Three- and four-way parallel factor (PARAFAC) analysis of photochemically induced excitation-emission kinetic fluorescence spectra

Analyst. 2005 Jan;130(1):85-93. doi: 10.1039/b409235j. Epub 2004 Nov 8.

Abstract

Independently emerging fluorescence profiles of unknown, photochemically induced degradation products of several naturally non-fluorescent pesticides were monitored using single exposure excitation-emission fluorescence spectroscopy. Three-way parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC) was employed to uniquely resolve the pure fluorescent spectra of the overlapping photolysis products. The quantitative utility of EEM photolysis-based determinations was demonstrated by employing four-way PARAFAC models built from EEM time cubes of multiple fenvalerate samples. The 4-way PARAFAC models were then used to predict original pesticide concentrations resulting in conservative limit of detection and root mean square errors of calibration (RMSEC) of 3 microM each.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Calibration
  • Factor Analysis, Statistical
  • Pesticides / analysis*
  • Spectrometry, Fluorescence / methods
  • Water Pollutants, Chemical / analysis*

Substances

  • Pesticides
  • Water Pollutants, Chemical