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.