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Label-free silver triangular nanoplates for spectrophotometric determination of catecholamines and their metabolites

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A novel method towards spectrophotometric determination of catecholamines and their metabolites differing in their functional groups has been developed. This method is based on a change in morphology of silver triangular nanoplates upon the action of cateсholamines and their metabolites, which is manifested by the decrease of the nanoparticle local surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) band intensity or its shift to the short-wavelength region of the spectrum. The shift value of the LSPR band or the change of its intensity increases with increasing concentration of catecholamines or their metabolites, which is proposed for their spectrophotometric determination. The limits of detection of catecholamines and their metabolites under selected conditions increase in the series homovanillic acid < vanillylmandelic acid < L-epinephrine < L-norepinephrine < dopamine and are 0.25, 1.2, 3.0, 64, and 130 μmol L−1, respectively. The selectivity of the proposed method was assessed using vanillylmandelic acid as example. It was found that the determination of vanillylmandelic acid does is not interfered in the presence of 4000-fold excess of Na+, K+, CH3COO−, and 1000-fold excess of Mg2+, Ca2+, Al3+, NO3−. The method also allows for the selective determination of vanillylmandelic acid in the presence of a 1000-fold excess of structurally related substances that do not contain either a catechol fragment or an electron donor substituent. The proposed approach was successfully applied to the determination of catecholamines in pharmaceuticals and artificial urine.

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This study was financially supported by the Russian Science Foundation (grant no. 18-73-10001). Some studies were performed using instrumentation provided according to the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University Program of Development.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, 1/3, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    Valeriy D. Zaytsev, Aleksei A. Furletov, Vladimir V. Apyari, Alexey V. Garshev, Stanislava G. Dmitrienko & Yury A. Zolotov

  2. Department of Materials Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, 1/73, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    Alexey V. Garshev

  3. Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskiy Avenue, 31, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    Yury A. Zolotov

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Zaytsev, V.D., Furletov, A.A., Apyari, V.V. et al. Label-free silver triangular nanoplates for spectrophotometric determination of catecholamines and their metabolites. Microchim Acta 187, 610 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-020-04576-1

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