Adsorptive preconcentration for voltammetric measurements of trace levels of chlorprothixene.
The psychotherapeutic drug chlorprothixene is shown to adsorb strongly onto a glassy carbon surface in an open circuit. By using this phenomenon to preconcentrate the drug at a glassy carbon electrode prior to differential-pulse voltammetric measurements, sensitivity at the ppb level is readily achieved. The adsorptive stripping response was evaluated with respect to electrolyte, solution pH, accumulation time, concentration dependence and other variables. A linear peak current-concentration relationship was observed up to 1 microgram ml-1 of chlorprothixene; the relative standard deviation (at the 0.6 microgram ml-1 level) is 3.2%. For a preconcentration time of 10 min, the detection limit was found to be 2 ng ml-1. The open circuit preconcentration/medium exchange/voltammetric scheme was used to eliminate interference from sample solutions. The application of the method to human urine samples is described.
Department of Chemistry, Hangzhou University, People's Republic of China.
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TZ
Peng
Z P
ZP
Yang
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HP
Li
D000327:Adsorption; D002749:Chlorprothixene / Q000032:analysis* / Q000652:urine; D004563:Electrochemistry / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008832:Microchemistry / Q000379:methods
D002749:Chlorprothixene