Electrochemical titrations of thiosulfate, sulfite, dichromate and permanganate using dual microband electrodes

Applications of titration using dual gold microband electrodes in generator-collector mode are presented. The main advantage is that the method dispenses with the need for accurate volume measurements and reagent preparation: rather than balancing of molar amounts, the fluxes of analyte and titrant are balanced instead. The titrant is generated electrochemically and the end-point is detected amperometrically by the appearance of a current due to the presence of the titrant at the other band. The aim is to show the versatility and capability of the method that employs disposable mass-produced electrodes and uses pulsed motion of the electrode before a measurement to renew the boundary conditions. The titration of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) with ferricyanide, which has been a model system, was extended to the determination of thiosulfate and sulfite with iodine and the determination of dichromate and permanganate with iron(II). The accuracy, limited by the present fabrication reproducibility of the disposable electrodes, is +/- 10%. The results demonstrate that the method is effective even with a very simple set-up, and the actual time needed for common titrations is significantly decreased. These examples demonstrate a comprehensive basis for further development and applications, including standard titrations in industry.     

Differential electrolytic potentiometric titration method for the determination of ciprofloxacin in drug formulations

A simple and rapid differential electrolytic potentiometric titration method for the determination of ciprofloxacin was developed. The work is based on the fast complexation reaction between iron(III) and ciprofloxacin in a ratio of 1:3, respectively, in sulfuric acid media of 0.09 mol dm⁻³. Among the electrodes tested silver amalgam electrodes were found to be a suitable indicating system. By applying a current density of 0.5 μA cm⁻² to these electrodes and using iron(III) solution of 0.097 mol dm⁻³ as a titrant, normal titration curves were obtained. The method was successfully applied for the determination of ciprofloxacin in drug formulations as low as 4.0 ppm.     

Theory and practice of electrochemical titrations with dual microband electrodes

Dual parallel microband electrodes, operated as a generator–collector pair and made by a simple, inexpensive mass-production method, have been used to implement a ‘titration’ method. The solution contains the electro-inactive analyte and a reagent from which the titrant can be generated electrochemically. The galvanostatically generated titrant is detected at the collector amperometrically. The collection efficiency is affected by the reaction between the titrant and the analyte. Determination of ascorbic acid by titration against ferricyanide is given as an example. The measurement is performed as follows: After application of the collector potential, the boundary conditions between measurements are renewed by a quick pulsed motion of the electrode assembly. Then the generator current is applied. Following an initial delay, the collector current increases as t^1/2, with slope and collection efficiency dependent on analyte concentration. This results in a fast and effective method for implementing some standard titration methods without the need for accurate volume measurement and reagent preparation. The accuracy is determined by the reproducibility of electrodes. The present work shows concentration measurements in the mM scale to ≈±10%, in a time of a few seconds. The highly stable extrapolation method used for numerical simulation of the generator–collector experiment, which takes into account the non-uniform current distribution over a microband electrode with a galvanostatic boundary condition, is developed using a conformal map. A good agreement between simulations and experimental results was obtained in voltammetric, potential step and generator–collector measurements. It is shown that a useful approximate calculation can be made rather easily by representing the problem in terms of a reaction layer in the conformal space.     

Formula for the equivalence volume in potentiometric titration. As illustrated by the microdetermination of organohalogens with ion-selective electrode

An equation for calculating the equivalence volume in potentiometric titration is suggested. The derivation of this equation is illustrated by the potentiometric titration of halide with incremental addition of the titrant silver nitrate. The equation is generally applicable to any potentiometric titration involving a simple and rapid reaction whose Nernstian response is constant. It is proposed to utilize it for common microdeterminations involving ion-selective electrodes.     

多元校正流动注射电位滴定法同时测定苯甲酸和山梨酸

将流动注射应用于酸碱电位滴定分析,建立了一种可同时测定混合有机酸的电位滴定新方法。在该方法中,用氢氧化钠与氯化钾的混合溶液作为滴定剂,在流通池中同时插入pH指示电极和氯离子指示电极,在滴定过程中的任一滴定点,流出液的pH值和酸碱的混合比例可由两个电极的电位测定值同时获得,从而可应用多元校正法由相应的滴定曲线求得混合酸中每一种组分的含量。该方法不仅免去了体积和时间读数,而且减少了试剂和样品的消耗量,分析速度快。应用该方法对混合样品中的苯甲酸和水杨酸进行同时测定,其相对标准偏差分别为0．19％～0．37％,回收率分别为97．3％～102．6％。     

Dual microband electrodes: current distributions and diffusion layer ‘titrations’. Implications for electroanalytical measurements

The simulation of transport to double microband electrodes in generator–collector mode is reported focusing especially on the ‘titration curve’ approach to electroanalysis in which a titrant is electrogenerated from a redox active precursor on the generator electrode and reacts homogeneously with the target analyte. The current on the detector electrode reflects the amount of titrant ‘surviving’ passage between the two electrodes. The form of the titration curve – plots of detector current as a function of generator current – is shown to be highly sensitive to the electrode kinetics of the redox couple driven at the generator electrode. Accordingly the naïve use of such methodology for analysis without accompanying simulation and kinetic analysis is fraught with danger. Use of the conformal mapping approach in combination with the ADI method for investigation of the ‘titration’ current distributions at the double band system gives fast and precise simulation of this and similar problems. Convergence analysis is described which allows for the automatic selection of the simulation grid size so as to obtain a chosen accuracy (for example 1%) of the current for all experimentally meaningful values of the geometrical and physico-chemical parameters of the system to be investigated.     

PVC膜修饰电极上零电流示波电位滴定法测定硼的研究

以氯化十六烷基吡啶（ＣＰＣ）和氟硼酸钠形成的离子缔合物为活性物质，制成ＰＶＣ膜涂层石墨电极，提出了一个快速测定硼的零电流示波电位滴定法。以ＣＰＣ为滴定剂，用ＰＶＣ膜电极为指示电极，甘汞电极为参比电极，利用阴极射线示波器荧光屏上荧光点的突然位移来指示ＣＰＣ滴定硼的终点，具有灵敏、准确、快速等特点，用该法测定玻璃中的硼，结果良好。     

止咳糖浆中氯化铵含量的快速测定法

提出了用两点电位滴定法测定止咳糖浆中氯化铵含量的方法，此法只需在滴定计量点前附近记录两次标准溶液体积和相应电极电位，利用公式计算滴定计量点，从而确定氯化铵含量。     

Determination of sulfate ion by potentiometric back-titration using sodium tetrakis (4-fluorophenyl) borate as a titrant and a titrant-sensitive electrode

A potentiometric back-titration method for the determination of sulfate ions using a plasticized poly(vinyl chloride) membrane electrode sensitive to a titrant is described. The method is based on ion association between the excess of 2-aminoperimidinium added to the sulfate ion in the sample and sodium tetrakis (4-fluorophenyl) borate (FPB) in the titrant. The titration end-point was detected as a sharp potential change due to an increase in the concentration of the free FPB at the equivalence point. The end-point was detected even in the presence of a 20-fold excess of common cations and anions relative to the concentration of the sulfate ion within approximately 2% of titration error. A linear relationship between the concentration of the sulfate ion and the end-point volume of the titrant exists in the sulfate ion concentration range from 2x10(-4) to 3x10(-3) mol l(-1) using 10(-2) mol l(-1) FPB solutions as the titrant. The present method could be applied to determine sulfate ions in sea water.     

Potentiometric flow titration of iron(II) and chromium(VI) based on flow rate ratio of a titrant to a sample

A new potentiometric flow titration has been proposed based on the relationship of the flow rates between titrant and sample solutions. A sample solution is pumped at a constant flow rate. The flow rate of the titrant solution is gradually increased at regular time intervals and a flow rate for the titrant solution in the vicinity of the equivalence point is obtained. The concentration of the sample is calculated by C(S) (mol l(-1))=(R(T) (ml min(-1))xC(T) (mol l(-1)))/R(S) (ml min(-1)), where C(S), C(T), R(S), and R(T) denote the unknown sample concentration, titrant concentration in the reservoir, the flow rate of the sample solution which is a constant rate, and the flow rate of the titrant solution at an inflection point, respectively. The potentiometric flow titration of iron(II) with cerium(IV) and of chromium(VI) with iron(II) has been presented. The titration time of the proposed method is about 10 min per sample. An R.S.D. of the method is 0.77% for seven determinations of 1x10(-3) mol l(-1) iron(II). Similarly, the flow titration of chromium(VI) with iron(II) is carried out over the range 1x10(-4)-1x10(-3) mol l(-1) chromium(VI) and is successfully applied to the determination of chromium in high carbon ferrochromium.     

Determination of arsenate and organic arsenic via potentiometric titration of its heteropoly anions

Determination of arsenate based on its conversion to molybdoarsenate heteropoly anions followed by potentiometric titration is described. The titration is realized on the ion-pairing principle using cetylpyridinium chloride (or an analogous titrant containing a lipophilic cation), and is monitored by a carbon paste electrode, although other liquid-polymeric membrane-based electrodes can also be used. Calibration plots of the titrant end-point consumption versus concentration of arsenic were constructed and used to evaluate the content of arsenic in aqueous samples. The method could be applied in the analyses of samples with quite low arsenic content (amounts approximately 10 mug As in 50 cm(3) could be titrated). Organic arsenic was determined analogously after the Sch?niger combustion of the sample and conversion of its arsenic to arsenate.     

流动注射多元校正-络合滴定法同时测定混合金属离子

将流动注射应用于电位络合滴定分析法,建立了一种可同时测定混合金属离子的电位滴定方法。在该方法中,用EDTA与氟化钠的混合溶液作为滴定剂,在流通池中同时插入汞膜电极和氟离子指示电极,在滴定过程中的任一滴定点,流出液的汞电位和反应物的混合比例可由两个电极的电位测定值同时获得,从而可应用多元校正法由相应的滴定曲线求得混合金属离子中每一种组分的含量。应用该方法对混合样品中的Cu2+、Pb2+、Zn2+进行了同时测定,测定结果的相对标准偏差均在0.14%~0.48%(n=5)之间,回收率均在97.3%~103.9%之间。     

非水滴定法测定酰胺缩醛

对非水滴定酰胺缩醛的溶剂、滴定剂和指示剂进行了选择试验，用ＨＣｌ甲醇标准液进行滴定，通过电位滴定曲线或甲基橙指示剂可以准确的确定滴定终点，方法简便，结果准确。     

高精度散射光度滴定法测定诺氟沙星的含量

用四苯硼钠标准溶液作滴定剂,采用高精度散射光度滴定法测定了诺氟沙星的含量,并将测定结果与非水滴定法、非水电位滴定法和高效液相色谱法的测定结果进行比较。结果表明：用本方法测定诺氟沙星的含量具有较高的准确度、精密度和良好的线性,且不受其降解产物的干扰。     

Titrimetric analysis with adding the titrant by means of electrodialysis

A titration method is developed that titrant is added continuously to the analyte by electromigration through an ion exchange membrane. A constant rate of the titrant addition is achieved by keeping the electric current constant. Analyte amount then is proportional to the titration time. The method is applied to the most widely used titrations with a visual end point indication.     

Titrations using an apparatus for recording the antilogarithm of pH or pM

A titration apparatus plotting either the concentration of sample ion or the concentration of titrant ion has been tested. An antilog apparatus, converting measured e.m.f. values into concentrations is connected to ordinary titration equipment. The instrument has been tested by means of acid—base titrations (titrations of mixtures of weak acids and of a weak and a strong acid), precipitation titrations (determination of the chloride concentration in tap-water, titration of mixtures of halides), titrations with ion-selective electrodes (determination of the fluoride content of toothpaste) and complexometric titrations (determination of copper with EDTA, using mercuric ion as indicator ion and amalgamated silver rod as indicator electrode, or using a copper-selective indicator electrode). The method considerably simplifies the evaluation of the results as compared to conventional potentiometric titrations.     

沉淀双点滴定法测定盐酸左旋咪唑

以Ag^＋作滴定剂,分别用双点滴定法和传统电位滴定法对盐酸左旋咪唑片进行了测定。试液的配制采用了过滤和不过滤两种方法。测定结果表明：所有方法测得的结果均在《药典》允许的范围之内;本法测定结果与《药典》规定方法的对照偏差约为2%-3%;采用过滤和不过滤两种方法配制试液的测定结果之间的偏差约为1%。     

无需标准溶液的酸碱滴定计算分析研究

无需标准溶液的滴定计算分析能同时求出滴定剂与被测物质浓度.本文用非线性规划问题的单纯形加速法对无需标准溶液的酸碱滴定进行了研究.单元酸、多元酸及混合酸的测定得到了比较满意的结果.     

药典中聚维酮碘测定方法的改进

提出了用两点电位滴定法测定聚维酮碘的新方法，该法只需在终点附近记录两次滴定数据即可计算滴定的化学计量点，分析速度较原药典法提高数十倍。     

Deviceless decoupled electrochemical detection of catecholamines in capillary electrophoresis using gold microband array electrodes

Samples containing microM concentrations of dopamine, (+/-)-isoproterenol, para-aminophenol and chlorogenic acid have been separated by capillary electrophoresis (CE) and detected using end-column amperometric detection based on a novel decoupling method. The present decoupling approach involves the use of an electrochemical detector chip containing an array of microband electrodes where the working and reference electrodes are positioned only 10 microm from each other. The short distance between the working and reference electrodes ensures that both electrodes are very similarly affected by the presence of the CE electric field. With this method, no shift in the detection potential was seen when the CE high voltage was applied. This eliminated the need for a reoptimization of the detection potential to compensate for the influence of the separation voltage on the detection. It is also demonstrated that catecholamines can be detected using gold microband electrodes by careful adjustment of the detection potential to avoid the formation of gold oxide. Such careful adjustments of the detection potential are straightforward using the present decoupling method.