An improved method for the flow-injection determination of iodine using the luminol chemiluminescence reaction in a reversed micellar medium of cetyltrimethylammonium chloride in 1-hexanol-cyclohexane.

To eliminate the use of chlorinated hydrocarbons, we have improved the method for the flow-injection (FI) determination of iodine based on the chemiluminescence reaction of iodine with luminol in a chloroform-free reversed micellar medium of the surfactant cetyltrimethylammonium chloride (CTAC) using a mixture of 1-hexanol-cyclohexane as a bulk solvent. The FI procedure used simply involves the mixing of an iodine solution in cyclohexane with the chemiluminescent reagent solution of luminol in the reversed micellar medium of CTAC in 0.38 M 1-hexanol in cyclohexane/water (buffered with sodium carbonate). The optimum conditions for the iodine determination were evaluated and a detection limit (DL) of 0.05 ng cm(-3) iodine was achieved. The calibration graph obtained was linear with a dynamic range from the DL to 10 ng cm(-3) iodine. The relative standard deviations (n=5) observed at all concentrations within the linear range were less than 2.5%. The improved FI method is rapid and equally sensitive like the original one and was found to be suitable for the determination of trace iodine.     

Indirekte photometrische Bestimmung kleiner Jodmengen in Selen

After separation of selenium by precipitation with ferrous iron, the iodine is employed for catalyzing the Ce⁴⁺/As³⁺-redox reaction. This is stopped by ferrous iron and the ferric iron formed is determined by photometry as thiocyanate. This method enables the determination of about 100 ± 6 ng of iodine in 5–10 mg of selenium. The method was applied for determination of the distribution of iodine in Se-rectifier layers. The layers were dissolved by etching with a solution of alkali cyanide. The usual doping elements showed no disturbance.     

Determination of total iodine in infant formula and nutritional products by inductively coupled plasma/mass spectrometry: single-laboratory validation

A single-laboratory validation by inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry was developed for the determination total iodine (m/z 127) in infant formula and adult nutritional products. All samples were digested in nitric acid using a closed vessel microwave oven system; Te (m/z 130) was used as an internal standard. To prevent loss of iodine, ammonium hydroxide solution was added to the samples immediately after digestion. The method quantitation limit for total iodine was 0.3 ng/mL, but a practical LOQ was used at 1.0 ng/mL, a concentration at which there was a negligible bias due to nonlinearity. The total iodine concentrations (112-1900 ng/g) in 14 out of 15 nutritional products were within specification limits. Within-day and day-to-day (6 independent days) precision values were < 10% RSD. The observed precision for the overall mean (18 independent days) of a control sample was approximately 4% RSD. In two National Institute of Standards and Technology standard reference materials, total iodine results were within certified limits. Sample spike recoveries for all 15 nutritional products were 92-105%. The data show that a conventional microwave oven digestion procedure can be used to prepare samples for iodine determination. Therefore, this technique is very compatible with other methods being proposed as modern official methods for the analysis of minerals in nutritional products.     

灰化法-气相色谱法测定45种食品中的碘含量

以日常食品为研究对象,建立了气相色谱测定不同食品中碘含量的检测方法。样品经碳酸钾-硫酸锌灰化处理后,采用酸水溶解,以丁酮衍生后进行气相色谱分析。经DB-1701色谱柱(30 m×0.32 mm×0.25μm)分离,电子捕获检测器(ECD)测定,以保留时间定性,峰面积外标法进行定量。考察了不同灰化条件对结果的影响,并对方法的灵敏度、准确度和精密度进行验证。碘的检出限为1.0 ng·g-1,平均加标回收率为99.5%,相对标准偏差(RSD)为3.6%。该方法灵敏、准确、可靠,且分析时间短、抗干扰性好,可用于日常食品中碘安全的监测。     

Determination of iodine in diverse botanical and dietary matrices by pre-irradiation combustion followed by neutron activation analysis

Summary The method chosen for determination of iodine in this investigation is an extension of an existing analytical technique to food samples which was developed for environmental samples. The method is based on pre-irradiation combustion of the sample to liberate iodine, trapping the iodine on charcoal, and quantitating the element by neutron activation analysis (NAA). Existing botanical and dietary reference materials were used to check the validity of the method. Several mixed diet samples with high fat content from the U.S. Total Diet Study and composites of cereals with both low and high iodine content were analyzed. This method of pre-irradiation combustion followed by NAA has been shown to be a viable technique for the determination of iodine in dietary samples. However, with a detection limit of about 50 ng of iodine, large amounts of sample (>1 g) are typically required for each determination.     

The determination of organic and inorganic lead compounds in urban air by atomic-absorption spectrometry with electrothermal atomization

A method for the simultaneous determination of inorganic and organic lead compounds in air is described, together with some results from its application at different sampling sites. Air-borne particulate lead is collected on a cellulose filter. Organic lead vapours are trapped in an iodine monochloride solution, placed behind the filter. A fraction of the cellulose filter is subjected to low-temperature ashing, after which the lead content in the residue is measured by electrothermal atomic-absorption spectrometry. The organolead material absorbed in the iodine monochloride solution, is determined by solvent extraction and electrothermal atomic-absorption spectrometry. For a 6-h sampling period, detection limits of the order of 10 ng m^-3 for inorganic and 8 ng m^-3 for organic lead materials may be obtained.     

Sensitive determination of nitrite by means of a Landolt-type reaction in fluorescent aggregates of a binaphthyl-based amphiphile

The iodine quenching effect on the fluorescence of a binaphthyl-based amphiphile, C₈BNC₆N, was used for monitoring the Landolt-type reaction between nitrite, iodide, and thiosulfate. Due to the possibility of iodine detection in the 10^–8–10^–7 M range, and to the effective concentration of anionic reagents on the surface of cationic aggregates, the indicator reaction can be monitored using reagents at concentration levels as low as 10^–7 M. To optimize the analytical system, the effect of pH and reagent concentrations on the rate of indicator reaction were studied. The influence of the matrix of water samples and effect of side-reactions increasing the value of a blank test were examined. A procedure for nitrite determination in water was developed, using the diazo reaction for selective nitrite removal to provide a reference solution, which avoided possible effects of the matrix components. The usefulness of this method was tested by determining trace amounts of nitrite in water samples. The procedure allows determination of nitrite down to 5 ng/ml (detection limit about 2ng/ml) with r.s.d. of 10% in the 20–250 ng/ml range.     

负催化动力学光度法测定微量碘的研究

本文报道碘 ( I- )对重铬酸钾氧化罗丹明 B( RHB)褪色反应的负催化作用及其动力学分析 ,建立了测定微量碘的新方法 ,检出限 2× 1 0 - 8g/m L,线性范围 0～ 1 6μg/m L,表观摩尔吸光系数 6.7× 1 0 4 L·mol- 1· cm。方法用于海带、食盐等食品中微量碘的测定 ,结果满意     

Cationic cyanine as a near-infrared fluorescent probe for the determination of nucleic acids

A new method with a cationic near-IR cyanine as fluorescent probe was developed for the determination of nucleic acids. The near-IR cyanine shows maximum excitation and emission wavelengths at 765 and 790 nm, respectively, in aqueous solution. The method is based on the fluorescence decrease of near-IR cyanine in the presence of nucleic acids. Under optimal conditions, the ratio of fluorescence intensity in the absence and presence of nucleic acids was proportional to the concentration of nucleic acids over the range 0.10-1.2 microg/mL for CT (calf thymus) DNA or SM (salmon sperm) DNA, and 0.10-1.6 microg/mL for yeast RNA. The detection limits were 30 ng/mL for CT DNA, 25 ng/mL for SM DNA and 70 ng/mL for yeast RNA. The relative standard deviation (n = 6) was 2.1% for 500 ng/mL CT DNA, 2.4% for 500 ng/mL SM DNA and 2.7% for 500 ng/mL yeast RNA, respectively.     

HPTLC Determination of Food Emulsifiers by Iodine Staining and Densitometry

The quantitative determination by HPTLC, after iodine staining and densitometry, of three food emulsifiers phosphatidylcholine, glycerol monolaurin and sorbitan monolaurate has been fully validated. Results showed that through a temperature reduction step, the effect of iodine vapor staining could be adequately preserved for densitometry measurement. The key parameters of detection were optimized and by means of the Kubelka–Munk modeling test, the quantitative prediction of the method was verified, suggesting that this protocol would be a possible solution for the quantitation of lipids lacking a chromophore.

     

Cationic cyanine as a near-infrared fluorescent probe for the determination of nucleic acids

A new method with a cationic near-IR cyanine as fluorescent probe was developed for the determination of nucleic acids. The near-IR cyanine shows maximum excitation and emission wavelengths at 765 and 790 nm, respectively, in aqueous solution. The method is based on the fluorescence decrease of near-IR cyanine in the presence of nucleic acids. Under optimal conditions, the ratio of fluorescence intensity in the absence and presence of nucleic acids was proportional to the concentration of ¶nucleic acids over the range 0.10–1.2 μg/mL for CT (calf thymus) DNA or SM (salmon sperm) DNA, and 0.10–¶1.6 μg/mL for yeast RNA. The detection limits were ¶30 ng/mL for CT DNA, 25 ng/mL for SM DNA and ¶70 ng/mL for yeast RNA. The relative standard deviation (n = 6) was 2.1% for 500 ng/mL CT DNA, 2.4% for ¶500 ng/mL SM DNA and 2.7% for 500 ng/mL yeast RNA, respectively.     

Determination of mercury in industrial workplaces by collection on activated carbon,solvent extraction and cold-vapour atomic-absorption spectrometry

A method for the determination of mercury in workplace environments in a chlor-alkali plant was optimized. Mercury was collected on activated carbon with a personal sampling pump at a flow-rate of 0.5 l/min, then the carbon was mineralized by heating with potassium permanganate and sulphuric acid. The mercuric ion was next chelated with ammonium pyrrolidinedithiocarbamate and extracted with methyl isobutyl ketone at acidic pH (1.6–5). The chelate in the extract was decomposed with sulphuric acid and the mercuric ion reduced to the metal with stannous chloride. The mercury was determined by coldvapour atomic-absorption spectrometry (CVAAS). The calibration graph was linear up to 5 ng/ml Hg in the initial solution, the relative standard deviation was 4.5% (for 2 ng/ml) and the detection limit was 0.14 ng/ml. All the figures of merit are referred to the initial sample. The proposed method gave good accordance with CVAAS without extraction.     

Kinetic Spectrophotometric Determination of Trace Amounts of Nitrite by Catalytic Reaction between Methylthymol Blue and Bromate

A kinetic spectrophotometric method for determination of trace nitrite in two dynamic ranges (2–100 and 100–500 ng/mL) based on its catalytic effect on the reaction between methylthymol blue and potassium bromate in acidic (sulfuric acid) media is described. The reaction was monitored spectrophotometrically by measuring the decreasing color of methylthymol blue at 437 nm by the fixed‐time method of 4.0 min at 30°C. The detection limit is 0.6 ng/mL, and the relative standard deviations for 50.0 and 250.0 ng/mL nitrite are 1.6% and 1.3%, respectively. The method was used for the determination of nitrite in water samples.     

基于四环素荧光熄灭测定碘的研究

基于碘对荧光试剂四环素的荧光熄灭,建立了测定微量碘的荧光分析方法。在pH10的碱性介质中,最大激发/发射波长分别为400.0nm/509.0nm,四环素的荧光强度与碘浓度的对数呈良好的线性关系,测定碘浓度的线性范围为3.20×10^-7～1.00×10^-4mol/L,检出限为1.30×10^-8mol/L,常见的共存离子不干扰测定。该方法适用于食盐中微量碘含量的测定。     

Pyrohydrolysis Coupled to Ion Chromatography for Sensitive Determination of Iodine in Food-Related Materials

For the determination of iodine in food-related materials, the biological sample was decomposed using a pyrohydrolytic procedure. A sample vessel made from mullite, in which an aliquot of sample was taken, was placed in a quartz tube, and heated at 100°C through 820°C step by step under wet oxygen flow. Iodine in the sample was separated by evaporation as hydrogen iodide and collected in a dilute sodium hydroxide solution. After the basic solution containing the analyte was neutralized by adding hydrochloric acid, iodine in the solution was determined by using ion chromatography with ultraviolet absorption detection. The operating conditions for the pyrohydrolytic decomposition procedure were examined. Under the optimized conditions, organic constituents in the sample were completely decomposed since the analyte species were converted to the iodide ion. The detection limit of 0.01 µg g^?1 iodine was established with a reproducibility of 1.2% when a sample of 500 mg was taken. This method was applied to the determination of iodine in various certified reference materials and food samples with satisfactory results.     

Head-space flow injection for the on-line determination of iodide in urine samples with chemiluminescence detection

A simple head-space (HS) flow injection (FI) system with chemiluminescence (CL) detection for the determination of iodide as iodine in urine is presented. The iodide is converted to iodine by potassium dichromate under stirring in the closed HS vial, and the iodine is released from urine by thermostatting and is carried in a nitrogen flow through an iodide trapping solution. The concomitant introduction of aliquots of iodine, luminol and cobalt(II) solutions by means of a time-based injector into an FI system allowed its mixing in a flow-through cell in front of the detector. The emission intensity at 425 nm was recorded as a function of time. The salting-out of the standard solutions affected the gas-liquid distribution coefficient of iodine in the HS vial. The typical analytical working graphs obtained under the optimized experimental conditions were rectilinear from 0 to 5 mg l(-1) iodine, achieving a precision of 2.3 and a relative standard deviation of 1.8 for ten replicate analyses of 50 and 200 microg l(-1) iodine. However, a second-order process becomes significant at higher iodine concentrations (from 10 to 40 mg l(-1)). The detection limit of the method is 10 microg l(-1) (80 ng) iodine when 8 ml samples are taken. Data for the iodide content of 10 urine samples were in good agreement with those obtained by a conventional catalytic method, and recoveries varied between 101 and 103% for urine samples spiked with different amounts of iodide. The analysis of one sample takes less than 20 min. In the present study the iodide levels found for 100 subjects were 86.8 +/- 19.0 (61-125) microg l(-1), which is lower than the WHO's optimal level (150-300 microg per day).     

The rapid determination of iodine in organic substances

A simple and rapid method for determination of iodine in highly iodized organic substances is described. The method involves oxygen flask combustion of the sample to be analyzed, formation of iodine in a molecular form, and use of a special multicomponent absorption solution containing sodium thiosulfate, phosphate buffer, pH 7.1–7.2, and starch. The quantity of absorbed iodine is determined by iodometric titration of the excess sodium thiosulfate in the absorption solution. The method affords a drastic reduction in the total length of analysis. The relative error of determination is not greater than 1%.     

The determination of traces of arsenic in water by arsine generation and radiometric analysis

A tracer method based on the concentration-dependent distribution principle has been developed for trace arsenic determination. Standard and sample arsenic solutions labelled with a fixed amount of radioactive arsenic-74 are isolated by arsine generation with sodium borohydride followed by absorption in potassium iodide—iodine solution. The separated arsenic(III) is then extracted with equal but limited amounts of zinc diethyldithiocarbamate in chloroform and determined radiometrically by the concentration-dependent distribution principle. The method is practically free from interferences, and arsenic in aqueous solution as low as 0.5 ng ml^-1 can be determined. Results for natural and environmental water samples are compared with results obtained by the arsine generation-atomic absorption technique.     

Simultaneous determination of trimethoprim,enrofloxacin, and ciprofloxacin in blood serum of poultry

A method is proposed for the simultaneous determination of trimethoprim, enrofloxacin, and ciprofloxacin in blood serum of poultry using HPLC. Samples were prepared using protein precipitation. The chromatographic separation of substances was attained on a C18 column using a mixture of a 50 mM acetate buffer solution (pH 3.0) with acetonitrile (86: 14) as a mobile phase. Detection was performed at 278 nm. Linearity was observed in the concentration range 50–5000 ng/mL for trimethoprim and 10–5000 ng/mL for ciprofloxacin and enrofloxacin. Precision was ≤2.1% for enrofloxacin, ≤1.6% for ciprofloxacin, and ≤14% for trimethoprim. Accuracy was ≤10.2% for enrofloxacin, ≤9.9% for ciprofloxacin, and ≤11.9% for trimethoprim. The method was applied to pharmacokinetic studies of complex antibacterial drugs containing trimethoprim and enrofloxacin as active substances.