A comparison between determination of trace amounts of sulfide in the presence and absence of micelle particles in natural waters (Qazvin, Iran): a kinetic spectrophotometric approach.

A new sensitive kinetic spectrophotometric method described for the determination of trace amounts of sulfides based on the addition reaction of sulfide ions with malachite green has been investigated in aqueous and micellar media at 25 °C. The variables affecting the rate of the reaction were investigated, and the optimum conditions were established. Under the optimum experimental conditions, decreases in the absorbance of malachite green at 615 nm in the absence and 630 nm in the presence of micelle particles, their λ max, were proportional to the concentrations of sulfide ions at the first 15 and 25 s from initiation of the reaction. The working curve was linear over the concentration range 50-1200 ng mL(-1) of sulfide ions with a fixed time method at the first 15 and 25 s from initiation of the reaction in aqueous medium and 25-1750 ng mL(-1) with a fixed time method at the first 15 s and 25-1500 ng mL(-1) for primitive 25 s in micellar medium. For the proposed kinetic method, the experimental and theoretical limit of detection (LOD) and limit of quantification (LOQ) in the presence and absence of micelle particles were obtained and tabulated at Δt = 15 and 25 s. The effective range concentration was achieved from the plot of Ringbom in both media and reported. Different surfactants, such as nonionic surfactant (Triton-X100), anionic surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), and cationic surfactant cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) and cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC), were investigated and Triton X-100 selected as a suitable surfactant. To valuable vision into the reaction pathways, pseudo-first-order condition was applied and different kinetic parameters like ΔG (≠), ΔE (≠), ΔS (≠), and ΔH (≠) computed. The 2:1 stoichiometry of malachite green to sulfide ions was indicated by the results of mole ratio and Job's method of continuous variation. The effect of different environments on the interfering of various ions on sulfide determination with the suggested method was studied, and final results have been presented. To investigate the usefulness of the different media of the proposed method, sulfide ions were determined in natural waters such as river and spring samples without any purification or using masking reagents.