Flow injection determination of iodide ion in a photographic developing solution using iodide ion-selective electrode detector.
A potentiometric flow injection determination method for iodide ion in a photographic developing solution was proposed by utilizing a flow-through type iodide ion-selective electrode detector. The sensing membrane of the electrode was Ag(2)S-AgI membrane. The response of the electrode detector as a peak-shape signal was obtained for injected iodide ion in a photographic developing solution. A linear relationship in the subnernstian zone was found to exist between peak height and the concentration of the iodide ion in a photographic developing solution in a concentration range from 0 to 6.0x10(-5) mol l(-1). The relative standard deviation for ten injections of 2x10(-5) mol l(-1) iodide ion in a photographic developing solution was 0.96% and the sampling rate was approximately 12-13 samples h(-1). The iodide ion could be determined under coexisting of an organic reducing reagent and inorganic electrolytes of high concentration in a photographic developing solution sample solution by the present method.
Flow injection determination of cationic polyelectrolytes using a tetraphenylborate-selective electrode detector
A potentiometric flow injection determination method for cationic polyelectrolytes utilizing a flow-through-type tetraphenylborate-selective electrode detector is described. The method is based on detecting any concentration decrease of the tetraphenylborate ion by the formation of an ion associate between cationic polyelectrolyte, poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride) (Cat-floc) and tetraphenylborate ion. The response of the electrode detector, as a peak-shaped signal, was obtained for injected cationic polyelectrolyte samples. A linear relationship was found to exist between the peak height and the logarithmic concentration of Cat-floc with a slope of 17 mV/decade over a concentration range of 5 × 10 -5 to 1 × 10 -3 mol l-1. The detection limit for Cat-floc was 1 × 10 -5 mol l-1. The sampling rate was ca. 12 samples/h.
New method for analysis of enzymatic reactions: Thermolysin-catalyzed synthesis of aspartame precursor
Aspartame is an artificial sweetener which is 200 times sweeter than sucrose. A precursor of aspartame, N-(benzyloxycarbonyl)-l-aspartyl-l-phenylalanine methyl ester (Z-APM) was synthesized and hydrolyzed with thermolysin in an aqueous monophasic system. Graphical plotting methods and/or nonlinear regression have been used to analyze enzymatic reactions because of the nonlinearity of enzymatic rate equations. There are, however, problems: the former require accurate measurement of the initial reaction rate and the latter gives no analytical information. The authors proposed a method to solve the nonlinear enzymatic rate equations with respect to the concentration of a product with the Taylor expansion, especially for the reversible Theorell-Chance mechanism (Murakami, Y., Hirata, M., and Hirata, A., J. Ferment. Bioeng., 82, 246–252, 1996). This solution, however, is complex for practical use. In this paper, a simpler solution to explain the thermolysin-catalyzed synthesis of Z-APM is obtained. New methods to determine the kinetic parameters, especially for the reversible Theorell-Chance mechanism, based on the approximated solution are proposed. The results calculated using the obtained kinetic parameters can satisfactorily explain the experimental results, which demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed analysis. We must know the relation between the concentrations of substrates and a product, and accurately evaluate of the result obtained using Taylor expansion when we determine the kinetic parameters using our newly developed methods. The methods to determine the kinetic parameters of the reversible Theorell-Chance mechanism described in this paper is, however, expected to be applied to general enzymatic reactions.