title: Determination of midecamycin by capillary zone electrophoresis with electrochemical detection.
abstract: Capillary zone electrophoresis was employed for the determination of midecamycin using an end-column amperometric detection with a carbon fiber micro-disk bundle electrode at a constant potential of +1.15 V vs. saturated calomel electrode. The optimum conditions of separation and detection are 1.00x10(-3) mol l(-1) Na(2)HPO(4)-3.49x10(-4) mol l(-1) NaOH (pH 11.4) for the buffer solution, 20 kV for the separation voltage, 5 kV and 5 s for the injection voltage and the injection time, respectively. The limit of detection is 5.0x10(-7) mol l(-1) or 0.41 fmol (S/N=3). The linear range of the calibration curve is 1.00x10(-6)-1.00x10(-3) mol l(-1). The relative standard deviation is 1.4% for the migration time and 4.9% for the electrophoretic peak current. The method could be applied to the determination of midecamycin in human urine. In this case, a separation voltage of 14 kV was used.
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, 250100, Jinan, China.
authors.forename: Daxing
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Wenrui
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Jin
mesh_terms: D019075:Electrophoresis, Capillary / Q000379:methods*; D007933:Leucomycins / Q000032:analysis*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity
chemical_list: D007933:Leucomycins; C026483:midecamycin