Synthesis of Fluoro-Contained Bisazo Chromotropic Acid Derivants and studies on Their Color Reactions with Rare Earth Elements

In this paper, a series of f1uoro-contained bisazo chromotropic acid derivants has been designed and synthesized. They are easily soluble in water, alcohol and acetone but insoluble in benzene, ether and chloroform. Some regularities of the effects of their molecular structure on the color reaction have also been studied. The result shows that in this series of reagents, DCF-chlorophosphonazo and DBF-chlorophosphonazo are excellent color reagents for the determination of the total amount of rare earth elements. The molar absor-ptivities of light and heavy rare earth elements are approach to each other. The tolerant quantity of Bi (Ⅲ) and Pb (Ⅱ), Sn(Ⅳ) are larger than that of the other arsenazo or chlorophosphonazo type of color reagents. We also discover that p-fluorochlorophosphonazo can form β-type complexes with heavy rare earth elements, and p -fluoro-carboxyazo with light rare earth elements. If the reaction time is controlled, p -fluoro-carboxyao can form β-type complex only with La, and the other light or heavy rare earth elements have no this type of reaction.