Murexides

Gives murexide on treatment with cone. HNOa and then ammonia. 

Murexide test. Place about o-i g. of uric acid in a small evaporating-basin and moisten with 2 3 drops of cone. HNO3. Heat very gently to dryness, and then add i drop of aqueous NHj from a glass rod a purple coloration is produced due to the formation of ammonium purpurate or murexide. Now add a drop of NaOH solution the coloration changes to blue. 

Supplement 1955 3634-3793 Sulphonic acids Indigo-disulphonic acid (indigocarmine), 304. Amines, 308. Keto-ammes Pyramidone, 452. Allan-toin, 474. Murexide, 499. Amino-carboxylic acids Histidine, 513. j Hydrazines, 531. Azo compounds, 535. 1... 

Murexide Indicator. Suspend 0.5 g of powdered murexide in water, shake thoroughly, and allow the undissolved solid to settle. Use 5-6 drops of the supernatant liquid for each titration. Decant the old supernatant liquid daily and treat the residue with water to provide a fresh solution of the indicator. 

Alternatively, grind 0.1 g of murexide with 10 g of ACS reagent grade sodium chloride use about 50 mg of the mixture for each titration. 

Inorganic Analysis Complexation titrimetry continues to be listed as a standard method for the determination of hardness, Ca +, CN , and Ch in water and waste-water analysis. The evaluation of hardness was described earlier in Method 9.2. The determination of Ca + is complicated by the presence of Mg +, which also reacts with EDTA. To prevent an interference from Mg +, the pH is adjusted to 12-13, precipitating any Mg + as Mg(OH)2. Titrating with EDTA using murexide or Eri-ochrome Blue Black R as a visual indicator gives the concentration of Ca +. 

An alloy of chromel containing Ni, Fe, and Cr was analyzed by a complexation titration using EDTA as the titrant. A 0.7176-g sample of the alloy was dissolved in ITNOa and diluted to 250 mb in a volumetric flask. A 50.00-mb aliquot of the sample, treated with pyrophosphate to mask the Fe and Cr, required 26.14 mb of 0.05831 M EDTA to reach the murexide end point. A second 50.00-mb aliquot was treated with hexamethylenetetramine to mask the Cr. Titrating with 0.05831 M EDTA required 35.43 mb to reach the murexide end point. Einally, a third 50.00-mb aliquot was treated with 50.00 mb of 0.05831 M EDTA, and back titrated to the murexide end point with 6.21 mb of 0.06316 M Cu +. Report the weight percents of Ni, fe, and Cr in the alloy. 

Determination. The most accurate (68) method for the deterrnination of copper in its compounds is by electrogravimetry from a sulfuric and nitric acid solution (45). Pure copper compounds can be readily titrated using ethylene diamine tetracetic acid (EDTA) to a SNAZOXS or Murexide endpoint. lodometric titration using sodium thiosulfate to a starch—iodide endpoint is one of the most common methods used industrially. This latter titration is quicker than electrolysis, almost as accurate, and much more tolerant of impurities than is the titration with EDTA. Gravimetry as the thiocyanate has also been used (68). 

Boil the solution with mercuric oxide a violet solution of murexide is formed. 

Reactions.—i. A small cpiantity of the alloxan solution is evaporated to dryness on the water-bath in a porcelain iDasin. A reddish residue is left, which turns purple on the addition of ammonia (murexide). See Appendix., p. 26S. 

The isolation of unsymmetrically-substituted murexides in two forms, e.g., 115 and 116, has been claimed (see reference 175 and... 

These reactions take place with sparingly soluble silver salts, and hence provide a method for the determination of the halide ions Cl", Br, I-, and the thiocyanate ion SCN ". The anion is first precipitated as the silver salt, the latter dissolved in a solution of [Ni(CN)4]2", and the equivalent amount of nickel thereby set free is determined by rapid titration with EDTA using an appropriate indicator (murexide, bromopyrogallol red). 

Sometimes the metal may be transformed into a different oxidation state thus copper(II) may be reduced in acid solution by hydroxylamine or ascorbic acid. After rendering ammoniacal, nickel or cobalt can be titrated using, for example, murexide as indicator without interference from the copper, which is now present as Cu(I). Iron(III) can often be similarly masked by reduction with ascorbic acid. 

Murexide forms complexes with many metal ions only those with Cu, Ni, Co, Ca and the lanthanides are sufficiently stable to find application in analysis. Their colours in alkaline solution are orange (copper), yellow (nickel and cobalt), and red (calcium) the colours vary somewhat with the pH of the solution. 

Murexide may be employed for the direct EDTA titration of calcium at pH =11 the colour change at the end-point is from red to blue-violet, but is far from ideal. The colour change in the direct titration of nickel at pH 10-11 is from yellow to blue-violet. 

Aqueous solutions of murexide are unstable and must be prepared each day. The indicator solution may be prepared by suspending 0.5 g of the powdered dyestuff in water, shaking thoroughly, and allowing the undissolved portion to... 

Silver halides can be dissolved in a solution of potassium tetracyanonickelate(II) in the presence of an ammonia-ammonium chloride buffer, and the nickel ion set free may be titrated with standard EDTA using murexide as indicator. 

Procedure. Prepare the murexide indicator as described in Section 10.57(a), and an ammonium chloride solution (1M) by dissolving 26.75 g ammonium chloride in de-ionised water in a 500 mL graduated flask. 

BPR = bromopyrogallol red FSB = fast sulphone black F M = murexide MTB = methylthymol blue SB = solochrome black TPX = thymolphthalexone VB = variamine blue XO = xylenol orange. 

The procedure involved in the determination of these anions is virtually that discussed in Section 10.58 for the indirect determination of silver. The anion to be determined is precipitated as the silver salt the precipitate is collected and dissolved in a solution of potassium tetracyanonickelate(II) in the presence of an ammonia/ammonium chloride buffer. Nickel ions are liberated and titrated with standard EDTA solution using murexide as indicator ... 

Pipette 25.0 mL of the bromide ion solution (0.01-0.02M) into a 400 mL beaker, add excess of dilute silver nitrate solution, filter off the precipitated silver bromide on a sintered glass filtering crucible, and wash it with cold water. Dissolve the precipitate in a warm solution prepared from 15 mL of concentrated ammonia solution, 15 mL of 1M ammonium chloride, and 0.3 g of potassium tetracyanonickelate. Dilute to 100-200 mL, add three drops of murexide indicator, and titrate with standard EDTA (0.01 M) (slowly near the end point) until the colour changes from yellow to violet. 

Monochromator 663, 791 Monodentate ligand 51 Morphine (and codeine) D. of (fu) 740 Mortar agate, 155 mullite, 155 percussion, 155 synthetic sapphire, 155 Muffle furnace 97 Multielement analysis 174, 184, 775 Multiple range indicators 268 Murexide 316... 

Purine derivatives (e. g. xanthine) are oxidized by chloramine T in the presence of hydrochloric acid and form purple-red anunonium salts of purpuric acid (murexide) with ammonia. Whether the murexide reaction is also the cause of the fluorescence is open to question. 

In the concentration range above 1 ng substance per spot, red-colored chromatogram zones (murexide reaction) could be seen on a pale background these could be excited to blue (caffeine, h/ f 75- 80 theobromine, hRf 55-60) or yellow (theophylline h/ f 35-40) fluorescence on a dark background in long-wavelength UV light (X = 365 nm). 

Objective Examination of the effect of ultrasound on the degradation of Indicators (Murexide, Erichrome black T, Xylenol orange and Fast sulphone black F)... 

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