title: Novel analytical applications of porphyrin to HPLC post-column flow injection system for determination of the lanthanides.
abstract: A novel indirect substitution spectrophotometric methodology using porphyrin is developed for the determination of some metals that do not react with porphyrin directly. The methodology is concerned with a multistep reaction system, which consists of 3 complexation reactions that occur in a sequence of EDTA with metal, EDTA with Cu(II) and porphyrin with Cu(II). The complexation reaction of Cu(II) with a cationic porphyrin, meso-tetrakis (4-N-trimethylaminophenyl)-porphine (ttmapp), which has a high molar absorptivity about 5 x 10(5)l mol(-1)cm(-1), serves for spectrophotometric detection. This methodology was verified through individual determinations of 14 species of lanthanides following a batchwise procedure, which was further developed to an automatic procedure on a HPLC post-column flow injection system for simultaneous analysis of the lanthanides. Compared with the conventional post-column derivatization method using 4-(2-pyridylazo) resorcinol (PAR), the analytical sensitivity was greatly improved in this method and the results also showed good linearity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied and Environmental Chemistry, Kitami Institute of Technology, 165 Koen-Cho, Kitami, Hokkaido, Japan.
authors.forename: Jun-ichi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Itoh
authors.forename: Jianhua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Masashi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Komata