I think it is not be the difference will be using activated carbon, but this classical titration method wont be produced accuracy. generally Boehm method is one used to determined the amount of impurities in terms of acid/basic funtional group present in it. i dont have references, but little known a basic tritration principle. Try this, may workout use for your studies. it may the presence of acid functional group impurities, you should go for basic tritration. In this case take your samples range 50 mg to 300 mg dissolve in 0.005 to 0.01 mole solution of HCl/H2SO4 tritrate against the equalent proportion mole of strong base NaOH/NaHCo3. You may will get greater than the equalent neutralization points in terms of milimoles. That milimoles V2 deduced to known volume of V1 acid that you added dvided by again known V1 you will get the impurities in terms of milimole. K. Take another sample for base impurities identification do that reverse oder of previous tritration procedure and you will getting subsequent impurities. This all simple strong acid vs strong base tritration method. you will using appropriate indicators within the buffer range, electronic search will identify indicator usages. all the best
I think this method is suitable for determining the basic sites as well. If your looking for basic sites in regards to nitrogen, thats a whole other deal but see the link for more information.
Can please anyone help me for boehm titration....i am using back titation method and i want to know how much volume of HCl need to titrate the bases. I am geeting very less difference and even negative values also for my samples against blank. Is this ok or wrong....and whether it is necessary to record the pH also....??? and if yes then at which point.....please someone help me out for this......please....