Macromolecules

Sensing of lead ions by a carboxylate-substituted PPE: multivalency effects

IB Kim, A Dunkhorst, J Gilbert, UHF Bunz

Index: Kim, Ik-Bum; Dunkhorst, Anna; Gilbert, James; Bunz, Uwe H.F. Macromolecules, 2005 , vol. 38, # 11 p. 4560 - 4562

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Citation Number: 210

Abstract

Selective and sensitive determination of heavy metals such as lead and mercury continues to be significant due to their role as environmental pollutants. Lead is found in old water pipes, deteriorating lead-based paints, and occasionally in residential soil from contamination by tetraethyl lead, a now banned antiknock additive to gasoline. If small children are exposed to lead, health effects include anemia and neurological impairment. ...