Chamjangali Mansour Arab, Keley Vahid, Bagherian Ghadamali
College of Chemistry, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood 36155-316, Iran.
Anal Sci. 2006 Feb;22(2):333-6. doi: 10.2116/analsci.22.333.
A new, simple and inexpensive kinetic catalytic spectrophotometric method for the determination of oxalate is described. The method is based on an activation effect of oxalate on a catalytic effect of iron(II) on the oxidation of iodide by bromate. The reaction is monitored by measuring the absorbance of triiodide ion at lambda max = 352 nm. A calibration graph was obtained from 0.10 - 7.0 microg cm(-3) of oxalate with a detection limit of 0.080 microg cm(-3). The standard deviations for ten replicate determinations of 0.50, 1.0 and 5.0 microg cm(-3) of oxalate were 4.0, 2.6 and 1.8%, respectively. The applicability of the method was demonstrated by the determination of oxalate ion in real samples.
