A New Pentadentate S-N Schiffs' Base as a Novel Ionophore in Construction of a Novel Gd(III) Membrane Sensor
✍ Scribed by Mohammad Reza Ganjali; Morteza Rezapour; Parviz Norouzi; Masoud Salavati-Niasari
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 85 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1040-0397
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✦ Synopsis
We found that bis(thiophenal) pyridine-2,6-diamine (BPD) can be used as an excellent ion carrier to prepare a gadolinium-selective PVC-based membrane sensor. The use of oleic acid (OA) and potassium tetrakis(p-chlorophenyl borate)(KTKpClPB), as anionic additives, and dibutyl phthalate (DBP), acetophenone (AP) and nitrobenzene (NB), as plasticizing solvent mediators was investigated. The best performance was observed with a membrane having the composition of 30% PVC; 62% BA; 5% BPD; and 3% KTKpClPB. The resulting sensor works well over a relatively wide concentration range (1.0 Â 10 À6 -1.0 Â 10 À1 M) with a Nernstian slope of 19.4 AE 0.4 mV per decade of gadolinium activity over a wide pH range (3.5 -8.0). The limit of detection of the sensor is 7.0 Â 10 À7 M (ca. 110 ng mL À1 ). The proposed electrode shows excellent discriminating ability toward gadolinium ions with regard to common alkali, alkaline earth, transition, heavy metal ions, and specially, lanthanide ions. The proposed sensor was applied as an indicator electrode for titration of gadolinium ions with EDTA.