Antimony silver diethyldithiocarbamate

Silver diethyldithiocarbamate [1470-61-7] is a reagent commonly used for the spectrophotometric measurement of arsenic in aqueous samples (51) and for the analysis of antimony (52). Silver iodate is used in the determination of chloride in biological samples such as blood (53). 

Merry and Zarcinas [33] have described a silver diethyldithiocarbamate method for the determination of arsenic and antimony in soil. The method involves the addition of sodium tetrahydroborate to an acid-digested sample which has been treated with hydroxylammonium chloride to prevent the formation of insoluble antimony compounds. The generated arsine and stib-ine react with a solution of silver diethyldithiocarbamate in pyridine in a gas washtube. Absorbance is measured twice at wavelengths of 600 and 504 nm. 

Interferences Metals or salts of metals such as chromium, cobalt, copper, mercury, molybdenum, nickel, palladium, and silver may interfere with the evolution of arsine. Antimony, which forms stibine, is the only metal likely to produce a positive interference in the color development with the silver diethyldithiocarbamate. Stibine forms a red color with silver diethyldithiocarbamate that has a maximum absorbance at 510 nm, but at 535 to 540 nm, the absorbance of the antimony complex is so diminished that the results of the determination would not be altered significantly. 

Selenium is extracted as diethyldithiocarbamate complex from the solution containing citrate and EDTA [5]. Ohta and Suzuki [6] found that only a few elements, such as copper, bismuth, arsenic, antimony, and tellurium, are also extracted together with selenium. They examined this for effects of hundredfold amounts of elements co-extracted with the selenium diethyldithiocarbamate complex. An appreciable improvement of interferences from diverse elements was observed in the presence of copper. Silver depressed the selenium absorption in the case of atomisation of diethyldithiocarbamate complex, but the interference of silver was suppressed in the presence of copper. The atomisation profile from diethyldithiocarbamate complex was identical with that from selenide. 

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