Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Sulfite on a Nickel Aquapentacyanoferrate Modified Electrode: Application for Simple and Selective Determination

Cyclic voltammetric determination of free and total sulfite in muscle foods using an acetylferrocene-carbon black-poly(vinyl butyral) modified glassy carbon electrode

A novel method for the selective extraction of free (pH 8.4) and total sulfite (pH 11.0) from muscle foods and the following determination by a voltammetric sensor was reported. The proposed method was based on the eletrocatalytic oxidation of sulfite at modified glassy carbon electrode (GCE) fabricated by immobilizing 9 μg of acetylferrocene on the surface of GCE along with 35 μg of carbon black to improve the electron transfer within poly(vinyl butyral) membrane matrix. The external standard calibration curve was linear in the range of 0.03-4.0 mmol L(-1) with a detection limit of 15 μmol L(-1). This method had been applied to the determination of free and total sulfite in shrimp muscle fortified samples and compared with an ion chromatography method. The proposed electrode and analysis methods were proven to be sensitive, accurate, and rapid and exhibited very good reproducibility and stability under the used conditions.

A boron-dipyrromethene-based fluorescent probe for colorimetric and ratiometric detection of sulfite

BODIPY-Le, a colorimetric and ratiometric fluorescent probe based on boron-dipyrromethene for selective detection sulfite ion, was investigated. Boron-dipyrromethene levulinyl ester (BODIPY-Le) is composed of an indole-based BODIPY dye and the levulinyl protective group, which could be easily and selectively deprotected by sulfites. As a result, the absorption and emission spectra show a dramatic red shift, and the development of a colorimetric and ratiometric fluorescent sulfite probe could be achieved. Besides, BODIPY-Le also exhibited prominent turn-on or turn-off type fluorogenic signaling toward sulfite ions once excited at 510 and 620 nm, respectively.

Carbon paste electrodes in the new millennium

In this review (with 500 refs), both electrochemistry and electroanalysis with carbon paste-based electrodes, sensors, and detectors are of interest, when attention is focused on the research activities in the years of new millennium. Concerned are all important aspects of the field, from fundamental investigations with carbon paste as the electrode material, via laboratory examination of the first electrode prototypes, basic and advanced studies of various electrode processes and other phenomena, up to practical applications to the determination of inorganic ions, complexes, and molecules. The latter is presented in a series of extensive tables, offering a nearly complete survey of methods published within the period of 2001–2008. Finally, the latest trends and outstanding achievements are also outlined and future prospects given.