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Potassium trithiocarbonate is used as reluctant for the titrimetric determination of thiuram disulphides in dimethylformamide-water media. The method is based on reductive cleavage of the disulphide linkage to yield the corresponding dithiocarbamates. In visual titrations, the end-point is marked by appearance of a yellow colour with the first drop of reagent added in excess. The method is simple, accurate, reliable and of wide applicability. It has been successfully extended to the analysis, in the same sample solution, of thiuram disulphide-dithiocarbamate mixtures.

A new and convenient colorimetric method for determination of carbon disulphide, based on its transformation into bright yellow potassium benzyl trithiocarbonate through reaction with benzyl mercaptan and potassium hydroxide in tert.-butyl alcohol, has been successfully applied to determination of some dithiocarbamate fungicides in their formulations. The method possesses a distinct advantage in that it is free from all sources of errors/problems which are associated with the xanthate method for the analysis of these materials. The proposed method is precise and accurate and hence recommended for routine analysis of technical formulations containing dithiocarbamate fungicides.

The use of copper(II) perchlorate and tetra-acetonitrilocopper(I) perchlorate (in acetonitrile) for the potentiometric and spectrophotometric determination of dithiocarbamates in acetonitrile medium is described. The proposed methods are simple, accurate and reliable and show promise of wide applicability. They are recommended for routine determination of dithiocarbamates. Their advantages over the carbon disulphide evolution method, commonly employed for the determination of these compounds, are discussed.