Caffeic Acid‐Modified Glassy Carbon Electrode for the Simultaneous Determination of Epinephrine and Dopamine

A stable electroactive thin film of poly(caffeic acid) has been deposited on the surface of a glassy carbon electrode by potentiostatic technique in an aqueous solution containing caffeic acid. The electrochemical behaviors of epinephrine (EP), dopamine (DA) and their mixture have been studied. The oxidation peaks of EP and DA at the poly(caffeic acid) modified glassy carbon electrode appeared at the same potential, but the anodic peak currents of the mixture of DA and EP were almost equal to the sum of individual anodic peak currents of EP and DA, whereas the cathodic peak current only related to the concentration of DA under appropriate condition. Base on these, the simultaneous voltammetric measurement of EP and DA at the poly(caffeic acid) film modified electrode has been developed. Ascorbic acid (AA) had no interference with the simultaneous determination of EP and DA under the same condition because the oxidative peak potential of AA was less than those of DA and EP. The modified electrode has been satisfactorily used for the simultaneous determination of EP and DA in real samples.