Designing an effective and simple detection method to quantify glyphosate (GLY) herbicide is desirable. Current chromatography-mass spectrometry and electrochemical methods can be used for this purpose, but these methods are difficult to be made portable and need high-cost equipment. Here, we evaluate a luminescent β-diketonate-Eu-ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid complex for GLY quantification in aqueous media on the basis of the luminescent quenching process. This complex successfully measured GLY at concentrations ranging from 5 × 10-7 to 10-5 mol L-1. Theoretical methods (LUMPAC) are also performed to identify the complex most probable structure in solution. We also demonstrate that the metal-organic frameworks HKUST-1 and IRMOF-3, easily synthesized, effectively adsorb GLY in water in about 30 min of contact.
Keywords: MOFs; adsorption; detection; glyphosate; luminescence; rare earths.