Editorial 

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| Vol. 44 | n. 1 | 2019 | 

 

 
 

 

Editorial 

 

 

The Editor is very happy to announce the first issue of Eclética Química Journal 

of 2019, hoping from now on the dawn of a new era for EQJ. This issue contains a review 

on the state-of-the-art advances for CO2 electro-chemical reduction using metal complex 

molecular catalysts. For this purpose, the authors claimed that in order to increase metal 

complexes molecular catalysts application, it is imperative to overcome their poor 

stability which is a significant challenge. Following this review, the readers can find a 

description of a new method for the elimination of residual drugs from pharmaceutical 

and domestic sources, based on electrocoagulation techniques, consisting of a pilot 

prototype development and its application to remove these contaminants and decrease 

significantly the toxicity of treated water. In sequence, the quantification of cadmium 

with an acceptable repeatability and good accuracy was presented employing 

noncommercial electrodes and minimal instrumentation, which can be accessed by many 

laboratories with scarce economic resources. In the last article, a new and simple method 

for Cr speciation and Cr(VI) determination in leather samples is described using the 

capture of digital images with a mobile phone and their processing with a free app called 

PhotoMetrix, and the results are compared to the reference methods. 

The Editor and his team thank all authors for their valuable contributions, and 

reviewers for their outstanding collaboration. 

 
 

 

Assis Vicente Benedetti 

Editor-in-Chief of EQJ 

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