An Overview of Green Analytical Techniques in the Spectrometric Analysis of Environmental and Biological Samples

ABSTRACT

This literature survey presents in a nutshell different parameters for the effectiveness of the green spectrometric procedures, which have been applied to the determination of organics, inorganics, and metal ions in different matrices. The following issues were considered: the main aspects of miniaturization, reagent replacement, reduction of wastes, and on-line recovery and detoxification, which made the analytical procedures sustainable. Also, a discussion of analytical characteristics along with spectrometric methodologies and applications is included.

KEYWORDS:

• Biological
• environmental
• green analytical techniques
• spectrometric analysis

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The authors acknowledge the financial support of the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia Project AGL2007-64567.

Notes

An invited paper submitted to a special issue on Green Spectroscopy and Analytical Techniques, organized by Professor Miguel de la Guardia, of the Department of Chemistry, University of Valencia, Spain, and Professor Arabinda Kumar Das, of the Department of Chemistry, University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India.