Abstract
Chemical sciences in Brazil are growing fast and being one of the main supports for the continuous development of the country. Inspired on the 15th Brazilian Meeting on Analytical Chemistry, ENQA, with a record number of participants and communications, we have decided to review recent developments in analytical chemistry in Brazil. We have chosen the same application areas used for the thematic organization of the ENQA and have searched papers published by Brazilian authors in 7 major and general journals in analytical chemistry. The two scientific journals published by the Brazilian Chemical Society were also searched. This review is not comprehensive, but the selected papers published after 2008 shown an impressive overview of the area. We may conclude that analytical chemistry is healthy and growing in Brazilian scenario and certainly will attend the demands of Brazil as an emerged power.
Highlights
The goal of this review is to highlight selected papers in several application areas to illustrate the fast and continuous development of analytical chemistry in Brazil
This study indicates the predominance of biodiesel produced from soybean oil and methanol in the analyzed commercial mixtures diesel/biodiesel
Sample pretreatments based on microwave-assisted acid decomposition, direct dilution in kerosene and formation of an oil-in-water emulsion with sonication were compared for determination of Cu, Cr, Fe, Ni, Pb, Sb and Zn in lubricating oils by high resolution continuum source FAAS.[178]
Summary
The goal of this review is to highlight selected papers in several application areas to illustrate the fast and continuous development of analytical chemistry in Brazil. This evolution was discussed in two recent review papers,[1,2] so the focus was to search papers published after 2007. The authors have not tried to be comprehensive They selected the following journals for glancing recent developments: Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society, Química Nova, The Analyst, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Analytica Chimica Acta, Analytical Letters, Microchemical Journal, and Talanta. It can be seen that there is a correlation between the percentage of papers published in those topics when searching either all journals or the selected ones. The following topics will discuss selected papers highlighting their contribution to the analytical sciences
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