title: Chemometrics-enhanced high performance liquid chromatography-diode array detection strategy for simultaneous determination of eight co-eluted compounds in ten kinds of Chinese teas using second-order calibration method based on alternating trilinear decomposition algorithm.
abstract: In this work, an attractive chemometrics-enhanced high performance liquid chromatography-diode array detection (HPLC-DAD) strategy was proposed for simultaneous and fast determination of eight co-eluted compounds including gallic acid, caffeine and six catechins in ten kinds of Chinese teas by using second-order calibration method based on alternating trilinear decomposition (ATLD) algorithm. This new strategy proved to be a useful tool for handling the co-eluted peaks, uncalibrated interferences and baseline drifts existing in the process of chromatographic separation, which benefited from the "second-order advantages", making the determination of gallic acid, caffeine and six catechins in tea infusions within 8 min under a simple mobile phase condition. The average recoveries of the analytes on two selected tea samples ranged from 91.7 to 103.1% with standard deviations (SD) ranged from 1.9 to 11.9%. Figures of merit including sensitivity (SEN), selectivity (SEL), root-mean-square error of prediction (RMSEP) and limit of detection (LOD) have been calculated to validate the accuracy of the proposed method. To further confirm the reliability of the method, a multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) method based on LC-MS/MS was employed for comparison and the obtained results of both methods were consistent with each other. Furthermore, as a universal strategy, this new proposed analytical method was applied for the determination of gallic acid, caffeine and catechins in several other kinds of Chinese teas, including different levels and varieties. Finally, based on the quantitative results, principal component analysis (PCA) was used to conduct a cluster analysis for these Chinese teas. The green tea, Oolong tea and Pu-erh raw tea samples were classified successfully. All results demonstrated that the proposed method is accurate, sensitive, fast, universal and ideal for the rapid, routine analysis and discrimination of gallic acid, caffeine and catechins in Chinese tea samples.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China.
authors.forename: Xiao-Li
authors.initials: XL
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China. Electronic address: hlwu@hnu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Hai-Long
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China.
authors.forename: Hui-Wen
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China.
authors.forename: Xiao-Hua
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China.
authors.forename: Yan-Mei
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China.
authors.forename: Yong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China.
authors.forename: Lu
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China.
authors.forename: Qi-Ming
authors.initials: QM
authors.lastname: Rong
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China.
authors.forename: Ru-Qin
authors.initials: RQ
authors.lastname: Yu
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D002110:Caffeine / Q000032:analysis*; D002138:Calibration; D028241:Camellia sinensis / Q000737:chemistry*; D002392:Catechin / Q000032:analysis*; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000379:methods*; D005707:Gallic Acid / Q000032:analysis*; D057230:Limit of Detection; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013045:Species Specificity; D053719:Tandem Mass Spectrometry; D013662:Tea / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D013662:Tea; D002110:Caffeine; D005707:Gallic Acid; D002392:Catechin
keywords: Alternating trilinear decomposition; Chinese tea; Cluster analysis; High-performance liquid chromatography-diode array detection; Second-order calibration