Electrochemical Behavior and Determination of Chlorogenic Acid Based on Carbon Nanotubes Modified Screen-Printed Electrode

In this paper, carbon nanotubes modified screen-printed electrode (CNTs/SPE) was prepared and the CNTs/SPE was employed for the electrochemical determination of antioxidant substance Chlorogenic acids (CGAs). A pair of well-defined redox peak of CGA was observed at the CNTs/SPE in 0.10 mol∙L-1 acetic acid-sodium acetate buffer (pH 6.2) and electrode process is adsorption-controlled. Cyclic voltammetry (CV) and differential pulse voltammetry (DPV) method for the determination of CGA were proposed based on the CNTs/SPE. Under the optimal conditions, the proposed method exhibited linear ranges from 4.73×10-7 to 4.45×10-5 mol∙L-1, the linear regression equation was Ipa(μA) = 4.1993 C (mol∙L-1)+1.1039 (r = 0.9976) and the detection limit for CGA could reach 3.25×10-6 mol∙L-1. The recovery of matrine was 94.74~106.65% (RSD = 2.92%) in coffe beans. The proposed method is quick, sensitive, reliable, and can be used for the determination of CGA.