RT journal article T1 Coupling liquid membrane and flow-injection technique as an analytical strategy for copper analysis in saline water A1 Granado Castro, María Dolores A1 Díaz de Alba, Margarita Isabel A1 Chinchilla Real, I. A1 Galindo Riaño, María Dolores A1 García Vargas, Manuel A1 Casanueva Marenco, María José A2 Química Analítica K1 copper K1 seawater K1 liquid membrane K1 pyridine-2-acetaldehyde benzoylhydrazone K1 flow injection analysis (FIA), K1 preconcentration AB A tandem system based on the coupling of a bulk liquid membrane and a flow injection analysis for the separation, preconcentration and spectrophotometric determination of copper in saline water is presented. The ligand pyridine-2-acetaldehyde benzoylhydrazone has been used as a carrier in the liquid membrane as well as a spectrophotometric reagent for UV–VIS detection. Simultaneous and sequential experimental designs were used to optimise the chosen variables of each technique, respectively. The metal was separated and preconcentrated from the sample with an efficiency of 100.5 ± 0.9% and a metal preconcentration factor of 16.1. The on-line FIA determination was accomplished after metal complexation by the reagent at pH 3. A linear response was obtained in a range from 6.9 to 984.5 μg L–1 Cu(II), providing a detection limit of 1.8 μg L–1. Saline matrix and other metal ions were not cause of interferences with relative errors below 4.6% for 50 μg L−1 of Cu(II) determination. The proposed tandem system was successfully tested using a TMDA-62 certified reference material providing a relative error of +1.9%; it was also applied to the Cu(II) determination in coastal seawater samples with low relative errors ranging from −3.8% to 0.0% (using DPASV as reference method). PB Elsevier SN 0039-9140 YR 2019 FD 2019 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/33260 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/33260 LA eng DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz RD 10-nov-2026