Detection of hydrazine, methylhydrazine and isoniazid by capillary electrophoresis with a 4-pyridyl hydroquinone self-assembled microdisk platinum electrode

• Published in: Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis 1999-02, Vol.19 (1), p.231-237
• Main Authors: You, Tianyan, Niu, Li, Gui, John Y., Dong, Shaojun, Wang, Erkang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Capillary electrophoresis; Electrochemistry; Electrophoresis, Capillary; Hydrazine; Hydrazines - analysis; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; Hydroquinones - chemistry; Indicators and Reagents; Isonazid; Isoniazid - analysis; Methylhydrazine; Microdisk platinum electrode; Microelectrodes; Monomethylhydrazine - analysis; Platinum
• ISSN: 0731-7085; 1873-264X
• DOI: 10.1016/S0731-7085(98)00130-7

Capillary electrophoresis (CE)/electrochemical detection (EC) for the simultaneous detection of hydrazine, methylhydrazine, and isoniazid has been developed with a 4-pyridyl hydroquinone self-assembled microdisk platinum electrode. Such an electrode has very high catalytic ability for hydrazines and they could be detected even at 0.0 V. The responses for hydrazine, methylhydrazine, and isoniazid are linear over 3 orders of detected concentration and of magnitude of 0.2–400 μM, 0.2–400 μM, 0.5 μM–2 mM, with correlation coefficients of 0.9998, 0.9991, and 0.9982, respectively. And they could be detected to levels of 0.1, 0.1 and 0.2 μM, respectively. This modified electrode was found to be very stable and reproducible when continuously used as detector for capillary electrophoresis for period of at least 4 weeks with no apparent loss of response.