Atom-formation processes in carbon-furnace atomizers used in atomic-absorption spectrometry

A mechanism for the production of atoms during carbon-furnace atomization is presented, based on the reaction MO(s) + C(s) --> CO(g) + M(g) The lowest temperature at which this reaction is thermodynamically feasible has been calculated for 27 elements and is shown to be consistent, for the majority of elements, with the lowest temperatures at which a substantial population of the atoms appears in the carbon-furnace atomizer. The theory has been developed further to explain qualitatively the losses of elements that occur during heating cycles before the atomization.     

Determination of gold in tissue by carbon-furnace atomic-absorption spectrometry

A sensitive and reproducible technique is reported for the determination of gold in tissue by carbon-furnace atomic-absorption spectrometry. Results are compared with those obtained by using a flame-atomization procedure and by neutron-activation analysis. The method is used to analyse samples of kidney, liver, spleen, nails and hair from human subjects. A possible correlation between gold levels in nails and plasma is suggested.     

Determination of lead in carbonate rocks by carbon-furnace atomic-absorption spectrometry after dissolution in nitric acid

A simple and rapid method for the determination of 1-100 ppm of lead in carbonate rocks is described. Dissolution of the rock samples in 10% v v nitric acid is shown to give precise and accurate results even though silicates in the samples remain undissolved. A more time-consuming but complete dissolution of the sample with hydrofluoric acid may be used if preferred. The increase in sensitivity and freedom from matrix interference obtained by the use of a carbon-furnace atomizer eliminate the necessity for preconcentration of the lead, saving time and preventing errors from contamination or losses derived from inefficient extraction procedures. The detection limit and precision of the method are 0.4 ppm and 6% (relative standard deviation at the 3-ppm lead level) respectively and accurate results were obtained for the analysis of standard rock samples.     

Determination of copper in natural waters by atom-trapping atomic absorpton spectrometry after liquid/liquid extraction

Copper (1–100 ng ml^?1) is determined in natural waters by atom-trapping atomic absorption spectrometry after extraction of its 1-pyrrolidinecarbodithioate complex into isobutylmethylketone. Results are in good agreement with those obtained by conventional carbon-furnace atomic absorption spectrometry.     

Determination of minor elements in steel by carbon furnace atomic emission spectrometry

Procedures are described for the determination of chromium, copper, manganese, nickel and soluble aluminium in steels by carbon-furnace atomic emission spectrometry. A single set of atomization conditions is optimum for all five elements but different dilutions of the sample solution are recommended for different analyte concentrations in the steels. Interferences from iron and nitric acid are small or insignificant and easily compensated.     

The extraction, determination and speciation of tributyltin in seawater

Summary Methods have been developed for the determination, by carbon-furnace atomisation atomic absorption spectrophotometry, of inorganic and of total butyltin in seawater. Concentration/separations are based on the solvent extraction of organotin species directly into toluene and of inorganic tin as its tin(IV) 8-hydroxyquinoline chelate into chloroform. Detection limits are 0.7–0.8 ng.

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Extraktion, Bestimmung und Speziation von Tributylzinn in Seewasser

     

Determination of aluminium in blood plasma or serum by electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry

A carbon-furnace atomic absorption method is used to determine aluminium in blood serum or plasma, diluted (1 + 2) with purified water prior to injection (20 μl) into the furnace. Procedures are described to reduce contamination during sample collection, storage and preparation of samples. A study of the interferences of inorganic ions shows that the temperature programme developed minimises these, allowing the use of aqueous standards for calibration. Ashing at 1400°C, prior to atomisation, also removes non-specific background effects, and optical correction is not required. A sample throughput of 50 duplicate analyses per day is possible and the precision (between batch) at 24 μg Al l^-1 was 11.2% (n = 10) and at 340 μg Al l^-1 was 6.3% (n = 18). Down to 4 μg Al l^-1 can be determined. Reference values for a healthy population were 4.1–20 μg Al l^-1 (mean 10.2).     

Accuracy of the direct determination of cadmium in urine by carbon-furnace atomic-absorption spectrometry

The optimization of the conditions of use of three commercial carbon-furnace atomic-absorption spectrometers for the determination of cadmium in urine is described. The performance of each instrument is evaluated with respect to sensitivity, precision, detection limit and accuracy. All three instruments could be used for the determination of cadmium at levels greater than 0.2 mug/l. in the urine of exposed and "normal" subjects. A sample can be analysed in duplicate in 15 min. No sample pretreatment is required.     

一种新的De Novo生物活性分子设计方法

由药效团进行虚拟活性结构生成与3D-QSAR模型相结合,筛选出有前途的结构多样性的化合物,并从中寻找活性先导化合物,是一种新的分子设计方法。采用这种方法对抗小麦赤霉病类含氟农药进行了研究,共生成了53个虚拟活性结构,通过3D-QSAR模型筛选出其中10个活性较高的结构,在活性最高的化合物基础上进行了结构修饰,得到了活性更高且毒性较低的理想化合物。研究结果表明这种方法能突破原模型化合物结构模式的局限,可以找到结构新颖的活性先导化合物,是一种非常有前途的分子设计方法,而且具有较高的筛选效率。     

Spectrophotometric determination of fluoxetine by batch and flow injection methods

A rapid, simple, and accurate spectrophotometric method is presented for the determination of fluoxetine by batch and flow injection analysis methods. The method is based on fluoxetine competitive complexation reaction with phenolphthalein-beta-cyclodextrin (PHP-beta-CD) inclusion complex. The increase in the absorbance of the solution at 554 nm by the addition of fluoxetine was measured. The formation constant for fluoxetin-beta-CD was calculated by non-linear least squares fitting. Fluoxetine can be determined in the range 7.0 x 10(-6)-2.4 x 10(-4) mol l(-1) and 5.0 x 10(-5)-1.0 x 10(-2) mol l(-1) by batch and flow methods, respectively. The limit of detection and limit of quantification were respectively 4.13 x 10(-6) mol l(-1) and 1.38 x 10(-5) mol l(-1) for batch and 2.46 x 10(-5) mol l(-1) and 8.22 x 10(-5) mol l(-1) for flow method. The sampling rate in flow injection analysis method was 80+/-5 samples h(-1). The method was applied to the determination of fluoxetine in pharmaceutical formulations and after addition to human urine samples.     

PF(X~3∑~-)的结构、势能函数与光谱常数

运用多种方法、多种基组对PF(X3∑-)的平衡结构进行优化计算.用QCISD/6-311G(df)方法得到的平衡结构为RPF=0.158 9 nm,与实验值RPF=0.158 97 nm进行比较,最为接近,得出QCISD/6-311G(df)基组为最优基组;然后对PF(X3∑-)进行单点能扫描计算,用正规方程组拟合Murrell-Sorbie函数,得到相应电子态的势能函数解析式,由势能函数计算了与PF(X3∑-)态相对应的光谱常数,结果与实验数据较为一致.这些数据为反应动力学提供了理论依据.     

分光光度法快速测定钢铁中的锰、磷、硅

用硝酸、过硫酸铵溶解试样,在较高温度下,分别用过硫酸铵光度法测定钢铁中的锰含量,铋磷钼蓝光度法测定磷含量,抗坏血酸硅钼蓝光度法测定硅含量。方法简便、快速、灵敏、准确并已应用于锰、磷、硅自动分析仪。     

比光谱-导数-紫外分光光度法同时测定水中硝酸根和亚硝酸根

利用二元混合物的混合光谱与其中某一组分光谱的比值对波长求导，可达到分辨重叠光谱的目的。本文研究了用比光谱-导数-紫外分光光度法同时测定水样中NO3-和NO2-，以“减法技术”求导，兼具导数光度法能消除低频背景和高频噪声干扰及线性回归法分辨能力强的优点。方法避免了一般光度法需加入试剂而可能引起的误差。在pH7～9条件下测量203um～219um的光吸收值，用比光谱-导数技术处理，同时测定合成试样中0～4mg／L的NO3-和NO2-，6次测定相对标准偏差＜7％，加入回收率在95％～101％之间。讨论了干扰离子的影响及消除，并与P-矩阵法作了比较。方法已用于井水、雨水及湖水中NO3-和NO2-的同时测定。     

Spectrophotometric determination of micro amounts of nitrite in water and soil

A spectrophotometric method for determination of micro amounts of nitrite in water and soil with p-aminoacetophenone and resorcinol is described. The interference of foreign ions can be eliminated by masking with complexing agents. Beer's law is obeyed up to 20 mug of NO(2)(-) in 60 ml of solution and the molar absorptivity at 435 nm is 5.27 x 10(4) l.mole(-1).cm(-1). The colour is stable for 10 hr. Results obtained by using the proposed method for water and soil samples agree well with those obtained by the Saltzman standard method.     

Flow-injection spectrophotometric determination of sulfadiazine and sulfamethoxazole in pharmaceuticals and urine.

A rapid and sensitive flow-injection spectrophotometric method is proposed for the determination of sulfadiazine and sulfamethoxazole. This method is based on the diazotization of sulfonamide with sodium nitrite, and a coupling reaction of the diazo-compound with alpha-naphthylamine. The optimum experimental conditions are obtained by using the controlled and weighted centroid simplex method. The linear ranges for the determination of sulfadiazine and sulfamethoxazole are 0.2-20 microg ml(-1) and 0.1-20 microg ml(-1), and their detection limits are 0.06 microg ml(-1) and 0.05 microg ml(-1), respectively, and the sampling frequency is 130 samples per hour. The method has been used to determine sulfadiazine and sulfamethoxazole in pharmaceuticals and urine without separation. The results are in agreement with those obtained by a high-performance liquid chromatograph technique at the 95% confidence level.     

Role of binding entropy in the refinement of protein-ligand docking predictions: analysis based on the use of 11 scoring functions

We present results of testing the ability of eleven popular scoring functions to predict native docked positions using a recently developed method (Ruvinsky and Kozintsev, J Comput Chem 2005, 26, 1089) for estimation the entropy contributions of relative motions to protein-ligand binding affinity. The method is based on the integration of the configurational integral over clusters obtained from multiple docked positions. We use a test set of 100 PDB protein-ligand complexes and ensembles of 101 docked positions generated by (Wang et al. J Med Chem 2003, 46, 2287) for each ligand in the test set. To test the suggested method we compared the averaged root-mean square deviations (RMSD) of the top-scored ligand docked positions, accounting and not accounting for entropy contributions, relative to the experimentally determined positions. We demonstrate that the method increases docking accuracy by 10-21% when used in conjunction with the AutoDock scoring function, by 2-25% with G-Score, by 7-41% with D-Score, by 0-8% with LigScore, by 1-6% with PLP, by 0-12% with LUDI, by 2-8% with F-Score, by 7-29% with ChemScore, by 0-9% with X-Score, by 2-19% with PMF, and by 1-7% with DrugScore. We also compared the performance of the suggested method with the method based on ranking by cluster occupancy only. We analyze how the choice of a clustering-RMSD and a low bound of dense clusters impacts on docking accuracy of the scoring methods. We derive optimal intervals of the clustering-RMSD for 11 scoring functions.     

Kinetic spectrophotometric determination of famotidine in commercial dosage forms.

A simple kinetic spectrophotometric method is described for the determination of famotidine. The method is based on the oxidation of the drug with alkaline potassium permanganate. The reaction is followed spectrometrically by measuring the rate of change of the absorbance at 610 nm. The initial-rate and fixed-time (at 12 min) methods are adopted for determining the drug concentration. The calibration graphs are linear in the ranges of 2-10 microg mL(-1) and 1-8 microg mL(-1) using the initial-rate and fixed-time methods, respectively. The method has been applied to the determination of famotidine in tablet formulations. The obtained results are compared statistically with those given by a reference spectrophotometric method.     

Spectrophotometric determination of trazodone, amineptine and amitriptyline hydrochlorides through ion-pair formation with molybdenum and thiocyanate

Extraction spectrophotometric method has been developed for the determination of tricyclic drugs such as trazodone (TZH), amineptine (APH) and amitriptyline (ATPH) hydrochlorides in pure form and in the dosage forms coming from different Egyptian markets. The method based on the formation of ion-pairs between these drugs under investigation and inorganic complex of Mo(V)-thiocyanate followed by its extraction with methylene chloride. The optimum conditions for the ion-pairs formation are established. The method permits the determination of TZH, APH and ATPH over the concentration range of 2-28, 2-32 and 1-30 microg ml(-1), respectively. The Sandell sensitivity (S) is found to be 0.105, 0.138 and 0.118 g cm(-2) for TZH, APH and ATPH, respectively. The SD is found to be 0.16-0.377, 0.12-0.259 and 0.091-0.286 and the R.S.D. are 0.14-0.55, 0.12-0.399 and 0.095-0.485 for TZH, APH and ATPH, respectively. The method is applicable for the assay of the investigated drugs in different dosage forms and the results are in good agreement with those obtained by the official method.     

Spectrophotometric study of the reaction mechanism between DDQ as pi-acceptor and potassium iodate and flucloxacillin and dicloxacillin drugs and their determination in pure and in dosage forms

Two simple and accurate spectrophotometric methods are presented for the determination of beta-lactam drugs, flucloxacillin (Fluclox) and dicloxacillin (Diclox), in pure and in different pharmaceutical preparations. The charge transfer (CT) reactions between Fluclox and Diclox as electron donors and 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-p-benzoquinone (DDQ) pi-acceptor and potassium iodate via oxidation reduction reaction where the highly coloured complex species or the liberated iodine have been spectrophotometrically studied. The optimum experimental conditions have been studied carefully. Beer's law is obeyed over the concentration range of 2-450 microg ml(-1) for Fluclox and 10-450 microg ml(-1) for Diclox using DDQ reagent and at 50-550 microg ml(-1) for Fluclox and 50-560 microg ml(-1) for Diclox using iodate method, respectively. For more accurate results, Ringbom optimum concentration range is calculated and found to be 6-450 and 15-450 microg ml(-1) for Fluclox and Diclox using DDQ, respectively, and 65-550 and 63-560 microg ml(-1) for Fluclox and Diclox using iodine, respectively. The Sandell sensitivity is found to be 0.018 and 0.011 microg cm(-2) for DDQ method and 0.013 and 0.011 microg cm(-2) for iodate method for Fluclox and Diclox, respectively, which indicates the high sensitivity of both methods. Standard deviation (S.D.=0.01-0.80 and 0.07-0.98) and relative standard deviation (R.S.D.=0.13-0.44 and 0.11-0.82%) (n=5) for DDQ and iodate methods, respectively, refer to the high accuracy and precision of the proposed methods. These results are also confirmed by between-day precision of percent recovery of 99.87-100.2 and 99.90-100% for Fluclox and Diclox by DDQ method and 99.88-100.1 and 99.30-100.2% for Fluclox and Diclox by iodate method, respectively. These data are comparable to those obtained by British and American pharmacopoeias assay for the determination of Fluclox and Diclox in raw materials and in pharmaceutical preparations.     

ICP-AES法测定锌阳极中的铝、镉、铁、铜、铅

通过分析高频功率、雾化压力、辅助气流量和泵速等试验条件，建立了ICP-AES法测定锌阳极中铝、镉、铁、铜、铅的方法。用该方法测定锌阳极中的铝、镉、铁、铜、铅，其RSD分别为0.17%、0.63%、2.7%、5.2%、2.5%，回收率分别为99.3%-101.2%，99.3%-100.3%、97.1%-102.2%、97.8%-102.9%。对锌阳极试样进行测定，该方法的测定结果与GB4951-85方法的测定结果基本一致。