Method of amperometric determination of the concentration of arendiazonium salts

• US 4,019,966 A
• Filed: 06/04/1976
• Issued: 04/26/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 06/04/1974
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Vyzkumny Ustav Organickych Syntex
• Original Assignee: Vyzkumny Ustav Organickych Syntex
• Inventors: Matrka, Miroslav, Sagner, Zdenek, Remes, Miroslav
• Primary Examiner(s): Tung, T.
• Application Number:
  US05/583,632
• Time in Patent Office: 326 Days
• Field of Search: 204/1 T, 204/1 N, 204/1 K, 204/1 M, 204/195 R, 204/195 H, 204/195 T
• US Class Current: 205/780.5
• CPC Class Codes: C09B 41/00 Special methods of performing the coupling reaction reaction of mixtures of diazo and coupling components, C09B67/0033
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 27/4045 for gases other than oxygen

Abstract

Method of and apparatus for the amperometric determination of the concentration of arendiazonium salts in a diazocoupling reaction mixture. The apparatus has an external body in the bottom part of which cleaning material is disposed, a shaft, an inner body mounted on the shaft, at least two electrodes located in the inner body, a commutator, each of the electrodes being independently connected with one segment of the commutator. The commutator forms a component part of the shaft of the inner body; an electric motor is connected with the shaft to drive the inner body, compression bearings with a spring and an adjusting screw being disposed for adjustment of the compressive force between the inner body with its electrodes and the cleaning material. Brushes cooperate with the commutator for alternately connecting spaced pairs of electrodes on the inner body of the measuring circuit and disconnecting them therefrom.

Claims

1. In an amperometric method of determining the concentration of arendiazonium salts in a diazocoupling reaction mixture, the method comprising the steps of applying a DC voltage across a tellurium measuring electrode in contact with the mixture and a reference electrode so that only ions of arendiazonium salts in the mixture are reduced on the surface of the measuring electrode, measuring the resultant current through the measuring and reference electrodes, and periodically cleaning the measuring electrode.

2. A method as defined in claim 1, in which the periodically cleaning step is accomplished by continually rotating the tellurium electrode during the current measuring step between a measuring position and a cleaning position.