Potentiometric studies of complex formation between methylmercury(II) and EDTA.
The protonation of EDTA (ethylenediaminetetra-acetic acid) and its complex formation with methylmercury(II) ions was studied by a potentiometric method at 25 degrees in 1.0M NaNO(3). The protonation constants of EDTA and the equilibrium constants for the complexation reactions between methylmercuric ions and EDTA were evaluated by analysing the experimental data with the ETITR version of the general error-minimizing program LETAGROP. The results were used to develop an analytical method, based on complexometric titration and ion-exchange separation, for the determination of inorganic and organic mercury in the presence of one another.
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Department of Analytical Chemistry, The Royal Institute of Technology, S-10044 Stockholm 70, Sweden.