Investigation of Electrochemical Behaviour of Chromium(VI)-Dithiocarbamate Complexes: Detection of Chromium(VI) in Real Samples

A facile, rapid and sensitive catalytic hydrogen signal method has been developed for the analysis of chromium(VI) using two new ligands Ammonium N-phenylpiperazine-1-carbodithioate (APP-CDT) and Ammonium N-benzylpiperidine-1- carbodithioate (ABP-CDT) were synthesized. The method was depending on the reaction of chromium(VI) with APP-CDT and ABP-CDT at pH 8.6 and 7.8 respectively in supporting electrolyte (NH4Cl-NH4OH) medium. The resulting oxidation peaks were obtained at -1.68V and -1.60 V vs SCE respectively, due to the catalytic hydrogen signals (CHS’s). Different experimental conditions such as pH effects, background electrolyte (NH4Cl-NH4OH) effects and carbodithioate (CDT) and chromium(VI) ion effects were studied. The present technique was successfully used to detect chromium(VI) in several environmental, biological samples. It was demonstrated that the obtained recovery percentages (95-99%) were comparable to the Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry (AAS) method.