Contact an Account ManagerIdentification of diphenylmercury phenylmercury chloride and mercury(II) chloride at nanogram level
Summary
Type: TLC
Application #: 400820
Detection: Detection: > 1 µg compound: iodine vapour and UV at 366 nm
detection limit < 1 ng: radioactively labelled mercury compound (autoradiography with 50 days exposition or liquid scintillation counting)
Conditions: Eluent:
2-fold development in the same direction:
1. benzene*, saturated with water, then intermediate drying,
2. isobutylmethyl ketone / benzene* (3:1, v/v, saturated with water)
* instead of toluene we recommend the use of the less toxic ketone
Authors: Luckow V
Source: Chromatographia 9 (1976) 578
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