Monitoring of Methyldopa by Fast Fourier Transform Continuous Cyclic Voltammetry at Gold Microelectrode

A continuous cyclic voltammetric study of methyldopa at gold micro electrode was carried out. The drug in phosphate buffer (pH 2.0) is adsorpted at 400 mV, giving rise to change in the current of well-defined oxidation peak of gold in the flow injection system. The proposed detection method has some of advantages, the greatest one of which are as follows: first, it is no more necessary to remove oxygen from the analyte solution and second, this is a very fast and appropriate technique for determination of the drug compound in a wide variety of chromatographic analysis methods. Signal-to-noise ratio has significantly increased by application of discrete Fast Fourier transform (FFT) method, background subtraction and two-dimensional integration of the electrode response over a selected potential range and time window. Also in this work some parameters such as sweep rate, eluent pH, and accumulation time and potential were optimized. The linear concentration range was of 1.0×10－7—1.0×10－11 mol•L－1 (r＝0.9975) with a limit of detection and quantitation 0.004 nmol•L－1 and 0.03 nmol•L－1, respectively. The method has the requisite accuracy, sensitivity, precision and selectivity to assay methyldopa in tablets. The influences of pH of eluent, accumulation potential, sweep rate, and accumulation time on the determination of the methyldopa were considered.     

Sm3+ Potentiometric Membrane Sensor as a Probe for Determination of Some Pharmaceutics

The increase use of ion sensors in the fields of environmental, agricultural, and medical analysis is stimulating analytical chemists to develop new sensors for fast, accurate, reproducible, and selective determination of various ions. In this study a new samarium membrane sensor was constructed and for the first time, it was applied as a probe in indirect determination of hyoscine, homatropine, and tramadol drugs in their pharmaceutical formulation. The proposed membrane sensor was constructed based on a membrane containing 2% sodium tetraphenyl borate (NaTPB) as an anionic additive, 63% dibutyl phthalate (DBP) as solvent mediator, 5% ionophore, and 30% poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC). The proposed Sm(III) electrode exhibits a Nernstian response of 19.35±0.2 mV per decade of samarium concentration, and has a lower detection limit of 1.0×10^?7 M. The linear range of the sensors was 1.0×10^?7–1.0×10^?1 M. It works well in the pH range of 3.0–8.0.     

The combinatorial factor method for investigation of surface adsorption

In this work, we have used the combinatorial factor method to find the thermodynamic properties of the monolayer surface adsorption with a limited number of rows and nearest neighbor interactions so that the maximum coordination number of each adsorbed particle could be varied from zero to four. The results show that the thermodynamic properties of models with different number of rows are close to each other. In addition, for adsorbed particles with the nearest neighbor interactions, when the fractional coverage becomes 1/2, a phase transition takes place.     

Preparation of different graphene nanostructures for hydrogen adsorption

In this study, different types of graphene were synthesized to investigate hydrogen adsorption capacity at different pressures (0–34 bar) at room temperature (298 K). Graphene and nanoporous graphene were prepared by Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) method, using methane as a carbon source at a temperature of 900 °C over copper plates and nickel oxide nanocatalyst. The nickel oxide nanocatalyst was prepared by sol–gel method, whereas graphene oxide was prepared through modified Hummer's method. The products were characterized by X‐ray diffraction, field emission‐scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, Brunauer–Emmett–Teller and Raman spectroscopy. The adsorption of hydrogen was done by volumetric method. High adsorption capacity was achieved in nanoporous graphene because of its high pore volume (2.11 cm³/g) and large specific surface area (850 m²/g). Hydrogen adsorption values for nanoporous graphene, graphene and graphene oxide were determined as 2.56, 1.70 and 0.74 wt%, respectively. In addition, the hydrogen adsorption of graphene nanostructures fitted nicely to the selected two‐parameter and three‐parameter adsorption isotherm models. The adsorption isotherm model coefficients have been found for a 0–34 bar pressure range. The parameter values for all adsorbents showed proper conformity to the model and experimental data. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Monitoring of Anti Cancer Drug Letrozole by Fast Fourier Transform Continuous Cyclic Voltammetry at Gold Microelectrode

A continuous cyclic voltammetric study of letrozole at gold microelectrode was carried out. The drug in phosphate buffer (pH 2.0) is adsorbed at ?200 mV, giving rise to change in the current of well‐defined oxidation peak of gold in the flow injection system. The proposed detection method has some of advantages, the greatest of which are as follows: first, it is no more necessary to remove oxygen from the analyte solution and second, this is a very fast and appropriate technique for determination of the drug compound in a wide variety of chromatographic analysis methods. Signal‐to‐noise ratio has significantly increased by application of discrete Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) method, background subtraction and two‐dimensional integration of the electrode response over a selected potential range and time window. Also in this work some parameters such as sweep rate, eluent pH, and accumulation time and potential were optimized. The linear concentration range was of 1.0×10^?7?1.0×10^?10 mol/L (r=0.9975) with a limit of detection and quantitation 0.08 nmol/L and 0.15 nmol/L, respectively. The method has the requisite accuracy, sensitivity, precision and selectivity to assay letrozol in tablets. The influences of pH of eluent, accumulation potential, sweep rate, and accumulation time on the determination of the letrozol were considered.     

Characterization of Acid-Induced Partially Folded Conformation Resembling a Molten Globule State of Polygalacturonase from a Filamentous Fungus <Emphasis Type="Italic">Tetracoccosporium</Emphasis> sp.

Acid-induced unfolding of a Tetracoccosporium sp. polygalacturonase enzyme (PG) was studied by a comprehensive series of biophysical and biochemical techniques. At pH 1.0, PG acquires partially folded state, which reveals characteristics of molten globule (MG) state, i.e., reduction of defined tertiary structure with minimal changes in the secondary structure. In this study PG unfolds exposing its hydrophobic surface to a greater extent than the native form at acidic pH with more tryptophan residues exposed to the solvent. Collectively, our data imply the presence of MG state of PG at low pH, suggesting the phenomenon of hydrophobic collapse model for folding and integration into cell membrane.     

Cyclometalated organoplatinum(II) complexes: first example of a monodentate benzo[h]quinolyl ligand and a complex with bridging bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane

The cyclometalated complexes [Pt(ppy)R(SMe(2))] or [Pt(bhq)R(SMe(2))], where ppyH = 2-phenylpyridine, bhqH = benzo[h]quinoline and R = methyl or p-tolyl, react with bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane, dppe, in a 1:1 ratio to give the corresponding complexes [Pt(κ(1)-C-ppy)R(dppe)] or [Pt(κ(1)-C-bhq)R(dppe)], in which the ppy or bhq ligands are monodentate and dppe is chelating. The similar reaction in a 2:1 ratio gives the binuclear complexes [{Pt(ppy)R}(2)(μ-dppe)] or [{Pt(bhq)R}(2)(μ-dppe)], in which the dppe ligands are in the unusual bridging bidentate bonding mode.     

Investigation of metal absorption and antibacterial activity on cotton fabric modified by low temperature plasma

In this work, the silver particle absorption and antibacterial activity of cotton fabric when modified by low temperature plasma were investigated. The modification consisted of plasma pre-functionalization followed by one-step wet treatment with silver nitrate solution. Oxygen and nitrogen were used as the working gases in the system, and the results were compared. The results showed that nitrogen plasma-treated samples can absorb more silver particles than oxygen-treated samples, and thus the antibacterial activity of the samples in this case, which was analyzed by the counting bacteria test, was increased considerably.