Project Details:
Determination of Selenium Species in Environmental Samples
| Project No.: | 523-10-95 |
| Start date: | 1995-01-01 |
| End date: | 2000-12-31 |
| Division: | Analytical Chemistry Division |
The aim is to review critically methods for the analysis of selenium species in environmental samples (as opposed to biological samples), to offer guidance on method in use, and to briefly indicate future developments. Selenium is one of the most important elements in terms of human, animal and plant nutrition, showing toxicity as well as being a modifier of geochemical cycling of trace elements. There is a growing demand for selenium speciation in the environment as the functions and the dynamics of selenium are to be understood on the basis of its chemical species. A critical review of analytical methods of selenium in the environment, and a guidance on the method use will be given in the project. The project is important for world chemists not only because of its scientific significance but also of its wide application in different fields. Although other international bodies and scientific bodies have shown their interest in this type of project, IUPAC is the most appropriate unit to do because of its capacity in science and good coverage of chemists of high quality and of geological distribution.
In Berlin, it was decided that this project will also include most ofthe content from project 523/10/95(Determination of Selenium Species in Environmental Samples - abandoned).Final report submitted to the IUPAC Secretariat in December 1999.
Project completed - Technical Report published in PureAppl. Chem.,72(3), 447-461, 2000 entitled: 'Species-selective determinationof selenium compounds in biological materials'.