Preconcentration and Voltammetric Study of Nicergoline at a Carbon Paste Electrode

 The electrochemical oxidation of nicergoline is investigated using cyclic and differential pulse voltammetry at a carbon paste electrode. For the determination of nicergoline an adsorptive stripping procedure is proposed. The response is characterized with respect to pH, ionic strength, preconcentration time, accumulation potential, nicergoline concentration, reproducibility and other variables. By differential pulse voltammetry at a carbon paste electrode and pH 8.0, a linear calibration in the range 5×10⁻⁸ M to 1×10⁻⁷ M and a detection limit of 1×10⁻⁸ M are obtained. The preconcentration medium-exchange approach was used for a selective determination of nicergoline in urine. For dilute urine samples a detection limit of 5×10⁻⁸ M is obtained after 3 min of accumulation and medium-exchange. The procedure also is applied for the determination of nicergoline in dosage form. Received August 24, 1998. Revision April 8, 1999.     

Voltammetric studies of a psychotropic drug with nitro groups. Determination of flunitrazepam in urine using HMDE

The adsorption behaviour of flunitrazepam at the hanging mercury drop electrode was studied by staircase voltammetry and by adsorptive stripping differential pulse voltammetry. Flunitrazepam is adsorbed in the whole potential range, from the most positive values up to the reduction potential. Flunitrazepam reduction product is also adsorbed. The time dependence of the voltammetric response proves that a diffusion-controlled adsorption takes place. Flunitrazepam can be determined (down to nanomolar levels) by using adsorptive preconcentration prior to the differential pulse voltammetric scan. An application of such a method to flunitrazepam determination in human urine is described. The detection limit was 30 ng per milliliter of urine with a 20-sec accumulation time; the mean relative standard deviation was lower than 3.2% and the mean recovery 97.8%.     

Glycine adsorption on a mercury electrode modified by neodymium

Ranges of neodymium reduction potentials in aqueous solutions of potassium chloride at pH = 2 and in solutions containing glycine were determined by differential pulse polarography. The glycine complex with neodymium is not formed in the range of the amino acid concentration 0.001–0.12 M. Glycine adsorption on a mercury electrode and on an electrode modified with neodymium was studied by the cyclic voltammetry method.     

头孢哌酮在玻碳电极上的电化学行为及检测方法

应用循环伏安法、线性扫描伏安法和微分脉冲伏安法研究头孢哌酮在玻碳电极上的电化学行为,建立了应用伏安法定量检测头孢哌酮的新方法。头孢哌酮的电极过程为受吸附控制的不可逆过程,电极反应转移电子数和转移质子数均为2。头孢哌酮在pH1.0的1mol/LH3PO4-NaOH介质中,在+0.13V(vs.Ag/AgCl)电位处产生一灵敏的氧化峰,应用微分脉冲伏安法进行测定,该峰电流值Ip与头孢哌酮质量浓度在5.05×10-7～1.01×10-4g/mL范围内有良好的线性关系(R=0.9996),检出限为4.95×10-9g/mL,样品测定平均加标回收率达99.50%,相对标准偏差(RSD)为3.17%。     

Electrochemical studies and square wave adsorptive stripping voltammetry of the antidepressant fluoxetine

The electrochemical reduction of the antidepressant drug fluoxetine was investigated by cyclic, linear sweep, differential pulse and square wave voltammetry using a hanging mercury drop electrode in alkaline buffer solution in water and in a water/acetonitrile mixed solvent. Cyclic voltammograms in aqueous solution showed very strong adsorption of fluoxetine on the electrode with formation of a compact film. The effect of addition of different percentages of acetonitrile on the voltammetric response was evaluated. It is shown that acetonitrile protects the electrode surface, thus preventing the adsorption of fluoxetine as a compact film, although reduction occurs at more negative potentials. Adsorption was used to accumulate the drug onto the electrode surface. The adsorbed species were measured voltammetrically by reduction at -1.3 V in an aqueous 0.05 M Ringer buffer, pH 12, 20% acetonitrile v/v. Linear calibration graphs were obtained in the range 0.52-5.2 M. The quantification of fluoxetine in pharmacological formulations existing in the market was performed using adsorptive square wave cathodic stripping voltammetry. and compared with data from UV spectrophotometry. The method is simple and not time-consuming. A comparative high performance liquid chromatography assay with UV detection was performed. Recovery data for both methods are reported.     

Voltammetry of adsorbed cancerostatic actinomycins

A systematic study of the adsorption and association of the cancerostatic drug actinomycin-C₁ (ACT) at a hanging mercury drop electrode (HMDE) has been conducted using phase-sensitive a.c. voltammetry and cyclic voltammetry (CV). At all bulk concentrations, the adsorbed layer is transformed into a condensed film by the significant stacking forces acting between adjacent rings of the phenoxazone residues. The nucleation and growth mechanism is confirmed and the data are analysed using the Avrami equation. The adsorption parameters for the condensed film were evaluated at various pH values. In addition, the preparative electrochemical reduction of ACT was performed using the large-scale electrolysis and differential pulse polarography. The consequences for DNA interaction and membrane adsorption are discussed.     

差分脉冲伏安法测定卡托普利

本文基于金电极表面对巯基化合物的吸附作用,提出了一种简便灵敏的测定抗高血压药物卡托普利的新方法.研究了卡托普利在金电极上的伏安响应,优化了差分脉冲伏安法测定卡托普利的实验条件.研究结果表明:在0.217～3.04 mg/L的范围内,卡托普利的氧化峰电流与其浓度呈良好的线性关系,检出限为0.152 mg/L.测定药物中卡...     

Electrochemistry of the system Cu(II)Cu(I)Cu(0) in acidified thiocyanate solutions

The system Cu(II)Cu(I)Cu(0) in acidified thiocyanate medium was investigated at carbon, mercury, and copper amalgam electrodes using cyclic voltammetry, normal, differential and reverse pulse voltammetry, double potential step chronocoulometry, and exhaustive coulometry. Reduction of Cu(II) to Cu(I) on carbon electrodes proceeds quasireversibly. At moderate concentrations of Cu(II) and SCN^? the reduction of Cu(II) leads to three-dimensional precipitation of CuSCN which can be deposited at the electrode surface. At high concentration of SCN^? complexation dominates over precipitation and only soluble species are formed. At mercury and copper amalgam electrodes the situation is more complicated. The three- dimensional precipitation is preceded by strong thiocyanate-induced adsorption of Cu(I) which results in formation of a mono layer at potential well-separated from those where diffusing product is formed.     

Electrochemical reduction and determination of cimetidine at nanomolar to micromolar levels of concentration

The electrochemical reduction of cimetidine, an H₂-antagonist of histamine used in the treatment of duodenal and gastric ulcers, has been examined by using a variety of electrochemical techniques. Reduction in 0.1. M HCl occurs at ?0.8 to ?1.1 V vs. SCE depending on the experimental conditions. Square-wave and cyclic voltammetry were found to be the best techniques for the determination of cimetidine whereas sampled-d.c., normal pulse, and differential pulse polarography were not useful. The detection limit for the determination depends on the condition employed but can be as low as 1 ng ml^?1 (4 nM). A linear calibration plot is obtained up to 2 μg ml^?1 and calibration curves can be used at higher concentrations. The high sensitivity is due to reactant adsorption. The electrode process appears to involve a 4-electron reduction of the cyano group in cimetidine. The major metabolites of cimetidine can also be determined by this method.     

Cathodic adsorptive stripping voltammetry of 6-thiopurine in absence and presence of some metal ions

Summary Cathodic stripping voltammetry of an adsorbed 6-thiopurine at HMDE was investigated in solutions of varying pH. A rapid and sensitive differential pulse voltammetric method was selected for its trace determination. A method has also been developed for the determination of 6-thiopurine in presence of Cu(II), due to the strong adsorption of the Cu-6-thiopurine complex at the surface of the HMDE and subsequent reduction of the surface-bound complex. A detection limit of 9.9×10^–9 mol/l was achieved in presence of Cu(II) and the slope of the straight line was seven times the slope in absence of Cu(II). Cathodic adsorptive stripping (CAS) voltammetry of 6-thiopurine in presence of Ni(II), Pb(II), Cd(II), and Fe(III) was also investigated. The influence of several operational parameters has been considered. Statistical analysis of the calibration curve data is included.     

Voltammetric method for the determination of Zn,Cd, Pb,Cu and Ni in interstitial water

To determine heavy metals in interstitial water from Baltic sea sediments a sampling method with subsequent voltammetric determination is described. Copper, lead, zinc and cadmium are determined in the UV-digested samples of interstitial water by differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry while nickel is determined by adsorption voltammetry. The determination of five metals in one sample in a wide concentrations range is possible using a low cost apparatus. The profiles of the metal concentrations in interstitial water of subsequent layers of sediments, sampled from Puck Bay, Gdańsk Bay, the Bornholm area and the S?upsk area are presented.     

Contribution to the electrochemistry of thiols and disulfides. IV. D.C., A.C. differential pulse polarography and cyclic voltammetry determination of disulfiram]

D.c., a.c. and differential pulse polarography and cyclic voltammetry are used to elucidate the electrochemical behaviour of disulfiram. Very strong adsorption phenomena occur, and the electrochemical characteristics of disulfiram are quite different from those of the disulphides studied previously. Changes in the behaviour of the compound as functions of pH and concentration are described. With the differential pulse method, the limit of detection is 5· 10^-7 M (0.16 mg l^-1 ).     

Simultaneous Determination of Seven Toxic Trace and/or Ultratrace Metals in Environmental Plants by Differential Pulse Voltammetry Without Change of Solution and Electrode

Abstract

A simple and reliable procedure simultaneously to determine seven trace and/or ultratrace toxic metals in a single sample of environmental plants has been presented. The procedure is based on the simultaneous determination of Cu, Pb and Cd by differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry, of Zn and Mn by differential pulse voltammetry and of Ni and Co by differential pulse adsorption voltammetry at the hanging mercury drop electrode. The details of sampling, washing and drying of samples and the approach of digestion and preparation of samples for voltammetric determination have been investigated. The method has been applied to determination of the seven metals in grass and hucerne from different environments.     

8—氮鸟嘌呤的极谱伏安行为

用循环伏安法（ＣＶ）、电流采样极诸法（ＳＣＰ，即ＴＡＳＴ）、常规脉冲极谱法（ＮＰＰ）、微分脉冲极谱法（ＤＰＰ）、线性扫描伏安法（ＬＳＶ）、Ｏｓｔｅｒｙｏｕｎｇ方波伏安法（ＯＳＷＶ）和计时库仑法（ＣＣ）等电化学技术研究了抗癌药物８－氮鸟嘌呤（８－ａｚａｇｕａｎｉｎｅ，ｇｕａｎａｚｏｌｏ，简称８－ＡＧ）的极谱伏安行为．在 ０． １ｍｏｌ／Ｌ Ｈ２ＳＯ４底液中，８－ＡＧ有一良好的还原峰，峰电位（Ｅｐ）在－０． ９５Ｖ（ｖｓ．Ａｇ／ＡｇＣｌ，下同）附近，８－ＡＧ浓度在４×１０－６～８×１０－４ｍｏｌ／Ｌ范围内．峰高与浓度有良好的线性关系，线性相关系数ｒ＝０．９９９９～０．９９１０，检出限为１× １０－６ｍｏｌ／Ｌ．实验证明了该峰具有吸附性．本文提出了电极反应机理，它包括：酸性介质中８－ＡＧ的质子化、质子化的８－ＡＧ在汞电极上吸附以及完全不可逆的两电子还原过程．同时用量子化学计算方法（全略微分重叠法即ＣＮＤＯ／２）对８－ＡＧ和鸟嘌呤的各原子的净电荷以及Ｗｉｂｅｒｇ键级进行了计算，从理论上解释了８－ＡＧ的电化学还原机理。     

Study of the electrochemical behaviour of metaclazepam in aqueous media and its determination in biological fluids

Summary The polarographic behaviour of metaclazepam in Britton Robinson universal buffer has been investigated by the following techniques: DC tast and differential pulse polarography, cyclic voltammetry, microcoulometry and adsorptive stripping voltammetry. The compound is polarographically active over the entire pH-range, showing a single well-defined wave. This has been characterized as being a 2e^– diffusion-controlled wave in acid media. The reduction step is due to the C=N group. The drug is also surface-active and the adsorption at the electrode is higher in alkaline than in acid media. A stripping method for the determination of this psychotropic drug at the sub-micromolar and nanomolar concentration levels is described. Adsorptive accumulation for 300 s followed by differential pulse measurement in Britton Robinson buffer at pH 9.1 can be used for the determination of metaclazepam in urine with an accuracy and precision of 2% and 3%, respectively. The detection limit was 0.55 ng per ml of urine (adsorptive accumulation at –0.60 V for 300 s).     

Voltammetric study of 2-methyl-4,6-dinitrophenol at a modified carbon paste electrode

The voltammetric behavior of 2-methyl-4,6-dinitrophenol at a modified carbon paste electrode has been studied. Among the modifiers tested, hidepowder was found to give the best results. Cyclic voltammetry and differential pulse voltammetry were used to study the nature of the reaction; the possibility of accumulation of the analyte onto the electrode was studied by differential pulse voltammetry. An irreversible behavior and the adsorption of 2-methyl-4,6-dinitrophenol on the electrode were confirmed. The reduction signal shows two peaks. A linear relationship between the first peak height and the concentration of 2-methyl-4,6-dinitrophenol was obtained in the range 0.001–5 mg l⁻¹, with a detection limit of 3.2 μg l⁻¹ and a relative standard deviation of 3.20%. The interferences with the reduction peak of 2-methyl-4,6-dinitrophenol of several nitro- and chloro-phenols and inorganic species were tested.     

Voltammetry of copper species in estuarine waters induced adsorption of copper on the hanging mercury drop electrode in complexing ligand/surfactant/chloride media

The adsorption of copper species on a positively charged hanging mercury drop electrode in complexing ligand/surfactant/chloride solution is discussed. Techniques used were differential pulse voltammetry of the copper in the adsorbed film, and potential-step reduction of adsorbed copper followed by different pulse anodic stripping voltammetry of Cu(Hg). The CuCl^?₂ species is shown to be the most important copper moiety adsorbed on the electrode and the adsorption is enhanced by organic films. This can be a critical pathway in the reduction of copper(II) in estuarine waters. The induced adsorption of copper in organic layers has biogeochemical implications associated with the nature of organic films and their influence on the Cu(II)/Cu(I) redox couple. There are also analytical applications, e.g., the compositional assay of organic monolayers by utilising Cu(II) and Cu(I) adsorption as electoractive probes and the determination of solution copper-organic binding.     

Study of an EE mechanism in additive differential pulse techniques

Additive differential pulse techniques are applied to the study of a reversible EE mechanism. Analytical solutions are obtained in additive differential normal pulse voltammetry (ADNPV) and in additive differential pulse voltammetry (ADPV). The usefulness of these techniques in obtaining accurate simultaneous determinations of the formal potentials of both electrochemical steps when they are not completely separated is discussed and also applied to the study of the reduction of pyrazine in aqueous acid media. Excellent agreement between experimental results and theoretical predictions has been found.     

A Glassy Carbon Electrode Modified with LangmuirBlodgett Film Composed of DNA and Polyaniline for the Sensitive Determination of Salbutamol

A composite Langmuir? Blodgett film prepared from DNA and polyaniline was deposited on the surface of a glassy carbon electrode (GCE) to give a new voltammetric sensor for the β2‐agonist salbutamol (SAL). Cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy were employed to study the characteristic of the modified electrode. The electrochemistry of SAL at the modified electrode was investigated at pH 6.8 by cyclic voltammetry and differential pulse anodic voltammetry. The oxidation of SAL at this electrode is an adsorption‐controlled irreversible process. A sensitive electroanalytical method for determination of SAL was worked out that displays high precision and good reproducibility. The method was applied to quantify SAL in tablets with satisfactory results.     

Voltammetric determination of doxorubicin in urine by adsorptive preconcentration and flow injection analysis

Preconcentration and quantitation of the cancer chemotherapy drug, doxorubicin, are achieved via a flow-injection approach utilizing adsorption of the drug onto a carbon paste electrode, medium exchange, and differential pulse voltammetry on the adsorbing surface. The oxidation peak at +0.57 V vs. Ag/AgCl is used for quantitation. Linear response was obtained for concentrations from 10^?6 M to the detection limit of 10^?9 M, and it was possible to determine the drug in urine by direct injection of the sample with no preliminary steps required. The sensitivity, linearity, and selectivity of the flow injection approach were markedly improved relative to the earlier batch method in which the adsorption step was done in a stationary sample solution.