Sodium arsenates Complex

L-Amino acid oxidase has been used to measure L-phenylalanine and involves the addition of a sodium arsenate-borate buffer, which promotes the conversion of the oxidation product, phenylpyruvic acid, to its enol form, which then forms a borate complex having an absorption maximum at 308 nm. Tyrosine and tryptophan react similarly but their enol-borate complexes have different absorption maxima at 330 and 350 nm respectively. Thus by taking absorbance readings at these wavelengths the specificity of the assay is improved. The assay for L-alanine may also be made almost completely specific by converting the L-pyruvate formed in the oxidation reaction to L-lactate by the addition of lactate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.27) and monitoring the oxidation of NADH at 340 nm. 

Arsenic Triazide, As(N,) mw 327.05, N 62.73% prepn attempted by Vournazos (Ref 1) by reacting Na.azide with As tribromide 3NaN3 + AsBr, 3 NaBr + As (Nj)3, but he obtained instead wh needles of the complex sodium arsenic bromoazxde, Na([AsBrs(Nj)Jp in methyl ale soln (Ref 2)... 

Electrolytes which do not afford ionic complexes with common hexitols and reducing sugars are aqueous solutions of lead acetate, copper sulfate, zinc sulfate, ferrous ammonium sulfate, calcium chloride, potassium dichromate, ferric chloride (pH 3), aluminum sulfate, magnesium sulfate, sodium sulfate, potassium antimonyl tartrate, sodium arsenate or arsenic acid, sodium phosphate, and hydrochloric acid. It is not certain whether sodium aluminate (in 0.1 N sodium hydroxide) affords ionic complexes with carbohydrates, as aqueous alkali, alone, permits their migration during electrophoresis. 

The colorless tris(0-ethyl dithiocarbonato)arsenic(III) and yellow antimony(III) complexes have been prepared from the corresponding metal trichlorides using this procedure. Tris-(alkyl trithiocarbonato)-, tris(0,0 -dialkyldithiophosphato)-, and other tris(0-alkyl dithiocarbonato)indium(III) complexes can undoubtedly be prepared from the potassium or sodium derivatives of the ligands using this procedure. 

A UK standard official method [62] has been published for the spectropho-tometric determination of arsenic in sea water. The determination is effected by conversion to arsine using sodium borohydride which is added slowly to the acidified samples by a peristaltic pump. The liberated arsine is trapped in an iodine/potassium iodide solution and the resultant arsenate determined spectrophotometically as the arsenomolybdenum blue complex at 866 nm. The method is applicable down to 0.19 p,g arsenic. 

Additive or more-than-additive toxicity of free cyanide to aquatic fauna has been reported in combination with ammonia (Smith et al. 1979 Leduc et al. 1982 Alabaster et al. 1983 Leduc 1984) or arsenic (Leduc 1984). However, conflicting reports on the toxicity of mixtures of HCN with zinc or chromium (Towill et al. 1978 Smith et al. 1979 Leduc et al. 1982 Leduc 1984) require clarification. Formation of the nickelocyanide complex markedly reduces the toxicity of both cyanide and nickel at high concentrations in alkaline pH. At lower concentrations and acidic pH, solutions increase in toxicity by more than 1000-fold, owing to dissociation of the metallo-cyanide complex to form hydrogen cyanide (Towill et al. 1978). Mixtures of cyanide and ammonia may interfere with seaward migration of Atlantic salmon smolts under conditions of low dissolved oxygen (Alabaster et al. 1983). The 96-h toxicity of mixtures of sodium cyanide and nickel sulfate to fathead minnows is influenced by water alkalinity and pH. Toxicity decreased with increasing alkalinity and pH from 0.42 mg CN/L at 5 mg CaCOj/L and pH 6.5, to 1.4 mg CN/L at 70 mg CaCOj/L and pH 7.5 to 730 mg CN/L at 192 mg CaCOj/L and pH 8.0 (Doudoroff 1956). 

Gong Z et al Determination of arsenic metabolic complex excreted in human urine after administration of sodium 2,3-dimercapto-l-propane sulfonate. Chem Res Toxicol 2002 15 1318. [PMID 12387631]... 

The most useful chemical species in the analysis of arsenic is the volatile hydride, namely arsine (AsH3, bp -55°C). Analytical methods based on the formation of volatile arsines are generally referred to as hydride, or arsine, generation techniques. Arsenite is readily reduced to arsine, which is easily separated from complex sample matrices before its detection, usually by atomic absorption spectrometry (33). A solution of sodium borohydride is the most commonly used reductant. Because arsenate does not form a hydride directly, arsenite can be analyzed selectively in its presence (34). Specific analysis of As(III) in the presence of As(V) can also be effected by selective extraction methods (35). 

Higher homologues are coveniently prepared from sodium potassium arsenide and chlorosilanes. The arsenide is a complex mixture formed by mixing a sodium-potassium alloy with powdered arsenic suspended in 1,2-dimethoxyethane (equation l).36... 

Copper Thioarsenates.—Cupric Orthothioarsenate, Cu3(AsS4)2, is formed as a dark brown precipitate when sodium orthothioarsenate is added to a solution of a cupric salt.2 The reaction, however, is complex, sulphides of copper and arsenic also being formed.3 A similar precipitate is formed when ammonium hydrosulphide or hydrogen sulphide is added to a solution of arsenic acid and a copper salt,4 and the proportion of sulphide and thio-salt in the precipitate varies with the concentration of the reactants. Copper hydroxide reacts with alkali thioarsenates to form copper sulphide and alkali arsenate, but some copper orthothioarsenate is formed and remains in solution in excess of alkali thioarsenate.5... 

A series of complex silico-arsenides has been obtained 6 by melting metals with silicon and an excess of arsenic under a layer of molten cryolite and sodium chloride. The following have thus been prepared copper silico-arsenide, a grey crystalline brittle mass zinc silico-arsenide, which behaved as above with hydrochloric acid iron, cobalt and nickel siMco-arsenides, of composition M2SisAs4, similar in appearance to the copper compound. When platinum was treated in the same way, a hard white product of indefinite composition was obtained, almost insoluble in nitric acid. 

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