Cupric oxide nanoparticles‐enhanced chemiluminescence method for measurement of β‐lactam antibiotics |
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| Authors: | Mortaza Iranifam Merhnaz Khabbaz Kharameh |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Maragheh, Maragheh, Iran |
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| Abstract: | A simple, sensitive cupric oxide nanoparticles (CuO NPs) enhanced chemiluminescence (CL) method was developed for the measurement of β‐lactam antibiotics, including amoxicillin and cefazolin sodium. The method was based on suppression of the CuO NPs–luminol–H2O2 CL reaction by β‐lactam antibiotics. Experimental parameters that influenced the inhibitory effect of the antibiotic drugs on the CL system, such as NaOH (mol/L), luminol (µmol/L), H2O2 (mol/L) and CuO NPs (mg/L) concentrations, were optimized. Calibration graphs were linear and had dynamic ranges of 1.0 × 10–6 to 8.0 × 10–6 mol/L and 3.0 × 10–5 to 5.0 × 10–3 mol/L for amoxicillin and cefazolin sodium, respectively, with corresponding detection limits of 7.9 × 10–7 mol/L and 1.8 × 10–5 mol/L. The relative standard deviations of five replicate measurements of 5.0 × 10–6 amoxicillin and 5 × 10–4 cefazolin sodium were 5.43 and 5.01%, respectively. The synthesized CuO NPs were characterized by X‐ray diffraction (XRD) and transmission electronmicroscopy (TEM). The developed approach was exploited successfully to measure antibiotics in pharmaceutical preparations. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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| Keywords: | chemiluminescence cupric oxide nanoparticles amoxicillin cefazolin sodium luminol |
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