A new oxidimetric reagent: potassium dichromate in a strong phosphoric acid medium-VI Potentiometric titration of vanadium(III) alone and in mixture with vanadium(IV)

Vanadium(III) can be titrated at room temperature with potassium dichromate in an 8-12M phosphoric acid medium. Two potential breaks are observed in 12M phosphoric add with 0.2N potassium dichromate, the first corresponding to the oxidation of vanadium(III) to vanadium(IV) and the second to the oxidation of vanadium(IV) to vanadium(V). In titrations with 0.05N dichromate only the first break in potential is clearly observed. The method has been extended to the titration of mixtures of vanadium(III) and vanadium(IV). Conditions have also been found for the visual titration of vanadium(III) using ferroln or barium diphenylamine sulphonate as indicator.     

Investigation of iodine liberation process in redox titration of potassium iodate with sodium thiosulfate

Potassium iodate is often used as a reference material to standardize a sodium thiosulfate solution which is a familiar titrant for redox titrations. In the standardization, iodine (triiodide) liberated by potassium iodate in an acidic potassium iodide solution is titrated with a sodium thiosulfate solution. The iodine liberation process is significantly affected by the amount of acid, that of potassium iodide added, the waiting time for the liberation, and light; therefore, the process plays a key role for the accuracy of the titration results. Constant-voltage biamperometry with a modified dual platinum-chip electrode was utilized to monitor the amount of liberated iodine under several liberation conditions. Coulometric titration was utilized to determine the concentration of a sodium thiosulfate solution on an absolute basis. Potassium iodate was assayed by gravimetric titration with the sodium thiosulfate solution under several iodine liberation conditions. The liberation process was discussed from the changes in the apparent assay of potassium iodate. The information of the appropriate titration procedure obtained in the present study is useful for any analysts utilizing potassium iodate to standardize a thiosulfate solution.     

Volumetric studies in oxidation-reduction reactions: Oxidation with chloramine-t. indirect determinations

Chloramine-T has been used as an oxidizing agent in hydrochloric acid medium for the indirect volumetric determination of hydrogen peroxide, lead dioxide, selenium dioxide, sodium formate, potassium meta-periodate, potassium permanganate and potassium dichromate using iodine monochloride as a catalyst, prcoxidizer and an indicator. Chloroform is coloured pink owing to the liberation of iodine during the titration and becomes very pale yellow at the end-point because of the formation of iodine monochloride.     

Iodometric microdetermination of certain organic acids

A rapid and accurate method for the determination of certain organic acids is described. The acid sample solution is treated with suitable quantities of solid potassium iodate and potassium iodide followed by the titration of the liberated iodine with thiosulphate after 3-5 min. The results are accurate to within 0.3%.     

Volumetric estimation of persulphate using arsenite as a primary standard

The method of estimating the persulphate by direct titration using arsenious acid or sodium arsenite as a primary standard has been described.This method consists in taking a mixture of arsenious acid or sodium arsenite and an excess of potassium iodide in the titration mixture. The mixture is heated to 80°C and solid sodium bicarbonate is added. Persulphate solution is run in from a burette and the liberated iodine is instantaneously consumed by trivalent arsenic. At the end-point an excess drop of persulphate gives a yellow colour due to the liberated iodine remaining unreacted. The results are satisfactory and the error lies within permissible limits.     

2-Nitrodiphenylamine as a versatile high-potential reversible oxidation-reduction indicator

The use of 2-nitrodiphenylamine as a reversible indicator has been investigated in the titration of iron(II) with cerium(IV) sulphate, potassium dichromate and sodium vanadate in sulphuric acid media. Accurate results can be obtained with cerium(IV) sulphate in 0.5–5.0 M acid, with potassium dichromate in 5.0–7.0 M acid, and with sodium vanadate in 5.0–7.5 M acid. With cerium(IV) sulphate the titrations are preferably conducted in 2.0 M sulphuric acid or in a 1.0 M. sulphuric acid-1.0 M pechloric acid medium. Tungstic acid, acetic acid, arsenic(III) and manganese(II) do not interfere. In titrations of iron(II) with dichromate and vanadate, the colour changes at the end-point are much more vivid with 2-nitrodiphenylamine than with ferroin.     

A new volumetric method for the determination of molybdenum(VI)

Summary A new volumetric method has been developed for the determination of molybdenum(VI). The method consists in the reduction of molybdenum(VI) by heating with a slight excess of hydrazine sulphate in 1 to 2 M hydrochloric acid medium for ten minutes on a water bath. The mixture is cooled and the molybdenum(V) obtained determined by titration with a standard solution of ceric sulphate at an overall acidity of 4 N hydrochloric acid, using diphenyl benzidine as indicator and adding 5 ml of syrupy phosphoric acid for 50 ml of the mixture. Alternately the molybdenum(V) can be titrated with a standard solution of ceric sulphate at an overall acidity of 3 N hydrochloric acid using ferroin as indicator and adding 5 ml of syrupy phosphoric acid for 50 ml of the titration mixture. The molybdenum(V) can also be titrated with a standard solution of sodium vanadate in 8 N sulphuric acid medium, using N-phenyl anthranilic acid as indicator. Alternately, the titration with sodium vanadate can be made with diphenyl benzidine as indicator in 4 N acid medium, adding 5 ml of syrupy phosphoric acid and 1 ml of 1.0 M oxalic acid to catalyse the indicator action. The method now proposed is much more convenient than the methods currently available. It is simple because it does not require any costly chemicals or complicated apparatus. Furthermore, it has the advantages of great rapidity and excellent precision.     

The determination of microgram quantities of organic nitrogen

A method is descriibed for the determination of microgram quantities of nitrogen in a wide variety of materials. This method involves the Kjeldahl procedure for the conversion of nitrogen to ammonium or amine sulphate. Digestion of the sample with concentrated sulphuric acid and catalyst, and, if necessary, pretreatment with hydriodic acid and red phosphorus, are followed by steam-distillation into a dilute acid solution. The final determination depends on the reaction of ammonia, in a suitably buffered solution, with sodium hypobromite reagent, and measurement of the excess reagent by titration of the iodine liberated by it from acidified potassium iodide, with a standard $\text{N}\text{500}$ sodium thiosulphate solution, using sodium starch glycollate indicator.Since sample size is relatively unrestricted and the final titration can measure 5 micrograms of nitrogen, the sensitivity of the method is very high.Reference is made to existing sub-micro methodes which, although sensitive, are time-consuming and specific in application.     

Vanadametry Estimation of Thiosulphate

1.(a) We have found that sodium thiosulphate is quantitatively oxidized to tetrathionate in five minutes at room temperature (28°) by excess sodium vanadate in a medium containing sulphuric acid at 0.06N to 0.1N concentration and a little copper sulphate as catalyst. (b) Quantitative emulation of sodium thiosulphate to tetrathionate has also been achieved by the action of excess sodium vanadate during five minutes at room temperature in a medium containing 2.0N—8.0N acetic acid and a little copper salt as catalyst. Further oxidation to sulphate does not occur, even if the mixture is heated to boiling. (c) The excess of unreacted vanadate in 1(a) and 1(b) can be titrated with a standard solution of ferrous ammonium sulphate using diphenylbenzidine as indicator, after adding the requisite quantity of syrupy phosphoric acid. 2. On the other hand, sodium thiosulphate is easily and quantitatively oxidized to sulphate at room temperature, when. acted upon by excess sodium vanadate in a medium containing hydrochloric acid at an overall concentration of 5-6N and 1.0 ml of iodine monochloride as catalyst. The time required for reaction is ten minutes. The unreacted vanadate can be estimated by titration with a standard solution of ferrous ammonium sulphate, using N-phenylanthranilic acid as indicator or with diphenylbenzidine as indicator after suitably diluting and adding phosphoric acid.     

Sodium meta-vanadate as volumetric reagent : Iodine monochloride method

Sodium meta-vanadate has been used as an oxidising agent in hydrochloric acid medium for the volumetric estimations of potassium iodide, sodium arsenite, mercurous chloride, potassium thiocyanate, sodium sulphite, sodium bisulphite, sodium thiosulphate, ferrous sulphate and hydrazine sulphate, using iodine monochloride as a catalyst and preoxidiser. Chloroform is used as an indicator. It is coloured pink due to the liberation, of iodine during the titration and becomes light pale yellow at the end-point due to the formation of iodine monochloride.     

A rapid iodometric method for the determination of copper and zinc

A method has been described for the iodometric simultaneous determination of zinc and copper. Copper is determined in the presence of sufficient KCNS and a small amount of KI. This is followed by the titration of the iodine equivalent to the zinc, which is liberated by the addition of potassium ferricyanide solution.Interference is eliminated completely by keeping the solution neutral or just acid with phosphoric acid.Within the range under investgation, results are obtained which are accurate to ± 0.7%.     

Potassium meta-periodate as volumetric reagent : Iodine bromide method

Potassium meta-periodate has been used as an oxidising agent in acid medium for the volumetric estimationss of potassium iodide, arsenious oxide, antimonous oxide, stannous chloride, mercurous chloride, sodium sulphite, sodium thiosulphate, sodium tetrathionate, ferrous sulphate, potassium thiocyanate, hydrazine sulphate, phenylhydrazine hydrochloride and hydroquinone by the iodine bromide method. Carbon tetrachloride is used as an indicator. It is coloured pink during the titration. and becomes colourless at the end-point due to the formation of stable iodine bromide complex IBr2-, which does not dissociate, in the presence of a large excess of bromide ion.     

A new oxidimetric reagent: potassium dichromate in a strong phosphoric acid medium—I Titrimetr1c determination of manganese

A new method has been developed for the direct titrimetric determination of manganese^II, depending on its oxidation to manganese^III with potassium dichromate at room temperature in a strong phosphoric acid medium using a potentiometric or photometric endpoint. Oxygen of the air does not interfere. The potentiometric method gives results to an accuracy within ± 0.3% for 20–150 mg of manganese/50 ml of titration solution; with the photometric method 5–17 mg of manganese/40 ml of titration solution can be determined with an error of 0.3–1.0% depending on the amount present. Potassium dichromate in 12.0M phosphoric acid has a formal redox potential of about 1.5 V and this reagent appears to have great possibilities in titrimetric analysis.     

A new oxidimetric reagent: potassium dichromate in a strong phosphoric acid medium--VII. Photometric titration of vanadium(IV) and of cerium(III) alone and in mixtures with iroN(II)

Vanadium(IV) can be accurately titrated with potassium dichromate in media containing phosphoric acid of 3-12M concentration: the change in absorption of vanadium(IV) is followed in the region 660 mmicro using a red filter. It is more convenient to carry out the titration in 3M phosphoric acid because at higher concentrations chloride, nitrate, cerium(III) and manganese(II) may interfere. Photoelcetric titration is more convenient than potentiometric because the former can be made in a 3M phosphoric acid medium, whereas the latter is possible only in 12M phosphoric acid. The simultaneous differential photometric titration of iron(II) and vanadium(IV) is also possible. Conditions have been found for the photometric titration of cerium(III) and of cerium(III) plus iron(II). The titration is carried out (at 450 mmicro or with a blue filter) in about 10.5M phosphoric acid. Application of the method to a cerium mineral is considered.     

Precise coulometric titration of sodium thiosulfate and development of potassium iodate as a redox standard

In this paper, we determine the effective purity of potassium iodate as a redox standard with a certified value linked to the international system of units (SI units). Concentration measurement of sodium thiosulfate solution was performed by precise coulometric titration with electrogenerated iodine, and an assay of potassium iodate was carried out by gravimetric titration based on the reductometric factor of sodium thiosulfate assigned by coulometry. The accuracy of the coulometric titration method was evaluated by examining the current efficiency of iodine electrogeneration, stability of sodium thiosulfate solutions and dependence on the amount of sodium thiosulfate solution used. The measurement procedure for gravimetric titration of potassium iodate with sodium thiosulfate was validated based on determination of a reference material of known purity (potassium dichromate determined by coulometry with electrogenerated ferrous ions) using the same gravimetric method. Solutions of 0.2 and 0.5 mol/L sodium thiosulfate were stable over 17 days without stabilizer. Investigation of the dependency of titration results on the amount of sodium thiosulfate solution used showed no significant effects, no evidence of diffusion of the sample, and no effect of contamination appearing during the experiment. Precise coulometric titration of sodium thiosulfate achieved a relative standard deviation of less than 0.005% under repeating conditions (six measurements). For gravimetric titration, the results obtained for the effective purity of potassium dichromate were sufficiently close to its certified value to allow confirmation of the validity of the gravimetric titration was confirmed. The relative standard deviation of gravimetric titration for potassium iodate was less than 0.011% (nine measurements), and a redox standard with a certified value linked to SI units was developed.     

Oxidimetric methods for the volumetric estimation of sulphite

1. The use of permanganate, ceric sulphate, and dichromate for the estimation of sulphite has been reinvestigated, although these reagents have heen discarded as useless by earlier investigators. By using catalysts under controlled acid concentration, we have been able to develop conditions for the quantitative oxidation of sulphite to sulphate at room temperature by any one of these oxidizing agents, avoiding the formation of dithionate. Copper sulphate and iodine monochlonde have been found useful as catalysts with potassium permanganate and dichromate; but only iodine monochloride with ceric sulphate. 2. Sodium sulphite is also oxidized quantitatively to sulphate at room temperature, when added to excess of sodium vanadate solution containing 5 to 6N hydrochloric acid and iodine monochloride as catalyst.     

Sodium hypochlorite as volumetric reagent

Summary In presence of 5 N to 6 N hydrochloric acid, ferrous ethylenediamine sulphate was used as a reducing agent to determine indirectly potassium chlorate, potassium bromate, potassium metaperiodate, potassium dichromate, potassium ferricyanide, potassium permanganate, potassium persulphate, hydrogen peroxide, ceric sulphate and chloramine-T. An excess of ferrous ethylenediamine sulphate added to each of the substances in the acid medium was titrated with a standard solution of sodium hypochlorite. Iodine monochloride was used as catalyst and preoxidizer and chloroform was used as an indicator. Chloroform was coloured violet owing to the liberation of iodine during the titration and became very pale yellow at the end-point because of the formation of iodine monochloride.Part I: See Z. analyt. Chem. 160, 429 (1958).     

Potentiometric titration of permanganate with resacetophenone oxime

Milligram amounts of permanganate can be titrated with resacetophenone oxime (4-acetylresorcinol oxime) as a reducing titrant in the presence of phosphoric acid (0.5 M). The stoichiometry between permanganate and the oxime is 3:1 (MnO₄^-:oxime). The titration is successful in the presence of large amounts of dichromate or vanadate or moderate amounts of cerium(IV).     

Iodometric determination of potassium permanganate by arsenious oxide following iodide reduction in presence of borax-boric acid buffer and barium chloride

Summary An iodometric method for the determination of potassium permananate is described following its reduction to MnO₂ in presence of boraxboric acid buffer at PH 8–10 by iodide and titration of the liberated iodine with standard arsenious oxide solution. Excess BaCl₂ is added to coagulate the colloidal MnO₂ whose otherwise partial reduction by iodide is prevented thereby.Sincere thanks of the authors are due to Prof. S. S. Joshi, for his kind interest in the work.