ISSN:
1618-2650
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
Abstract The usefulness of the Genetic Algorithm (GA) in the determination of physico-chemical parameters and concentrations of analytes from titration data has been tested. Two types of reactions have been considered: (a) M+T⇌MT, and (b) M1+T⇌M1T, M2+T⇌M2T, M1+I⇌M1I, M2+I⇌M2I, where M, M1 and M2 denote analytes, T-titrant, and I — an auxiliary agent (e.g. an indicator). Up to 4 parameters, in case of reaction (a) above, and up to 11 parameters, in case of reactions (b), were determined simultaneously from the simulated photometric titration curves. The results obtained by the GA were refined using the simplex method. The correlations between the parameters have been visualized on the basis of GA data and according to an approach which uses searches through the surface of fitting criterion vs. parameters. The detailed results obtained concern a set of parameters assumed in the examples, but it can be concluded that the GA appears very useful, especially in finding the starting values of parameters for further refinement by an optimization method of more local scope, e.g. the simplex method.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00325562
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