Investigation of N-Methylacetamide as a Nonaqueous Polarographic Solvent

Polarographic Theory, Instrumentation, and Methodology

“…In the area of nonaqueous solvents, Sellers and Leonard (204) have used A-methylacetamide, a solvent of interest because of its very high dielectric constant, for polarography and found it useful for both organic and inorganic systems with the dropping mercury electrode. Larson and Iw'amoto (118) examined the utility of various nitrile solvents, comparing acetonitrile, propionitrile, benzonitrile, phenylacetonitrile, and acrylonitrile.…”

Organic Polarography

“…Studies on the use of anhydrous solvents have continued. Data are given for inorganic ions in ethylenediamine (652), dimethylsulfoxide (254), various benzonitriles (395), and aliphatic nitriles (396) and for organic compounds in dimethylsulfoxide (365), liquid sulfur dioxide (194,196), and Ar-methylacetamide (661).…”

“…The Brdicka test has been applied to cystine (672), 5,5-diphenyl-2-thiohydantoin, 5,5-diphenyl-2,4-dithiohydantoin, 2-thiocytosine, 2,4-dithiopyrimidine (859), -Iipoic acid (712), dimercaptopropylphthalamidic acid (143), hydroxyaldehydes, hydroxy ketones, Schiff's bases (394), corticotropin preparations [ACTH] (223), various oxytocins (713,714), serum albumin (711), denatured and deproteinized serum filtrates (124), casein fractions from cow's milk (126), tobacco mosaic virus (630), irradiated blood (384), «2-globulin fractions (313), catalase inhibitors (204), mucoproteins MP-1 (312), proteins in bean leaves (230), sera of survivors of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima (674), alkaline thioglycolate extracts of wool (291), serum mucoids (617), and toxins (475).…”