Glycol isooctyl ether
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The analytical potential of poly(ethylene glycol) p-isooctyl-phenyl ether (Triton X-100), a nonionic surfactant, is used as a mobile phase in the thin-layer chromatographic separation of heavy-metal cations. The surfactant concentration below its critical micellar concentration (CMC) as well as above the CMC value is used to investigate the migrational behavior of some heavy-metal ions on silica gel layers. The mobility of the metal ions is found to change marginally with the increase of surfactant concentration from 0.001M (below CMC) to 0.1M (above CMC). The influence of the pH of the medium, nonelectrolyte organic (urea and alkanols), and inorganic electrolyte (NaCI) additives in the surfactant containing mobile phase on the mobility of heavy metals on the silica gel layer is examined. For separating metal ions, surfactant must be used in the presence of buffers. Triton X-100 (0.02M) at pH 2.3 is found to be the best mobile phase for the separation of heavy-metal cations. In general, the presence of alcohol in aqueous surfactant solutions results in a decrease in the mobility of metal ions. Besides Cu2+ and Fe3+, all of the metal ions show a trend of increasing the retardation factor beyond a minima at 0.1 or 0.3M of added urea or NaCl. The proposed method is successfully applied for the simultaneous detection of Zn2+ and Cd2+ from a spiked human blood sample.