Journal
TALANTA
Volume 116, Issue -, Pages 899-905Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2013.07.084
Keywords
Surface enhanced Raman scattering; 4-Aminophenol; Quantitative determination; Validation; Accuracy profile; Pharmaceutical matrix
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- Belgium National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS)
- Leon Fredericq of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Liege
- Walloon Region of Belgium [1217614, 1117469, 1217716]
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A surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) method able to quantify 4-aminophenol in a pharmaceutical formulation based on acetaminophen, also called paracetamol, was developed and, for the first time, successfully validated. In this context, silver nanoparticles were synthesized according to the method described by Lee Meisel and used as SERS substrate. The repeatability of the silver colloid synthesis was tested using different methods to characterize the size and the zeta potential of silver nanoparticles freshly synthesized. To optimize the SERS samples preparation, a design of experiments implicating concentrations of citrate-reduced silver nanoparticles and aggregating agent was performed in order to maximize the Raman signal enhancement. Finally, an approach based on tolerance intervals and accuracy profiles was applied in order to thoroughly validate the method in a range of concentrations comprised from 3 to 15 mu g mL(-1) using normalized band intensities. The standard addition method was selected as method calibration. Therefore, measurements were carried out on 4-aminophenol spiked solutions of the pharmaceutical formulation. Despite the well-known stability and reproducibility problems of SERS, the validation was performed using two operators and five batches of nanoparticles, one for each validation day. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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