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Solid-Phase Extraction Spectrophotometric Determination of Total Antioxidant Capacity in Antioxidant-poor Samples by Using the Ferric-Ferrozine Method

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Ferrozine (FZ) preferentially stabilizes Fe(II) over Fe(III) to raise the ferric reduction potential and oxidize antioxidants. The advantages of the ferric-ferrozine method over other iron-based total antioxidant capacity assays were: (i) higher molar absorptivity and enhanced sensitivity, (ii) lower interference from foreign ions, (iii) wide pH tolerance (iv) additivity of the absorbances for mixtures. Solid-phase extraction (SPE) could be combined with spectrophotometry, because the magenta-colored anionic Fe(II)-FZ complex was quantitatively sorbed on Sephadex QAE A-25 resin. The sensitivity enhancement using the resin enabled us to conduct total antioxidant capacity (TAC) measurements of antioxidant-poor samples. The apparent molar absorptivity, linear concentration range and trolox equivalent antioxidant capacities (TEAC) of certain antioxidants were found. The calibration curves (lines) of trolox, rutin, and rosmarinic acid individually and in herbal infusions—by using the method of standard additions—were parallel, confirming that the added antioxidants did not interact with herbal constituents to cause chemical deviations from Beer’s law.

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One of the authors (K. I. B.) is thankful to TUBITAK Research Fund for their support to the Project 112T 793. Another one of the authors (R. A.) extends his gratitude to the Centre for Measurement and Application of Food Antioxidants of Istanbul University (I. U. Gida Antioksidanlari Olcumu Uygulama ve Arastirma Merkezi) for the general support given to the development of analytical problem-focused antioxidant activity assays.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Letters, Istanbul Technical University, 34469 Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey

    Kadriye Isil Berker, Dilek Ozyurt & Birsen Demirata

  2. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Istanbul University, 34320 Avcilar, Istanbul, Turkey

    Resat Apak

  3. Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA), Piyade Street No: 27, 06690, Cankaya, Ankara, Turkey

    Resat Apak

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Berker, K.I., Ozyurt, D., Demirata, B. et al. Solid-Phase Extraction Spectrophotometric Determination of Total Antioxidant Capacity in Antioxidant-poor Samples by Using the Ferric-Ferrozine Method. ANAL. SCI. 33, 683–689 (2017). https://doi.org/10.2116/analsci.33.683

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