The chemicals of analytical ranking for example
2-Nitrobenzaldehyde,
3-Nitrobenzaldehyde,
4-Nitrobenzaldehyde, 4-Methyl-benzenesulfonylhydrazine, AgNO
3, AuCl
3, CdSO
4, Co(NO
3)
2, Cr(NO
3)
3, HgCl
2, NiCl
2, Y(NO
3)
3, ZnSO
4, EtOH, MeOH, NaH
2PO
4, Na
2HPO
4, and
nafion (5% ethanolic solution) were purchased from the Sigma Aldrich company, and used as received. A mother solution of Y
3+ (100.0 mM) was prepared from the purchased chemical, Y(NO
3)
3. A Stuart scientific SMP3 (version 5.0) melting point apparatus (Bibby Scientific Limited, Staffordshire, UK) was used to record the melting point (m.p.), and the reported m.p. was not corrected.
1H-NMR, and
13C-NMR spectra were recorded on an
AVANCE-III instrument (400 MHz, Bruker, Fallanden, Switzerland) at 300 k, and chemical shifts were reported in ppm with reference with residual solvent signal. FTIR spectra were recorded as neat on a Thermo scientific
NICOLET iS50 FTIR spectrometer (Madison, WI, USA). UV-V is study was conducted using
Evolution 300 UV-Vis spectrophotometer (Thermo scientific). I-V method was carried out in order to detect Y
3+ at a selective point using the modified 2-MNBBSH/GCE by Keithley electrometer (6517A, USA). Warning! Yttrium is poisonous. So, a minute amount of this chemical can be used for the preparation of the essential solution with care.
Hussain M.M., Rahman M.M., Arshad M.N, & Asiri A.M. (2017). Trivalent Y3+ ionic sensor development based on (E)-Methyl-N′-nitrobenzylidene-benzenesulfonohydrazide (MNBBSH) derivatives modified with nafion matrix. Scientific Reports, 7, 5832.