title: A new colorimetric method for the determination of carbon disulphide and its application to the analysis of some dithiocarbamate fungicides.
abstract: A new and convenient colorimetric method for determination of carbon disulphide, based on its transformation into bright yellow potassium benzyl trithiocarbonate through reaction with benzyl mercaptan and potassium hydroxide in tert.-butyl alcohol, has been successfully applied to determination of some dithiocarbamate fungicides in their formulations. The method possesses a distinct advantage in that it is free from all sources of errors/problems which are associated with the xanthate method for the analysis of these materials. The proposed method is precise and accurate and hence recommended for routine analysis of technical formulations containing dithiocarbamate fungicides.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Himachal Pradesh University, Simla 171005, India.
authors.forename: B C
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: Verma
authors.forename: R K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Sood
authors.forename: H S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Sidhu