Journal
FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 129, Issue 1, Pages 206-212Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2011.04.025
Keywords
Miniaturised capillary electrophoresis; Electrochemical detection; 2-Thiobarbituric acid; Derivatisation; Formaldehyde; Food
Funding
- Research Foundation of the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality [09ZR1409700]
- National Science Foundation of China [20875032]
- Daxia Foundation of ECNU [KY2010-003D]
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A novel miniaturised capillary electrophoresis with electrochemical detection (mini-CE-ED) method has been developed for fast determination of formaldehyde (FA) and acetaldehyde (AA) in several food products without preconcentration. Because FA and AA usually exist as uncharged molecules with zero electrophoretic mobility, plus the fact that these two compounds lack of chromophore for sensitive ultraviolet (UV) detection, effective and sensitive determination of FA and AA in real samples is often a challenging task. In this work, an electroactive compound 2-thiobarbituric acid (TBA) was selected as the ideal derivatisation reagent to facilitate the electrochemical determination of FA and AA. Under the optimum conditions. FA-TBA and AA-TBA adducts can be well separated by mini-CE-ED with low detection limit of 9.10 x 10(-9) g/mL (13.2 fg) for FA (S/N = 3). The proposed method should find a wide range of analytical applications in food products as an alternative to conventional and microchip CE approaches. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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