The recent coronavirus pandemic has already victimized hundreds of thousands of people around the world, and until this moment does not exist any medicine for healing or vaccine to avoid the contamination. Therefore, the actions of social isolation associated with the use of masks and surface and hand sanitation are the most effective actions to avoid the virus dissemination. The hands are one of the main vectors of contagious, and should be washed constantly and sanitized with some disinfectant agent. Among the recommendations, the formulations based on ethyl alcohol and isopropyl alcohol are the most used, being the efficiency of these formulations based on the alcohol type, the concentration, the applied volume, and the contact time. The gel disinfectants are preferred by the population due to the facile and safer manipulation. However, due to the pandemic, the main gelling agent has become sparse and, in the function of this, some countries authorized the utilization of alternative formulations. The World Health Organization recommends two formulations, being one based on ethyl alcohol (80 Vol%) and the second on isopropyl alcohol (75 Vol%), destined for the local manufacture and with a fast and effective action.

Since the introduction of GC there has been an ongoing interest in reducing time of analysis resulting in new terms and definitions such as ultra fast gas chromatography (UF-GC). One of the most used definitions describes UF-GC as a technique that combines the employment of short narrow bore column with very fast temperature programming rates producing chromatographic peaks in the range of 50 ms and allowing separations times in 1-2 min or less. This paper summarizes the analytical approaches, the main parameters involved and the instrumentation towards UF-GC.

A construção, avaliação e aplicação analítica de um sensor potenciométrico do tipo Pt|Hg|Hg2(Fur)2|Grafite, onde Fur significa íon 4-cloro-N-furfuril-5-sulfamoil-antranilato, são descritas. O eletrodo responde a Fur com sensibilidade de (-58,4 ± 0,9) mV década-1 no intervalo de 5,0 × 10-7-1,0 × 10-2 mol L-1, a pH 7,0-9,0 e com um limite de detecção de 3,8 × 10-7 mol L-1. O eletrodo é facilmente construído e de baixo custo, apresenta um rápido tempo de resposta (10-20 s) e pode ser usado por um período de 6 meses sem qualquer variação considerável nas suas características de desempenho. O eletrodo proposto mostrou boa seletividade na presença de várias substâncias, bem como na presença de alguns carboxilatos e ânions inorgânicos. O eletrodo foi aplicado com sucesso na determinação de furosemida em medicamentos, urina, soro sanguíneo e amostras comerciais de leite bovino.

The construction, evaluation and analytical application of a potentiometric sensor, namely, Pt|Hg|Hg2(Fur)2|Graphite, where Fur stands for 4-chloro-N-furfuryl-5-sulphamoyl-anthranilate ion, are described. This electrode has a linear dynamic range between 5.0 × 10-7-1.0 × 10-2 mol L-1 with a near-Nernstian slope of (-58.4± 0.9) mV decade-1 and a detection limit of 3.8 × 10-7 mol L-1. The potentiometric response is independent of the pH of the solution in the pH range 7.0-9.0. The electrode shows easy construction, low-cost, fast response time (within 10-20 s) and can be used for a period of 6 months without significant change in its performance characteristics. The proposed sensor displayed good selectivities over a variety of other anions (carboxylates and inorganic anions). Application of this potentiometric sensor for the furosemide determination in pharmaceuticals, urine, blood serum and commercial milk samples is reported.