Techniques for Measuring Organophosphorus Pesticides

Department of Legal Medicine, University of Bonn, Stiftsplatz 12, 53111 Bonn, Germany 

A second classification categorizes the pesticides according to their chemical nature, 

Chromatographic Methods in Clinical Chemistry and Toxicology Edited by R. L. Bertholf and R. E. Winecker 2007 John Wiley Sons, Ltd 

Today s commercially available pesticides are characterized by a vast variety of chemical structures and functional groups making their chemical classification quite complex. The major chemical groups are as follows  

Based on these considerations, the following sections will focus on organophosphorus insecticides and their toxicological properties and well review various analytical methods for the qualitative detection and quantitative determination of different substances of this class. 

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