Metal chelates of phosphonate-containing ligands: VII. Analytical applications of 1-hydroxyethane-1,1-diphosphonic acid

The polarographic behavior of copper, lead, antimony, and zinc ions in the presence of the title ligand, HEDP, is discussed. In highly alkaline solutions, the reversible wave of copper splits into two components, reversible and irreversible, the first of which is attributed to the reduction of the free cupric ions and the second wave was assigned to the reduction of the copper phosphonate species. The polarograms of zinc and antimony showed the presence of a single irreversible wave. In the case of lead, a quasi-reversible wave is observed. Cobalt and nickel forms inactive phosphonate chelates as inferred from the suppression of the wave heights with increasing of both the concentration of the ligand and the pH of the medium. In the presence of sufficiently excess HEDP buffered to pH 11.8, mixtures of the six elements showed the presence of four reasonably separated waves at half-wave potential values ?0.51, ?0.83, ?1.17, and ?1.55 V vs SCE corresponding to the reductions of copper, lead, antimony, and zinc complexes, respectively. The possibility of the individual and simultaneous analysis of these elements in their ternary mixtures with cobalt and nickel is discussed.