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High yield synthesis and characterization of isotopically enriched monoethylmercury chloride (C 2 H 5 201 HgCl)
Author(s) -
Rahman G. M. Mizanur,
Kingston H. M. ‘Skip’,
Pamukcu Matt
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
applied organometallic chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.53
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1099-0739
pISSN - 0268-2605
DOI - 10.1002/aoc.998
Subject(s) - chemistry , isotope dilution , mass spectrometry , inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry , yield (engineering) , chloride , isotope , chromatography , analytical chemistry (journal) , organic chemistry , materials science , physics , quantum mechanics , metallurgy
An important but commercially unavailable compound isotopically enriched monoethylmercury chloride (C 2 H 5 201 HgCl), has been synthesized from commercially available 201 HgO (98.11% enriched isotopic purity) and tetraethyltin. The required synthesis time is 1 h at 90 °C, and the product is the single product of monoethylmercury chloride, yielding more than 95% as 201 Hg in C 2 H 5 201 Hg + (98.19 ± 0.22% enriched isotopic purity). The synthesized product was analyzed with high‐performance liquid chromatography coupled with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (HPLC‐ICP‐MS) to determine its concentration, isotopic composition and purity. The synthetic isotopically enriched monoethylmercury synthesized can be used in speciated isotope dilution mass spectrometry (SIDMS) and isotope dilution mass spectrometry (IDMS) analyses as a standard. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.