Tributyltin in the Environment:key Issues and Novel Analysis Methods: on the Challenge of Quantifying Traces of Man-made Tributltin in the Aquatic Environment

This book provides a comprehensive, clearance introduction to the issue of tributyltin in the environment covering the most Keys related to this subject. Intended not only for chemists, but also for environmental, toxicologist and other science students. Each Chapter start by covering the theory and general concepts , and then describes a selection experiments that can be carried out. Also each chapter has its own conclusion that highlighted the most important aspects about the chapter. The book offers the reader in its second part a general description of the analytical methods that have been developed, validated and comprehensively tested for speciation analysis of organotin in the different environmental samples. This is followed by the description of a novel extraction approaches based on the use of sub-micron materials that can be dispersed in a colloidal sol to selectively scavenge analytes.