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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 11.
Published in final edited form as: Anal Chim Acta. 2006 May 9;572(1):1–10. doi: 10.1016/j.aca.2006.05.009

Table 3.

Potentiometric selectivity coefficients, log KAgJpot, and response slopes (in parentheses; concentration ranges: 10−3–10−5M for Ag+ and Et4N+, 10−2 to 10−4M for all other ions) obtained with the separate solution method for PVC membranes based on the ionophores VIIX (cf. Fig. 2)

Ion J VII VIII IX (o-NPOE) IX (DOS) X (o-NPOE) X (DOS)
Ag+ 0 (59.1) 0 (57.6) 0 (61.2) 0 (61.6) 0 (60.5) 0 (61.5)
H+ −8.92 ± 0.14 (48.1) −10.88 ± 1.52 (52.1) −10.17 ± 0.12 (47.0) −7.37 ± 0.01 (57.7) −6.74 ± 0.01 (54.5) −6.61 ± 0.04 (58.2)
Na+ −9.04 ± 0.13 (46.3) −11.46 ± 0.65 (57.7) −10.32 ± 0.13 (41.5) −7.90 ± 0.02 (59.0) < −9.62 (−0.2) −8.00 ± 0.02 (46.2)
K+ −7.12 ± 0.10 (54.3) −7.69 ± 0.12 (53.4) −8.44 ± 0.21 (56.9) −7.50 ± 0.02 (57.9) −8.16 ± 0.05 (33.5) −7.51 ± 0.02 (52.3)
Mg2+ −10.12 ± 0.17 (24.1) −10.89 ± 0.15 (27.7) −11.44 ± 0.23 (27.5) −11.01 ± 0.04 (12.2) < −10.54 (−9.9) < −10.74 (2.3)
Ca2+ −10.17 ± 0.14 (28.2) −12.78 ± 0.12 (27.8) −11.29 ± 0.12 (27.6) −10.71 ± 0.04 (18.2) < −10.46 (3.6) < −10.43 (7.9)
Cu2+ −9.01 ± 0.21 (24.4) −8.19 ± 0.24 (16.6) −11.08 ± 0.22 (20.5) −10.13 ± 0.04 (30.0)5 −9.14 ± 0.04 (21.8) −9.19 ± 0.02 (30.4)
Hg2+ −2.67 ± 0.15 (60.9)b not measureda −3.54 ± 0.12 (35.6) −2.58 ± 0.04 (35.0) −4.68 ± 0.02 (43.5)b −3.90 ± 0.02 (34.7)
Pb2+ −8.68 ± 0.19 (32.3) −9.20 ± 0.13 (33.2) −10.41 ± 0.22 (35.0) −8.56 ± 0.03 (46.5)
Et4N+ −3.04 ± 0.08 (68.4) −4.77 ± 0.13 (60.6)a −3.47 ± 0.02 (65.4) −4.35 ± 0.01 (61.3) −3.65 ± 0.02 (63.3) −4.63 ± 0.01 (59.4)
a

Strongly drifting signals.

b

For the concentration range of 10−2–10−3M.