Spectrofluorimetric determination of vitamin B1using horseradish peroxidase as catalyst in the presence of hydrogen peroxide

Fluorometric Detection of Thiamine Based on Hemoglobin-Cu3(PO4)2 Nanoflowers (NFs) with Peroxidase Mimetic Activity

Component analysis plays an important role in food production, pharmaceutics and agriculture. Nanozymes have attracted wide attention in analytical applications for their enzyme-like properties. In this work, a fluorometric method is described for the determination of thiamine (TH) (vitamin B1) based on hemoglobin-Cu3(PO4)2 nanoflowers (Hb-Cu3(PO4)2 NFs) with peroxidase-like properties. The Hb-Cu3(PO4)2 NFs catalyzed the decomposition of H2O2 into ·OH radicals in an alkaline solution that could efficiently react with nonfluorescent thiamine to fluoresce thiochrome. The fluorescence of thiochrome was further enhanced with a nonionic surfactant, Tween 80. Under optimal reaction conditions, the linear range for thiamine was from 5 × 10-8 to 5 × 10-5 mol/L. The correlation coefficient for the calibration curve and the limit of detection (LOD) were 0.9972 and 4.8 × 10-8 mol/L, respectively. The other vitamins did not bring about any obvious changes in fluorescence. The developed method based on hybrid nanoflowers is specific, pragmatically simple and sensitive, and has potential for application in thiamine detection.

Photolysis of thiochrome in aqueous solution: A kinetic study

The photolysis of thiochrome (THC), an oxidation product of thiamine (vitamin B₁) (THE), used for its fluorimetric assay, has been studied in the pH range 7.0-12.0. THC undergoes photooxidation to oxodihydrothiochrome (ODTHC) which is oxidized to a non-fluorescent compound (OP1) on UV irradiation. The kinetics of the consecutive first-order reactions: THC→k₁ODTHC→k₂OP1, has been evaluated and the values of first-order rate constants, k₁ (0.58-4.20 × 10^-5, s^-1) and k₂ (0.05-2.03 × 10^-5, s^-1), at pH 7.0-12.0 have been determined. The rates of degradation of THC and ODTHC are enhanced with pH and the second-order rate constants k₁' and k₂' for the OH^- ion-catalyzed reaction are in the range of 0.002-58.3 M^-1 s^-1. The quantum yields of the photolysis of THC and ODTHC in the pH range 7.0-12.0 have been determined. THC, ODTHC and OP1 have been identified by chromatographic, spectrometric and fluorimetric methods. THC and ODTHC have similar fluorescence characteristics and emit at 450 and 445 nm, respectively. THC, ODTHC and OP1 with distinct absorption maxima (370, 344 and 290 nm, respectively) have been determined by a newly developed and validated multicomponent spectrometric method during the photolysis reactions. The on-line formation of THC by the photooxidation of THE may lead to the degradation of THC and give erroneous results in the fluorimetric assay of THE. A scheme for the photolysis reactions of THC in aqueous solution is presented.

Sensitive and highly selective determination of vitamin B1 in the presence of other vitamin B complexes using functionalized gold nanoparticles as fluorophore

This work describes the spectrofluorimetric determination of thiamine in the presence of vitamin B complexes using 4-amino-6-hydroxy-2-mercaptopyrimidine as fluorophore. The detection limit was found to be 6.8 fM L⁻¹ (S/N = 3).