Determination of Tannic Acid by Flow Injection Analysis with Inhibited Chemiluminescence Detection

A novel flow injection procedure has been developed for the determination of tannic acid based on the inhibition of the chemiluminescences in luminol-H₂O₂-Manganese tetrasulfonatophthalocyanine (MnTSPc) system by tannic acid. The method is simple, rapid and sensitive with a detection limit of 8 × 10⁻¹⁰ mol·L⁻¹ and a linear range of 7 × 10⁻⁹–5 × 10⁻⁶ mol·L⁻¹. The relative standard deviation is 1.9% for eleven measurements of 5 × 10⁻⁷ mol·L⁻¹ tannic acid. The method has been successfully applied to the determination of tannic acid in real Chinese gall and hop pellets samples.