PMID- 12036123 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20020613 LR - 20190826 IS - 0910-6340 (Print) IS - 0910-6340 (Linking) VI - 18 IP - 5 DP - 2002 May TI - Use of disposable GRC electrodes for the detection of phenol and chlorophenols in liquid chromatography. PG - 549-54 AB - In this study, a wall-jet flow cell with a GRC (graphite reinforced by carbon) electrode was designed for the amperometric detection of phenol and chlorophenols in liquid chromatography. The voltammetric responses of these analytes at the GRC electrodes are very similar to those at conventional glassy carbon electrodes. As the GRC electrodes were made of the same materials as commercially available mechanical pencil leads, they exhibit the advantages of low cost, simple surface renewability, lower residual current, and good electrode-to-electrode reproducibility, and thus can be used as disposable-type electrodes. Chromatographic separations of phenol, o-chlorophenol (o-CP), 2,4-dichlorophenol (2,4-DCP), 2,4,6-trichlorophenol (2,4,6-TCP), and pentachlorophenol (PCP) were achieved with an ODS column using a mobile phase containing a mixture of CH3CN and H20 (40:60) containing 25 mM L-(+)tartaric acid (pH = 4.5). Amperometric detections were based on the electrochemical oxidation of these compounds around +0.9 V vs. Ag/AgCl. Under the optimized conditions, linear calibrations were obtained in a range up to 100 microM for phenol, o-CP, 2,4-DCP, 2,4,6-TCP, and 200 microM for PCP, with the correlation coefficients r2 of 0.9992, 0.9997, 0.9986, 0.9992, and 0.9968, respectively. The chromatographic detection limits for the tested analytes were obtained at pmol levels. FAU - Jin, Jiye AU - Jin J AD - Instrumental Analysis Center, Gifu University, Japan. FAU - Hiroi, Toshiya AU - Hiroi T FAU - Sato, Kiyohito AU - Sato K FAU - Miwa, Tomoo AU - Miwa T FAU - Takeuchi, Toyohide AU - Takeuchi T LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - Switzerland TA - Anal Sci JT - Analytical sciences : the international journal of the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry JID - 8511078 EDAT- 2002/05/31 10:00 MHDA- 2002/05/31 10:01 CRDT- 2002/05/31 10:00 PHST- 2002/05/31 10:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2002/05/31 10:01 [medline] PHST- 2002/05/31 10:00 [entrez] AID - 10.2116/analsci.18.549 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Anal Sci. 2002 May;18(5):549-54. doi: 10.2116/analsci.18.549.