Series dual-electrode detector for liquid chromatography/electrochemistry
Series dual-electrode detector for liquid chromatography/electrochemistry
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液相色谱/电化学系列双电极检测器
DOI:
10.1021/ac00240a019
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发表时间:
1982
影响因子:
7.4
通讯作者:
P. Kissinger
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文献类型:
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作者:
D. A. Roston;P. Kissinger
By utilization of a dual-electrode detector with the electrodes oriented In series with respect to the flow axis, oxidation products from the upstream detector are detected by reduction at the downstream detector. Exploiting the oxldatlve-reductlve mode allows Improvements In three aspects of liquid chromatography/electrochemlstry: selectivity, peak Identifi-cation, and high gain detection at extreme potentials. The above Improvements are demonstrated In the context of two pertinent analytical problems: the determination of phenolic constituents In commercial beverages and the determination of the metabolites of the analgesic acetaminophen In urine. Also Included Is a discussion concerning the factors that are Important In determining the magnitude of the fraction of up-stream products that are converted at the downstream de-tector (the so-called collection efficiency).Liquid chromatography combined with electrochemistry (LCEC) has become a well-established technique for traceorganic determinations (1). The technique couples the advantages of high selectivity, low detection limits, and low cost. An innovative approach to electrochemical detection involves the use of dual-electrodetransducers. Several studies have reported the use of dual-electrode detection for liquid chromatography (2-6). In each case, the orientation of the elec-trodes with respect to the flow axis was one of the three configurations shown in Figure 1, which we have termed the parallel-adjacent, series, and parallel-opposed configurations. Fenn et al. explored the possibility of parallel-opposed dual-electrode detection to improve detection of catechol-amines in blood plasma (2). Blank employed a series con-figuration detector for dual-potential monitoring to improve specificity (3). Both electrodes were used in an oxidative mode. Roston and Kissinger performeddual-potential mon-itoring with a parallel-adjacent detector to aid in the iden-tification of phenolic constituents in commercial beverages (4). The design and use of a series coulometric-amperometric detector was reported by Schieffer (5). Removal of easily oxidized components by the “upstream” coulometric cell was shown to increase selectivity at the downstream detector. A potentially useful detection scheme for the series dual-electrode detector involves the detectionof products from the upstream detector at the downstream detector. When used in this manner, the series detector is analogous to the wellstudied ring-disk electrode in which products from the disk