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Quantitative aspects of electrolysis in electromembrane extractions of acidic and basic analytes.

Analytica chimica acta (2015-09-01)
Andrea Šlampová, Pavel Kubáň, Petr Boček
ABSTRACT

Electrolysis is omnipresent in all electrochemical processes including electromembrane extraction (EME). The effects of electrolysis on quantitative aspects of EME were comprehensively evaluated for a set of acidic (substituted phenols) and basic (basic drugs) analytes. EMEs were carried out across supported liquid membranes formed by 1-ethyl-2-nitrobenzene at standard EME conditions, i.e., acidic analytes were extracted from alkaline into alkaline solutions and basic analytes were extracted from acidic into acidic solutions. Electric potential applied across the EME systems was 50 V and extraction recoveries of analytes as well as pH values of donor and acceptor solutions were determined after each EME. It has been proven that electrolysis plays a more significant role than has ever been thought before in EME. Electrolytically produced H(+) and OH(-) ions had a significant effect on pH values of acceptor solutions and variations of up to 8.5 pH units were obtained at standard EME conditions. pH values of donor solutions were affected only negligibly due to their significantly higher volumes. The observed variations in pH values of acceptor solutions had fatal consequences on quantitative EME results of weak and medium strong acidic/basic analytes. A direct relation was observed between the decrease in extraction recoveries of the analytes, their pKa values and the acceptor solution pH values. Acceptor solutions consisting of high concentrations of weak bases or acids were thus proposed as suitable EME operational solutions since they efficiently eliminated the electrolytically induced pH variations, offered stable EME performances and were easily compatible with subsequent analytical methods.

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