title: Determination of hypaphorine and oligomeric stilbenes in the root of Caragana sinica by capillary electrophoresis with electrochemical detection.
abstract: Capillary electrophoresis with electrochemical detection (CE-ED) was employed for the determination of hypaphorine (an alkaloid) and four oligomeric stilbenes (including pallidol, kobophenol A, miyabenol C and (+)-alpha-viniferin) in Radix seu Cortex Caraganae Sinicae, the root of Caragana sinica (Buc'hoz) Rehd. The effects of several important factors were investigated to find optimum conditions. The working electrode was a 300 mum diameter carbon disc electrode positioned opposite the outlet of capillary. The five analytes could be well separated within 12 min in a 40 cm length capillary at the separation voltage of 12 kV in a 100 mmol l(-1) borate buffer (pH 10.0). The response was linear over about three orders of magnitude for all investigated compounds with detection limits (S/N=3) ranging from 0.0385 to 0.111 mg l(-1). This proposed method has also been successfully applied to analyze the root of other Caragana plants.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Medical Center of Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hu