Abstract
Aromatic hydrocarbons and their derivatives are important environmental pollutants. This chapter is devoted to their detection using either boron-doped diamond film electrodes or carbon paste electrodes.
Boron-doped diamond is a fascinating new electrode material with extremely broad potential window, low noise and high resistance to passivation that make it very useful for environmental applications, based both on anodic oxidations and cathodic reductions depending on the functional groups present in target analyte. This is illustrated by numerous examples.
Easy surface renewal, chemical modification, user friendliness and a broad spectrum of described applications make carbon paste electrodes very popular sensors in environmental detection of aromatic hydrocarbons and their derivatives which is documented in this chapter.