Potassium persulphate as volumetric reagent

Summary Potassium persulphate has been used as volumetric reagent for the direct determination of hydrazine sulphate, phenyl hydrazine hydrochloride, semicarbazide hydrochloride, thiosemicarbazide, acetone semicarbazone, benzal semicarbazone, benzalazine, aminoguanidine hydrochloride, 4-phenyl semicarbazide hydrochloride, ethylmethyl ketone semicarbazone and 4-hydroxy-3-methoxy benzal semicarbazone in hydrochlorid acid medium at room temperature, using iodine monochloride as a catalyst and preoxidiser. Chloroform was used as an indicator. It was coloured violet owing to the liberation of iodine during the titration and became very pale yellow at the end-point due to the formation of iodine monochloride. Normality of the solution with respect to hydrochloric acid was kept between 6.0 and 7.5 N in these redox titrations.