Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1247403 Talanta 2006 12 Pages PDF
Abstract

In this work, the complexation of cadmium and zinc ions by 3-[N-tris(hydroxymethyl)methylamine]-2-hydroxypropanesulfonic acid (TAPSO), a commercial biological buffer, was evaluated using three electrochemical techniques, at fixed total-ligand and total-metal concentration ratio and varied pH, at 25.0 ± 0.1 °C and ionic strength set to 0.1 M KNO3. For both metal–ligand systems, complexation was evidenced in the pH range close to deprotonation of the ligand and the final models were optimised after a meticulous graphical analysis.For Cd–(TAPSO)x–(OH)y system, two complexes, CdL and CdL2, were identified in the buffering region of the ligand. The proposed final model for this system is: CdL, CdL2 and CdL2(OH) with stability constants, as log β, of 2.2, 4.2 and 8.6, respectively.For Zn–(TAPSO)x–(OH)y system, the complex ZnL is the main species formed in the buffering pH range. The proposed final model is ZnL, ZnL(OH) and ZnL(OH)2 with overall refined stability constants (as log β) to be: 2.5, 7.2 and 13.2, respectively.

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