Extraction-Spectrophotometric Method for Determination of Gallium(III) in the Form of Ion Associate with a Monotetrazolium Salt.

The possibility of application of the ternary ion-association complex of gallium(III), 4-(2-pyridyl azo)resorcinol (PAR) and 2,3,5-triphenyl-2H-tetrazolium chloride (TTC) for extraction-spectrophotometric determination of gallium(III) was studied. The liquid-liquid extraction system Ga(III)-PAR-TTC-HO-CHCl was applied for this purpose. The effect of the foreign ions on the extraction was investigated. Based on the obtained results, a sensitive, relatively simple, and inexpensive method for determination of gallium(III) in a model mixture was developed, which can be implemented in industrial, biological, medical, and pharmaceutical samples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]