Development of capillary electrophoresis methods for quantitative determination of taurine in vehicle system and biological media

CE methods have been developed for the determination of taurine in pharmaceutical formulation (microemulsion) and in biological media such as sweat. The CE system with end-column pulsed amperometric detection has been found to be an interesting method in comparison with UV and fluorescence detection for its simplicity and rapidity. A gold-disk electrode of 100 mm diameter was used as the working electrode. The effects of a field decoupler at the end of the capillary, separation voltage, injection and pressure times were investigated. A detection limit of 4 x 10(-5) mol/L was reached using integrated pulsed amperometric detection, a method successfully applied to taurine analysis of the biological samples such as sweat. For taurine analysis of oil-in-water microemulsion, fluorescence detector was the favored method, the detection limit of which was 4 x 10(-11) mol/L.     

Development and validation of a hydrophilic interaction chromatography-mass spectrometry assay for taurine and methionine in matrices rich in carbohydrates

A new procedure based on hydrophilic interaction chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry (ionisation process by pneumatically assisted electrospray in negative ion mode), is developed and validated for the simultaneous determination of underivatised taurine and methionine in beverages rich in carbohydrates such as energy drinks. No initial clean-up procedure and no sample derivatisation are required. Satisfactory analysis was obtained on an Astec apHera NH2 (150 mm x 4.6 mm; 5 microm) column with methanol-water (60/40) as mobile phase. The method was validated in terms of specificity, detection limits, linearity, accuracy, precision and stability, using threonine as internal standard. The potential effects of matrix and endogenous amino acid content were also examined. The limits of detection in the beverage varied from 20 microg L(-1) for taurine to 50 micro L(-1) for methionine.     

HPLC determination of plasma taurine

Summary The taurine content in plasma was determined by high performance liquid chromatographic analysis of its dansyl derivative with fluorometric detection. After the reaction with dansyl chloride, the derivative was extracted from an aqueous mixture by using tetrabutylammonium as a counter-ion. The influences of different tetrabutylammonium salts and of the eluent mixture composition were studied. Omotaurine, added as the internal standard to the plasma samples, assured good reproducibility. The procedure was applied to the determination of taurine in specimens from different mammalian species.     

Spectrophotometric determination of taurine in food samples with phenol and sodium hypochlorite as reagents and an ion-exchange clean-up

A simple and accurate spectrophotometric method is proposed for the determination of taurine in food samples using phenol and sodium hypochlorite as reagents, which form a blue colour with taurine at room temperature and pH 10.35. Ion exchange was used to improve the selectivity of the method. Absorbance measurements were made at 630 nm and the calibration graph was linear from 0 to 180 micrograms ml-1 of taurine with a slope of 0.00242 A (p.p.m.)-1. The precision for the determination of taurine (156 micrograms ml-1) was 0.8% (n = 10). The method was applied successfully to the determination of taurine in milk products and energy drinks.     

柱后衍生HPLC法测定功能饮料中的牛磺酸

建立柱后衍生–高效液相色谱法测定功能性饮料中牛磺酸的含量。功能性饮料中的牛磺酸经水溶提取后与邻苯二甲醛柱后衍生,以柠檬酸三钠溶液(p H 3.2)为流动相,用AMINO–NA色谱柱分离,荧光检测器检测,激发波长为338 nm,发射波长为425 nm,柱后衍生反应温度为55℃,流量为0.4 m L/min。牛磺酸质量浓度在5.0~25.0μg/m L范围内与色谱峰面积线性关系良好,r=0.999 8,检出限(S/N=3)为0.11μg/m L,测定结果的相对标准偏差为0.73%(n=6),加标回收率在99.2%~101.6%之间。该方法灵敏度高、选择性好,可用于市售功能性饮料中牛磺酸的测定。     

Determination of adenine,caffeine, theophylline and theobromine by HPLC with amperometric detection

A relatively simple method for quantifying caffeine, theobromine, theophylline and adenine by HPLC with amperometric detection was developed. A C₁₈-column and an isocratic elution with phosphate buffer pH 3.5/methanol (90 : 10) were employed for the chromatographic separation of the investigated compounds. The optimal detection potential was +1.4 V. The limits of detection were 0.4 ng for adenine, 1 ng for theophylline and 2.5 ng for caffeine and theobromine. The method was applied to the determination of these purine alkaloids in beverages, tea, coffee and cacao. The determination was carried out directly or after solid-phase extraction.     

Determination of ethanol in alcoholic beverages by high-performance liquid chromatography-flame ionization detection using pure water as mobile phase

A method for the determination of ethanol in alcoholic beverages by high-performance liquid chromatography-flame ionization detection (HPLC-FID) was developed. An FID system could be directly connected to an HPLC system using pure water as a mobile phase. In a durability test using triacontylsilyl (C30)-silica gel stationary phase for 96 h, no significant change in the retention time of four alcohol compounds was observed. So the HPLC separation of alcoholic beverages was carried out on the C30-silica gel stationary phase. On application to the analysis of six kinds of alcoholic beverages, ethanol could be determined accurately by the proposed method.     

Determination of taurine in human tear fluid by capillary electrophoresis with indirect amperometric detection based on electrogenerated bromine

A new method for the determination of taurine was developed based on indirect amperometric detection after capillary electrophoresis. A serial dual‐electrode detector comprising an on column Pt film electrode (upstream electrode) and an end column Pt microdisk electrode (downstream electrode) was utilized to conduct the indirect amperometric detection. Bromide is oxidized to bromine at upstream electrode and reduced back to bromide at downstream electrode. Since taurine can react with bromine quantitatively and rapidly, its concentration can therefore be determined by the decrease of the current for bromine reduction at the downstream electrode. Principal experimental parameters governing the analytical performance were investigated and optimized. Under the optimal conditions, taurine can be baseline separated from interfering amino acids and the detection limit of 0.18 μM was obtained with a linear correlation coefficient of 0.999 over the concentration range of 0.5–60 μM. The developed method has been successfully applied in the determination of taurine in human tear fluid. The taurine level obtained was in good agreement with previous reports and recoveries for taurine spiked ranged from 92–95% with relative standard deviations within 4.6%, demonstrating the reliability of the developed method in the determination of taurine in human tear fluid.     

改良聚酰胺吸附-高效毛细管电泳内标法测定饮料中的亮蓝和苋菜红

以日落黄为内标物,建立了碳酸饮料中亮蓝和苋菜红的高效毛细管电泳内标测定方法。毛细管有效长度40 cm,内径75 μm,分离电压20 kV,进样量14 kPa×3 s,室温下分离,缓冲溶液为10 mmol/L磷酸氢二钠(pH 8.56),检测波长390 nm。亮蓝与苋菜红的相对校正因子分别为0.8329(相对标准偏差(RSD)为3.3%)和1.2253(RSD为2.6%);定量限(S/N=10)分别为1.629 mg/L和4.160 mg/L;回收率分别为97.87%～102.1%(RSD为1.8%)和94.07%～103.8%(RSD为4.1%);方法的精密度分别为3.2%和2.0%。对样品预处理的优化使该法更适用于碳酸类饮料中亮蓝和苋菜红的高效毛细管电泳分析。以样品空白为基液进行内标法定量测定,基本上消除了背景带来的系统误差。将该方法应用于实际样品的测定,结果准确。     

Derivatization, identification and separation of carboxylic acids in wines and beverages by high-performance liquid chromatography

A high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the derivatization, identification and separation of carboxylic acids in beverages such as wines and other commercial drinks or natural fruit juices has been developed. The accuracy and precision of the method are discussed with reference to specific methods for the determination of single acids. Applications to the analysis of different wines and beverages are demonstrated.     

Determination of taurine in plasma by capillary zone electrophoresis following derivatisation with fluorescamine

A novel capillary zone electrophoresis method is described for the determination of taurine in plasma. The method is rapidly executed and is highly selective for taurine as separation is based on the difference in ionisation of this amino acid from that of other amino acids. Following addition of homotaurine as internal standard, plasma proteins were precipitated with acetonitrile and the supernatant was derivatised with fluorescamine in the presence of a borate buffer. Capillary electrophoresis (CE) separations were carried out in reverse polarity mode at 27.5 kV on a Beckman P/ACE MDQ CE instrument, equipped with a diode array detector (DAD) set at 266 nm. The sample tray was cooled to 5 degrees C and separations were carried out at 20 degrees C. The fused-silica capillary was 50.2 cm in length (40.2 cm to detector) with an internal diameter of 75 microm. A capillary conditioning solution was applied daily in order to suppress the residual electroosmotic flow (EOF). The method, which was validated using feline plasma as the blank matrix, was shown to be linear and reproducible over the concentration range 2.5-100 microg/mL. The coefficients of variation (CVs) of replicate analyses were less than 4.5% at 1 microg/mL taurine in feline plasma and less than 3% for 2.5 microg/mL in human plasma. Recovery was estimated at 99.2% with a CV of 4.85%. It has been demonstrated that quantitation in aqueous solution yields similar results to those obtained by interpolation on a plasma calibration curve provided that subtraction for the taurine peak in unspiked plasma is carried out and that a suitable internal standard is employed.     

High-performance liquid chromatographic determination of taurine in biological fluids by post-column fluorescence reaction with thiamine.

A high-performance liquid chromatographic method is described for the selective determination of taurine in biological fluids by post-column fluorescence reaction. Taurine was separated on an adsorption-distribution type Shodex Ionpac KC-811 column. Then it was converted with hypochlorite into the corresponding N-chloramine, which was allowed to react with thiamine to give fluorescent thiochrome. As little as 6 ng per injection of taurine could be determined. The average recoveries of spiked taurine in serum and urine were 99.5 +/- 2.7 and 101.8 +/- 2.9%, respectively. The method could be applied to the assay of taurine in human serum and urine with simple pretreatment.     

Determination of Taurine in Lycium Barbarum L. and Other Foods by Capillary Electrophoresis with Electrochemical Detection

A method based on capillary electrophoresis (CE) with electrochemical detection (ED) was developed for the determination of taurine in Lycium Barbarum L., LIPOVIYAN beverage and milk powder. The effects of some important factors such as the acidity of the running buffer, separation voltage, injection time, and applied potential to working electrode were investigated. Operated in a wall‐jet configuration, a 300 μm diameter carbon‐disk electrode was used as the working electrode, which exhibits good responses at +1.05 V (vs. SCE) for taurine. Excellent linearity was obtained in the concentration range from 5.0×10^?4 mol/L to 5.0×10^?6 mol/L. The detection limit (S/N=3) was 1.0×10^?7 mol/L. This proposed method has been successfully applied to analyze the actual samples with satisfactory assay results.     

对一种分离测定氨基酸方法的改进

 对Waters公司采用 6 氨基喹啉 N 羟基琥珀酰亚胺基 氨基甲酸酯 (AccQ Tag)柱前衍生化测定氨基酸的方法进行了改进。将流动相流速由原来的 1 0mL/min改变为 2 0mL/min ,用AccQ Tag专用柱 (3 9mmi.d .× 15 0mm ,4μm)在 17 5min(原为 35min) (运行周期为 2 2 5min ,原为 45min)内快速分离测定了 18种氨基酸和牛磺酸。用Nova PakC18柱 (3 9mmi.d .× 15 0mm ,4μm) ,Nova PakC18柱 (4 6mmi.d .× 15 0mm ,4μm) ,SymmetryC18柱 (3 9mmi.d .× 15 0mm ,4μm)和WatersXterraRP 18柱等反相C18柱代替AccQ Tag专用柱 ,均可对氨基酸进行快速分离。     

Determination of the natural abundance δ15N of taurine by gas chromatography-isotope ratio measurement mass spectrometry

The measurement of the nitrogen isotope ratio of taurine (2-aminoethanesulphonic acid) in biological samples has a large number of potential applications. Taurine is a small water-soluble molecule which is notoriously difficult to analyze due to its polarity and functionality. A method is described which allows the determination of the natural abundance δ(15)N values of taurine and structural analogues, such as 3-amino-1-propanesulphonic acid (APSA), by isotope ratio mass spectrometry interfaced to gas chromatography (GC-irm-MS). The one-step protocol exploits the simultaneous derivatization of both functionalities of these aminosulphonic acids by reaction with triethylorthoacetate (TEOA). Conditions have been established which ensure quantitative reaction thus avoiding any nitrogen isotope fractionation during derivatization and workup. The differences in the δ(15)N values of derivatized and non-derivatized taurine and APSA all fall within the working range of 0.4‰ (-0.02 to 0.39‰). When applied to four sources of taurine with various δ(15)N values, the method achieved excellent reproducibility and accuracy. The optimized method enables the determination of the natural abundance δ(15)N values of taurine over the concentration range 1.5-7.84 μmol.mL(-1) in samples of biological origin.     

High-Throughput Determination of Quinine in Beverages and Soft Drinks Based on Zone-Fluidics Coupled to Monolithic Liquid Chromatography

In the present study we propose a new automated analytical scheme for the determination of quinine in soft drinks and beverages by coupling zone-fluidics (ZF) to liquid chromatography (LC). Certain pretreatment tasks involving precise liquid handling, such as sample dilution and addition of the internal standard (ISTD) were automated by ZF. After on-line filling of the loop of the LC injection valve, separation was carried out in less than 2.5 min by using a reversed phase monolithic column (100 × 4.6 mm i.d.) at a flow rate of 2 mL min^?1. The ZF and LC parts of the setup operated independently: during LC separation the next sample was treated by ZF allowing a high throughput of 24 h^?1. The proposed assay was thoroughly validated in terms of linearity (up to 150 mg L^?1), LOD (0.25 mg L^?1), LOQ (0.8 mg L^?1), precision, accuracy, and ruggedness. The ZF-LC method was successfully applied for the determination of quinine in beverages and soft-drinks.     

Simultaneous Determination of Two Synthetic Dyes Erytrosine and Sunset Yellow in a Pharmaceutical Syrup By First Derivative Visible Spectrophotometry

ABSTRACT.

A rapid first derivative spectrophotometric method for simultaneous determination of two synthetic dyes, erytrosine (E 127) and sunset yellow (E 110), in a mixture is proposed. The procedure does not require any separation step. The method was applied for determining the two compounds in a pharmaceutical syrup. Good linearity, accuracy, precision and selectivity were found, and the method is proposed for routine quality control purposes.     

Quantitative determination of taurine in real samples by high-performance anion-exchange chromatography with integrated pulsed amperometric detection

As taurine is a very important compound involved in a large number of metabolic processes, it is naturally present in the mammal tissues and is often deliberately added in some foods as a fortifying component. A detailed knowledge of taurine metabolic roles in biological systems can be obtained only if a sensitive, reliable and rapid analytical method is available. This article describes the successful application of high-performance anion-exchange chromatography coupled with integrated pulsed amperometric detection (HPAEC-IPAD) for taurine determination in egg white and yolk samples, as well extracts of human serum and urine. Applications are shown for determination of taurine in soft drinks and pharmaceutical preparations where the taurine content was evaluated by standard additions. These results were achieved without prior derivatization of taurine.     

Atomic-absorption determination of beryllium in liquid environmental samples

A method is described for the atomic-absorption determination of beryllium in liquid environmental samples after separation by solvent extraction and cation-exchange. The beryllium is first isolated from natural waters and beverages by chloroform extraction of its acetylacetonate from a solution at pH 7 and containing EDTA. The chloroform extract is then mixed in the ratio of 3:6:1 with tetrahydrofuran and methanol containing nitric acid, and passed through a column of Dowex 50 x 8 (H(+)-form). After removal of acetylacetone, chloroform and tetrahydrofuran by washing the resin bed with methanol-HNO(3), beryllium is eluted with 6M hydrochloric acid and determined by atomic-absorption spectroscopy. The method was successfully applied to determine beryllium in tap-, river- and sea-water samples, mineral waters and wines. Beryllium contents in the range from < 0.01 to 2.3 microg/l were found in these materials.     

Successive ratio-derivative spectra as a new spectrophotometric method for the analysis of ternary mixtures

A new spectrophotometric method was developed for the simultaneous determination of ternary mixtures, without prior separation steps. This method is called the successive derivative ratio spectra. The method is based on the successive derivative of ratio spectra in two steps. The mathematical explanation of the procedure is illustrated. In order to evaluate the applicability of the method a model data as well as an experimental data were tested. The results from experimental data relating to the simultaneous spectrophotometric determination of Zn(II), Co(II) and Ni(II) based on their complexes with 1-(2-pyridylazo)2-naphthol in micellar media were presented as real model for resolution of the ternary systems. The method was compared with partial least squares (PLS) method.