In this work, a simple, rapid, sensitive, selective spectrofluorimetric method was applied to detect tartrazine. The fluorescence of acriflavine could be efficiently quenched by tartrazine. The method manifested real time response as well as presented satisfied linear relationship to tartrazine. The linear response range of tartrazine (R = 0.9995) was from 0.056 to 5 μmol L . The detection limit (3σ/k) was 0.017 μmol L , indicating that this method could be applied to detect traces of tartrazine. The accuracy and precision of the method was further assured by recovery studies via a standard addition method, with percentage recoveries in the range of 96.0% to 103.0%. Moreover, a quenching mechanism was investigated systematically by the linear plots at varying temperatures based on the Stern-Volmer equation, fluorescence lifetime and UV-visible absorption spectra, all of which proved to be static quenching. This sensitive, selective assay possessed a great application prospect for the food industry owing to its simplicity and rapidity for the detection of tartrazine.
A “turn-off” fluorometric detection method for sodium hexametaphosphate (SHMP) with a terbium(iii) complex of 4,4′,4′′-((1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-triyl)-tris(azanediyl))-tribenzoic acid (H3TATAB) is developed.
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