title: Rapid enzymatic chemiluminescent assay of glucose by means of a hybrid flow-injection/sequential-injection method.
abstract: This work reports a hybrid flow-injection analysis (FIA)/sequential-injection analysis (SIA) method for the rapid enzymatic assay of glucose with soluble glucose oxidase (GOD). The method relies on the sequential injection of segments of the sample and of a solution of enzyme by means of a multi-port selection valve in a flowing water stream. As the two zones are swept downstream, they overlap and merge so that the glucose in the sample is enzymatically oxidised. The generated hydrogen peroxide is merged with an alkaline luminol solution and the chemiluminescence (CL) intensity is monitored and related to the glucose concentration in the sample. The linear range of the method for glucose determination is 0.01-1mmolL(-1), the relative standard deviation is 3.9% at the 0.08mmolL(-1) level (n=8), the limit of detection at the 2sigma level is 4mumolL(-1) glucose and the injection rate is 80h(-1). The method was applied to the analysis of energy drinks and honey with relative errors in glucose determination in the range 100+/-4.3%. The advantages of the proposed method are the wide linear range, the simple instrumentation used, the low consumption of sample and reagents, the elimination of catalysts and immobilised enzymes and the high sample throughput.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 541 24, Greece.
authors.forename: Polyxeni
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Panoutsou
authors.forename: Anastasios
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Economou