A differential pulse cathodic voltammetric method was developed for the sensitive and selective determination of CoII at a 1-(2-pyridylazo)-2-naphthol modified carbon paste electrode. The analysis procedure consisted of an open circuit accumulation step in stirred sample solution. This was followed by medium exchange to a ‘clean’ solution where the accumulated CoII was oxidized and subsequently a cathodic potential scan was effected to obtain the voltammetric peak. The precisions obtained for 10 successive determinations each of 1.00 × 10–6 mol l–1, 1.00 × 10–7 mol l–1 and 1.00 × 10–8 mol l–1 CoII were 2.80, 5.14 and 9.67% (relative standard deviations), respectively. The detection limit was estimated to be 5.9 × 10–9 (0.35 ppb) (S/N = 3), for 180 s accumulation. Of the 35 selected substances examined for interferences, only VII, CeIII, EDTA and Triton X-100 interfered. These interferences could be easily eliminated. The developed method was tested using a certified sample (USEPA WP 386) and then applied to the determination of CoII in human hair, pig liver and spinach samples.
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Miriam Rehana Khan (1998) studied this question.