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ANALYST
Volume 137, Issue 6, Pages 1416-1420Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2an16151f
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [20927004, 21005063, 21175108]
- Science and Technology Support Projects of Gansu Province [090GKCA036, 1011GKCA025]
- Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials of Gansu Province, China
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Electrochemiluminescence (ECL) of Ru(bpy)(3)(2+) using metabolites of catecholamines: homovanillic acid (HVA) and vanillylmandelic acid (VMA) as co-reactants were investigated in aqueous solution for the first time. When HVA and VMA were co-existent in the buffer solution containing Ru(bpy)(3)(2+), ECL peaks were observed at a potential corresponding to the oxidation of Ru(bpy)(3)(2+), and the ECL intensity was increased noticeably when the concentrations of HVA and VMA were at lower levels. The linear calibration range was from 8.0 x 10(-5) to 1.0 x 10(-9) M for HVA and VMA. The detection limit (S/N = 3) of HVA and VMA was 4.0 x 10(-10) M. The formation of the excited state Ru(bpy)(3)(2+)* was confirmed to result from the reaction between Ru(bpy)(3)(3+) and the intermediates of HVA or VMA radicals. Moreover, it was found that the ECL intensity was quenched significantly when the concentrations of HVA and VMA were relatively higher. The mechanism of self-quenching processes involved in the Ru(bpy)(3)(2+)-HVA and -VMA ECL systems are proposed in this study.
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