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SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART A-MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY
Volume 61, Issue 5, Pages 937-941Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2004.04.021
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copper determination; spectrophotometry; charge transfer complex
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A new type of colored complex, the charge transfer complex, was used to develop the spectrophotometric determination of copper. The method was based on the formation of a colored product, the charge transfer complex of copper substituted tungstophosphate with 3,3',5,5'-tetramethybenzidine (TMB), which was stabilized and sensitized by the addition of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) in aqueous solution. The structure of copper substituted tungstophosphate was Keggin-type according to the results of infrared (IR) spectra. The optimum reaction conditions and other important analytic parameters had been investigated. Beer's law was obeyed in the copper(II) concentration range of 0.003-0.1 mug mL(-1), and the molar absorptivity at 660 nm is 2.54 x 10(5) L mol(-1) cm(-1). The proposed method was simple, selective, and sensitive. It was applied to the analytic samples with satisfactory results. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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