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Simultaneous Determination of Ethanethiol, Inorganic Sulfide, and Sulfite in Wines by Cathodic Stripping Voltammetry

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This paper deals with the simultaneous determination of ethanethiol, inorganic sulfide, and sulfite in wines using cathodic stripping voltammetry. Under the optimized experimental conditions, a linear response to ethanethiol (0.2 to 0.6 mg L−1), inorganic sulfide (0.016 to 0.048 mg L−1), and sulfite (1.5 to 4.5 mg L−1) were obtained with correlation values R 2 above 0.985. A detection limit of 0.3, 0.2, and 10 μg L−1 was obtained to ethanethiol, inorganic sulfide, and sulfite, respectively. The recovery values obtained were between 78 and 104 % to ethanethiol, 88 and 108 % to inorganic sulfide, and 87 and 102 % to sulfite. The highest levels of ethanethiol, inorganic sulfide, and sulfite obtained in the samples were 4.85, 0.44, and 44.72 mg L−1, respectively. Besides, this method does not suffer interference from other compounds naturally present in the samples, and it enables fast and reliable determination of these sulfur compounds in wines, with minimal sample pretreatment.

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The authors are grateful to the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), and the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (FAPERGS) for supporting this study.

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    Ananda Guarda, Bruna Avila Wiethan, Alexandre Schneider, Paulo Cícero do Nascimento & Daiane Dias

  2. Escola de Química e Alimentos, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande, RS, 96203-900, Brazil

    Juliana Villela Maciel & Daiane Dias

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Guarda, A., Maciel, J.V., Wiethan, B.A. et al. Simultaneous Determination of Ethanethiol, Inorganic Sulfide, and Sulfite in Wines by Cathodic Stripping Voltammetry. Food Anal. Methods 10, 837–844 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12161-016-0640-1

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