• DOI:10.1039/AN9840900985
• Corpus ID: 95953769

Gas-liquid chromatographic method for the determination of peracids in the presence of a large excess of hydrogen peroxide

@article{Furia1984GasliquidCM,
  title={Gas-liquid chromatographic method for the determination of peracids in the presence of a large excess of hydrogen peroxide},
  author={Fulvio Di Furia and Maurizio Prato and U. Quintily and Susanna Salvagno and Gianfranco Scorrano},
  journal={Analyst},
  year={1984},
  volume={109},
  pages={985-987}
}

• F. Furia, M. Prato, +2 authors G. Scorrano
• Published 1984
• Chemistry
• Analyst

The oxidation of organic sulphides is very fast with peracids and very slow with hydrogen peroxide. Thus, addition of an excess of methyl p-tolyl sulphide to a mixture of an organic peracid and hydrogen peroxide results in the formation of methyl p-tolyl sulphoxide equimolar with the peracid. The gas-chromatographic determination of the residual sulphide, or of the produced sulphoxide, affords a quantitative evaluation of the peracid present in the mixture. The method has been applied to the determination of m-chloroperbenzoic acid and peracetic and perpropionic acids.