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N-methylethylxanthocarbamate has been used as an analytical reagent for the determination of trace amounts of cadmium in standard alloys, biological, and environmental samples. The reagent has been found to form a water insoluble complex with cadmium. It is quantitatively adsorbed over microcrystalline naphthalene in the pH range 2.5 to 12.0. The metal complex is desorbed with HCl and cadmium determined with a differential pulse polarograph. The detection limit is 0.05 ppm (signal-to-noise ratio = 2) and the linearity is maintained in the concentration range 0.2–25 μg/ml, with correlation coefficient of 0.9995 and a relative standard deviation of ±0.81%. Characterization of the electroactive process includes an examination of the degree of reversibility. Various parameters, such as the effect of pH, reagent concentration, amount of naphthalene, volume of aqueous phase, and the interference of a large number of metal ions on the determination of cadmium, have been studied in detail to optimize the conditions for its determination in various complex materials.
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Hussain, M.F., Sangahi, A.K. & Puri, B.K. N-Methylethylxanthocarbamate as an Analytical Reagent: Differential Pulse Polarographic Determination of Cadmium in Standard Alloys, Biological and Environmental Samples after Adsorption of its Complex on Microcrystalline Naphthalene. Journal of Analytical Chemistry 57, 724–729 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016830010796
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