bi atom, but only to deal with the most important types of radiogenic radicals formed from these compounds and, when possible, to compare the structures of these radicals with those of the corresponding phosphorous species. 

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