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Determination of bismuth in pharmaceutical products using phosphoric acid as molecular probe by resonance light scattering
Author(s) -
Yun Yanru,
Cui Fengling,
Geng Shaoguang,
Jin Jianhua
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
luminescence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1522-7243
pISSN - 1522-7235
DOI - 10.1002/bio.1357
Subject(s) - bismuth , phosphoric acid , detection limit , chemistry , analytical chemistry (journal) , resonance (particle physics) , trace amounts , nuclear chemistry , chromatography , organic chemistry , atomic physics , medicine , physics , alternative medicine , pathology
A novel method for the sensitive determination of bismuth(III) in pharmaceutical products using phosphoric acid as a molecular probe by resonance light scattering (RLS) is discussed. In 0.5 mol/L phosphoric acid (H 3 PO 4 ) medium, bismuth(III) reacted with PO 4 3− to form an ion association compound, which resulted in the significant enhancement of RLS intensity and the appearance of the corresponding RLS spectral characteristics. The maximum scattering peak of the system existed at 364 nm. Under optimal conditions, there was linear relationship between the relative intensity of RLS and concentration of bismuth(III) in the range of 0.06–10.0 µg/mL for the system. A low detection limit for bismuth(III) of 3.22 ng/mL was achieved. The relative standard deviations (RSD) for the determination of 0.40 and 0.80 µg/mL bismuth(III) were 2.1% and 1.1%, respectively, for five determinations. Based on this fact, a simple, rapid, and sensitive method was developed for the determination of bismuth(III) at nanogram level by RLS technique with a common spectrofluorimeter. This analytical system was successfully applied to determine the trace amounts of bismuth(III) in pharmaceutical products, which was in good agreement with the results obtained by atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS). Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.