• Submit to Sensors Login Register
• MDPI
• Journals A-Z
• For Authors
• For Editors
• About
• Open Access Policy

• Abstract
• Full-Text PDF [240 KB]

• Article Statistics
• Google Scholar
• Order Reprints

• Cite this article
• Export to BibTeX
• Export to EndNote

• [+] on DOAJ
• Supalkova, V
• Petrek, J
• Havel, L
• Krizkova, S
• Petrlova, J
• Adam, V
• Potesil, D
• Babula, P
• Beklova, M
• Horna, A
• Kizek, R
• [+] on Google Scholar
• Supalkova, V
• Petrek, J
• Havel, L
• Krizkova, S
• Petrlova, J
• Adam, V
• Potesil, D
• Babula, P
• Beklova, M
• Horna, A
• Kizek, R
• [+] on PubMed
• Supalkova, V
• Petrek, J
• Havel, L
• Krizkova, S
• Petrlova, J
• Adam, V
• Potesil, D
• Babula, P
• Beklova, M
• Horna, A
• Kizek, R

•  CiteULike
•  Facebook
•  Mendeley
•  Twitter

This article is

• freely available
• re-usable

Sensors 2006, 6(11), 1483-1497; doi:10.3390/s6111483

Article

Electrochemical Sensors for Detection of Acetylsalicylic Acid

Veronika Supalkova ¹ , Jiri Petrek ¹ , Ladislav Havel ¹ , Sona Krizkova ² , Jitka Petrlova ² , Vojtech Adam ² , David Potesil ² , Petr Babula ⁴ , Miroslava Beklova ⁵ , Ales Horna ⁶  and Rene Kizek ^2,*

¹ Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of Agronomy, Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry, Zemedelska 1, CZ-613 00 Brno, Czech Republic ² Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Agronomy, Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry, Zemedelska 1, CZ-613 00 Brno, Czech Republic ³ Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlarska 2, CZ-611 37 Brno, Czech Republic ⁴ Department of Natural Drugs University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Palackeho 1-3, CZ-612 42 Brno, Czech Republic ⁵ Department of Veterinary Ecology and Environmental ⁶ Department of Food Engineering and Chemistry, Faculty of Technology, Tomas Bata University, CZ-762 72 Zlin, Czech Republic

* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Received: 16 October 2006 / Accepted: 27 November 2006 / Published: 6 November 2006

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors in Flow Analysis)

Download PDF Full-Text [240 KB, uploaded 20 June 2008 16:51 CEST]

Abstract: Acetylsalicylic acid (AcSA), or aspirin, was introduced in the late 1890s and hasbeen used to treat a variety of inflammatory conditions. The aim of this work was to suggestelectrochemical sensor for acetylsalicylic detection. Primarily, we utilized square wavevoltammetry (SWV) using both carbon paste electrode (CPE) and of graphite pencilelectrode (GPE) as working ones to indirect determination of AcSA. The principle ofindirect determination of AcSA bases in its hydrolysis on salicylic acid (SA), which isconsequently detected. Thus, we optimized both determination of SA and conditions forAcSA hydrolysis and found out that the most suitable frequency, amplitude, step potentialand the composition and pH of the supporting electrolyte for the determination of SA was260 Hz, 50 mV, 10 mV and Britton-Robinson buffer (pH 1.81), respectively. The detectionlimit (S/N = 3) of the SA was 1.3 ng/ml. After that, we aimed on indirect determination ofAcSA by SWV CPE. We tested the influence of pH of Britton-Robinson buffer andtemperature on yield of hydrolysis, and found out that 100% hydrolysis of AcSA wasreached after 80 minutes at pH 1.81 and 90°C. The method for indirect determination ofAcSA has been utilized to analyse pharmaceutical drug. The determined amount of AcSA in the pharmaceutical drug was in good agreement with the declared amounts. Moreover, weused GPE for determination of AcSA in a pharmaceutical drug. Base of the results obtainedfrom stationary electrochemical instrument we used flow injection analysis withelectrochemical detection to determine of salicylates (SA, AcSA, thiosalicylic acid, 3,5-dinitrosalicylic acid and 5-sulfosalicylic acid – SuSA). We found out that we are able todetermine all of detected salicylates directly without any pre-treatment, hydrolysis and so onat units of femtomoles per injection (5 μl).

Keywords: Sensor; Acetylsalicylic acid (Aspirin); Salicylic acid; Thiosalicylic acid; 3; 5- Dinitrosalicylic acid; 5-Sulfosalicylic acid; Pharmaceutical drug; Square wave voltammetry; Carbon electrodes; Flow injection analysis with electrochemical detection.

Article Statistics

Cite This Article