AccScience Publishing / AJWEP / Volume 9 / Issue 4 / DOI: 10.3233/AJW-2012-9_4_13
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Quantification of Aniline with Bleaching Powder via Indophenol Reaction and Its Residual Determination in Lubricating Oils

Anjum Ansari1 Smita Joshi2 Sulbha Amlathe1*
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1 Department of Chemistry, BUIT, Barkatullah University, Bhopal – 462 026, India
2 Department of Chemistry, Sarojini Naidu Govt. Girls PG (Autonomous) College Shivaji Nagar, Bhopal – 462 016, India
AJWEP 2012, 9(4), 95–102; https://doi.org/10.3233/AJW-2012-9_4_13
Submitted: 8 June 2010 | Accepted: 26 July 2012 | Published: 1 January 2012
© 2012 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

A rapid and one step condensation method for trace level determination of aniline is developed in environmental and real sample i.e., lubricating oil. The method involves the use of oxidative coupling reaction for aniline and phenol using bleaching powder as an oxidizing agent in alkaline medium. The dye has a maximum absorption at 640 nm. Beer’s law is obeyed in the range of 0.125 to 0.75 µg/ml and its detection limit is 0.025 µg. Molar Absorptivity and Sandell’s Sensitivity were found to be 4.4 × 103 litres/mol/cm (±100) and 0.021 µg cm-2, respectively. Standard Deviation and Relative Standard Deviation were found to be ±0.0074 and 3.12% respectively, for 5 µg of aniline in 10 ml of the final volume. All important parameters have been optimized for complete colour reaction and applied for the analysis of aniline in environmental samples i.e. water and air. It is also applied for the residual aniline determination in lubricating oils.

Keywords
Spectrophotometer
aniline
phenol
bleaching powder
indophenol dye
Conflict of interest
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
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