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Study of kinetic parameters and development of a voltammetric sensor for the determination of butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) in oil samples

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Electrochemical behavior of artificial antioxidant, butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA), was investigated at a glassy carbon electrode modified with poly L- cysteine [poly (L- Cys/GCE)]. BHA exhibits a pair of well - defined redox peak on L- cysteine modified GCE with Epa = 69 mV and Epc = 4 mV. The modified electrode showed good electrocatalytic activity towards the oxidation of BHA under optimal conditions and exhibited a linear response in the range from 1.0 × 10−5 to 1.0 × 10−6 M with a correlation coefficient of 0.998. The limit of detection was found to be 4.1 × 10−7 M. The kinetics parameters of the proposed sensor such as heterogeneous electron transfer rate, k s , and charge transfer coefficient,α, was calculated and found to be 1.20 s−1 and 0.575 respectively. The average surface concentration of BHA on the surface of poly (L- Cys/GCE) was calculated to be 3.18 × 10−4 mol cm−2. The analytical utility of the proposed sensor was evaluated by the successful determination of BHA in coconut oil and sesame oil samples.

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The authors acknowledge the financial assistance from Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), India, for the support of this work. One of the authors is grateful to Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India, for fellowship.

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  1. Department of Applied Chemistry, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi-22, India

    Divya Thomas, Zafna Rasheed, Jesny Siri Jagan & Krishnapillai Girish Kumar

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• Development of a voltammetric sensor for butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) was described

• Experimental parameters were studied and optimized

• Kinetic parameters were studied

• Application studies were carried out

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Thomas, D., Rasheed, Z., Jagan, J.S. et al. Study of kinetic parameters and development of a voltammetric sensor for the determination of butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) in oil samples. J Food Sci Technol 52, 6719–6726 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13197-015-1796-1

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