Journal
MOLECULES
Volume 27, Issue 15, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules27154853
Keywords
blue dye; indigo carmine; Raman spectroscopy; geometrical optimization; UV; Vis; Briggs-Rauscher reaction
Funding
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia [451-03-68/2022-14/200026, 451-03-68/2022-14/200146, 451-03-68/2022-14/200051, 451-03-68/2022-14/200053]
- Office of Naval Research Global [N62902-22-1-2024]
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This study characterizes and analyzes indigo carmine using various methods, and finds that the concentration of indigo carmine in commercially available food dye is low. Additionally, the BR method shows higher sensitivity in accurately determining the concentration of indigo carmine.
Indigo carmine is a commonly used industrial blue dye. To determine its concentration in a commercially available food dye composed of a mixture of indigo carmine and D-glucose, this paper characterizes it through (ATR, KBr) FTIR micro-Raman as well as UV/Vis and clock: Briggs-Rauscher (BR) oscillatory reaction methods. The indigo carmine was detected in the bulk food dye only by applying micro-Raman spectroscopy, indicating a low percentage of the indigo carmine present. This research provides an improvement in the deviations from the experimental Raman spectrum as calculated by the B97D/cc-pVTZ level of theory one, resulting in a better geometrical optimization of the indigo carmine molecule compared to data within the literature. The analytical curves used to determine indigo carmine concentrations (and quantities) in an aqueous solution of food dye were applied by means of UV/Vis and BR methods. BR yielded significantly better analytical parameters: 100 times lower LOD and LOQ compared to commonly used UV/Vis. The remarkable sensitivity of the BR reaction towards indigo carmine suggests that not only does indigo carmine react in an oscillatory reaction but also its decomposition products, meaning that the multiple oxidation reactions have an important role in the BR's indigo carmine mechanism. The novelty of this research is the investigation of indigo carmine using a clock BR reaction, opening new possibilities to determine indigo carmine in other complex samples (pharmaceutical, food, etc.).
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