Quality Analysis of Herbal Medicine Products Prepared from Herba Sarcandrae by Capillary Electrophoresis with Electrochemical Detection

A capillary electrophoresis with electrochemical detection（CE-ED） method was developed for the quality analysis of herbal medicine products prepared from the same herb of Herba Sarcandrae： Fufang Caoshanhu tablets, Qingrexiaoyanning capsules, and Xuekang oral liquids. Under the optimal analysis conditions, the low detection limit[l.0×10^-7 mol/L（S/N=3）] and the wide linear range（1.0×10^-7-1.0×10^-4 mol/L） were obtained for quality standard compound of isofraxidin. The precisions of the peak current and the migration time（as RSDs） for the real sample analysis were 2.0%-2.6%, and 1.2%-1.8% for isofraxidin, respectively. The contents of isofraxidin detected were 15.77 μg/tablet, 0.48 mg/capsule, 1.2 mg/ampoule（Jiangxi）, and 0.44 mg/ampoule（Dalian） for Fufang Caoshanhu tablets, Qingrexiaoyanning capsules, and Xuekang oral liquids from different manufacturers, respectively. Quality estimate was conducted by comparing the contents of isofraxidin in the herbal medicine products with the demanded values of Chinese pharmacopeia. In addition, based on their own unique CE-ED profiles（namely, CE-ED electropherograms） the Xuekang oral liquids from the different manufacturers could be easily identified.     

Determination of Four Active Ingredients in Vc Yinqiao Tablets by Capillary Zone Electrophoresis with Amperometric Detection†

A simple, reliable and reproducible method, based on capillary zone electrophoresis with amperometric detection （CZE-AD）, has been developed for simultaneous determination of four active ingredients in Vc Yinqiao tablets including paracetamol, vitamin C, caffeic acid and chlorogenic acid. A carbon-disk electrode was used as working electrode and 0.95 V （versus SCE） was selected as detection potential. The optimal conditions of CZE experiment were 30 mmol·L^-1 borate solution （pH 9.5） as running buffer, 14 kV as separation voltage and 8 s （14 kV） as electro-kinetic sampling time. Under the selected optimum conditions, paracetamol, vitamin C, caffeic acid and chlorogenic acid could be perfectly separated within 22 min, and their detection limits （S/N=3） ranged from 5×10^-7 to 1 ×10^-6 mol·L^-1. This proposed method demonstrated good reproducibility with relative standard deviations of less than 3% for both migration time and peak current （n=7）. The utility of this method was demonstrated by monitoring a kind of compound medicine named Vc Yinqiao tablets and the assay results were satisfactory.     

Further Study on Separation of DNA Fragments by Capillary Electrophoresis by Quasi-interpenetrating Network of Polyacryamide and Polyvinylpyrrolidone with UV Detection

Quasi-interpenetrating network of polyacrylamide （PAA） and polyvinylpyrrolidone （PVP） had been successfully used for single-base resolution of double-stranded DNA （0.76 for 123 bp/124 bp） and single-stranded DNA fragments （0.97 for 123 b/124 b） with UV detection. This quasi-IPN （interpenetrating network） sieving matrix showed low viscosity （23.5 mPa·s at 25 ℃） and decreased with increasing temperature. This polymer also exhibited dynamically coating capacity and could be used in the uncoated capillary. The effects of temperature and electric field strength on the DNA separation of quasi-IPN matrix were also investigated and found that the temperature and electric field strength could markedly affected the mobility behavior of DNA fragments. This polymer matrix has also applied to separate the bigger DNA fragments by capillary electrophoresis with UV detection. Under the denaturing conditions, this matrix separated the samples with last fragment of 1353 base in 40 rain, in which the doublet of 309/310 base was partial separated and the resolution was 0.88.     

Capillary Electrophoresis for the Simultaneous Determination of Metals by Using Ethylenediamine Tetraacetic Acid as Complexing Agent and Vancomycin as Complex Selector

A new separation system of capillary electrophoresis for the simultaneous determination of metals by using ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid （EDTA） as complexing agent and employing vancomycin as complex selector was described. The Z-shape cell capillary electrophoresis was used to enhance the sensitivity for the determination of the complexes of Cu（Ⅱ）, Ni（Ⅱ）, Co（Ⅱ） and Fe（Ⅲ） with EDTA. The partial filling method （co-current mode） was used in order to increase the selectivity of the electrophoretic method, meanwhile vancomycin was not present at the detector path during the detection of metal-EDTA complexes. The vancomycin concentration, phosphate concentration and pH of the buffer strongly influenced mobility, resolution and selectivity of the studied analytes. Under the optimal condition, the relative standard deviations （n=5） of the migration time and the peak area were less than 3.14% and 7.35%, respectively. Application of the Z-shape cell capillary electrophoresis method with UV detection and vancomycin loading led to the reliable determination of these metal ions in tap water and the recoveries were 97%-101%. The detection limits based on a signal to noise ratio of 3 ： 1 were found in the range of 2-10 μg·L^-1.     

Determination of diastereoisomeric alkaloids in urine by capillary electrophoresis with electrochemiluminescence detection

A new and simple capillary electrophoresis with electrochemiluminescence detection was developed for the separation and the quantification of a pair of diastereoisomenc alkaloids（ephedrine and pseudoephedrine）.The limits of detection（S/N = 3） were 4.5×10^-8 mol/L for ephedrine and 5.2×10^-8 mol/L for pseudoephedrine,respectively.The RSDs of migration time and peak area were less than 1.3 and 2.5%（n = 5）,respectively.The applicability of the propose method was illustrated in the determination of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine in human urine,ephedrine in nasal drops,and the monitoring of pharmacokinetics for pseudoephedrine.     

Pyrolysis Process of Plant Fibers北大核心CSCD

The natural plant fiber has a large molecular weight and complex structure and composition,and its thermal cracking products and the composition distribution are also more complex. The fast pyrolysiscomprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography with time-of-flight mass spectrometry（Py-GC×GC-TOF/MS）,thermogravimetry-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy（TG-FT-IR）,and in situ Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy（in situ FT-IR）methods were used to study the thermal pyrolysis process of six different natural fibers. The distribution of thermal pyrolysis products of different fibers under different pyrolysis temperatures was investigated and the product form was fully discussed. The research results show that the products of fiber pyrolysis mainly include alcohols,aldehydes,ketones,acids,esters,hydrocarbons, dehydrated sugars and CO2,etc. The types of pyrolysis products of different natural plant fibers are obviously different,and the main product types obtained are all different. At the same time,the results of in situ infrared spectroscopy and mass spectrometry show that pyrolysis products are closely related to the pyrolysis temperature. The results of in situ infrared experiments show that when the pyrolysis temperature is lower than 100 °C,the adsorbed water on the surface of the fiber structure is desorbed,but the fiber structure does not change significantly. When the pyrolysis temperature range is 100~200 °C,the temperature has little effect toward the pyrolysis process. When the temperature exceeds 300 °C,the fiber pyrolysis reaction intensifies and the surface structure changes significantly,and the main products are aldehydes and ketones. © 2022, Science Press (China). All rights reserved.     

Controllable Synthesis of Titania Nanocrystals with Different Morphologies and Application to the Degradation of Phenol

Titania nanocrystals with different morphologies were prepared using the hydrothermal method via controlling the pH values of solution, the ratio of reactants, temperature, and time of the hydrothermal reaction. The experimental results showed that uniform rod-like titania particles with an average aspect ratio of 6：1 could be obtained under the conditions of pH=11, n（TBOT）：n（TEA）=1：2, hydrothermal treatment at 150 °C for 24 h. When pH〈10, spherical titania nanocrystals could be obtained; with increasing the pH value, the diameter became smaller. Finally, the smallest size of the particles could reach 7 nm. Nanocrystals with uniformly well-dispersed and perfect crystallographic form were obtained via the above method. Phenol was used as the degradation model for testing the photocatalytical activity of the titania nanocrystals with different morphologies.     

Determination of Active Ingredients of Hawthorn by Capillary Electrophoresis with Electrochemical Detection

A method based on capillary electrophoresis with electrochemical detection has been developed for the separa-tion and determination of epicatechin,kaempferol,chlorogenic acid,4-hydroxybenzoic acid,quercetin and proto-catechuic acid in hawthorn for the first time.The effects of working electrode potential,pH and concentration ofrunning buffer,separation voltage and injection time on CE-ED were investigated.Under the optimum conditions,the analytes could be separated in a 60 mmol·L~(-1) borate buffer(pH 8.7)within 21 min.A 300 μm diameter carbondisk electrode has a good response at 0.95 V(vs.SCE)for all analytes.The response was linear over three ordersof magnitude with detection limits(S/N=3)ranging from 3×10~(-8) to 2×10~(-7) g·mL~(-1) for the analytes.The methodhas been successfully applied to the analysis of real sample,with satisfactory results.     

Simultaneous determination of active ingredients in blueberry wine by CE-AD

A method based on capillary electrophoresis coupled with amperometric detection（CE-AD） has been developed for the separation and determination of kaempferol,ferulic acid,vanillic acid,caffeic acid,gallic acid and protocatechuic acid in blueberry wine for the first time.In order to get the optimum conditions of separation,the effects of working electrode potential,pH value and concentration of running buffer,separation voltage and injection time on CE-AD were investigated.Under the optimum conditions, the analytes could be separated in Na₂B₄O₇-KH₂PO₄ buffer at pH 7.8 within 18 min.A 300μm diameter carbon disk electrode had good current responses at +0.95 V（vs.SCE） for all analytes.The responses were linear with concentrations over three orders of magnitude with detection limits（S/N = 3） at 10^-8 g/mL magnitude for the analytes and the recoveries were in the range of 95.8- 106.7%.The method could be successfully applied to the analysis of real sample with satisfactory results and therefore recommended for use by the quality control departments of fruit wine producers.     

A New Method for Decreasing Mass Limit of Detection and Increasing Number of Theoretical Phates in Capillary Electrophoresis with Amperometric Detection

A new method aws developed to decrease the mass limit of detection (LOD) and increase the number of theoretical plates(N)in capillary electrophoresis with amperometric detcction.When the single microcylinder electrode,the 10 μm ID capillary with the etched detection end and the in-capillary alignment were used,the mass LOD for phenol was reduced 124 times and N was increased 36 times in comparison with the normal situation.     

激光溅射金属等离子体与醇类分子束反应的研究：产物离子对分子束状态的依赖性

The gas phase reactions of metal plasma with alcohol clusters were studied by time of flight mass spectrometry （TOFMS） using laser ablation-molecular beam （LAMB） method. The significant dependence of the product cluster ions on the molecular beam conditions was observed. When the plasma acted on the low density parts of the pulsed molecular beam, the metal-alcohol complexes M^＋An （M=Cu, Al, Mg, Ni and A=C2H5OH, CH3OH） were the dominant products, and the sizes of product ion clusters were smaller. While the plasma acted on the high density part of the beam, however, the main products turned to be protonated alcohol clusters H^＋An and, as the reactions of plasma with methanol were concerned, the protonated water-methanol complexes H3O^＋（CH3OH）n with a larger size （n≤12 for ethanol and n≤24 for methanol）. Similarly, as the pressure of the carrier helium gas was varied from 1 × 10^5 to 5 × 10^5 Pa, the main products were changed from M^＋An to H^＋An and the sizes of the clusters also increased. The changes in the product clusters were attributed to the different formation mechanism of the output ions, that is, the M^＋An ions came from the reaction of metal ion with alcohol clusters, while H^＋An mainly from collisional reaction of electron with alcohol clusters.     

Fractional pyrolysis of Cyanobacteria from water blooms over HZSM-5 for high quality bio-oil production

Fractional pyrolysis and one-step pyrolysis of natural algae Cyanobacteria from Taihu Lake were comparatively studied from 200 to 500 ℃. One-step pyrolysis produced bio-oil with complex composition and low high heating value （HHV〈30.9 MJ/kg）. Fractional pyrolysis separated the degradation of different components in Cyanobacteria and improved the selectivity to products in bio-oil. That is, acids at 200 ℃, amides and acids at 300 ℃, phenols and nitriles at 400 ℃, and phenols at 500 ℃, were got as main products, respectively. HZSM-5 could promote the dehydration, cracking and aromatization of pyrolytic intermediates in fractional pyrolysis. At optimal HZSM-5 catalyst dosage of 1.0 g, the selectivity to products and the quality of bio-oil were improved obviously. The main products in bio-oil changed to nitriles （47.2%） at 300 ℃, indoles （51.3%） and phenols （36.3%） at 400 ℃. The oxygen content was reduced to 7.2 wt% and 9.4 wt%, and the HHV was raised to 38.1 and 37.3 MJ/kg at 300 and 400 ℃, respectively. Fractional catalytic pyrolysis was proposed to be an efficient method not only to provide a potential solution for alleviating environmental pressure from water blooms, but also to improve the selectivity to products and obtain high quality bio-oil.     

Analysis of doxycycline by capillary electrophoresis

Summary Doxycycline is a semi-synthetic broad spectrum antibiotic with improved serum half-lie. Potential impurities are 4-epidoxycycline, 6-epidoxycycline, 4,6-epidoxycycline, metacycline and 2-acetyl-2-decarboxamidodoxycycline. Method development has been undertaken to investigate the potential of capillary electrophoresis for the analysis of doxycycline. The influence of buffer type, buffer pH and concentration was systematically examined, then that of capillary temperature and applied voltage. All the potential impurities could be separated at 15 °C on a 44 cm × 50 μm I.D. fused silica capillary (effective length to detector, 38 cm) with sodium carbonate (70 mM) - EDTA (1 mM), pH 10.50, as background electrolyte and with a voltage of 12 kV. The relative standard deviation was 2.2 % for doxycycline. The limit of detection and quantification for doxycycline were 0.2 and 0.4 %.     

Adsorption of Human Serum Albumin onto PVA-coated Affinity Microporous PTFE Capillary

Affinity dye-ligand Cibacron Blue F3GA（CB F3GA） was covalently coupled with poly（vinyl alcohol）（PVA） coated on the inner surface of microporous poly（tetra-fluoroethylene）（MPTFE） membranous capillary. The PVA-coated PTFE capillary surface was characterized by XPS and FESEM. The grafting degree of PVA and the amount of CB F3GA immobilized onto the membranous capillary were 23.5 mg/g and 89.6 pmol/g, respectively. These dyed membranous capillaries were chemically and mechanically stable, and could be reproducibly prepared. Human serum albumin（HSA） was selected as model protein. The saturation adsorbance of the dye attached membranous capillary was 85.3 mg HSA/g, while the capacity of non-specific adsorption for HSA was less than 0.3 mg/g.     

电渗流与缓冲液浓度之间数学关系的线性表达

It was believed that electroosmotic mobility μeo is inversely proportional to the square root of the ionic strength L But the linear relationship for regression analysis was expressed differently in different papers. The paper studied the linear expression of the mathematical relationship between μeo and c （background buffer concentration） by mathematical transform and real experimental data.μeo values of fused silica capillary were determined in four buffer systems. Their experimental conditions were controlled carefully for decreasing temperature difference AT and pH difference ApH in 50 μm ID capillary, in which no double layer overlap existed. The linear relationship between the reciprocal of electroosmotic mobility and the square root of concentration （or ionic strength） was derived by mathematical method. The regression analysis of experimental data was shown to well correspond to the relationship. The constants in regression equation could be well defined and the calculated results were acceptable.     

Using capillary electrophoresis mobility shift assay to study the interaction of CdTe quantum dots with bovine serum albumin

In this work, the capillary electrophoresis mobility shift assay （CEMSA） was first adopted to study the interaction of protein with quantum dots （QDs）. In this study, bovine serum albumin （BSA） and CdTe QDs were used as model samples. We observed that BSA was facilely adsorbed to CdTe QDs surface, and the QD-BSA complex was formed by a 1：1 stoichiometric ratio. A value of 2.17 4-0.27 × 10^6 mol^-1 L^-1 （at 25 ℃） for the association constant was obtained by CEMSA.     

Effect of Several Anions on Fe-Based Catalyst for Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis

The influence of several anions on Fe-based Fischer-Tropsch catalyst,used in the synthesis of light olefins from synthesis gas,was studied.The results indicated that the addition of anions resulted in the reduction of catalytic activity.When the anion content in the catalyst was 500 ppm,the influence of different anions on the catalysis activity was as follows:S~(2-)>Cl~->SO_4~(2-)>NO_3~-.The addition of S~(2-)improved the selectivity of total hydrocarbons in the products,and Cl~- reduced this selectivity but increased the olefin content in the total hydrocarbons at the same time.When the contents of S~2 and Cl~- in the catalyst were less than 50 ppm,their influence could be ignored.The XRD results indicated that the addition of anions reduced the contents ofα-Fe and Fe_3C,which were the active components in the catalyst.     

An improved electrochemiluminescence polymerase chain reaction method for the detection of Fusarium wilts

An improved electrochemiluminescence polymerase chain reaction （ECL-PCR） method was developed and applied to detect Fusarium wilt. Briefly, the internal transcribed spacer （ITS） sequence of Fusarium oxysporumf, sp Cubense （FOC） was amplified by PCR. Two universal fragments, which were complimentary to Ru（bpy）3^2＋ （TBR） labeled probe and Biotin labeled probe, respectively, were connected to the tail of primers so that all the PCR products got universal sequences. Then biotin labeled probes and TBR labeled probes were hybridized with the PCR products at the same time. Through the specific interaction between biotin and streptavidin, the PCR products were captured by streptavidin coated magnetic bead and then detected by ECL assay. The experiment results showed that the healthy banana samples and infected ones can be discriminated by this ECL-PCR method. This improved ECL-PCR approach is useful in Fusarium wilt detection due to its high sensitivity, simplicity and stability.     

Ionic liquids as efficient phase-transfer catalysts for the solid base-promoted monoalkylation of diethyl malonate

Ionic liquids （ILs） based on 1,3-dialkylimidazolium and tetraalkylammonium cations were employed as a series of efficient, environmentally benign phase-transfer catalysts （PTCs） for the base-promoted monoalkylation of diethyl malonate. The influence of various heterogeneous bases on yields was studied. Good yields and high selectivity were obtained. Solvent-free, mild reaction condition, short reaction time, and easy purification were the merits of this method. The catalytic system （IL-hase） could also be recycled after the extraction of products with ether.     

Study on Rhizoma Chuanxiong based on capillary electrophoresis with amperometric detection

<正>A high-performance capillary electrophoresis with amperometric detection(CE-AD) method has been developed for the analysis of seven bioactive ingredients,namely ferulic acid(FA),vanillin,vanillic acid,p-hydroxybenzoic acid,caffeic acid,gallic acid and protocatechuic acid,in Rhizoma Chuanxiong.The effects of several factors such as the acidity and concentration of running buffer,the separation voltage,the applied potential to working electrode and the injection time were investigated.Under the optimum conditions,the seven analytes could be well separated within 21 min at the separation voltage of 16 kV in a 60 mmol/L borax running buffer(pH 8.7).A 300μm diameter carbon disk electrode has a good response at potential of +950 mV(vs.SCE) for all analytes.Good linear relationship was established over three orders of magnitude with detection limits(S/N = 3) ranged from 3.3×10~(-7) to 6.7×10~(-9)g/mL.This proposed method has been successfully applied for the determination and comparison of different batches of Rhizoma Chuanxiong samples based on their characteristic electrochemical profiles.