Alkali consumption in the dinitrophenylation of alpha amino acids

✍ Scribed by Mylous O'Dell; Felix Friedberg

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1960
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 114 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-2670
• DOI: 10.1016/s0003-2670(60)80116-x

✦ Synopsis

chelometric and chelatometric, complexan and complex, complexanometric and complexometric lend themselves equally to confusion.

A purely personal opinion is that neither term is really necessary for a generic subdivision of chelatometric titrations. It would seem more logical and certainly more lucid to say, for example, titrimetric determination of calcium with EGTA (or whatever the titrant is) than to say either chelometric or complexanometric titration of calcium. Recommendations which result in such startling terms as diethyldithiocarbamatometric titrations should surely be avoided wherever possible.

Any comments on this matter will be valued by the Commission concerned.