Modern methods to determine vitamin E in foods and feeds
2010
Bara, Camelia | Bara, Lucian | Bara, Vasile | Bara, Ligia | Domuta, Cristian
Highly specific and sensitive, the proposed fluorometric method for determining α-tocopherol is robust and fairly fast. It has been tested in parallel with a conventional thin layer chromatographic method on foods and feeds. The only necessary cleanup is the usual saponification. The unsaponificable fraction can be extracted with ethyl ether or, preferably, with Extrelut columns. Reagents and their solvents are added to the isooctane solution before each successive reaction and are then eliminated by partition with water. The α-tocopherol (α-T) derivative always remains in isooctane. The first step is nitrosation and elimination of tocopherols and tocotrienols other than α-isomers. α-T is then oxidized to α-tocored (α-TR) with a mixture of sulfuric acid, ferric chloride, and iodine bromide. Α-TR is then condensed to a new reagent: 4,5-dimethylo- phenylenediamine. The phenazine formed is strongly fluorescent. Iodine and bromine add to the double bonds of α- tocotrienol present and quench the fluorescence of its phenazine.
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