“…After the observations reported by Hercules and Lytle (1966), 18 CL reactions with ruthenium(II) complexes such as tris(2,2-bipyridyl)-ruthenium(II), Ru(bpy) 3 2+ , and tris(1,10-phenanthroline)-ruthenium(II), Ru(phen) 3 2+ have been extensively studied and exploited in a wide range of analytical applications. [19][20][21][22][23] The Ru(phen) 3 2+ has been reported to produce more intense CL and electrochemiluminescence (ECL) in aqueous solutions in comparison with Ru(bpy) 3 2+ . [24][25][26][27] Most of the separation methods such as GC and HPLC have higher sensitivity than the proposed CL met- hod in the determination of mepivacaine but some of them have a narrower linear dynamic range 7,8,10,11,13,15 and increased complexity.…”