Abstract
The different strategies for mercury species analysis in environmentally-related samples are reviewed. After consideration of the main different steps involved in the speciation of mercury, such steps are discussed with more extension for mercuric ion and methylmercury. The different approaches for preservation of these mercury species during the storage of samples are considered. Different ways for the extraction of mercury species from the several possible environmental compartments and the possibilities for preconcentration of such species after previous derivatization reactions are discussed. Mercuric ions and methylmercury chromatographic and non-chromatographic separations along with different techniques used for sensitive and selective detection of mercury are also critically reviewed. Ranges of published detection limits achievable for such species determination, by using hyphenated techniques between a chromatographic separation and a specific atomic detector are also given.
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