My Sb publications

  • elaboration of review papers on the element:

M. Filella, N. Belzile and Y.-W. Chen (2002) Antimony in the environment: a review focused on natural waters. I. Occurrence. EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS, 57, 125-176.
M. Filella, N. Belzile and Y.-W. Chen (2002) Antimony in the environment: a review focused on natural waters. II. Relevant solution chemistry. EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS, 59, 265-285.
M. Filella, N. Belzile and M.-C. Lett (2007) Antimony in the environment: a review focused on natural waters. III. Microbiota relevant interactions. EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS, 80, 195-217.
M. Filella, P.A. Williams and N. Belzile (2009) Antimony in the environment: knowns and unknowns. ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY, 6  95-105.
M. Filella (2010) Alkyl derivatives of antimony in the environment. In: Metal Ions in Life Science. Volume 7. Organometallics in Environment and Toxicology, A. Sigel, H. Sigel and R.K.O. Sigel (Eds.). RSC Publishing, pp. 267-301.
N. Belzile, Y.-W. Chen and M. Filella, (2011) Human exposure to antimony I. Sources and intake. CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 41, 1309-1373.
M. Filella (2011) Antimony interactions with heterogeneous complexants in waters, sediments and soils: a review of data obtained in bulk samples. EARTH SCIENCE REVIEWS, 107, 325-341
M. Filella, N. Belzile and Y.-W. Chen (2012) Human exposure to antimony. II. Contents in some human tissues often used in biomonitoring (Hair, Nails, Teeth) CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 42 , 1058-1115.
M. Filella and P.A. Williams (2012) Antimony interactions with heterogeneous complexants in waters, sediments and soils: a review of binding data for homologous compounds. CHEMIE DER ERDE - GEOCHEMISTRY, 72 S4 , 49-65.
M. Filella, N. Belzile and Y.-W. Chen (2013) Human exposure to antimony. III. Contents in some human excreted biofluids (urine, milk, saliva). CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 43, 204-254.
M. Filella, N. Belzile and Y.-W. Chen (2013) Human exposure to antimony. IV. Contents in blood. CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 43 , 2071-2105.

  • development of a simple, rapid and reliable method for the determination of Sb(III) and Sb(V) in natural waters:

F. Quentel and M. Filella (2002) Determination of inorganic antimony species in seawater by DPASV: stability of the trivalent state. ANAL. CHIM. ACTA, 452, 237-244.

  • other analytical methods:

P. Pla-Vilanova, J. Galceran, J. Puy, E. Companys and M. Filella (2019) Antimony speciation in aqueous solution followed with AGNES. JOURNAL OF ELECTROANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, 849, 113334.>
V. Lazic, M. Filella and A. Turner (2018) Determination of antimony concentrations in widely used plastic objects by Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS). JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL AND ATOMIC SPECTROMETRY, 33, 1917–1924.

  • Sb(III) oxidation kinetics in the presence of natural oxidants:

F. Quentel, M. Filella, C. Elleouet and C.-L. Madec (2004) Kinetic studies on Sb(III) oxidation by hydrogen peroxide in natural waters. ENVIRON. SCI. TECHNOL., 38, 2843-2848 (2004).
C. Elleouet, F. Quentel, C.-L. Madec and M. Filella (2005) The effect of the presence of trace metals on the oxidation of Sb(III) by hydrogen peroxide in aqueous solution. J. ENVIRON. MONITORING, 7, 1220-1225.
F. Quentel, M. Filella, C. Elleouet and C.-L. Madec (2006) Sb(III) oxidation by iodate in seawater: a cautionary tale. SCI. TOTAL ENVIRON., 355, 259-263.

  • development of a thermodynamically-consistent sets of Sb stability constants:

M. Filella and P.M. May (2003) Computer simulation of the low-molecular-weight inorganic species distribution of antimony(III) and antimony(V) in natural waters. GEOCHIM. COSMOCHIM. ACTA, 67, 4013-4031.
M. Filella and P.M. May (2005) Critical appraisal of available thermodynamic data for the complexation of antimony(III) and antimony(V) by low-molecular-mass organic ligands. J. ENVIRON. MONITORING, 7, 1226-1237.
G.A. Diemar, M. Filella, P. Leverett and P.A. Williams (2005)  Dispersion of antimony from oxidizing ore deposits. PURE AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY, 81, 1547-1553.
A.J. Roper, P.A. Williams and M. Filella (2012) Secondary antimony minerals: phases that control the dispersion of antimony in the supergene zone. CHEMIE DER ERDE - GEOCHEMISTRY, 72 S4, 9-14.

  • study of antimony behaviour in natural systems:

T. Gil-Díaz, J. Schäffer, M. Filella, L.l Dutruch and C. Bossy (2019) Fractionation of inherited and spiked antimony (Sb) in fluvial/estuarine bulk sediments: unexpected anomalies in parallel selective extraction protocols. APPLIED GEOCHEMISTRY, 108, 104386.
Y.-W. Chen, T.-L. Deng, M. Filella and N. Belzile (2003) Distribution and early diagenesis of antimony species in sediments and porewaters of freshwater lakes. ENVIRON. SCI. TECHNOL., 37, 1163-1168.

  • study of toxicological-related issues:

A. Porquet and M. Filella (2007) Structural evidence of the similarity of Sb(OH)3 and As(OH)3 with glycerol: Implications for their uptake. ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY, 20 , 1269-1276.
M. Filella and P.A. Williams (2010) Antimony biomethylation in culture media revisited in the light of solubility and chemical speciation considerations. CHEMICAL RESEARCH IN TOXICOLOGY, 25, 431-439.

  • Sb in plastics and in consumer products:

M. Biver, A. Turner and M. Filella, Antimony release from polyester textiles by artificial sweat solutions: A call for a standardized procedure. REGULATORY TOXICOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY, 119, 104824 (2021).
M. Filella (2020) Antimony and PET bottles: checking facts. CHEMOSPHERE, 261, 127732.
A. Turner and M. Filella (2020) Antimony in paints and enamels of everyday items. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, 713, 1365886.
M. Filella, P. Hennebert, G. Okkenhaug and A. Turner (2020) Occurrence and fate of antimony in plastics. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS, 390, 121764.

You will find the urls of all the papers under "My publications". If you are looking for a review to cite, please forget the most cited one (ESR, 57, 125, 2002) and take Environmental Chemistry, 6, 95 (2009) instead. In my opinion it is much better!