@article {4852,
	title = {Antimony species in environmental samples},
	journal = {International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry},
	volume = {77},
	number = {2},
	year = {2000},
	note = {ISI Document Delivery No.: 335VQTimes Cited: 17Cited Reference Count: 33},
	pages = {111-131},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {Antimony was extracted from environmental biota samples from Yellowknife, NWT and Meager Creek, BC, Canada. Extraction efficiencies ranged from 0.7 to 37\% for all samples except for a cattail sample, from which 95\% of antimony was extracted. Speciation analysis was carried out by using hydride generation-gas chromatography-atomic absorption spectrometry (HG-GC-AAS). The major antimony species in all samples, including biota extracts and water, was Sb (V). Sb (III) and methylated antimony species were detected in some samples as well. The presence of methylated antimony species in moss from Yellowknife and a water sample from Yellowknife was confirmed by using HG-GC-AAS at a second absorption wavelength, increasing the likelihood that the peaks obtained are due to the presence of antimony compounds. A headspace HG-GC-mass spectrometric (MS) method was developed for the speciation of antimony compounds and this was used to successfully confirm methylantimony species in the headspace following HG of extracts of moss and snail samples from Yellowknife.},
	keywords = {ANTIMONY, ATOMIC-ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY, GENERATION GAS-CHROMATOGRAPHY, HYDRIDE GENERATION, MASS SPECTROMETRY, PERFORMANCE LIQUID-CHROMATOGRAPHY, PLANTS, SCOPULARIOPSIS-BREVICAULIS, snails, SPECIATION, WATERS},
	isbn = {0306-7319},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://000088265800002},
	author = {Koch, I. and Wang, L. X. and Feldmann, J. and Andrewes, P. and Reimer, K. J. and Cullen, W. R.}
}
@article {4462,
	title = {Confirmation of the aerobic production of trimethylstibine by Scopulariopsis brevicaulis},
	journal = {Applied Organometallic Chemistry},
	volume = {13},
	number = {9},
	year = {1999},
	note = {ISI Document Delivery No.: 234HYTimes Cited: 23Cited Reference Count: 13},
	month = {Sep},
	pages = {659-664},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {The filamentous fungus Scopulariopsis brevicaulis produces volatile trimethylstibine, found in the culture headspace, when grown in an antimony(III)-rich medium under aerobic conditions. The trimethylstibine was purged from cultures using a continuous flow of compressed air and trapped in a U-shaped tube containing Supelcoport SP 2100 at -78 degrees C. The trap contents were determined by using GC-ICP-MS methodology. Typically between 60 and 500 pg of trimethylstibine was trapped during sampling (12 h) from cultures containing 1000 mu g Sb ml(-1) as potassium antimony tartrate. The total production of trimethylstibine over 18 days of growth was estimated at 10 ng, Trimethylarsine was produced in greater quantities than trimethylstibine, even though no arsenic compounds were added to the medium, Copyright (C) 1999 John Wiley \& Sons, Ltd.},
	keywords = {ANTIMONY, BIOMETHYLATION, HUMICOLA, INFANT-DEATH-SYNDROME, potassium antimony, Scopulariopsis brevicaulis, tartrate, trimethylstibine},
	isbn = {0268-2605},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://000082479700008},
	author = {Andrewes, P. and Cullen, W. R. and Polishchuk, E.}
}
@article {4461,
	title = {Methylantimony compound formation in the medium of Scopulariopsis brevicaulis cultures: (CD3)-C-13-L-methionine as a source of the methyl group},
	journal = {Applied Organometallic Chemistry},
	volume = {13},
	number = {10},
	year = {1999},
	note = {ISI Document Delivery No.: 243BTTimes Cited: 21Cited Reference Count: 134th International Conference on Biological and Environmental Aspects of Main Group OrganometallicsJUN, 1998ODENSE, DENMARK},
	month = {Oct},
	pages = {681-687},
	type = {Proceedings Paper},
	abstract = {The filamentous fungus Scopulariopsis brevicaulis produces nonvolatile methylantimony compounds (found in the medium) when grown in antimony(III)-rich medium. To investigate the methyl source, (CD3)-C-13-labelled L-methionine was added to the growth medium. After one month sodium borohydride reduction of media samples produced dimethylstibine and trimethylstibine. The methylstibines were separated on a packed GC column and obtained as gaseous fractions. Analysis of the methylstibines, in the gaseous fractions, by CGC-MS (lion-trap) established (CD3)-C-13 incorporation in both the trimethyl-and dimethyl-antimony compounds. Copyright (C) 1999 John Wiley \& Sons, Ltd.},
	keywords = {ANTIMONY, APIOTRICHUM-HUMICOLA, BIOMETHYLATION, biotransformation, CHROMATOGRAPHY MASS-SPECTROMETRY, COMPOUNDS, L-methionine, methylantimony, potassium antimony tartrate, S-ADENOSYLMETHIONINE, Scopulariopsis brevicaulis, SPECIATION, species},
	isbn = {0268-2605},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://000082977800003},
	author = {Andrewes, P. and Cullen, W. R. and Feldmann, J. and Koch, I. and Polishchuk, E.}
}
@article {4287,
	title = {Metal(loid)organic compounds in geothermal gases and waters},
	journal = {Organic Geochemistry},
	volume = {29},
	number = {5-7},
	year = {1998},
	note = {ISI Document Delivery No.: 156HQTimes Cited: 48Cited Reference Count: 5918th International Meeting on Organic GeochemistrySEP 22-26, 1997MAASTRICHT, NETHERLANDSEuropean Assoc Organ Geochemists},
	pages = {1765-1778},
	type = {Proceedings Paper},
	abstract = {Volatile metal(loid)organic species of geogenic and anthropogenic origin are analyzed by low temperature gas chromatography coupled on-line with plasma mass spectrometry (LTGC/ICP MS) with detection limits in the higher pg-range (per m(3) gas). In respect to the determination of aqueous samples, this instrumental technique is combined with sample derivatization by the hydride generation technique. Volatile species of As, Sb, Sr and I could be detected in gases over hot springs in British Columbia (Canada). Methylated species of Hg, Ge, As, Sb and Te were also determined in concentrations in the ng/kg- to low mu g/kg-range in geothermal waters from Ruapehu, Waimangu, Waiotapu and Tokaanu (North Island, New Zealand); up to 1\% of the total dissolved metal(loid)s are found in methylated forms. Volatile metal(loid)organic species of geogenic origin are compared with those emanating from anthropogenic sources (waste and sewage gases, river and harbor sediments). Possible formation mechanisms for these compounds are discussed. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. Ail rights reserved.},
	keywords = {ANTIMONY, ATOMIC-ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY, British Columbia, ENVIRONMENT, geothermal, hot springs, mercury, metal(loid)organic compounds, methylmercury, NATURAL-WATERS, New Zealand, NEW-ZEALAND, SEDIMENTS, sewage gases, VOLATILE METAL, volatile species, WASTE DEPOSITS, WASTE GASES, WATERS},
	isbn = {0146-6380},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://000077995900056},
	author = {Hirner, A. V. and Feldmann, J. and Krupp, E. and Grumping, R. and Goguel, R. and Cullen, W. R.}
}
@article {4183,
	title = {The production of methylated organoantimony compounds by Scopulariopsis brevicaulis},
	journal = {Applied Organometallic Chemistry},
	volume = {12},
	number = {12},
	year = {1998},
	note = {ISI Document Delivery No.: 149RQTimes Cited: 34Cited Reference Count: 37},
	month = {Dec},
	pages = {827-842},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {Cultures of the fungus Scopulariopsis brevicaulis were grown in antimony-rich media. Although volatile compounds of other elements were readily detected in the culture headspace, volatile antimony compounds were formed irreproducibly and at only ultratrace levels. In order to monitor the media for nonvolatile methylantimony compounds, a method of sample preparation was developed, based on solid-phase extraction. This enabled the separation of large quantities of soluble inorganic antimony species from trace amounts of organo-antimony compounds before speciation by HG-GC-AAS, By this methodology methylated antimony compounds were detected at concentrations of 0.8- 7.1 mu g Sbl(-1) in all media in which S. brevicaulis was grown in the presence of antimony(III) compounds. These methylantimony species were not detected in any of the nonliving or medium-only controls. Methylated compounds were not detected where S. brevicaulis was grown in the presence of antimony(V) compounds. This is the first study to show that antimony(III) compounds are biomethylated by S. brevicaulis under aerobic-only growth conditions. (C) 1998 John Wiley \& Sons, Ltd.},
	keywords = {ANTIMONY, APIOTRICHUM-HUMICOLA, ATOMIC-ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY, BIOMETHYLATION, biotransformation, GASES, GENERATION, hydride, HYDRIDE GENERATION, infant death syndrome (SIDS), INFANT-DEATH-SYNDROME, LAKE-BIWA, Scopulariopsis brevicaulis, SOLID-PHASE EXTRACTION, SPECIATION, sudden, volatile antimony, VOLATILE METAL, WASTE DEPOSITS},
	isbn = {0268-2605},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://000077619500006},
	author = {Andrewes, P. and Cullen, W. R. and Feldmann, J. and Koch, I. and Polishchuk, E. and Reimer, E.}
}
@article {4026,
	title = {Simplex optimisation of conditions for the determination of antimony in environmental samples by using electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry},
	journal = {Talanta},
	volume = {44},
	number = {7},
	year = {1997},
	note = {ISI Document Delivery No.: XE053Times Cited: 14Cited Reference Count: 24},
	month = {Jul},
	pages = {1241-1251},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {Analysis of the total antimony in plant material was unsuccessful using the electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry (ETAAS) conditions recommended by the instrument manufacturer. For this reason, an optimisation procedure utilising the Plackett-Burman method, simplex optimisation and visualisation of the generated response surface via principal components analysis, was carried out. The Plackett-Burman method was used to eliminate four of the initial variables chosen. Four variables (atomisation temperature, atomisation time, ash temperature and modifier concentration) were subsequently optimised using the composite modified simplex method and the results were visualised as a contour diagram, after reduction to two principal components. The optimised conditions were used for the analysis of both an acid digested pine needle standard reference material (NIST 1575) and a pond weed sample, collected from a contaminated site at Yellowknife Bay, Yellowknife, NWT, Canada. The total concentration of antimony present in the pine needles was statistically indistinguishable from the non-certified value, as was the value for the pond weed sample, compared with a value determined by neutron activation analysis (NAA). The results for the analysis of the pond weed sample by ETAAS agreed with those obtained from a subsequent analysis by inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.},
	keywords = {ANTIMONY, electrothermal atomic absorption spectroscopy, environmental, GRAPHITE-FURNACE, HYDRIDE GENERATION, INTERFERENCES, OPTIMIZATION, PLASMA-MASS-SPECTROMETRY, REFLECTIONS, SAMPLES, simplex optimisation and Plackett-Burman design},
	isbn = {0039-9140},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://A1997XE05300013},
	author = {Koch, I. and Harrington, C. F. and Reimer, K. J. and Cullen, W. R.}
}
@article {3094,
	title = {EFFECT OF CYSTEINE ON THE SPECIATION OF ARSENIC BY USING HYDRIDE GENERATION ATOMIC-ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY},
	journal = {Analytica Chimica Acta},
	volume = {285},
	number = {3},
	year = {1994},
	note = {ISI Document Delivery No.: MV474Times Cited: 61Cited Reference Count: 41},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {277-285},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {The use of hydride generation techniques for arsenic species is pH dependent. Identical responses can not be obtained from arsenite, arsenate, monomethylarsonic acid (MMAA) and dimethylarsinic acid (DMAA) when the same acid concentration is used. Thus some methods commonly used for the direct determination of total arsenic under compromised conditions are subject to error. This error is eliminated by the addition of 2\% cysteine to samples prior to hydride generation. In the presence of cysteine the optimum condition for the determination of these arsenic species is in the same range, and a single arsenic species can be used for calibration. This finding is applied to the determination of arsenic in human urine by using flow injection, hydride generation, and atomic absorption spectrometry methodology. The effect of cysteine and thioglycerol is reported in detail, and it is proposed that arsenate, MMAA and DMAA all in the As(V) state, are reduced to the As(III) state as organo-sulfur-arsenic(III) compounds through the reaction between the arsenic species and the thiol. These products, organosulfur derivatives of arsenic(III), easily react with tetrahydroborate(III) under similar conditions to afford the arsines without interference from cysteine. Non-thiol-containing amino acids such as methionine, glycine and histidine do not react with arsenic species in this way, and therefore they do not affect the pH dependence of the generation of arsenic hydride species.},
	keywords = {AMOUNTS, ANTIMONY, ARSENIC SPECIATION, ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY, CHROMATOGRAPHY, CYSTEINE, EMISSION-SPECTROMETRY, ENVIRONMENT, FLOW INJECTION, HUMAN URINE, HYDRIDE GENERATION, INTERFERENCE REDUCTION, L-CYSTINE, NATURAL-WATERS, selenium, SPECTROSCOPY, TIN, TRACE},
	isbn = {0003-2670},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://A1994MV47400004},
	author = {Le, X. C. and Cullen, W. R. and Reimer, K. J.}
}
@article {7296,
	title = {A NEW CONTINUOUS HYDRIDE GENERATOR FOR THE DETERMINATION OF ARSENIC, ANTIMONY AND TIN BY HYDRIDE GENERATION ATOMIC-ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY},
	journal = {Analytica Chimica Acta},
	volume = {258},
	number = {2},
	year = {1992},
	note = {ISI Document Delivery No.: HK842Times Cited: 61Cited Reference Count: 24},
	month = {Mar},
	pages = {307-315},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {A new continuous hydride generator is described. Its characteristics are compared with a conventional hydride generator for the determination of arsenic, antimony and tin by using flame atomic absorption spectrometry. This simple hydride generator combines hydride production and gas-liquid separation in one unit, obviating the use of a separate mixing/reaction coil and gas-liquid separator. Radioactive tracer studies show that a hydride generation efficiency of over 95\% is achieved with the new hydride generator and that approximately 90\% of monomethylarsonic acid (MMA) is converted to its hydride (methylarsine) within the first 10 s of the hydride generation reaction. Compared to a conventional hydride generator, an improved signal-to-noise ratio is achieved and comparable or less interference from transition metal ions is observed. Cysteine (1\% in the sample solution) is effective in reducing interferences during the hydride generation processes. In the presence of cysteine, 10-1000 fold higher amounts of Ni2+, Co2+ and Cu2+ are tolerated in the determination of arsenic, antimony and tin. Cysteine also enhances the signals of arsenic, antimony and tin by 60, 200 and 40\%, respectively. Reaction conditions were optimized by using both the simplex optimization method and one-factor-at-a-time method and results are in good agreement.},
	keywords = {AMOUNTS, ANTIMONY, arsenic, ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY, EMISSION-SPECTROMETRY, GERMANIUM, HYDRIDE GENERATION, INTERFERENCE REDUCTION, L-CYSTINE, mercury, selenium, separator, SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, SPECTROSCOPY, TIN, TRACE},
	isbn = {0003-2670},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://A1992HK84200014},
	author = {Le, X. C. and Cullen, W. R. and Reimer, K. J. and Brindle, I. D.}
}
