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A Spectrophotometric Determination of Ascorbic Acid

Kamlesh Shrivas, Kavita Agrawal, Devendra Kumar Patel

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A new, simple and sensitive method for the spectrophotometric indirect determination of ascorbic acid in fruits, beverages, and pharmaceuticals is described. In this method, the ascorbic acid reduces Cu2+ to Cu+ and reacts with 2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanothroline (neucoproine) to form Cu (neucoproine)+ complex, and it was extracted with N-phenylbenzimidoylthiourea (PBITU) in chloroform. The apparent value of molar absorptivity of the complex in terms of ascorbic acid is (3.52) × 104 L mole−1 cm−1 at λmax, 460. The detection limit of ascorbic acid is 40 μg L−1 and the method obeys Beer's law over the concentration range of 0.1–4.0 μg mL−1. The proposed method was successfully applied for the determination of ascorbic acid in various samples. The validity of the present method was checked by the flow injection analysis (FIA) method.

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A new, simple and sensitive method for the spectrophotometric indirect determination of ascorbic acid in fruits, beverages, and pharmaceuticals is described. In this method, the ascorbic acid reduces Cu2+ to Cu+ and reacts with 2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanothroline (neucoproine) to form Cu (neucoproine)+ complex, and it was extracted with N-phenylbenzimidoylthiourea (PBITU) in chloroform. The apparent value of molar absorptivity of the complex in terms of ascorbic acid is (3.52) × 104 L mole−1 cm−1 at λmax, 460. The detection limit of ascorbic acid is 40 μg L−1 and the method obeys Beer's law over the concentration range of 0.1–4.0 μg mL−1. The proposed method was successfully applied for the determination of ascorbic acid in various samples. The validity of the present method was checked by the flow injection analysis (FIA) method.

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A new, simple and sensitive method for the spectrophotometric indirect determination of ascorbic acid in fruits, beverages, and pharmaceuticals is described. In this method, the ascorbic acid reduces Cu2+ to Cu+ and reacts with 2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanothroline (neucoproine) to form Cu (neucoproine)+ complex, and it was extracted with N-phenylbenzimidoylthiourea (PBITU) in chloroform. The apparent value of molar absorptivity of the complex in terms of ascorbic acid is (3.52) × 104 L mole−1 cm−1 at λmax, 460. The detection limit of ascorbic acid is 40 μg L−1 and the method obeys Beer's law over the concentration range of 0.1–4.0 μg mL−1. The proposed method was successfully applied for the determination of ascorbic acid in various samples. The validity of the present method was checked by the flow injection analysis (FIA) method.

Key concepts: Ascorbic acid, Chemistry, Molar absorptivity, Chloroform, Chromatography, Detection limit, Nuclear chemistry, Food science

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