In a 0.125 mol/L phosphate (pH 6.6)/2.5 x 10(-4) mol/L 2-iodoacetamide solution, lomefloxacin yields a response of a polarographic catalytic current. The second-order derivative peak current of the catalytic wave of lomefloxacin is proportional to its concentration in the range of 1.0 x 10(-8)-1.0 x 10(-6) mol/L (r = 0.998). The sensitivity of the catalytic wave is 25-times higher than that of ...

A simple and convenient method is described for the determination of low concentration palladium based on differential pulse polarographic reduction of Pd(II) in presence of ethylenediamine. Linearity of the calibration curve was achieved upto 27 ppm with a limit of determination 0.01 μg/ml. The possible interference of usually present other platinum group metals was examined and ruled out. The...

Electro-active elemental sulphur dissolved in hydrazine hydrate solvent was studied by d.c. polarography, cyclic voltammetry and millicoulometry in sodium acetate, ammonium tartrate and sodium phosphate buffers in an aqueous medium. The method, which uses a mercury electrode, is highly sensitive with less interference than other polarographic methods. The method was extended to the determinatio...

A polarographic method for the determination of as little as 1 pig. of gold in blood and serum samples is described. The relative error is 2.1%. After the sample is dry ashed at 550#{176}, the gold is extracted into ether as the chloride, to separate it from interfering copper and iron. A polarogram of the gold sample is obtained in 2 M potassium hydroxide. The method should be applicable to th...

Kalman filtering was applied to the current vs. time data obtained at the growing mercury drop of a DME under d.c. polarographic conditions, to separate the faradaic and capacitive components of the electrode current. Polarograms consisting of the pure faradaic current vs. applied d.c. potential were subjected to a four-parameter curve-fitting procedure to obtain the polarographic characteristi...

A catalytic polarographic method for the determination of microgram quantities of Ce(IV) is developed based on the catalytic currents of cerium(IV) in the presence of NH4Cl – NH4OH at pH 6.2 with piperazine. Piperazine produces catalytic current with Ce(IV) at peak potential -0.1 to -0.6 V vs. SCE. The procedure was applied for the estimation of Ce(IV) in water samples. The method is simple, se...