G. Bagur et al., DETERMINATION OF VANADIUM IN CLAM TISSUE (CITTEREA SP) BY NORMAL-PHASE HIGH-PERFORMANCE LIQUID-CHROMATOGRAPHY WITH N-PHENYLBENZOHYDROXAMIC ACID, Analyst, 119(6), 1994, pp. 1157-1159
A normal-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method fo
r the selective determination of vanadium with N-phenylbenzohydroxamic
acid (PBHA) is described. The V-v-PBHA complex was preconcentrated by
solvent extraction into trichloromethane and injected on to a silica
gel column for HPLC, with a mobile phase of methanol-trichloromethane
(3 + 97) containing 9.4 X 10(-4) mol dm(-3) PBHA. The detection limit
for vanadium by the proposed method was 8.3 and 1.7 mu g dm(-3) for ph
ase-volume ratios of 5:1 and 20:1 (aqueous-to-organic), respectively.
Vanadium has been determined in clam tissue with satisfactory precisio
n.