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Analysis of antioxidants using a capillary electrophoresis with chemiluminescence detection system.

Tsukagoshi K, Taniguchi T, Nakajima R

Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Faculty of Engineering, Doshisha University, Kyotanabe 610-0321, Japan. ktsukago@mail.doshisha.ac.jp <ktsukago@mail.doshisha.ac.jp>

We developed a capillary electrophoresis with chemiluminescence detection system using 2-methyl-6-p-methoxyphenylethynylimidazopyrazinone as a chemiluminescence reagent for determination of antioxidants of superoxide anions. 2-Methyl-6-p-methoxyphenylethynylimidazopyrazinone reacted with superoxide anions generated through the reaction of hypoxanthine and xanthine oxidase, and then emitted chemiluminescence. Suppression of the chemiluminescence in the presence of antioxidants for superoxide anions was introduced as a detection principle for antioxidants into the capillary electrophoresis with chemiluminescence detection system. After optimizing the analytical conditions, various antioxidants, such as superoxide dismutase, nitroblue tetrazolium, ascorbic acid, and catechin, were subjected to the present system. They gave negative peaks due to the quenching effect; the detection limits of superoxide dismutase, nitroblue tetrazolium, ascorbic acid, and catechin were 1, 100, 100, and 10 microM, respectively (S/N=2). A model sample consisting of superoxide dismutase and nitroblue tetrazolium was satisfactorily separated and detected within ca. 10 min. We also applied the present system to analysis of catechin in green tea as a real sample.

Published 2 April 2007 in Anal Chim Acta, 589(1): 66-70.
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