Polarographic behavior and analysis of Flumetralin in formulations and environmental samples

Abstract A differential pulse polarographic (DPP) method forthe determination of Flumetralin is described based on the reduction of a nitro group at a dropping mercury electrode (DME) in Briton-Robinson buffers of pH 2.0 to 12.0 using 25%acetone-water mixture as a solvent. Also a cyclic voltammetric (CV) technique has been used tostudy the behaviour of Flumetralin at a hanging mercury drop electrode (HMDE). The DPP method described here has been applied to the analysis of Flumetralin in formulations, grains, soils and spiked water samples. Both standard addtion and calibration methods were used for the analytical measurements. The lower detection limit was found to be 1.87x10 -8 M.