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How is indigo carmine used in Lowenthal-Permanganate titration as a redox indicator?
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Marlon Izzo
How is indigo carmine used in Lowenthal-Permanganate titration as a redox indicator?
I did some brief looking but given that the carmine is also pH indicator that remains blue at below 11.4 pH it would appear as though your sulfuric acid is preventing the reduction from occurring in your indicator. Under acidic conditions KMnO4 is a strong oxidizer where carmine is a weak oxidizer under these conditions. However I am not sure how the carmine gets reduced to yellow upon equilibrium. Perhaps the pH changes. It appears as though permanganates acid conjugate is strong so its a weak base. Just throwing out ideas there though.
I did some brief looking but given that the carmine is also pH indicator that remains blue at below 11.4 pH it would appear as though your sulfuric acid is preventing the reduction from occurring in your indicator. Under acidic conditions KMnO4 is a strong oxidizer where carmine is a weak oxidizer under these conditions. However I am not sure how the carmine gets reduced to yellow upon equilibrium. Perhaps the pH changes. It appears as though permanganates acid conjugate is strong so its a weak base. Just throwing out ideas there though.
I did some brief looking but given that the carmine is also pH indicator that remains blue at below 11.4 pH it would appear as though your sulfuric acid is preventing the reduction from occurring in your indicator. Under acidic conditions KMnO4 is a strong oxidizer where carmine is a weak oxidizer under these conditions. However I am not sure how the carmine gets reduced to yellow upon equilibrium. Perhaps the pH changes. It appears as though permanganates acid conjugate is strong so its a weak base. Just throwing out ideas there though.
http://chem.lapeer.org/Chem1Docs/IndigoCarmine.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/permanganate
I did some brief looking but given that the carmine is also pH indicator that remains blue at below 11.4 pH it would appear as though your sulfuric acid is preventing the reduction from occurring in your indicator. Under acidic conditions KMnO4 is a strong oxidizer where carmine is a weak oxidizer under these conditions. However I am not sure how the carmine gets reduced to yellow upon equilibrium. Perhaps the pH changes. It appears as though permanganates acid conjugate is strong so its a weak base. Just throwing out ideas there though.
http://chem.lapeer.org/Chem1Docs/IndigoCarmine.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/permanganate
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