Liquid chromatographic determination of vanadium in petroleum oils and mineral ore samples using 2-acetylpyridne-4-phenyl-3-thiosemicarbazone as derivatizing reagent.
Liquid chromatographic method has been developed, based on precolumn derivatization of vanadium(V) with 2-acetylpyridine-4-phenyl-3-thiosemicarbazone (APPT). The complex is extracted in chloroform together with palladium(II), tin(II) and iron(III) and eluted and separated completely from Kromasil 100 C-18, 10 microm (25 cm x 4.6 mm i.d.) column with methanol:water:acetonitrile (60:30:10, v/v/v) with a flow rate of 1 ml/min. UV detection was at 260 nm. Linear calibration curve was obtained with 1-12.5 microg/ml vanadium(V) with detection limit of 8 ng/injection (20 microl). A number of metal ions tested did not affect the determination of vanadium. The test mixtures were analyzed for vanadium(IV) and vanadium(V) contents and relative% error was obtained +/-1-8%. The method was applied for the determination of vanadium in petroleum oils and mineral ore samples with vanadium contents of 0.32-2.3 and 121.7-717.3 microg/g with R.S.D. of 1.5-4.5 and 0.38-4.7%, respectively. The results correlated with reported values and by atomic absorption spectrophotometry.
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Dr. M.A. Kazi Institute of Chemistry, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan. rm_arain_su@yahoo.com
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