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Determination of nicotine in tobacco with second-order spectra data of charge-transfer complex in ethanol-water
Shuqin Gao1, Lifu Liao, Xilin Xiao
1College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang, Changsheng Road, Hunan 421001, China.
Abstract:
A new spectrophotometric method for the determination of nicotine in mixtures without pre-separation has been proposed. Nicotine could react with 2,4-dinitrophenol through a charge-transfer reaction to form a colored complex. The second-order data from the visible absorption spectra of the complex in a series of ethanol-water binary solvents with various water volume fractions could be expressed as the combination of two bilinear data matrices. With the bilinear model, the second-order spectra data of mixtures containing nicotine and other interferents could be analysed by using second-order calibration algorithms, and the determination of nicotine in the mixtures could be achieved. The algorithm used here was parallel factor analysis. The method has been successfully used to determine nicotine in tobacco samples with satisfactory results.
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