Electroanalytical techniques are well known as excellent and cheap procedures for the determination of trace chemical species. Chemometric methods are increasingly used in electroanalytical chemistry for extraction of more information from experimental data as in other areas of analytical chemistry. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] In the field of potentiometry, several methods have been reported based on flow injection system and titration using partial least squares (PLS) regression and artificial neural networks (ANN) as modeling methods. 11-16 Based on our knowledge, there is not any report about using chemometrics methods for simultaneous determination of two or more species based on kinetic-potentiometric data.Hydrazine (HZ) and phenylhydrazine (PHZ) as its derivative have been used in industry, agriculture and other fields. 17 Several methods have been reported for the determination of HZ and its derivatives individually.18-24 H-point standard addition method (HPSAM) was reported for simultaneous determination of binaries of HZ and semicarbzide, 25 HZ and PHZ, 26 HZ and acetylhydrazine, 27 HZ and isoniazid. 28 Recently, we reported a kinetic-spectrophotometric determination of ternary mixture of HZ and its derivatives using PCR and PLS methods. 29 To the best of our knowledge, no one has reported any chemometric methods for the simultaneous determination of HZ and its derivatives in a mixture, based on the kinetic-potentiometric method in which ion-selective electrodes are used.This work reports the first application of HPSAM and PLS to the simultaneous kinetic-potentiometric determination of binary mixture of HZ and PHZ. The methods are based on the differences observed in the rate of production of chloride ion in the reactions of NCS with HZ and PHZ.
Experimental
Apparatus and softwareA solid-state chloride-selective electrode (Metrohm Model 6.0502.120) was used in conjunction with a double junction Ag/AgCl reference electrode (Metrohm Model 6.0726.100), whose outer compartment was filled with a 10% (w/v) KNO3 solution. The Metrohm Model 780 potentiometer, attached to a Pentium (IV) computer, was used for recording the kinetic potentiometric data. All measurements were carried out in a thermostated (25 ± 0.2˚C), double-walled reaction cell with continuous magnetic stirring. The electrode was stored in 1 × 10 −3 mol dm −3 potassium chloride solution when not in use. For pH measurements, a Metrohm Model 780 pH meter with a combination glass electrode was used. PLS analysis was performed using a PLS toolbox in the MATLAB 7.0 program. Simultaneous determination of hydrazine (HZ) and phenylhydrazine (PHZ) by H-point standard addition method (HPSAM) and partial least squares (PLS) regression was carried out based on kinetic data from novel potentiometry methods. The rate of chloride ion production in the reaction of HZ and PHZ with N-chlorosuccinimide (NCS) was monitored by a chloride ion-selective electrode. The experimental data show the good ability of ion-selective electrodes (ISEs) as detectors not only f...