1. Electroanalytical determination of the sunscreen agent octocrylene in cosmetic products
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Magno Aparecido Gonçalves Trindade, Tatiane Alfonso de Araujo, J. B. G. Júnior, and Valdir Souza Ferreira
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Detection limit ,Aging ,Supporting electrolyte ,Glassy carbon electrode ,Analytical chemistry ,Pharmaceutical Science ,Sunscreening Agents ,Dermatology ,Electrochemistry ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Colloid and Surface Chemistry ,Octocrylene ,chemistry ,Chemistry (miscellaneous) ,Drug Discovery ,Electroanalytical method ,Voltammetry ,Nuclear chemistry - Abstract
An electroanalytical method was developed to detect and quantify the sunscreen agent octocrylene (OCR) in cosmetic products. The method was based on electrochemical reduction, using voltammetric techniques. OCR was reduced at -0.97 V vs. Ag/AgCl on a glassy carbon electrode using a mixture of Britton-Robinson buffer (0.04 mol L(-1)) and ethanol (7 : 3, v/v) as the supporting electrolyte solution. Under optimized conditions and square-wave voltammetry, OCR response was linear from 5.0 × 10(-6) to 8.0 × 10(-5) mol L(-1) (r = 0.9995), with a limit of detection of 2.8 × 10(-6) mol L(-1). The proposed electroanalytical method proved simple, fast and suitable for detection and quantification of OCR in samples of cosmetic products, with satisfactory results in the recovery test and analytical determination in real samples.
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- 2011
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