Complex agent

Simplest examples are prepared by the cyclic oligomerization of ethylene oxide. They act as complexing agents which solubilize alkali metal ions in non-polar solvents, complex alkaline earth cations, transition metal cations and ammonium cations, e.g. 12—crown —4 is specific for the lithium cation. Used in phase-transfer chemistry. ... 

Protein adsorption has been studied with a variety of techniques such as ellipsome-try [107,108], ESCA [109], surface forces measurements [102], total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRE) [103,110], electron microscopy [111], and electrokinetic measurement of latex particles [112,113] and capillaries [114], The TIRE technique has recently been adapted to observe surface diffusion [106] and orientation [IIS] in adsorbed layers. These experiments point toward the significant influence of the protein-surface interaction on the adsorption characteristics [105,108,110]. A very important interaction is due to the hydrophobic interaction between parts of the protein and polymeric surfaces [18], although often electrostatic interactions are also influential [ 116]. Protein desorption can be affected by altering the pH [117] or by the introduction of a complexing agent [118]. 

Among the complexing agents that find use as titrating agents, ethylenediamine-A,A(A, A-tet-raacetic acid (acronym EDTA, and equation abbreviation, H4Y) is by far the more important, and it is used in the vast majority of complexometric titrations. The successive acid values of H4Y are pKi = 2.0, pisTj = 2.67, = 6.16, pTCt = 10.26 at 20°C and an ionic strength of 0.1. The fraction... 

Direct Titrations. The most convenient and simplest manner is the measured addition of a standard chelon solution to the sample solution (brought to the proper conditions of pH, buffer, etc.) until the metal ion is stoichiometrically chelated. Auxiliary complexing agents such as citrate, tartrate, or triethanolamine are added, if necessary, to prevent the precipitation of metal hydroxides or basic salts at the optimum pH for titration. Eor example, tartrate is added in the direct titration of lead. If a pH range of 9 to 10 is suitable, a buffer of ammonia and ammonium chloride is often added in relatively concentrated form, both to adjust the pH and to supply ammonia as an auxiliary complexing agent for those metal ions which form ammine complexes. A few metals, notably iron(III), bismuth, and thorium, are titrated in acid solution. 

In a back titration, a slight excess of the metal salt solution must sometimes be added to yield the color of the metal-indicator complex. Where metal ions are easily hydrolyzed, the complexing agent is best added at a suitable, low pH and only when the metal is fully complexed is the pH adjusted upward to the value required for the back titration. In back titrations, solutions of the following metal ions are commonly employed Cu(II), Mg, Mn(II), Pb(II), Th(IV), and Zn. These solutions are usually prepared in the approximate strength desired from their nitrate salts (or the solution of the metal or its oxide or carbonate in nitric acid), and a minimum amount of acid is added to repress hydrolysis of the metal ion. The solutions are then standardized against an EDTA solution (or other chelon solution) of known strength. 

Complexing agent Ion demasked Demasking agent Application... 

The formation of these additional precipitates can usually be minimized by carefully controlling solution conditions. Interferents forming precipitates that are less soluble than the analyte may be precipitated and removed by filtration, leaving the analyte behind in solution. Alternatively, either the analyte or the interferent can be masked using a suitable complexing agent, preventing its precipitation. 

We can account for the effect of an auxiliary complexing agent, such as NH3, in the same way we accounted for the effect of pH. Before adding EDTA, a mass balance on Cd + requires that the total concentration of Cd +, Ccd, be... 

This experiment describes a standard multicomponent analysis for two analytes based on measuring the absorbance at two wavelengths. Hexacyanoruthenate(II) is used as a complexing agent, forming a purple-blue complex with Fe(III) and a pale green complex with Cu(II). 

Metals. Most metals react with aqueous HCl foUowing equation 22. The reaction rate is dependent on the concentration of the acid, oxidi2ing, reducing, or complexing agents, and corrosion inhibitors, in addition to the metallurgical characteristics of the material and the prevailing hydrodynamic conditions (see Corrosion and corrosion control). 

Ligno sulfonate—metal complexes are weaker complexes than those formed from amine-based complexing agents such as ethylenediaminetetracetic acid (EDTA). They are compatible with most pesticides /herbicides, but thek use in phosphate fertilisers is not recommended. 

After firing, the powder is washed in water typically with a small amount of complexing agent such as ethylenediarninetetraacetic acid (EDTA), sodium EDTA, or a weak acid such as citric acid to remove the excess chloride, volatile antimony oxychlorides which have recondensed on the phosphor during cooling, and manganese compounds which are not incorporated in the halophosphate lattice. The powder is then ready for suspension. 

Complex Ion Formation. Phosphates form water-soluble complex ions with metallic cations, a phenomenon commonly called sequestration. In contrast to many complexing agents, polyphosphates are nonspecific and form soluble, charged complexes with virtually all metallic cations. Alkali metals are weakly complexed, but alkaline-earth and transition metals form more strongly associated complexes (eg, eq. 16). Quaternary ammonium ions are complexed Htde if at all because of their low charge density. The amount of metal ion that can be sequestered by polyphosphates generally increases... 

Less stable parts of the sludge can be treated by holding in tanks for extended periods of time to allow the weaker emulsion to break and separate a clean product. The mote stable sludges can be broken by mechanical action in filters or centrifuges, by recycle to the furnace for redistillation, or by redistillation in auxiliary units. Chemical attack via oxidation or complexing agents that break the emulsion has also been employed. 

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