Quinolinic acid as a reagent for the gravimetric and volumetric estimation of palladium

Summary Like -amino-picolinic acid, quinolinic acid behaves as a highly selective reagent for palladium with which it forms a complex of composition Pd(C₇H₄O₄N)₂. The complex being very stable is precipitated from solutions with an acidity of 0.25 N to a maximum p_H of 2.1 and thus is separated from all the common ions and other platinum metals except copper which, however, can be kept in solution in presence of EDTA. The palladium complex is either weighed after drying or dissolved in a standard potassium cyanide solution which is later back titrated with silver nitrate solution.