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AUTHOR
De La Guardia M
Mechanism of porous core electroosmotic pump flow injection system and its application to determination of chromium(VI) in waste-water.
An electroosmotic pump flow injection system is introduced in this paper. According to electroosmotic theory, the pump's properties were described. A large flow range (mul min(-1)-ml min(-1)), moderate carrier pressure (0.15 MPa), reduced performance voltage (500 V) and stable flow rate (RSD3.0% in 4 h) are the main properties of the pump. NH(4)OH (0.35 mM) was used as carrier for improving the pump's flow stability. The electroosmotic efficiency of the pump's medium, porous core, can be recovered and regenerated. A sandwich zone was used for sample and reagent introduction in order to adapt to the pump performance. Flow injection-spectrophotometry was employed for the determination of Cr(V…
Flow analysis-spectrophotometric determination of ?-dopa in pharmaceutical formulations by reaction with p-Aminophenol
Abstract A new method has been developed for the spectrophotometric determination of l -dopa in pharmaceutical formulations. The method is based on the reaction between the open-chain quinone of l -dopa, obtained in NaOH, and the benzoqinoneimine form of p-aminophenol, in the presence of KIO4. The reaction product is determined at 574 nm by using both alternately procedures, one based on the stopped-flow and another on a flow injection approach. Under the best experimental conditions L-dopa can be determined with a limit of detection of 52 ng/ml and a relative standard deviation of 0.2% for three replicate measurements of a solution containing 4 μg/ml.
Flow injection determination of free and total cholesterol in animal greases using enzymes in non-aqueous media
A non-covalently coimmobilized bienzymic reactor of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) and cholesterol oxidase (COD), operating in a continuous organic flowing stream of 1 × 10–3 M p-anisidine in buffer-saturated (pH 7.0) toluene, has been employed for cholesterol determination in animal greases, such as pig, beef, and chicken fat, and codfish liver oil. The method provides a good linear relationship up to 1.8 × 10–3 M cholesterol and average recoveries of 99.5%, a high sensitivity, with a detection limit of 1 × 10–6 M of cholesterol and a good precision (an interday RSD of 1.8% for the determination of total cholesterol in a codfish oil sample). The method permits the direct spectrophotometric d…