Rapid discrimination of Eurycoma longifolia extracts by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and two dimensional correlation infrared spectroscopy

Eurycoma longifolia is a herbal medicinal plant of South-East Asian origin, popularly recognized as ‘Tongkat Ali’. The root extracts have been used in indigenous traditional medicines for its unique antimalarial, anti-pyretic, antiulcer, cytotoxic and aphrodisiac properties. It is an important task that fast and effective analysis methods monitor the inherent qualities of traditional herbal medicines and its corresponding extracts products as a complicated mixture system. Owing to the unique fingerprint character and extensive applicability to test sample, infrared spectral method have been used in many research fields. In this paper, we use FT-IR, second derivative infrared spectroscopy and two-dimensional correlation infrared spectroscopy (2D-IR) step by step to analyze E. longifolia and its different extracts (extracted by hexane, ethyl acetate, dichloromethane and methanol in turn). The findings indicated that FT-IR and 2D-IR can provide many holistic variation rules of chemical constituents. The structural information of the samples indicated that E. longifolia and its extracts contain a large amount of quassinoids, since some characteristic absorption peaks of quassinoids, such as ∼1700 cm⁻¹, ∼1670 cm⁻¹, ∼1600 cm⁻¹,∼1500 cm⁻¹, and ∼1270 cm⁻¹ can be detected. This method, having its high resolution and excellent macroscopic fingerprint features, can not only supply lots of structural information of main components in the complicated system, but also can differentiate the tiny differences between the similar systems according to the macro-fringerprint characters. This method is highly rapid, effective, accurate and well repetitive for pharmaceutical research.     

Discrimination of extracted lipophilic constituents of Angelica with multi-steps infrared macro-fingerprint method

It is the most pressing task that fast and effective analysis methods monitor the inherent qualities of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and its corresponding extract products as a complicated mixture system. Owing to the unique fingerprint character and extensive applicability to test sample, infrared spectral method has been used in many research fields. In recent years, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), accompanied with the development of spectroscopic technology and combined with computer science, plays an important role in the TCM research. In this paper, we use FT-IR, second derivative infrared spectroscopy and two-dimensional correlation infrared spectroscopy (2D-IR) step by step to analyze the lipophilic constituents in Angelica extracted by two different extract crafts. As a result, all spectra can not only supply lots of structural information of main constituents in the complicated system, but also can differentiate the tiny differences between the similar systems according to the infrared macro-fingerprint characters. This is a very quick, effective and well repetitive method for monitoring the process of the TCM.     

松杉灵芝不同部位的红外光谱分析研究

采用红外光谱三级鉴定法对松杉灵芝菌盖、表皮、菌柄、子实体不同部位的红外光谱图进行了整体分析。结果表明:松杉灵芝的各部位均含萜类、甾醇类、氨基酸、多肽、蛋白质和糖苷类等物质。在松杉灵芝的一维红外光谱中,菌盖的1 649cm-1峰的相对强度明显比表皮、菌柄和子实体强,说明菌盖中所含的氨基酸、多肽、蛋白质物质的量比其它部位高;在二阶导数谱中,四者在1 720~1 600cm-1范围内峰形差别较大,进一步说明松杉灵芝不同部位所含氨基酸、多肽、蛋白质物质不一致;而二维相关红外光谱中,各部位自动峰的数目、峰位置和峰相对强度都有所不同,可推断松杉灵芝各部位本身所含的糖苷类物质是不一致的。     

Quantitative determination of acyclovir in plasma by near infrared spectroscopy

The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility of near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) for analysis of acyclovir in plasma. This methodology was based on the direct measurement of the transmission spectra of liquid samples and a multivariate calibration model (partial least squares, PLS) to determine the acyclovir concentration in plasma sample. The PLS calibration set was built on using the spiked samples by mixing different amounts of acyclovir. Concentration of acyclovir in the plasma samples was calculated employing a 6-factors PLS calibration using the spectral information in the range of 6102-5450 cm^− 1. The root mean square errors of prediction (RMSEP) found was 1.21 for acyclovir. The developed PLS-NIRS procedure allows the determination of 120 samples/h does not require any sample pretreatment and avoids waste generation.     

蒙药草乌花及其提取物化学成分的红外光谱法整体结构解析

采用傅立叶变换红外光谱法并借助于二阶导数谱以及二维相关红外光谱(2D-FTIR)研究了蒙药草乌花原药材及不同溶剂提取物(依次采用乙醚,乙醇和水提取)所含化学成分的红外谱图整体变化规律.结果显示:在草乌花原药材中具有明显的多糖类化合物的红外特征吸收峰,证明该药材中含有大量多糖类成分.草乌花药材乙醚和醇提物的红外光谱较相似...     

Two-dimensional correlation infrared spectroscopy studies on the thermal-induced mesophase of 4-nitrobenzohydrazide derivative

Two-dimensional (2D) correlation infrared (IR) spectroscopy has been applied to explore the effect of hydrogen bondings (HBs) on the structure of mesophase in the dissymmetrical 4-nitrobenzohydrazide derivative, N-(4-cetyloxybenzoyl)-N′-(4′-nitrobenzoyl) hydrazine (C16-NO₂). The strength and species of HBs as well as the heat-induced structural variations in mesophase have been investigated. It has been found from 2D correlation IR spectroscopy that the sequential order of changes in the different functionalities in the course of liquid crystalline formation is that, firstly, the alkyl chain changes from the significant population of the trans conformation to the significant population of gauche conformation; then, the intermolecular HB between CO and NH groups is weakened, some even being broken, and consequently, the intermolecular distance is enlarged; finally, the skeleton of phenyl ring has enough space to change their conformation to weaken the π–π stacking interaction. In addition, besides a few free and some medium bonded NH and CO groups, strongly bonded NH and CO groups still predominantly exist in the mesophase.     

Application of mid-infared spectroscopy with multivariate analysis for the discrimination of toxic plant,Gelsemium elegans

Gelsemium elegans is a commonly used herb to treat different kinds of diseases. However, the indole alkaloid present in the plant might cause serious side effects. In this research, the infrared spectroscopic identification approach including Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), Second derivative infrared spectra (SD-IR) and two-dimensional correlation infrared spectra (2D-IR) was used to develop a simple and rapid method to discriminate the stem, leaf and root of the Gelsemium elegans plant. This is because the stem, leaf and root contained different amount of indole alkaloid that contributed to the toxicity. Through this study, all the three parts were successfully identified and discriminated through the infrared spectroscopic identification method. The identification approach was also validated by comparing the samples of the mixture of both stem and root (SR) to the stem and root, respectively and also by comparing different plants with Gelsemium elegans plant. Besides that, all the samples of different parts of the Gelsemium elegans were analyzed with the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Soft Independent Modelling of Class Analogy (SIMCA) pattern recognition technique to test and verify the experimental results. The SIMCA model was validated by comparing 70 standard herbs to the model. From the results, macroscopic IR fingerprint method and the classification analysis successfully discriminate not only between Gelsemium elegans samples and standard herbs but also successfully distinguished the three different parts of Gelsemium elegans plant.     

不同产地黄芪的红外光谱鉴别研究

采用红外光谱、二阶导数红外光谱和二维相关红外光谱,对四种不同产地的黄芪原药材进行了鉴别研究。结果表明:不同产地黄芪的红外光谱和二阶导数红外谱具有一定的相似度,与淀粉的红外谱图比对,4个不同产地的黄芪均含有淀粉,其中陕西绥德产黄芪的淀粉含量比其它3个产地黄芪的都要高。山西浑源和山西天镇产黄芪谱图的1 510、1 425cm-1木质素特征峰比内蒙古固阳和陕西绥德产黄芪的更为明显,说明前二者产黄芪中木质素含量高于后二者产黄芪。在二维相关红外谱图上,根据4个产地黄芪的相对峰强度的差异,可进行产地的鉴别。研究结果表明对于不同产地黄芪的鉴别,红外三级鉴定法是一种快速有效的新方法。     

ATR-FTIR法在皮革产品中的应用

目前市售皮革分为动物皮革和人造革两类.皮革是动物皮经加工后制成,具有动物皮肤特点.人造革也称假皮革是指合成革或外观貌似真皮实际上由化工原料人工合成的产品,其本身不是动物皮.怎样鉴别真皮与人造革方法有很多,如手摸法、眼看毛孔花纹等.在日常消费中,由于市场上有的皮革产品在生产过程中在表面涂了一层有机材料以及其它处理,普通消费者单凭借手感和经验目测来判断,往往不容易辨别真假.随着人们消费皮革制品的需求增加以及市售皮革制品.在有大量难辨真伪的仿皮革的人造革制品,因此鉴别各行业中的皮革受到越来越多的关注.本文运用ATR-FTIR技术对皮革材料的结构成分进行分析,依据不同物质所得到的谱图不同,就能准确、快速地分辨真皮革和人造革.     

Mechanism in Brill transition of polyamide 66 studied by two-dimensional correlation infrared spectroscopy

The Brill transition of polyamide 66 was investigated by temperature-dependent infrared spectroscopy combined with moving-window two-dimensional (MW2D) correlation spectroscopy. The temperature range of the Brill transition determined by MW2D correlation spectroscopy was 90–170 °C. We employed generalized 2D correlation spectroscopy to study the sequential order of polyamide 66 chains with linear increment of temperature. The movement of the methylene segments near to NH is earlier than those on the CO sides. At the same time, the methylene which is close to NH varies before the inner methylene. Three kinds of NH groups in polyamide 66 were found. The sequential order of their motions is as follows. The free hydrogen-bonded NH groups change first, and then the disordered hydrogen-bonded NH groups. Finally, the ordered hydrogen-bonded NH groups start to change. We also found that the changes of the ordered hydrogen-bonded NH groups follow with the methylene groups.     

红外光谱法分析酵母蛋白质的二级结构

采用红外光谱法分析了酵母蛋白质的二级结构。测定了不同温度下酵母酰胺Ⅲ带的一维红外光谱、二阶导数红外光谱及去卷积红外光谱。结果表明:随着测量温度的升高,酵母中的蛋白质α-螺旋结构的红外吸收强度降低;而β-转角结构、无规卷曲结构和β-折叠结构红外吸收强度均有所增加。还研究了酵母酰胺Ⅲ带的二维红外光谱,以确定酵母中蛋白质红外吸收强度的变化次序,进一步证明了酵母蛋白质的β-折叠结构的热不稳定性。     

Structure and two-dimensional correlation infrared spectroscopy study of two isomeric forms of the octamolybdate cluster

Two isomeric forms of the octamolybdate cluster, (NH₄)₂(Hbpy)₂[Mo₈O₂₆](bpy)₃1 (bpy=bipydine), and [Cu₂(imi)₄]₂[Mo₈O₂₆] 2 (imi=imidazole), were synthesized by hydrothermal method and characterized by X-ray single analysis, one-dimensional (1D) infrared spectroscopy and two-dimensional (2D) correlation infrared spectroscopy under thermal perturbation. In compound 1, the [Mo₈O₂₆] units are β-structure, and octamolybdate anion is ζ-structure in compound 2. The 2D IR correlation spectroscopy study indicates that the intensity changes of MoO band are more sensitive to the temperature variation than that of the Mo-O bond. The μ-Mo-O bond and framework vibrations in compound 1 are more sensitive to the temperature variation than that for compound 2. As the vibrations of μ-Mo-O bond accompanied by the transfer of an oxygen atom, the catalysis ability of compound 1 may be higher than that of compound 2.     

Determination of effective wavelengths for discrimination of fruit vinegars using near infrared spectroscopy and multivariate analysis

Near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy based on effective wavelengths (EWs) and chemometrics was proposed to discriminate the varieties of fruit vinegars including aloe, apple, lemon and peach vinegars. One hundred eighty samples (45 for each variety) were selected randomly for the calibration set, and 60 samples (15 for each variety) for the validation set, whereas 24 samples (6 for each variety) for the independent set. Partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) and least squares-support vector machine (LS-SVM) were implemented for calibration models. Different input data matrices of LS-SVM were determined by latent variables (LVs) selected by explained variance, and EWs selected by x-loading weights, regression coefficients, modeling power and independent component analysis (ICA). Then the LS-SVM models were developed with a grid search technique and RBF kernel function. All LS-SVM models outperformed PLS-DA model, and the optimal LS-SVM model was achieved with EWs (4021, 4058, 4264, 4400, 4853, 5070 and 5273 cm⁻¹) selected by regression coefficients. The determination coefficient (R²), RMSEP and total recognition ratio with cutoff value ±0.1 in validation set were 1.000, 0.025 and 100%, respectively. The overall results indicted that the regression coefficients was an effective way for the selection of effective wavelengths. NIR spectroscopy combined with LS-SVM models had the capability to discriminate the varieties of fruit vinegars with high accuracy.     

Online tracking of the thermal reduction of graphene oxide by two-dimensional correlation infrared spectroscopy

Thermal reduction of graphene oxide (GO) via rapid heating is an environment-friendly and cost-effective method. However, the detailed reduction mechanism remains unclear because of lack of methods for online monitoring of GO thermal reduction. In this study, the thermal reduction of GO (from 20 °C up to 400 °C in argon atmosphere) was successfully monitored online and investigated through temperature-dependent FTIR spectroscopy combined with scaling-MW2D FTIR spectroscopy and generalized 2D correlation analyses. Raman spectroscopy, XPS, and XRD studies were also conducted to characterize the structural changes before and after reduction. SEM and AFM analyses were performed to directly observe the formation of defects in GO after thermal reduction. According to scaling-MW2D results, the thermal reduction of GO was divided into two processes, namely, 35 °C–182 °C (process I) and 182 °C–385 °C (process II). Process I rapidly eliminates oxygen functional groups, and process II gradual removes them. The 2D correlation analysis for each process indicated the sequential order of movements of the oxygen-containing functional groups during thermal reduction. Process I comprised six steps, and process II contained four sequential steps. This work elucidated the complex deoxygenation steps and the mechanism of GO thermal reduction.     

Molecular interaction of polyimide films probed by using soft-pulse dynamic compression ATR time-resolved infrared and double Fourier-transform based 2D-IR spectroscopy

An improved time-resolved step-scan Fourier transform rheo-optical system, based on the soft-pulse dynamic compression attenuated total reflection (ATR) approach, has been introduced to analyze inter-molecular interactions of poly(p-phenylene bi-phenyltetracarboximide) (BPDA–PDA) and poly(N,N-diphenyl ether bi-phenyltetracarboximide) (BPDA–ODA) films. In order to extract the full range of frequency distributions obtained from soft-pulse dynamic compression time response (relaxation) spectra, the second-Fourier transformation was applied along the relaxation time axis in addition to the interferogram axis. In the case of the BPDA–PDA, distinct periodic higher overtone bands are observed especially at C=O stretching and C=C tangential stretching vibration bands in the FFT relaxation time contour map spectra. For the BPDA–ODA, intensities of higher overtone bands are relatively weak. We have further performed 2D-IR correlation analysis at given Fourier frequencies, which includes molecular interaction information. The results suggest that the existence of molecular interaction between C=O stretching and C=C tangential stretching vibration bands.     

Study of the hydrogen bonding of 1,4-bis[(3,4,5-trihexyloxyphenyl)hydrazide]phenylene in crystalline and liquid crystalline phases using infrared,Raman, and two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy

The vibrational bands of a dihydrazide derivative, 1,4-bis[(3,4,5-trihexyloxyphenyl)hydrazide]phenylene (TC6), observed in the Raman and infrared spectra were assigned. The intermolecular hydrogen bonding vibrational bands due to CO and NH groups in the low-frequency Raman spectra were observed at 111 and 94 cm⁻¹ in the crystalline and liquid crystalline (LC) phases, respectively. The sequential order of changes in the hydrogen bonding and alkyl chains was opposite in the crystalline and LC phases. The modifications in the hydrogen bonding occurred prior to conformational changes in the hydrocarbon chains in the crystalline phase; however, a reverse trend was observed in the LC phase. Simultaneously, the two-dimensional (2D) IR and Raman correlation spectroscopic analysis showed that the amide I band of TC6 in the LC phase comprised at least five distinct bands. In addition, the hetero 2D correlation between the NH and CO groups confirmed that no free NH and CO groups existed in the LC phase.     

Nanofoam porosity by infrared spectroscopy

Infrared spectroscopy has been used to determine the porosity of polymer nanofoams produced from block copolymers of an aromatic polyimide with either poly(propylene oxide) or poly(α-methyl styrene). It is shown that, with an independent measurement of the film thickness, both the absorption bands and the interference fringes can yield an accurate measure of the void content. The results obtained are in quantitative agreement with density gradient methods. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Photoacoustic infrared spectroscopy of polymer beads

Photoacoustic (PA) spectra of four types of polymer resin beads, ranging in size from 35 to 150 μm, were acquired using a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer capable of both rapid- and step-scan mirror movement. Thermal diffusion lengths were on the order of the particle sizes of the beads. The PA magnitude spectra were similar to absorption spectra; both positive- and negative-going features occurred in the phase spectra. The frequency dependences of the total PA intensities of the polymer resins and carbon black differed by a factor of about f^−0.30. The intensities of the weak bands in the ratioed spectra (resin beads/carbon black) displayed a similar dependence. Partial saturation caused a more gradual variation for the stronger bands, where the intensity is proportional to f^−0.1–f^−0.2.     

Comparative evaluation of bioactivity of crystalline trypsin for drying by Fourier-transformed infrared spectroscopy

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the enzymatic stability of colloidal trypsin powder during heating in a solid-state by using Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectra with chemoinformatics and generalized two-dimensional (2D) correlation spectroscopy. Colloidal crystalline trypsin powders were heated using differential scanning calorimetry. The enzymatic activity of trypsin was assayed by the kinetic degradation method. Spectra of 10 calibration sample sets were recorded three times with a FT-IR spectrometer. The maximum intensity at 1634 cm⁻¹ of FT-IR spectra and enzymatic activity of trypsin decreased as the temperature increased. The FT-IR spectra of trypsin samples were analyzed by a principal component regression analysis (PCR). A plot of the calibration data obtained was made between the actual and predicted trypsin activity based on a two-component model with γ² = 0.962. On the other hand, a 2D method was applied to FT-IR spectra of heat-treated trypsin. The result was consistent with that of the chemoinformetrical method. The results for deactivation of colloidal trypsin powder by heat-treatment indicated that nano-structure of crystalline trypsin changed by heating reflecting that the β-sheet was mainly transformed, since the peak at 1634 cm⁻¹ decreased with dehydration. The FT-IR chemoinformetrical method allows for a solid-state quantitative analysis of the bioactivity of the bulk powder of trypsin during drying.     

Application of two‐dimensional near‐infrared (2D‐NIR) correlation spectroscopy to the discrimination of three species of Dendrobium

The objective of this paper was to apply two‐dimensional (2D) near‐infrared (NIR) correlation spectroscopy to the discrimination of three species of Dendrobium. Generalized 2D‐NIR correlation spectroscopy was able to enhance spectral resolution, simplify the spectrum with overlapped bands and provide information about temperature‐induced spectral intensity variations that was hard to obtain from one‐dimensional NIR spectroscopy. The FT‐NIR spectra were measured over a temperature range of 30–140°C. The 2D synchronous and asynchronous spectra showed remarkable differences within the range of 5600–4750 cm⁻¹ between different species of Dendrobium. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.