Determination of some trace metal ions in various samples by FAAS after separation/preconcentration by copper(II)-BPHA coprecipitation method

A separation/preconcentration procedure based on the coprecipitation of Pb(II), Fe(III), Co(II), Cr(III) and Zn(II) ions with copper(II)-N-benzoyl-N-phenyl-hydroxylamine complex (Cu-BPHA) has been developed. The analytical variables including pH, amount of BPHA, amount of copper(II) as carrier element, and sample volume were investigated for the quantitative recoveries of the elements. No interfering effects were observed from the concomitant ions when present in real samples. The recoveries of the analyte ions were in the range of 95–100%. The detection limits (3 s) for Pb(II), Co(II), Fe(III), Cr(III) and Zn(II) ions were found to be 2.3, 0.7, 0.7, 0.3 and 0.4 µg L^?1, respectively. The validation of the procedure was performed by the analysis of CRM (SRM NIST-1547 peach leaves and LGC6019 river water) standard reference materials. The method was applied to the determination of the analytes in real samples including natural waters, hair, urine, soil, sediment and peritoneal fluids samples etc., and good results were obtained (relative standard deviations <4%, recoveries >95%).     

Infrared matrix and polarised spectrum of bis(diethyldithio-carbamato)-nickel(II)

The IR spectra (300–4000 cm^?1) of bis-(N,N-diethyldithiocarbamato)-nickel(II) as N₂ matrix and oriented polycrystalline layer are reported. All the observed bands are assigned and classified on the grounds of their polarisation in the symmetry classes of D_2h, the highest possible molecular symmetry.Remarkably, polarisation of the absorptions around 1000 cm^?1 rules out the assignment to any C-S stretching, in contrast with previous assignments. The room temperature crystal spectra do not show evidence for crystal splitting. The matrix spectrum shows features related to the existence of rotamers around the H₂C-N bond, which give useful assistance in the assignment.     

Determination of ultratrace levels of dissolved metals in seawater by reaction cell inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry after ammonia induced magnesium hydroxide coprecipitation

A method for the determination of ultratrace amounts of Cr, Fe, Mn, Pb and Zn in seawater has been developed. It combined the low-blank magnesium hydroxide coprecipitation procedure with quadrupole inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and used the dynamic reaction cell technique to resolve the polyatomic interferences arising from the residual matrix, the solvent and plasma gases. Detection limits (3σ_B, n = 10) for Cr, Fe, Mn, Pb and Zn were 0.02, 0.10, 0.01, 0.002 and 0.19 nM, respectively, using 50 mL of seawater sample. The accuracy of the analytical procedure was verified by the analysis of the seawater reference materials CASS-4, NASS-5, SAFe D2 and SAFe S. The analytical precision ranged from 3% to 16% (n = 6), with a sample throughput of about 6 samples h⁻¹.     

Magnetic behavior of tetrakis[4-(N-tert-butyl-N-oxylamino)pyridine]bis(isocyanato-N)cobalt(II) in frozen solution

A complex of cobalt(II)(OCN)(2) coordinated with four pyridines having a stable tert-butyl aminoxyl exhibited in frozen MTHF a slow magnetic relaxation for the reorientation of magnetization with activation barrier, Delta/k(B) = 50 K, and a hysteresis loop having a fast relaxation at 0 Oe below 2.5 K.     

Synergic extraction of manganese(II) with thiocyanate and pyridine

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Determination of lead in seawater by flow-injection on-line preconcentration-electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry after coprecipitation with iron(III) hydroxide.

A flow-injection on-line preconcentration-electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometric (ETAAS) method coupled with a coprecipitation method has been developed for the determination of lead in seawater. The combination of two preconcentration procedures, coprecipitation with iron(II) hydroxide and solid-phase extraction with a lead-selective resin, Pb-Spec, allowed the determination of lead at the ng kg(-1) level. Lead in 250 g of a sample solution was collected by coprecipitation with 10 mg of iron. The precipitate was dissolved in 25 ml of 1 mol l(-1) nitric acid; then, a 4-ml aliquot of the sample solution was introduced into the flow-injection system to preconcentrate and separate lead from iron on a Pb.Spec microcolumn. The sorbed lead was eluted with a 1.0 x 10(-4) mol l(-1) EDTA solution. The 30-microl portion of the eluate corresponding to the highest analyte concentration zone was injected into a graphite furnace. The overall enhancement factor was about 200 for 250 g of the sample. The average and standard deviation of ten blank values obtained were 1.7 ng and 0.38 ng, respectively. The recovery was 93.7 +/- 5.0% for seawater spiked with 20 ng kg(-1) lead. The proposed method is applicable to the analysis of seawater for lead at slightly higher levels.     

Determination of heavy metals in air conditioner dust using FAAS and INAA

The elements Cd, Cr, Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb and Zn were determined in dust samples collected from air conditioner (AC) filters from 15 commercial sites of Lahore using flame atomic absorption spectroscopy (FAAS). The elements Cr, Mn and Zn were also determined using instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA). The results obtained showed that higher amounts of these metals were measured in these dust samples than normally found in soil. This was especially true for Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn. Generally the amounts of Cd, Cr and Mn did not vary throughout the city of Lahore but the amounts of the traffic related Cu, Pb and Zn elements had the more variable ranges of 30–140, 30–230 and 74–2810 mg/kg respectively. The concentrations obtained for Cr, Mn and Zn by INAA were found to be higher than those obtained using FAAS. Analysis of the data obtained showed the digestion procedure employed to be the possible cause for this occurrence. It was also found that Mn was being over-estimated by INAA due to the interference from the Mg peak.     

Mechanism of electroreduction of cobalt(II) in thiocyanate solutions at mercury electrodes

The process of electroreduction of cobalt(II) in thiocyanate solutions at mercury electrodes has been investigated by cyclic voltammetric, chronoamperometric and polarographic methods. The influences of pH, the concentrations of Co(II) and SCN^?, and the reduction products of SCN^?, CN^? and S^2? on the reduction waves are described. The polarographic pre-wave is an autocatalytic in nature. A mechanism involving an initial reduction of Co(II)—SCN^? at a mercury electrode followed by the chemical reduction of thiocyanate ion with the electroreduced metallic cobalt, and taking into account cyanide, sulfide, and hydroxide ions, the latter being produced by the hydrolysis of cyanide ion, is presented. Cobalt sulfide adsorbed at the electrode surface stimulates further reduction of Co(II)—CN^? and —SCN^? complexes, and depresses the interfering influence of Co(OH)₂, which is reductively desorbed from the electrode surface with giving rise to an additional peak near ?1.08 V vs. SCE.     

Magnetic properties of tetrakis[4-(alpha-diazobenzyl)pyridine]bis(thiocyanato-N)cobalt(II) in frozen solution after irradiation. Formation of a single-molecule magnet in frozen solution

Magnetic properties after irradiation of a 1:4 mixture of Co(SCN)2 and 4-(alpha-diazobenzyl)pyridine in frozen solution were investigated by ac and dc magneto/susceptometry. Observations of the frequency dependence of chi' signals and of a hysteresis loop at 2 K in ac and dc measurements, respectively, indicate that the generated cobalt-carbene complex functions as a single-molecule magnet. This is the first example of a monometallic single-molecule magnet of nanometer size.     

Structure and DNA-binding properties of bis(quinolonato)bis(pyridine)zinc(II) complexes

The novel neutral mononuclear zinc complexes with the quinolone antibacterial drugs enrofloxacin and oxolinic acid in the presence of the nitrogen donor heterocyclic ligand pyridine have been synthesized and characterized. The experimental data suggest that the quinolone ligands are on the deprotonated mode acting as bidentate ligands coordinated to the zinc(II) ion through the ketone oxygen and a carboxylato oxygen. The crystal structure of the complex bis(enrofloxacinato)bis(pyridine)zinc(II), 1, has been determined with X-ray crystallography. The biological activity of the complexes has been evaluated by examining their ability to bind to calf-thymus DNA (CT-DNA) with UV and fluorescence spectroscopies. UV spectroscopic titration studies of the interaction of the complexes with DNA have shown that they can bind to CT-DNA and the DNA binding constants have been calculated. Competitive studies with ethidium bromide (EB) have shown that the complexes exhibit the ability to displace the DNA-bound EB indicating that they can bind to DNA in strong competition with EB for the intercalative binding site.     

Crystal structures of bis(ethylenediamine) copper(II) diethyldithiophosphate and di(ethylenediamine)bis (diethyldithiophosphato) copper(II) thiocyanate

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Crystal structure of the bis(isothiocyanato)tetrakis(pyridine)nickel(II) clathrate with a pyridine guest [NiPy4(NCS)2]·2Py

The structure of the [NiPy₄(NCS)₂]·2Py clathrate was determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis (Enraf-Nonius CAD4 diffractometer, λCuK_α radiation, Ni filter, ω/2θ scan mode, θ_max, 511 reflections, R=0.046). The crystals are tetragonal, space group 14₁/acd, a=16.079(2), c=27.150(7) Å, Z=8 C₃₂H₃₀N₈NiS₂, d_calc=1.229 g/cm³. The structure is of the island type and consists of distorted octahedral trans-[NiPy₄(NCS)₂] (host) and pyridine (guest) molecules. The Ni(II) cation is coordinated by six nitrogen atoms and occupies the 222 special position. One of the twofold axes passes axially through the nickel(II) cation and the atoms of the isothiocyanate groups, and the two other axes lie in the equatorial plane of the Ni(N_Py)₄ complex as diagonals between the Ni−N_Py bonds. The Ni−N_CS and Ni−N_Py distances are 2.033(7) and 2.121(4) Å, respectively. The rings of the pyridine ligands form angles of 53.2(2)° with the equatorial plane of the complex. The guest pyridine molecules lie inside the winding channels running along the c axis. Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences. Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences. Translated fromZhurnal Strukturnoi Khimii, Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 1074–1082, November–December, 1995. Translated by L. Smolina     

Determination of heavy metals in seawater and marine organisms by flameless atomic absorption spectrophotometry

Summary For the determination of cadmium in culture water from toxicological experiments with marine organisms direct flameless atomic absorption spectrophotometry seems to be an appropriate method, because it is less complicated than any combination with an extraction method. Unfortunately, it cannot be applied in the g·l^–1-range without modifications, because matrix effects lead to unacceptable variations in the results. It was found that these difficulties can be overcome by the addition of ammonium peroxodisulphate and sulphuric acid. A routine method basing on this effect has been developed.

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Bestimmung von Schwermetallen im Meerwasser und in marinen Organismen durch flammenlose Atomabsorptions-Spektralphotometrie. VI. Cadmiumbestimmung in Kulturwässern von toxikologischen Experimenten mit Meeresorganismen

Zusammenfassung Zur Cadmiumbestimmung in Kulturwasser von toxikologischen Versuchen mit marinen Organismen scheint die direkte flammenlose Atomabsorptions-Spektralphotometrie besonders geeignet zu sein, denn sie ist weniger umständlich als jede Kombination mit einer Extraktionsmethode. Ohne Modifikationen kann die Direktbestimmung jedoch im g/l-Bereich nicht eingesetzt werden, denn Matrixeffekte bewirken allzu starke Streuungen der Meßergebnisse. Es wird gezeigt, daß ein Zusatz von Ammoniumperoxodisulfat und Schwefelsäure zur Probenlösung eine deutliche Verbesserung bewirkt. Eine Routinemethode wurde entwickelt, bei der von diesem Effekt Gebrauch gemacht wird.

     

Crystal structure of a 1∶2∶1 packing complex formed by bis(isothiocyanato) tetrakis(pyridine) nickel(II), triphenylmethane,and metanol

The structure of the [NiPy₄(NCS)₂]·2(C₆H₅)₃CH·CH₃OH (Py is pyridine) packing complex was determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis (KM-4 diffractometer, λMoK_α, graphite monochromator, ω/2? scan mode, θ_max, 2073 reflections, R=0.059). The unit cell is base-centered monoclinic, space group C2/c, a=20.22(1), b=14.256(7), c=18.836(6) Å, β=87.40(4)^°, Z=4C₆₁H₅₆N₆NiOS₂, d_calc=1.239 g/cm³. The structure is of the island type and consists of molecules of three types. In the trans-[NiPy₄(NCS)₂] molecule, the central atom has a distorted octahedral environment and is coordinated by six nitrogen atoms of two isothiocyanate and four pyridine ligands. In contrast to the phase of the complex itself, this molecule acquires a four-lobe propeller conformation, in which the pyridine rings are rotated relative to the equatorial plane by angles of 52.8(3) and 50.1(2)^°. The triphenylmethane molecule has a three-lobe propeller conformation, as in triphenylmethane clathrates with benzene, thiophene, pyrrole, and aniline, but strongly deviates from threefold axis symmetry. The phenyl rings form dihedral angles of 25(3), 40(4), and 19(4)^° with the planes formed by the bonds of the ternary carbon atoms with hydrogen atoms and by the appropriate carbon atom of the phenyl ring. The methanol molecules are located inside the direct channels running along the c axis and are disordered around the inversion centers.     

Hexafluorophosphate salts of bis and tetrakis(2,2′-bipyridine)lead(II) complexes

Both bis- and tetrakis-substituted 2,2′-bipyridine complexes of lead(II), [Pb(bpy)₂](PF₆)₂ and [Pb(bpy)₄](PF₆)₂ · bpy, respectively, have been characterized by X-ray crystallography as hexafluorophosphate salts when three equivalents of bipyridine is combined with Pb(NO₃)₂ in aqueous solution prior to metathesis. The tetrakis-substituted product, [Pb(bpy)₄](PF₆)₂ · bpy, shows an unusual combination of intramolecular and intermolecular π-stacking of two of the bipyridine ligands throughout the crystal. Incomplete metathesis also produces a catenated, mixed-anion complex, [Pb(bpy)₂(µ-NO₃)](PF₆), where the nitrate bridges lead(II) metal centers to form a 1-D coordination polymer. If metathesis is carried out using perchlorate, a known [Pb(bpy)₂](ClO₄)₂ analog is produced along with [bpyH](ClO₄), which has not been previously characterized by X-ray crystallography.     

Determination of heavy metals in seawater and in marine organisms by flameless atomic absorption spectrophotometry

Summary The appicability of flameless AAS to direct cadmium determinations in seawater samples is limited to a level of about 2g l^–1 [22]. Thus, for lower concentrations, a combination with an extraction method has been tested. It has been shown that the extraction can well be carried out with ammonium pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate (APDC). However, several modifications of the well known APDC/MIBK-Method were necessary. The key for the method presented was the choice of an appropriate solvent (CCl₄, C₂Cl₄) for the reagent as well as for its Cd-complex. Then a simple, sensitive and miniaturized method has been developed, which has then been applied to a few natural seawater samples.

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Bestimmung von Schwermetallen im Meerwasser und in marinen Organismen durch flammenlose AtomabsorptionsspektralphotometrieVII. Ein einfaches Extraktionsverfahren zur Bestimmung extrem niedriger Cadmiumgehalte in kleinen Seewasserproben

Zusammenfassung Die direkte Bestimmung von Cadmium im Meerwasser durch flammenlose AAS stößt unterhalb einer Konzentration von 2g l^–1 auf beträchtliche Schwierigkeiten [22]. Deshalb wurde eine kombinierte Methode erprobt, bei welcher das Metall zunächst extrahiert und dann mittels flammenloser AAS bestimmt wird. Es zeigte sich, daß die Extraktion gut mit Ammoniumpyrrolidindithiocarbamat (APDC) ausgeführt werden kann. Es wurden jedoch erhebliche Abwandlungen der wohlbekannten APDC-MIBK-Extraktionsmethode erforderlich. Erst als es gelang, ein geeignetes Solvens (CCl₄, C₂Cl₄) sowohl für das APDC als auch für seinen Cd-Komplex zu finden, konnte eine einfache, empfindliche und miniaturisierte Bestimmungsmethode entwickelt werden, mit deren Hilfe dann der Cd-Gehalt einiger Meerwasserproben bestimmt wurde.