A rapid CE coupled with potential gradient detection (PGD) for the separation and detection of four quinolones, namely, enoxacin, ofloxacin (OFL), fleroxacin, and pazufloxacin, was described. Separation was performed in a fused-silica capillary (75 microm x 8.5 cm) using a buffer of 30 mM Tris and 4 mM phosphoric acid at pH 8.9. Under the separation voltage of 3 kV, the quinolones were separated within 2.8 min with good linearity (r(2) >or= 0.985). The method was successfully applied in determining OFL in a pharmaceutical formulation. Also, a liquid-liquid extraction (LLE) method was developed and coupled to CE-PGD in determining quinolones that spiked in milk samples. With dichloromethane and hexane for enrichment and purification, the LLE recoveries of the four quinolones were in the range of 77-106%. The detection limits of the quinolones with LLE-CE-PGD were from 23 to 65 ng/mL. The proposed CE-PGD method was validated with an HPLC method, and the results indicated consistency between the two methods.
A rapid, capillary electrophoresis-potential gradient detection method was developed for determining three fluoroquinolones: rufloxacin, enoxacin, and moxifloxacin. The fluoroquinolones were baseline separated within 3.5 min with background electrolyte composed of 50 mM acetic acid and 6 mM potassium hydroxide at pH 3.7. For the first time, electrokinetic injection was applied in capillary electrophoretic separation of fluoroquinolones, and an average of ca. 10-fold improvement in detection limits was observed. The method was applied to a fortified chicken tissue sample with detection limits (S=N ¼ 3) of 22-24 ng g À1 , suggesting the potential of the method for determining fluoroquinolone residues in real samples.
This article describes the influence of bovine serum albumin (BSA) as an additive on the capillary electrophoresis-potential gradient determination of five quinolones, enoxacin, norfloxacin, ofloxacin, fleroxacin, and pazufloxacin. With 10 mg/L of BSA present in the buffer of 30 mM Tris and 3 mM phosphoric acid at pH 9, the detection limits of the five quinolones were in the range of 0.24-0.68 mg/L, i. e. 5.8-16.5-fold lower than those obtained with the buffer devoid of BSA, and the analysis time was shortened. We suggest that the inner wall-adsorbed BSA suppresses the adsorption of quinolones and simultaneously enhances the electroosmotic flow rate. Our experiments indicated that adopting the potential gradient detection technique could eliminate the interference of the UV-active proteins on the detection of quinolones that would occur with conventional optical detection, and therefore offer high detection sensitivity. As a demonstration, the method was applied to the determination of QNs in fortified chicken muscle sample with satisfactory results.
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