Spectrophotometric Determination of the Trace Amount of Thallium in Water and Urine Samples by Novel Oxidative Coupling Reaction

A novel, simple, rapid, sensitive and selective method has been proposed for the trace determination of thallium by spectrophotometric detection. This method is based on the oxidation of MBTH (3-methyl-2-benzothiazolinone hydrazone hydrochloride) by thallium(III) to form diazonium cation, which coup...

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Main Authors: P. Nagaraja, N. Ghllab Saeed Al-Tayar, A. Shivakumar, A. K. Shresta, A. K. Gowda
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Published: Wiley 2009-01-01
Series:E-Journal of Chemistry
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/630417
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description A novel, simple, rapid, sensitive and selective method has been proposed for the trace determination of thallium by spectrophotometric detection. This method is based on the oxidation of MBTH (3-methyl-2-benzothiazolinone hydrazone hydrochloride) by thallium(III) to form diazonium cation, which couples with IPH (Imipramine hydrochloride) in phosphoric acid medium at room temperature giving a blue colored species having a maximum absorption at 635 nm. The reagents and manifold variables influences on the sensitivity were investigated and the optimum reaction conditions have been established. The calibration curve was found to be linear over the range 0.1-5 μg mL-1 with the molar absorptivity and Sandell’s sensitivity of 2.9x104 L mol-1 cm-1, 0.0071 μg cm-2 respectively. The tolerance limit of the method towards various ions usually associated with thallium has been detected. The relative standard deviation for five replicate determination of 2μg mL-1 thallium was 0.47%. The method has been successfully applied for the determination of thallium(ІΙΙ) and thallium(I) in synthetic, standard reference materials, water and urine samples with satisfactory results. The performance of the proposed method was evaluated in terms of student’s t-test and variance ratio F-test, to find out the significance of proposed method over the reported methods.
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spelling doaj-art-5839faa9df0a4187962732b334e606382025-02-03T05:44:41ZengWileyE-Journal of Chemistry0973-49452090-98102009-01-01641153116310.1155/2009/630417Spectrophotometric Determination of the Trace Amount of Thallium in Water and Urine Samples by Novel Oxidative Coupling ReactionP. Nagaraja0N. Ghllab Saeed Al-Tayar1A. Shivakumar2A. K. Shresta3A. K. Gowda4Department of Studies in Chemistry, University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysore 570 006, IndiaDepartment of Studies in Chemistry, University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysore 570 006, IndiaDepartment of Studies in Chemistry, University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysore 570 006, IndiaDepartment of Studies in Chemistry, University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysore 570 006, IndiaDepartment of Studies in Chemistry, University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysore 570 006, IndiaA novel, simple, rapid, sensitive and selective method has been proposed for the trace determination of thallium by spectrophotometric detection. This method is based on the oxidation of MBTH (3-methyl-2-benzothiazolinone hydrazone hydrochloride) by thallium(III) to form diazonium cation, which couples with IPH (Imipramine hydrochloride) in phosphoric acid medium at room temperature giving a blue colored species having a maximum absorption at 635 nm. The reagents and manifold variables influences on the sensitivity were investigated and the optimum reaction conditions have been established. The calibration curve was found to be linear over the range 0.1-5 μg mL-1 with the molar absorptivity and Sandell’s sensitivity of 2.9x104 L mol-1 cm-1, 0.0071 μg cm-2 respectively. The tolerance limit of the method towards various ions usually associated with thallium has been detected. The relative standard deviation for five replicate determination of 2μg mL-1 thallium was 0.47%. The method has been successfully applied for the determination of thallium(ІΙΙ) and thallium(I) in synthetic, standard reference materials, water and urine samples with satisfactory results. The performance of the proposed method was evaluated in terms of student’s t-test and variance ratio F-test, to find out the significance of proposed method over the reported methods.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/630417
spellingShingle P. Nagaraja
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Spectrophotometric Determination of the Trace Amount of Thallium in Water and Urine Samples by Novel Oxidative Coupling Reaction
E-Journal of Chemistry
title Spectrophotometric Determination of the Trace Amount of Thallium in Water and Urine Samples by Novel Oxidative Coupling Reaction
title_full Spectrophotometric Determination of the Trace Amount of Thallium in Water and Urine Samples by Novel Oxidative Coupling Reaction
title_fullStr Spectrophotometric Determination of the Trace Amount of Thallium in Water and Urine Samples by Novel Oxidative Coupling Reaction
title_full_unstemmed Spectrophotometric Determination of the Trace Amount of Thallium in Water and Urine Samples by Novel Oxidative Coupling Reaction
title_short Spectrophotometric Determination of the Trace Amount of Thallium in Water and Urine Samples by Novel Oxidative Coupling Reaction
title_sort spectrophotometric determination of the trace amount of thallium in water and urine samples by novel oxidative coupling reaction
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/630417
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