Determination of molybdenum by atomic-absorption spectrometry after separation by 5,5'-methylenedisalicylohydroxamic acid extraction and further reaction with thiocyanate and tin (II)

A method is described for the determination of molybdenum down to the microgram level, in samples of soil, steels, fertilizers and pharmaceuticals. After attack with acids, this element is separated from matrix elements by extraction of its 5,5'-methylenedisalicylohydroxamic acid (MEDSHA) complex from 4M hydrochloric acid, into methyl isobutyl ketone. Molybdenum is determined by atomic-absorption spectrometry (AAS), after conversion of the Mo-MEDSHA complex into the MoSCN(-) complex in the organic phase. The detection limit is 0.03 microg/ml, with a relative standard deviation not exceeding 1.5% at a level of 2 microg/ml. The method is highly selective and suffers only from interference by tungsten.     

Determination of sunset yellow and tartrazine by differential pulse polarography

A study has been made of the polarographic (DC and DPP) behaviour of the food dyes Sunset Yellow and Tartrazine in acid and alkaline media and in the absence and presence of polyvinylpyrrolidone. Methods are proposed for the determination of both dyes by DPP over a concentration range of 0.1-10 ppm. The methods have been applied to their determination in soft drinks.     

Adsorptive stripping voltammetric assay of phenazopyridine hydrochloride in biological fluids and pharmaceutical preparations

A sensitive method for the measurement of phenazopyridine hydrochloride (PAP) by differential pulse polarography (DPP) based on adsorptive stripping technique, using a hanging mercury drop electrode (HMDE) is described. The voltammetric peak is obtained at -0.760 V, which corresponds to the reduction of the azo group in Britton-Robinson buffer. The redox behaviour is reversible. Optimum conditions were found to be: accumulation potential -50 mV (vs. Ag/AgCl), accumulation time 60 s, scan rate 5 mV s(-1), pulse amplitude -100 mV and supporting electrolyte Britton-Robinson buffer (0.04 M, pH=11). The relative standard deviation (at 20 ng ml(-1) level) was +/-0.6% for six measurements. The calculated detection limit was 0.0299 ng ml(-1) with a 60-s accumulation time. The applicability of such a method was evaluated through the assay of PAP in human plasma and urine samples after a simple extraction procedure and in pharmaceutical preparation. The mean recovery was 97+/-2 (100 ng ml(-1) plasma).     

Spectrophotometric determination of rhenium with di(2-pyridyl)ketone-2-furancarbothiohydrazone and other thiohydrazones

A simple rapid method is proposed for the determination of rhenium (as perrhenate) in which the brown-violet complex produced is measured at 546 nm. The system obeys Beer's law in the range 0.7–14.0 μg Re ml^-1; the molar absorptivity is 1.51 × 10⁴ l mol^-1 cm^-1 in ethanol and 1.64 × 10⁴ l mol^-1 cm^-1 for the complex extracted into methyl isobutyl ketone. Molybdenum (100-fold), tungsten (40-fold), copper (10-fold), and palladium (10-fold) are tolerable. Reactions of other metal ions such as Cu(II), Ni(II), Co(II) and Fe(II) with this ligand and reactions of perrhenate with analogous reagents are discussed.     

Biamperometric and Differential Pulse Polarographic Methods for the Assay of Nomifensine Maleate

Abstract

Biamperometric titration and differential pulse polarography (DPP) are described for the analysis of nomifensine maleate powder and commercial capsules (Merital^R -50 mg). The biamperometric method involved the titration in cold dil. HCl medium against 0.01 M - NaN0₂ and electrometric detection of end point. The mean percent recoveries obtained were 100.0 ± 0.87 and 99.2 ± 0.95 for the authentic powder and capsules, respectively. The DPP method was performed by measuring the peak current, i_P, obtained from the recorded differential polarogram under constant 50mV modulation amplitude. The peak current was measured at the peak potential of ? 1.02 V on the dropping mercury electrode (DME) versus Ag/AgCl/KCl (sat.) reference electrode at pH 5.0 (acetate buffer). A linear relationship between peak current and concentration was demonstrated in the range 3 to 30μg ml^?1. The mean percent recovery for the capsules was 103.1 ± 1.26.     

Electrothermal atomic-absorption spectrophotometric determination of molybdenum

The sensitivity for determining Mo by ETA-AA is dependent on the heating programme employed when the peak-height method is used, but not when the peak area is used for evaluation of the AA signals. The linear range is greater at lower heating rate. Molybdenum can be directly determined in up to 8% NaCl solution without chemical pretreatment or background correction by making use of the high ashing temperature allowed, at which the matrix NaCl can be totally removed. The minimum recovery is 94.5%. Amounts of alkaline earth metals greater than 4000 times the amount of Mo give scatter signals, but these are time-resolved from the Mo signal. Any small effect on the peak height or area can be compensated for by background correction. The interference of tungsten is significant even at low concentrations (2-5 mug/ml) owing to the formation of stable compounds. Mo is determined in brines and acid digests of phosphate rocks after preconcentration and separation with the APDC-MIBK system, by ETA-AA of the organic extracts with or without mineralization.     

The estimation of molybdenum and of tungsten by dithiol

A method is described for the precise estimation of mg quantities of molybdenum and tungsten in plant and animal tissues, etc. Molybdenum and tungsten are separated as the corresponding cupferrates and estimated as their respective dithiol complexes by preferential formation of the molybdenum-dithiol complex in strongly acid solution in the cold, followed by the formation at pH 0.5–2.0 of the tungstendithiol complex at 90–95° C.     

Liquid-liquid extraction of 99Mo and 187W with trioctylamine

Molybdenum and tungsten can be separated from each other by extraction with trioctylamine in hydrochloric acid medium.     

Liquid-liquid extraction of 99Mo and 187W with trioctylamine

Molybdenum and tungsten can be separated from each other by extraction with trioctylamine in hydrochloric acid medium.     

Molten sodium nitrite—potassium nitrite eutectic: the reaction of some compounds of molybdenum

Molybdenum(VI) oxide, ammonium molybdate and molybdic acid reacted in molten sodium nitrite—potassium nitrite eutectic to form orthomolybdate, nitrogen dioxide and nitric oxide (with nitrate as a secondary product), a more polymerised polymolybdate being formed as an intermediate product. Tungsten(VI) oxide reacted similarly but less rapidly. Molybdenum and tungsten metals reacted to form the orthoxyanion and nitrogen, the latter metal reacting considerably faster and forming smaller amounts of nitric oxide and nitrous oxide. Reaction temperatures and stoichiometries are given and reaction pathways suggested.     

Determination of tungsten in silicates and natural waters

Coprecipitation with hydrous manganese dioxide is used for the concentration of tungsten from natural waters (including sea water) and from solutions prepared from silicate rocks and sediments by hydrofluoric acid attack. After dissolution of the hydrous manganese dioxide precipitate in acidified sulphur dioxide solution, cation excliange is used to separate tungsten and molybdenum from other coprecipitated elements, hydrogen peroxide being used as eluant. Molybdenum is separated from tungsten by extraction of its dithiol complex from 24 N hydrochloric acid medium containing citric acid and can be determined photometrically. After destruction of citric acid, tungsten is determined photometrically with dithiol. The overall cliemical yield of th analytical process is 94±1%. The standard deviation of the method is ±0.010 μg for sea water (0.116 μg W/l) and ca 0.05 μg/g for siliceous sediments containing 0.5–1.0 μg W/g.     

Trace determination of molybdenum by adsorptive cathodic stripping voltammetry

Molybdenum is determined by adsorptive cathodic stripping voltammetry in 0.15 M nitric acid solution containing 15 μM 2′,3,4′,5,7-pentahydroxyflavone (morin) as a ligand. In this medium, molybdenum is preconcentrated on a hanging mercury drop electrode and stripped cathodically in square-wave voltammetry mode, with a peak potential of -350 mV vs. Ag/AgCl (saturated KCl). The effect of various parameters (ligand concentration, supporting electrolyte composition, accumulation potential and collection time) on the sensitivity and linear range of the calibration curve are discussed. With controlled accumulation for 1 min, the detection limit (3σ) was 0.45 ng ml^?1 molybdenum and the calibration curve is linear up to 70 ng ml^?1. The procedure is applied to the determination of molybdenum in real samples with satisfactory results.     

The determination of tungsten by electron paramagnetic resonance spectrometry

Electron paramagnetic resonance is used to determine tungsten in the range 5–400 μg ml^-1. Tungstate is reduced to tungsten(V) in the presence of thiocyanate in acidic medium and detected as the tungsten(V)—thiocyanate complex in amyl acetate after extraction. Molybdenum does not interfere; vanadium (5 mg) interferes. The relative standard deviation for mid-range concentrations is about 3%.     

Extractive separation and spectrophotometric determination of tungsten as ferrocyanide

Tungsten, in amounts ranging from micrograms to milligrams, can be extracted into isoamyl alcohol, as the tungsten(V) ferrocyanide complex obtained by reduction of tungsten(VI) with tin(II) in 4M hydrochloric acid containing ferrocyanide. It can thus be separated from iron, cobalt, chromium, manganese, arsenic, antimony, bismuth, silicon, calcium and copper, their precipitation being prevented by addition of glycerol and, in the case of iron, sulphosalicyclic acid. Molybdenum, vanadium and nickel are not separated from tungsten, however. Tungsten can also be determined spectrophotometrically as tungsten(V) ferrocyanide. The absorbance of the brown complex is measured in aqueous solution or preferably after extraction into isoamyl alcohol. As many alloying elements interfere, they should be separated by the ferrocyanide extraction or other suitable method. Both the separation and the determination methods give satisfactory results with an overall error of not more than 0.5% in the analysis of practical samples containing low or high percentages of tungsten.     

Determination of selenium(IV) and tellurium(IV) by differential pulse polarography

Differential pulse polarographic methods for the determination of selenium(IV) and tellurium(IV) in nitric acid medium are described. The peak current is maximal when 0.25M nitric acid medium is used, the DPP peaks for Se(IV) and Te(IV) being at -0.54 and -0.8 V vs. Ag/AgCl respectively. The peak current is a linear function of selenium concentration over three ranges, 5.1 x 10(-6)-1.3 x 10(-5), 1.27 x 10(-5)-1.27 x 10(-4) and 1.27 x 10(-4)-7.60 x 10(-4)M Se(IV), with different slopes. The plot for Te(IV) is linear over the range 0.78 x 10(-6)-9.40 x 10(-5)M.     

Simultaneous voltammetric determination of molybdenum and copper by adsorption cathodic differential pulse stripping method using a principal component artificial neural network

An adsorption differential pulse stripping method for the simultaneous determination of molybdenum and copper based on the formation of their complexes with cupferron (benzene, N-hydroxy-N-nitroso) is proposed. The optimum experimental conditions were obtained 0.010 mM cupferron, pH 3.0, accumulation potential of -0.15 V versus Ag/AgCl, accumulation time of 60 s, scan rate of 10 mV s(-1) and pulse height of 50 mV. Molybdenum and copper peak currents were observed at -0.16 and +0.02 V, respectively. A principal component artificial neural network (PC-ANN) was utilized for the analysis of the voltammogram data. A three layer back-propagation network was used with sigmoidal transfer function for the hidden and the output layers. The linear dynamic ranges were 5.0-60.0 and 0.1-20.0 ng ml(-1) for Cu(II) and Mo(VI), respectively. The detection limit was 0.06 ng ml(-1) for Mo(VI) and 0.20 ng ml(-1) for Cu(II). The capability of the method for the analysis of real samples was evaluated by the determination of molybdenum and copper in river water, tap water, and alloy.     

Catalytic-adsorptive stripping voltammetric measurements of ultratrace levels of tungsten

An ultrasensitive catalytic-adsorptive stripping voltammetric procedure for trace measurements of tungsten, based on a chlorate catalytic reduction peak in a 3-methoxy-4-hydroxymandelic acid (VMA)-oxine-sulfuric acid medium is reported. Optimum experimental conditions (particularly the solution composition) are explored to give an extremely low detection limit of 5 ng/l. (2.5 x 1O(-11)M) tungsten following 5-min accumulation. The relative standard deviation (at 1 mug/l.) is 1.0%. The high sensitivity and precision are coupled to high selectivity. Simultaneous trace quantitation of tungsten and molybdenum is also illustrated.     

Complexometric determination of molybdenum(VI)

In acidic medium molybdenum(VI) forms a stable complex on boiling with excess of DCTA and hydroxylamine hydrochloride. Molybdenum can then be determined by back-titration of the excess of DCTA either with zinc chloride at pH 5-5.5 or with thorium nitrate at pH 3-4.5, Xylenol Orange being used as indicator in both cases. A simple method for the determination of molybdenum in the presence of moderate amounts of tungsten is also described.     

Spectrophotometric determination of molybdenum by extraction of a green molybdenum(v) species

A simple method is described for the rapid spectrophotometric determination of molybdenum in samples containing 1-60% Mo, with satisfactory accuracy. Molybdenum is reduced with excess of hydrazine sulphate in boiling 5.5M hydrochloric acid and extracted with isoamyl acetate from 7M hydrochloric acid. The green colour is measured at 720 nm against a reagent blank. Beer's law is obeyed over the range 0.08-5.4 mg of molybdenum per ml. Interference from iron and copper is removed by adding stannous chloride and thiourea respectively in slight excess. Titanium, vanadium, niobium, chromium, tungsten, nickel, uranium, and antimony do not interfere even in large amounts. Only cobalt interferes seriously.     

Micellar effects on the electrochemistry of dopamine and its selective detection in the presence of ascorbic acid

The electrochemistry of dopamine (3-hydroxytyramine) was studied by cyclic voltammetry at a glassy carbon electrode in the presence of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) and sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) micelles at different pH. The anodic peak potential (E(pa)) and peak current (I(pa)) were found to be remarkably dependent on the charge and the concentration of the surfactant. The E(pa) and I(pa) change abruptly around the critical micellar concentration (CMC) of the surfactants and reach a plateau above the CMC. The E(pa) at the plateau shifts to more positive values in the cationic CTAB micellar solution, e.g. from 180 mV vs SCE in aqueous solution at pH 6.8 to 410 mV in CTAB micelle, whilst it shifts to less positive values in the anionic SDS micellar solution, e.g. 150 mV at pH 6.8. Therefore, the overlapped anodic peaks of dopamine and ascorbic acid in the mixture of the two compounds in aqueous solutions can be separated in CTAB micelles since the micelle shifts the E(pa) of ascorbic acid to less positive values. The two peaks are separated by ca. 400 mV at pH 6.8 in CTAB micelle, hence dopamine can be determined in the presence of 100 times excess of ascorbic acid. In SDS micelle and in the presence of ascorbic acid, the I(pa) of dopamine is greatly enhanced due to the catalytic oxidation of the latter that enables quantitative determination of both compounds.