Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun. 1992, 57, 2248-2262
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19922248

The Polarographic Determination of 1-[4'-(Phenylazo)phenyl]-3,3-dimethyltriazene

Jiří Bareka, Dana Dřevínkováa, Jiří Zimaa and Arnold Foggb

a UNESCO Laboratory of the Environmental Electrochemistry, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Charles University, 128 40 Prague 2, Czechoslovakia
b Department of Chemistry, Loughborough University of Technology, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE 11 3TU, Great Britain

Abstract

A study has been made of the polarographic behaviour of genotoxic 1-[4'-(phenylazo)phenyl]-3,3-dimethyltriazene in mixed water-methanol medium. A mechanism has been proposed for its polarographic reduction and optimal conditions have been found for its determination by tast polarography in the concentration range 1 . 10-4 - 2 . 10-6 mol l-1 and using differential pulse polarography in the concentration range 1 . 10-4 - 2 . 10-7 mol l-1.