Fast Determination of Iodine Number of Biodiesel Using Capillary Zone Electrophoresis with Multi- and Single-Point Calibration

A new and fast method was developed to determine the iodine number of biodiesel samples by capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE). In this procedure, the biodiesel sample reacts with Wijs solution in the presence of a catalyst and all the remaining iodine monochloride is converted to the iodide ion, which is quantified by CZE. Only small amounts of sample and reactant are required and µL level amounts of chloroform and Wijs solution. The reaction time was reduced to 3 min and the total analysis time is less than 15 min. The simplicity and speed of the method can be further enhanced by using sin...