Flow injection analysis of riboflavin with chemiluminescence detection using a N-halo compounds-luminol system. |
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Authors: | A Safavi M A Karimi M R Hormozi Nezhad |
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Institution: | Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz 71454, Iran. safavi@chem.susc.ac.ir |
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Abstract: | A chemiluminescent method for the determination of riboflavin is described. The method is based on the chemiluminescence (CL) generated during the oxidation of luminol by N-bromosuccinimide (NBS) and N-chlorosuccinimide (NCS) in alkaline medium. It was found that riboflavin could greatly enhance this CL intensity when present in the luminol solution. Based on this observation, a new flow-injection CL method for the determination of riboflavin is proposed in this paper. The detection limits were 7.5 ng/mL and 3.5 ng/mL of riboflavin for the NBS- and NCS-luminol CL systems, respectively. The relative CL intensity was linear, with riboflavin concentration in the range 19-600 ng/mL and 600-2000 ng/mL for the NBS-luminol CL system, and 12-200 ng/mL and 200-2000 ng/mL for the NCS-luminol CL system. The results obtained for the assay of pharmaceutical preparations compared well with those obtained by the official method and demonstrated good accuracy and precision. |
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