{"title":"Kinetic-Catalytic and Spectrophotometric Determination of Hg(II) Using its Catalytic Effect on Ligand Substitution Reaction between Hexacyanoferrate(II) and Pyrazine","authors":"Radhey Mohan Naik, Pradeep Kumar Singh, Richa Rastogi, Ruchi Singh, Abhinav Agarwal","doi":"10.1002/adic.200790103","DOIUrl":"10.1002/adic.200790103","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A sensitive, simple and rapid spectrophotometric method for the determination of mercury (II) based on its catalytic effect on the abstraction of coordinated cyanide from hexacyanoferrate (II) by pyrazine has been developed using fixed time procedure. The extent of the reaction is monitored spectrophotometrically by measuring the increase in absorbance at λ<sub>max</sub>=440 nm of the yellow colored complex, [Fe(CN)<sub>5</sub>Pz]<sup>3−</sup> under the reaction conditions; [Fe(CN)<sub>6</sub>]<sup>4−</sup>=7.2×10<sup>−3</sup> mol L<sup>−1</sup>, [P<sub>z</sub>]=3.75×10<sup>−4</sup> mol L<sup>−1</sup>, temperature=25.0±0.1 °C, pH= 2.50±0.02 and I=0.1 mol L<sup>−1</sup>(KNO<sub>3</sub>). The experimental rate data under the conditions used in the present study exhibited a linear dependence between absorbance and [Hg<sup>2+</sup>] catalyst in the range 5.065–50.15 ng mL<sup>−1</sup>. The detection limit is found to be 4.01 ng mL<sup>−1</sup>. The maximum relative standard deviations and percentage errors for mercury(II) determination are found to be 2.2 and 3 % respectively. The percentage recoveries are found to be in the range of 99–102 %. Analytical data fordetermination of mercury(II) is presented together with the application of proposed method in water spiked synthetic mixtures. The validity of the proposed method is tested by comparing the results obtained by present method with atomic absorption spectrometry.</p>","PeriodicalId":8193,"journal":{"name":"Annali di chimica","volume":"97 11-12","pages":"1169-1179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/adic.200790103","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75345468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stasys Tautkus, Algimantas Irnius, Danute Speiciene, Jurgis Barkauskas, Aivaras Kareiva
{"title":"Investigation of Distribution of Heavy Metals between Blood Plasma and Blood Cells","authors":"Stasys Tautkus, Algimantas Irnius, Danute Speiciene, Jurgis Barkauskas, Aivaras Kareiva","doi":"10.1002/adic.200790118","DOIUrl":"10.1002/adic.200790118","url":null,"abstract":"The physiological importance of metals in human organism has been shown by many publications. The toxic doses of metals and their compounds can lead to serious health problems.1–4 Different metals present in the composition of blood can form different complexes with many organic compounds and biomolecules which could be found in the body fluids.5–7 Depending on the concentration of metals in the parts of body, different metal-ligand equilibriums could be established in the system. These changes could cause changes in global bioprocesses, or different clinical symptoms and metabolic stresses in human organism could occur. The distribution of metals between blood plasma and blood cells could represent an important clinical index.8–10 The aim of the present study was to investigate, for the first time to our knowledge, the distribution of heavy metals between blood plasma and cells in the blood samples from the infected by hepatitis C and non-infected patients.","PeriodicalId":8193,"journal":{"name":"Annali di chimica","volume":"97 11-12","pages":"1139-1142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/adic.200790118","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73813640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Highly Thiocyanate-Selective Membrane Electrode Based on the Bis(Benzoylacetone) propylenediimine Copper(II)Complex","authors":"Behzad Rezaei, Soraya Meghdadi, Vajihe Nafisi, Saeid Bagherpour","doi":"10.1002/adic.200790105","DOIUrl":"10.1002/adic.200790105","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A potentiometric thiocyanate-selective sensor based on copper(II) bis(benzoylacetone)propylenediimine complex as a new neutral carrier for a thiocyanate-selective electrode is reported. The response mechanism is discussed in view of the UV spectroscopy technique. The sensor displays a near Nernestian slope of -57.4 ± 0.5 mV per decade. The working concentration range of the electrode is 8.0×10<sup>-7</sup>-1.0×10<sup>-1</sup> M with a detection limit of 7.4×10<sup>-7</sup> M. The response time of the sensor in the all concentration ranges is very short (5-10 s). The response of the sensor is independent of pH, in the pH range of 1.7–11.5. The best performance was obtained with a membrane composition of 32.69 % PVC, 57.34 % dibutyl phthalate, 6.82 % complex and 3.15 % methyltrioctylammonium chloride (MTOAC) as additive. The proposed electrode is more selective than other proposed methods for determination of thiocyanate ion over a wide variety of common inorganic and organic anions and it was successfully applied to direct determination of thiocyanate in the presence of other anions in biological, water and waste water samples.</p>","PeriodicalId":8193,"journal":{"name":"Annali di chimica","volume":"97 11-12","pages":"1191-1205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/adic.200790105","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82316557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hong Yao, Yuanyuan Sun, Xinhua Lin, Yuhai Tang, Liying Huang
{"title":"Electrochemical Oxidation and Determination of Norepinephrine in the Presence of Ascorbic Acid and Uric Acid at a Poly(Calconcarboxylic Acid)-Modified Electrode","authors":"Hong Yao, Yuanyuan Sun, Xinhua Lin, Yuhai Tang, Liying Huang","doi":"10.1002/adic.200790107","DOIUrl":"10.1002/adic.200790107","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A poly(calconcarboxylic acid) film was prepared originally via electrochemically depositing calconcarboxylic acid (CCA) on a glassy carbon electrode (GCE) by cyclic voltammetry (CV). The polymer showed excellent electrocatalytic activity to the oxidation of norepinephrine and could detect separately ascorbic acid (AA), norepinephrine (NE) and uric acid (UA) in their mixture. Separations of the oxidation peak potentials of NE-AA and UA-AA were 160 and 150 mV, respectively. Using differential pulse voltammetry (DPV), the peak current of NE was linearly dependent on its concentration within the range of 10–300 μmol L<sup>-1</sup>. No interference was produced for the determination of NE in the presence of AA and UA. Owing to its good selectivity and robustness, the poly(CCA)-modified GCE was used for the determination of NE in injections with satisfactory results.</p>","PeriodicalId":8193,"journal":{"name":"Annali di chimica","volume":"97 11-12","pages":"1217-1226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/adic.200790107","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85125695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cai-yun Zheng, Shui-hong Chen, Yong-jia Shang, Mao-guo Li
{"title":"A Modified Glassy Carbon Electrode for Hydrogen Peroxide Sensing","authors":"Cai-yun Zheng, Shui-hong Chen, Yong-jia Shang, Mao-guo Li","doi":"10.1002/adic.200790108","DOIUrl":"10.1002/adic.200790108","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, 4-ferrocenyl benzoic acid (FcBA) was synthesized and the electrochemical behaviors of the synthesized ferrocenyl derivative were studied; Then, the multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) coated FcBA modified glassy carbon (MWCNTs/FcBA/GC) electrode was prepared conveniently and the as-prepared modified electrode was characterized with both electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The results suggested that FcBA could coat the MWCNTs tightly in dimethylformamide (DMF) and the coated MWCNTs could be strongly adsorbed on the surface of glass carbon (GC) electrode. The MWCNTs/FcBA/GC electrode exhibited an excellent electrocatalytic activity toward the reduction of hydrogen peroxide. The modifiedelectrode was hence used for the determination of hydrogen peroxide by differential pulse voltammetry (DPV). The linear range of the modified electrode was 2.5×10-6 and 5.0×10-4 mol/l, and the detection limit was estimated to be of 4.8×10-7 mol/l when the signal-to-noise ratio was 3. Further studies indicated that the modified electrode was of a fast response, high sensitivity, good reproducibility, and long-term stability.","PeriodicalId":8193,"journal":{"name":"Annali di chimica","volume":"97 11-12","pages":"1227-1235"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/adic.200790108","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85442400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measurements of lower Carbonyls and Hydrocarbons at Ny-Alesund, Svalbard","authors":"Rosanna Mabilia, Vincenzo Di Palo, Claudio Cassardo, Carla Ciuchini, Antonello Pasini, Massimiliano Possanzini","doi":"10.1002/adic.200790087","DOIUrl":"10.1002/adic.200790087","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Measurements of gaseous organic compounds were carried out near Ny-Alesund, in the Norwegian Arctic, during September 2004. Twenty alkanes, alkenes and aromatic hydrocarbons from ethane to toluene and six aldehydes and ketones from formaldehyde to butanal, were identified and quantified in air samples. Hydrocarbons showed a quite uniform distribution, with ethane being by far the most abundant component (>1 ppb), followed by propane (>0.4 ppb) and butanes (>0.3 ppb), while for unsaturated homologues, except ethene, concentrations never exceeding 0.05 ppb were observed. This distribution confirmed that hydrocarbon depletion during the transport time from Europe into the Arctic was depending upon their atmospheric lifetimes, calculated relatively to the OH reactivity scale. The presence of short lived hydrocarbons could be associated to local sources of anthropogenic and/or biogenic origin. Although the local air photochemistry played a primary role in the production of lower aldehydes in late summer, the observed mixing ratios of formaldehyde (in the 0.25 – 0.50 ppb range) could not be fully explained by known gas-phase chemistry. In this case additional sources, such as fluxes of formaldehyde from snow pack to the atmosphere and/or local anthropogenic activities, were to be taken into consideration. The possible influences of these sources on HCHO mixing ratios were analysed by means of a backward-trajectory circulation model.</p>","PeriodicalId":8193,"journal":{"name":"Annali di chimica","volume":"97 10","pages":"1027-1037"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/adic.200790087","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27186682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Notices to Authors: Annali di Chimica 10/2007","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/adic.200790098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adic.200790098","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8193,"journal":{"name":"Annali di chimica","volume":"97 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/adic.200790098","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137468889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Morteza Montazerozohori, Mohammad Hossein Habibi, Shiva Joohari, Vida Khodadostan
{"title":"The Effects of Some Operational Parameters in Photodegradation of Benzylamine and Aniline and Their Kinetics in Aqueous Suspension of TiO2 and Pt–Loaded TiO2","authors":"Morteza Montazerozohori, Mohammad Hossein Habibi, Shiva Joohari, Vida Khodadostan","doi":"10.1002/adic.200790086","DOIUrl":"10.1002/adic.200790086","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Photocatalytic degradation of benzylamine and aniline on TiO<sub>2</sub>, Pt-modified TiO<sub>2</sub>, ZnO and ZnS in aqueous solution has been investigated. The degradation of the compounds follows a pseudo-first-order kinetics according to Langmuir-Hinshelwood model. The degradation process of benzylamine and aniline was evaluated by ninhydrin spectrophotometric method using UV-visible spectrophotometer in λmax= 538 and 525 nm, respectively. The results showed the order of Pt/TiO<sub>2</sub>> TiO<sub>2</sub>> ZnO> ZnS for photocatalytic activity. In addition increasing of the Pt-loading was found to enhance the degradation rate of the compounds up to the optimal amount of 5wt. % onto the surface of TiO<sub>2</sub> so that the rates of degradation were increased about two times. Rate constants for photodegradation of benzylamine and aniline were found to be 1.4×10<sup>-3</sup> min<sup>-1</sup> and 0.7×10<sup>-3</sup> min<sup>-1</sup> for TiO<sub>2</sub> as photocatalyst, while 2.7×10<sup>-3</sup> min<sup>-1</sup> and 1.7×10<sup>-3</sup>min<sup>-1</sup> for (5 wt.%) Pt/TiO<sub>2</sub> as photocatalyst. Running the reactions in various pH (5-11), indicated that the pH= 8 and 10 or Higher are the optimum pH for photocatalytic degradation of benzylamine and aniline respectively. The effects of some other parameters such as amount of photocatalyst, flux of oxygen and irradiation time were evaluated. Furthermore, the Langmuir-Hinshelwood rate constant <i>k<sub>r</sub></i> and adsorption constant <i>K</i><sub>A</sub> for the titled compounds are reported.</p>","PeriodicalId":8193,"journal":{"name":"Annali di chimica","volume":"97 10","pages":"1015-1026"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/adic.200790086","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27186681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abdalla Shalaby Prof., Maha El-Tohamy, Magda El-Maamly, Hassan Y. Aboul-Enein Prof.
{"title":"Potentiometric Membrane Sensor for the Selective Determination of Pethidine in Pharmaceutical Preparations and Biological Fluids","authors":"Abdalla Shalaby Prof., Maha El-Tohamy, Magda El-Maamly, Hassan Y. Aboul-Enein Prof.","doi":"10.1002/adic.200790090","DOIUrl":"10.1002/adic.200790090","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The construction and general performance characteristics of a novel potentiometric PVC membrane sensor based on pethidine-phosphomolybdate as electroactive material for the determination of pethidine are described. This sensor exhibits fast, stable and near-Nernstain response 55.24±0.1, over the concentration range 1.10<sup>-2</sup>-1.10<sup>-5</sup>M for pethidine-phosphomolybdate over pH 2-7. No interferences are caused by many organic, inorganic cations, alkaloids and amino acids. The sensor proved useful for determining pethidine in pure forms, pharmaceutical injections and monitoring the content uniformity assay of ampoules. The designed sensor also show good accuracy for the determination of pethidine in biological fluids.</p>","PeriodicalId":8193,"journal":{"name":"Annali di chimica","volume":"97 10","pages":"1065-1074"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/adic.200790090","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27186685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marco Antonilli, Emilio Bottari, Maria Rosa Festa, Lorella Gentile
{"title":"An Investigation on Calcium (II) Oxalate as Solubility and Universal Standard","authors":"Marco Antonilli, Emilio Bottari, Maria Rosa Festa, Lorella Gentile","doi":"10.1002/adic.200790092","DOIUrl":"10.1002/adic.200790092","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The investigation on calcium (II) oxalate is carried out in order to study its solubility in different ionic media. In the same conditions the protonation constants of oxalate and the stability of complex species have been determined. As the stoichiometric composition of the solid calcium (II) oxalate prepared for the investigation was accurately checked, the salt CaC<sub>2</sub>O<sub>4</sub> · H<sub>2</sub>O is proposed as universal (chelometry, redox, acidimetry) standard. Results of titrations support this possibility.</p>","PeriodicalId":8193,"journal":{"name":"Annali di chimica","volume":"97 10","pages":"1085-1096"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/adic.200790092","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27186687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}