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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Linke, Alexander
• Schmidt, Manfred
• Waldvogel, Siegfried R.

Titel

Poly(2-vinylpyridine)-Based Polymers as an Efficient Affinity Material for the Detection of Airborne Phenol

Ist Teil von

• ChemPlusChem (Weinheim, Germany), 2015-07, Vol.80 (7), p.1096-1099

Ort / Verlag

Weinheim: WILEY-VCH Verlag

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

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Quelle

Wiley Online Library Journals Frontfile Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Phenol is an omnipresent compound in various situations. Its acute toxicity makes alternative tracing methods desirable. Highly potent affinity materials based on polyvinyl pyridine allow an efficient tracing of this particular airborne compound. Their performance over, for example, benzene is tremendously superior. In combination with a simple cyclodextrin derivative an array allows differentiation among such aromatic competitors. Owing to the high affinity of these polymers for phenol, quartz microbalance‐based tracing is able to detect phenol below the parts per million range. This was previously not possible with other affinity materials. The butterfly effect: Highly potent affinity materials allow an efficient tracing of airborne phenol. The performance over, for example, benzene is tremendously superior. Owing to the high affinity of these pyridine‐based polymers toward phenol, quartz microbalance‐based tracing is able to detect phenol below the parts per million range (see figure).