title: Determination of the fungicide validamycin A by capillary zone electrophoresis with indirect UV detection.
abstract: Validamycin A, a main component of the antibiotic validamycin complex, which is widely used to control sheath blight disease of rice plants, can be determined by capillary zone electrophoresis with indirect UV detection. The influence of various separation conditions including background electrolyte and modifier concentration, pH, and voltage was investigated. By using 10 mM aminopyrine-2 mM ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid at pH 5.2 as the carrier electrolyte, high efficiency separation of validamycin A was achieved with the number of theoretical plates up to 350000 plates/m. The linear range was across 3 orders of magnitude. The relative standard deviations for migration times and peak areas were less than 0.5 and 3.0%, respectively. The limit of detection for validamycin A was 1.0 microg/mL. The average recoveries ranged from 103.0 to 104.8%. This method has many advantages as compared with high-performance liquid chromatography and micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography in the determination of commercial formulations.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology of Chinese Ministry of Education, and National Engineering Research Center of Microbial Pesticides, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Jin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Shou-Wen
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Li-Fang
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Ruan
authors.forename: Li-Li
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yao
authors.forename: Zi-Niu
authors.initials: ZN
authors.lastname: Yu
mesh_terms: D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D020374:Chromatography, Micellar Electrokinetic Capillary; D019075:Electrophoresis, Capillary / Q000379:methods*; D005659:Fungicides, Industrial / Q000032:analysis*; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D007294:Inositol / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000032:analysis*; D011786:Quality Control
chemical_list: D005659:Fungicides, Industrial; C030790:validamycin A; D007294:Inositol