Discrimination by Infrared Spectroscopy: Application to Micronized Locust Bean and Guar Gums

Abstract

The authentication of locust bean and guar powder gums requires usually the use of sophisticated and time-consuming analytical techniques. There is a need for fast and simple analytical techniques for the objective of a quality control methodology. Commercial locust bean and guar micronized powder gums present characteristic MIR spectra. Principal component analysis of the infrared spectra of these micronized powder gums allowed to distinguish locust bean from guar samples and to perform good classification results. The prediction of the two varieties was done without any ambiguity with a partial least square regression-discriminant analysis (PLS-DA). A simplex approach was used to generate binary blends mathematically taking into account the intrinsic variability of chemical composition of commercial products. The simulated spectral profiles allowed to develop predictive model of the percentage of gums in blends.

Determination of Alteration in Micromeritic Properties of a Solid Dispersion: Brunauer-Emmett-Teller Based Adsorption and Other Structured Approaches

“…The Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectra of drug, POLO, MLBG, prepared solid dispersions, and their respective physical mixtures was recorded using FTIR spectrophotometer (Perkin Elmer 92035). In the frequency range of 4000 cm -1 to 400 cm -1 , the spectrum was captured at an average of 64 scans [35,36].…”