Self‐Assembled Monolayer of L‐Cysteine on a Gold Electrode as a Support for Fatty Acid. Application to the Electroanalytical Determination of Unsaturated Fatty Acid

This article describes the formation of a SAM with chemisorbed cysteine to a gold surface by the thiol group to obtain a surface electrode with an amino and an acid group free for later reaction and accumulation with other molecules on the electrode surface. We explore the accumulation of unsaturated fatty acid and the electrochemical response of the electrode after modification with cysteine. The electrochemical study confirmed the accumulation of linoleic acid on the modified electrode. The optimum conditions for the determination of linoleic acid by differential pulse voltammetry of linoleic acid are studied a detection limit (3σ) of 0.03 μg mL^?1 and a determination limit (10σ) of 0.10 μg mL^?1 were obtained and applied to determination in olive oil and ham from Iberian breed hams.