Comment on “Hypersensitive Luminiscence of Eu3+ in Dimethyl Sulfoxide As a New Probing for Water Measurement”

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Authors	PEKÁRKOVÁ Pavla LUBAL Přemysl TÁBORSKÝ Petr
Year of publication	2012
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Analytical Chemistry
MU Faculty or unit	Central European Institute of Technology
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Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ac301934d
Field	Analytic chemistry
Keywords	europium(III) luminiscence; luminiscence decay; water determination; organic solvent; ionic liquid
Description	Yao and Chen(see Analytical Chemistry (Washington, DC, United States) (2011), 83 (6), 1879-1882) have shown a method for determination of water traces in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). The described method is interesting, but in our opinion, it can be entirely replaced by other methods using the same reagents and based on measurement of Eu(III) luminescence lifetimes. Moreover, there is quite a lot of inaccuracy in the article which we would like to comment. Finally, we want to briefly show a few other possible applications of the method described in this comment.
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