The acid-base properties of solochrome violet R. S.

Summary The acid base properties of solochrome violet R.S. has been studied with the object of testing its use as an acid base indicator or as a colorimetric reagent. The pk values of 4.35, 7.4, and 9.45 corresponding to the three steps of ionisation of the free acid were evaluated by the aid of the relation between log (acid)/(salt) and ph values obtained during the course of the potentiometric titration of the free acid with a free base. The dye has proved to be a suitable indicator in titrating some mineral and organic acids as well as a colorimetric reagent for the microdetermination of vanadium.     

4-(2-Pyridylazo)-resorcinol as a possible analytical reagent for the colorimetric estimation of cobalt,lead, and uranium ,

4-(2-Pyridylazo)-resorcinol has been synthesized, and its uses as an analytical reagent for the colorimetric estimation of cobalt, uranium and lead have been investigated. It has been shown to be the most sensitive reagent for the colorimetric estimation of cobalt, the most sensitive watersoluble reagent for the colorimetric estimation of uranium, and the first published water-soluble reagent for the colorimetric estimation of lead.     

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.     

Thymolphthalin as an Analytical Reagent: 1. Spectrophotometric Determination of Ferricyanide and Ferrocyanide

Thymolphthalein (I) as an acid-base indicator is successfully reduced in sodium hydroxide medium and zinc dust into a colorless reagent (Thymolphthalin (III)). The latter is used as an analytical reagent in the colorimetric determination of some mildly strong oxidising agents such as potassium ferricyanide. Ferricyanide, ferrocyanide and a mixture of both are spectrophotometrically determined at 592 nm. Dichromate oxidises ferrocyanide to ferricyanide without interference on the reaction. The results obtained showed that the system does obey Beer's law over the concentration range 20–170 ug ferricyanide per 25ml. The molar absorbitivity is (4.28+0.02)×10³ cm² mg^?1 mole-¹.     

Quantitative precipitation of large amounts of sodium as sodium zinc uranyl acetate and its determination by an indirect complexometric method

Up to 40 mg of sodium can be quantitatively precipitated as sodium zinc uranyl acetate if enough reagent of appropriate composition is added to make the concentrations of zinc and uranium in the mother liquor at least 1.25 and 0.14M respectively. In practice, the reagent solution contains 100 g of uranyl acetate and 300 g of zinc acetate per litre and the volume added (ml) must be at least 15 times that of the solution to which it is added or 1.5 times the number of mg of sodium present, whichever is the greater. The triple salt can then be dissolved in water and the zinc selectively titrated with EDTA at pH 5.3, with Xylenol Orange as indicator. The uranium is masked with ammonium fluoride. Most constituents of ceramics and other silicates, including barium, strontium, magnesium, potassium, sulphate, phosphate and arsenate, do not interfere.     

Omega chrome black blue G as a colorimetric reagent for the microdetermination of various cations

Summary Omega Chrome Black Blue G has been found to be a suitable colorimetric reagent for the detection of cobalt and for the determination of copper, cobalt, cadmium, lead and magnesium. The effects of time, p_H, temperature, and foreign ions on the absorbancy are investigated. The reagent is practically suitable for the determination of microgram amounts of cobalt in presence of nickel and other ions which evoke a red colour.The reagent is not suitable for the determination of nickel, calcium, strontium, and zinc.     

The use of Omega Chrome Fast Blue 2G in the microdetermination of some metals

Summary Omega Chrome Fast Blue 2G has been found to be a suitable indicator for the detection of the equivalence point of calcium, magnesium and manganese in the presence of cadmium, nickel, and aluminium, when they are masked by the addition of cyanide or triethanolamine. It is also a suitable indicator for the back titration of aluminium using calcium or magnesium as a back titrant.This dye has also been found to be a suitable reagent for the colorimetric determination of calcium, magnesium, manganese and thorium.     

Development of a novel colorimetric indicator pad for detecting aldehydes

A colorimetric indicator was developed and a colorimetric indicator pad was fabricated for the rapid detection of aldehydes. The detection pad has two sides: an observation side on top and a barrier on the bottom. The top side contains a reagent which reacts directly with aldehydes to produce a color change, while the bottom side is coated with a double-sided plastic tape barrier to prevent the escape of chemicals. Sensitivity of the indicator pads was determined using the vapor sensitive ASTM F739 technique with the presence of the indicator. A significant indicator color change (yellow to red) occurred about 5 min before the infrared analyzer response of the ASTM method. The chemical principle and reaction characterization of the test are described. The stability and potential interferences of the indicator pad were also examined by directly spiking aldehydes and compounds with other functional groups, respectively, onto the indicator pads. The newly developed aldehyde indicator pad should find utility in detecting aldehydes in both liquid and vapor phases and in collecting aldehyde permeation through PPE for further study.     

A structurally simple self-immolative reagent that provides three distinct, simultaneous responses per detection event

A general design is presented for a stimulus-responsive small molecule that is capable of responding to a specific applied chemical or physical signal by releasing two different types of pendant small molecules and a colorimetric indicator simultaneously. A key aspect of this design is the ease with which these reagents are prepared: typically, only four synthetic steps are required. Moreover, the modular construction strategy provides access to stimuli-responsive reagents that are capable of (i) responding to a variety of applied signals and (ii) releasing a number of different small molecules that contain primary alcohols, secondary alcohols, or phenols. These stimuli-responsive reagents are stable under physiological conditions (neither hydrolysis nor thermal degradation of the reagent occurs in significant quantity), and when they are exposed to the appropriate applied signal, they release both pendant small molecules and the colorimetric indicator completely within hours. Finally, unlike other functional groups, such as carbonates, that are used to connect alcohol-bearing molecules to controlled-release reagents, the linkage described in this article increases in hydrolytic stability (rather than decreases) as the pK(a) of the pendant alcohol decreases.     

Preliminary evaluation of biacetyl bis(2-pyridyl)hydrazone as an analytical reagent

With the purpose of introducing biacetyl bis(2-pyridyl)hydrazone as an analytical reagent, the pyridylhydrazone literature has been reviewed. BBPH acts as a general chromogenic reagent. The fundamental solution chemistry of the complexes formed by BBPH with the metal ions has been studied. BBPH appears to be a promising reagent for the colorimetric estimation of cobalt and palladium. It may be advantageously compared with benzil bis(2-pyridyl) hydrazone which has the same basic chelate structure.     

Application of a Schiff base derived from sulfanilamide as an acid-base indicator

The present paper firstly announces the possibility of using a Schiff base as an acid-base indicator. This surprising phenomenon can be considered as an interest due to the fact that Schiff bases are usually unstable in solutions and definitely undergo hydrolysis. It was found that such a specific observation depends merely upon the chemical structure and type of the substitute of amine that reacts with aldehyde to give the Schiff base. The latter reagent 4[(4-dimethylamino-benzylidene)-amino]-benzene sulfonamide was synthesized from the condensation of sulfanilamide with p-dimethylaminobenzaldehyde. The reagent solution shows a reproducible change in its color due to the addition of acid and base. A UV-Vis spectroscopic characterization and acid-base equilibrium study of the reagent for its possible use as an indicator were investigated. The results show that the reagent is an amphoteric which possesses four ionization constants K_a1, K_a2, K_b1 and K_b2 of weak dibasic and diacidic properties. The value of pK_a2 (9.80) is parallel to the observed transition interval pH 9.5 (yellow) and pH 10.5 (colorless), which is considered to be the indicator exponents pK_i. It was concluded that the benzyl sulfonamide group plays a key role in the stability of the reagent towards hydrolysis and also for indicator characteristics through breaking the conjugation.     

Omega chrome green BLL: A new analytical reagent

Summary Omega Chrome Green BLL was used as a metal indicator for the direct complexometric titration of copper, lead, thorium and for the back titration of aluminium using thorium as a back titrant. It was also used as a colorimetric reagent for the microdetermination of copper and vanadium. A large number of anions and cations do not interfere in such a determination even if they are present in 10 folds the amount of copper or vanadium. Interference due to ferric iron is simply eliminated by the addition of few crystals of ascorbic acid to reduce it to the ferrous state.     

Synthetic applications of ethyl 3-bromodifluoromethyl-3-benzyloxy-acrylate as a gem-difluorination building-block: Its reactions with aldehyde and epoxide

Synthetic applications of ethyl 3-bromodifluoromethyl-3-benzyloxy-acrylate as a versatile and multifunctionalized gem-difluorination building block to introduce difluoromethene subunit into some new hydroxy esters have been investigated. It was found that its zinc mediated reaction with a variety of aldehyde in DMF gave the Reformatsky reaction mode product, β-hydroxy ester, in good yield, while its tetrakis(dimethylamino)ethylene (TDAE) promoted reaction with a limited scope of aldehyde produced Barbier reaction mode product, δ-hydroxy ester, in moderate yield. The reaction of its zinc reagent with styrene oxide resulted in rearrangement of the epoxide to 2-phenyl-acetaldehyde, and then the zinc reagent condensed with this aldehyde to provide the Reformastsy reaction type product, β-hydroxy ester, in low yield.     

Phosphomolybdic acid as a reagent for the spectrophotometric determination of certain phenothiazine derivatives of pharmaceutical products

Phosphomolybdic acid is used as reagent for colorimetric determination of phenothiazine derivatives in various pharmaceutical products. The reagent oxidizes the derivative to a cationic free radical, with which it then forms a coloured salt. The method is simple and rapid. A preliminary extraction is necessary if certain reductants (sulphite or ascorbic acid) are present as stabilizers of the pharmaceuticals, as otherwise they reduce the reagent to phosphomolybdenum blue.     

Analyse qualitative et détermination colorimétrique du cobalt au moyen de la carboxy-2-isonitrosoacétanilide

A new method for the identification and colorimetric estimation of Co(II) with 2-carboxy-isonitrosoacetanilide has been developed. This reagent is specific and its sensitiviness is D = 10^b-6(1:1,000,000). The best possible conditions are indicated for the colorimetric determination whereby Beer's law holds for dilutions to 1,2:1,000,000.     

Structural determination of a zinc reagent from ethyl 3-bromodifluoromethyl-3-benzyloxyacrylate and its reactions with aldehydes

The reactivity of ethyl 3-bromodifluoromethyl-3-benzyloxyacrylate as a novel gem-difluoromethylene synthon was investigated. ¹⁹F NMR spectra of its zinc reagent in THF and DMF indicate unambiguously that the active species exists as the γ-carbon metallated form. Moreover, promoted by zinc or TDAE, a complete control of the addition reaction mode (α or γ) of this acrylate with aldehydes can be accomplished.     

Colorimetric enantiodiscrimination of mandelic acid by indicator displacement assay

The colorimetric enantiodiscrimination between mandelic acid and L-proline-Cu(II) is exploited to develop enantioselective indicator displacement assays. The sensitivity of the assay could be tuned by using a colorimetric indicator. The chromophoric ligand, pyrocatechol violet, effectively competes with the mandelic acid guest for open coordination sites on L-proline-Cu(II). The DA could be increased to 0.12 by changing the ratio of(+)- and(à)-mandelic acid concentrations that were found to be optimal from the displacement experiments. The resultant enantiomer excess versus DA relationship is linear. From the calibration curves, the absorbance values of the unknowns may be calculated for the enantiomeric excess value and the colorimetric enantiodiscrimination of mandelic acid can thus be obtained.     

n-Pentyl-2-pyridyl ketoxime as a selective colorimetric reagent for copper

n-Pentyl-2-pyridyl ketoxime hydrochloride has been prepared and examined as a colorimetric reagent for copper. It is less sensitive than some reagents, but shows a remarkable selectivity toward copper. The copper(I) -oxime compound can be extracted into isoamyl alcohol or into chloroform. In isoamyl alcohol the colored compound conforms to Beer's law in concentrations up to 5.6 · 10^-4M and has a molar absorptivity of 2650 at 360 mμ. A procedure for the colorimetric determination of copper is given and its reliability is shown.     

p-nitroaniline as a colorimetric reagent for sulphur dioxide

The merits of the nitroanilines as an alternative to p-rosaniline and fuchsine in the colorimetric determination of sulphur dioxide and sulphites have been investigated. p-Nitroaniline was found to be a stable, well-defined reagent, with which sulphur dioxide can be determined to a high level of precision, the sensitivity being of the same order of magnitude as for p-rosaniline.     

A new technique to determine organic and inorganic acid contamination

A new acid indicator pad was developed for the detection of acid breakthrough of gloves and chemical protective clothing. The pad carries a reagent which responds to acid contaminant by producing a color change. The pad was used to detect both organic and inorganic acids permeating through glove materials using the modified ASTM F-739 and direct permeability testing procedures. Breakthrough times for each type of glove were determined, and found to range from 4 min to > 4 h for propionic acid, from 3 min to > 4 h for acrylic acid, and from 26 min to > 4 h for HCl. A quantification was performed for propionic and acrylic acids following solvent desorption and gas chromatography. Both acids exhibited > 99% adsorption [the acid and its reactivity (the acid reacted with an indicator to contribute the color change)] on the pads at a spiking level of 1.8 microL for each acid. Acid recovery during quantification was calculated for each acid, ranging from 52-72% (RSD < or = 4.0%) for both acids over the spiking range 0.2-1.8 microL. The quantitative mass of the acids on the pads at the time of breakthrough detection ranged from 260-282 and 270-296 microg cm(-2) for propionic acid and acrylic acid, respectively. The new colorimetric indicator pad should be useful in detecting and collecting acid permeation samples through gloves and chemical protective clothing in both laboratory and field studies, for quantitative analysis.