Potentiometric studies in oxidation-reduction reactions: Reduction with ferrous ethylenediamine sulphate ceric sulphate method

Ferrous ethylenediamine sulphate has been used as a reducing agent to determine indirectly potassium permanganate, ceric sulphate, potassium chlorate, hydrogen peroxide, potassium persulphate, potassium dichromate and potassium bromate by a potentiometric method. An excess of ferrous ethylenediamine sulphate added to each of the substances in acid medium was titrated with a standard solution of ceric sulphate, using platinum foil as an oxidation-reduction electrode coupled with a saturated calomel electrode through an agar-agar potassium chloride bridge.     

Volumetric Studies In Oxidation-Reduction Reactions: Oxidation with ceric sulphate ferrous ethylenediamine sulphate method

Ceric sulphate has been used as an oxidizing agent in acid medium for the indirect volumetric determinations of ferrous ammonium sulphate, cuprous chloride, potassium thiocyanate, sodium thiosulpliate, sodiuin nitrite, hydrogen peroxide, sodium oxalate, hydroquinone and pyruvic acid. The excess of ceric sulphate added to each of the substances in acid medium was titrated with standard ferrous ethylenediamine sulphate solution using ferroin as an indicator.     

Potentiometric studies in oxidation-reduction reactions: Reduction with ferrous ethylenediamine sulphate indirect determinations

Ferrous ethylenediamine sulphate has been used as a reducing agent to determine indirectly potassium dichromate, hydrogen peroxide, potassium permanganate, potassium persulphate, potassium chlorate, potassium bromate, and ceric sulphate by a potentiometric method. An excess of ferrous ethylenediamine sulphate added to each of the substances in an acid medium is titrated with a standard solution of potassium permanganate, using platinum foil as an oxidation-reduction electrode coupled with a saturated calomel electrode through an agar-agar potassium chloride bridge.     

Volumetric studies in oxidation-reduction reactions: Reduction with ferrous ethylenediamine sulphate indirect determinations

Ferrous ethylenediamine sulphate has been. used as a reducing agent in acid medium for the indirect volumetric estimations of potassium chlorate, potassium bromate, potassium metaperiodate, potassium, dichromate, potassium ferricyanide, potassium permanganate, potassium persulphate, hydrogen peroxide and ceric sulphate. The excess of ferrous ethylenediamine sulphate added to each of the substances was titrated with standard potassium permanganate and also with. standard potassium dichromate solution. In case of potassium bromate or potassium metaperiodate the end-point was not sharp in potassium dichromate titrations; while accurate volumetric observations were made with standard potassium permanganate solution.     

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).     

Titration of oxalic acid with cerium sulphate at room temperature using ferroïn as internal indicator

Evidence is presented to show that, contrary to the statements of earlier workers, the reaction between ceric sulphate and oxalic acid is quite rapid in hydrochloric acid medium specially in the presence of iodine monochloride as catalyst. We have now found that the need for a temperature of 50° in the cerimetric titration of oxalic acid using ferroïn as indicator is not due to the sluggishness of the reaction between oxalic acid and Ce^IV (as believed by Willard and Young) but because of the slow reaction between oxidised ferroïn and oxalic acid in the presence of sulphate ion derived from eerie sulphate. Conditions have now been developed for the titration of oxalic acid with eerie sulphate at room temperature in lN hydrochloric acid medium using ferroïn as indicator, and barium ion as scavenger for sulphate ion, which latter markedly retards the reaction between oxalic acid and oxidised ferroïn, as well as that between oxalic acid and Ce^IV. The method now developed has several advantages over that prescribed by Willard and Young because it avoids the high temperature of 50°, where the ferroïn indicator is found to undergo some dissociation. It also avoids the use of the iodine monochloride catalyst.     

Diethylenetetra-ammonium sulphatocerate as volumetric reagent: Iodine monochloride method. Indirect determinations

In presence of 4N to N hydrochloric acid, diethylenetetra-ammnonium sulphatocerate was used as a volumetric reagent to determine indirectly potassium iodate, potassium metaperiodate, potassium dichromate, potassium bromate, ceric sulphate, hydrogen peroxide, lead dioxide and chloramine-B by the iodine monochloride method. An excess of potassium iodide added to each of the substances in the acid medium was, titrated back with a standard solution of diethylene-tetra-ammonium suphatocerate. Chloroform was used as an indicator. It was coloured violet owing to the liberation of iodine during the titralion and became very pale yellow at the end-point because of the formation of iodine monochloride.     

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.     

Volumetric estimation of uranium-part III, with ceric sulphate

Summary The use of diphenylamine, diphenylbenzidine, diphenylamine sulphonate and N-phenylanthranilic acid as inside indicators in the titration of uranium IV salt with ceric sulphate has been investigated in detail. Experimental conditions have been defined under which these indicators function efficiently.     

Use of brucine as an oxidation-reduction indicator in cerimetry

Summary Brucine has been found to work satisfactorily as an inside indicator in the titration of molybdenum(V) and hydroquinone with ceric sulphate. It does not give a good indication of the end point in the titration of arsenic(III) in sulphuric acid medium, using osmium tetroxide as a catalyst or in hydrochloric acid medium using iodine monochloride as a catalyst. Brucine cannot also be used in the titration or uranium(IV) with ceric sulphate. A 0.1 per cent solution of brucine in 2 N–3 N acetic acid has been found to be stable for nine months without showing any discoloration.     

Rapid decomposition of organic materials with acidic lithium sulphate flux containing catalysts, oxidizing agents or reducing agents, and Kjeldahl determination of nitrogen

Organic compounds and natural materials such as dimethylglyoxime, p-nitrophenol, alpha-nitroso-beta-naphthol, 4-(2-pyridylazo)-resorcinol, phenylhydrazine hydrochloride, monopyrazolone, residual fuel oil and coal can be rapidly decomposed in the melting state with various ratios of sulphuric acid-lithium sulphate (v/w) mixture containing catalysts, oxidizing agents or reducing agents such as elemental selenium powder, cupric sulphate, ceric sulphate and stannous sulphate. The quantitative recovery of nitrogen in the melting medium can be obtained with the Kjeldahl method.     

Chlorpromazine hydrochloride as an analytical reagent : A new indicator for titrations with very dilute ceric sulphate solutions

Chlorpromazine hydrochloride is proposed as an indicator for the microtitration of iron(II), arsenic(III), ascorbic acid and hydroquinone with 0.0005–0.001 N ceric sulphate; the indicator blanks are small. The colorimetric déterminations of μg quantities of cerium(lV) and arsenic(III) using the same reagent are also described.     

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.     

Cerate oxidimetry : Oxidation of maleic,fumaric, benzoic,salicylic and phthalic acids

1. It has been shown that maleic, fumaric, benzoic, phthalic and salicylic acids can be oxidized completely to carbon dioxide and water by ceric sulphate in the presence of concentrated sulphuric acid. 2. These acids can be estimated quantitatively by the use of ceric sulphate. 3. Acetic and succinic acids are not oxidized by ceric sulphate even in the presence of high concentrations of sulphuric acid.     

Studies in bivalent chromium salts

Summary It has been shown that chromous solution can be standardised with the help of potassium dichromate, sulphatocerate, potassium iodate, bromate and periodate solutions. N-phenylanthranilic acid, ferroin and diphenylbenzidine serve as reversible indicators for the titrations of potassium dichromate and ceric sulphate against chromous solution.The authors are indebted to Dr. R. N. Singh, Professor of Chemistry, B. R. College, Agra, for his kind encouragement and for providing laboratory facilities.Part II: See Z. anal. Chem. 158, 189 (1957).     

Direct titration of potassium ferricyanide with hydrazine sulphate in presence of zinc sulphate determination of hydrazine

Operative conditions for direct titration of potassium ferricyanide solution with a solution of hydrazine sulphate which contains zinc sulphate are described. The results are comparable with those obtained by the standard iodate procedure. The chief advantages of the present method of estimating hydrazine are (1) titration in slightly acidic medium and (2) no indicator is required. Determination of substituted hydrazines, hydroxylamine and other reducing substances on similar lines is suggested.     

Cerate oxidimetry : Oxidation of formic,glycolic, malic,malonic and tartaric acids

1. Contrary to the observations of earlier workers, it has been shown that formic acid can be quantitatively oxidixed by ceric sulphate in the presence of concentrated sulphuric acid. 2. Tartaric, malonic, malic and glycolic acids can also be oxidized completely to carbon dioxide and water by the following general procedure : to a known amount of the organic acid is added ceric sulphate (excess) solution in dilute sulphuric acid and the mixed solution refluxed for ten to fifteen minutes. Concentrated sulphuric acid (double the volume of the reaction mixture) is then added taking care that formic acid is not lost during the addition, and the mixture again refluxed for 45 to 50 minutes. The excess ceric sulphate is determined by titrating against ferrous ammonium sulphate. 3. The complete oxidation of the above acids provides satisfactory methods for their quantitative estimation.     

Cerate oxidimetry: Oxidation of glycerol,glycol and other organic compounds

1. Oxidation ot tartronic acid has been studied and it has been shown that the oxidation of glycerol by ceric sulphate does not proceed via this acid by was presumed by earlier workers. 2. It has been shown that the oxidation of formic acid by pure ceric sulphate is negligible, but using chromium sulphate as catalyst, formic acid can be quantitatively oxidized. 3. Oxidation of glycol and glycerol can be carried out quantitatively either to the -formic acid stage or completely to carbon dioxide and water. A combination of the above provides a method for the estimation of the two compounds when present together in a mixture.     

Estimation of individual thio-salts and sulphate in flotation mill solutions

This paper presents methods found to be suitable for the determination of thio-salts and sulphate in flotation mill solutions. Thiosulphate, tetrathionate and trithionate are estimated spectrophotometrically after cyanolysis. A modified iodimetric procedure is used for sulphite and a titrimetric method for direct determination of sulphate. The observation that dithionate is not oxidized by hydrogen peroxide but is oxidized to sulphate by potassium chlorate-nitric acid mixture is the basis for estimation of dithionate.     

Mercurous nitrate as a reductimetric reagent : The titration of various oxidising agents

It has been found that when excess of a solution containing ferrous ions is added to certain oxidising agents, the equivalent amount of ferric iron produced can be titrated accurately with mercurous nitrate, enabling the original oxidant to be assessed. Oxidising agents which have been determined in this way are potassium permanganate, potassium persulphate, ceric sulphate, sodium vanadate, potassium chlorate, hydrogen peroxide and potassium dichromate. The last substance provides a convenient primary standard for the standardisation of mercurous nitrate solutions.