Determination of ultratrace amounts of ruthenium(III) by the delayed autocatalytic reaction using citric acid.
A method for determination of ultratrace amounts (ppq levels) of ruthenium(III) was developed using a copper(II)-phthalocyanine-3,4',4",4"'-tetrasulfonic sodium salt (Cu-PTS) as an indicator in a potassium bromate autocatalytic reaction system. A satisfactory calibration curve of ruthenium(III) ion was obtained by the time measurement in the concentration range of 1 x 10(-13) M to 5 x 10(-12) M with the relative standard deviation (RSD) of 2.8% (n=5). The determination limits (3sigma) were 3.30 x 10(-14) M (3.34 ppq).
Department of Materials Science, Faculty of Engineering, Ibaraki University, Nakanarusawa 4-12-1, Hitachi, Ibaraki 316-8511, Japan.
Jun
J
Kato
Osamu
O
Ohno
Shukuro
S
Igarashi