Determinação amperométrica de peróxido de hidrogênio em amostras de mel e gel para clareamento dentário usando eletrodo de diamante dopado com boro

Abstract

The use of carbon based electrodes is well described for some materials, however technological development has brought to market new materials such as boron doped diamond film electrode. This material has several properties that make it excellent for electroanalytical applications, among them the determination of hydrogen peroxide. The determination of H2O2 can be accomplished by various techniques, including amperometry, spectrophotometry and chemiluminescence. In this context, the aim of this work was to develop an electrochemical cell and a methodology based on an amperometric determination of hydrogen peroxide in whitening gel and honey samples under the boron doped diamond electrode using flow injection analysis. Different parameters were evaluated to obtain the best conditions of analysis , among them the flow of electrolyte of 2.8 mL min- 1 , the loop sampling 175 µL (28.5 cm) , the analytical length of 159 µL (25 cm) to the gel and 31 µL (5 cm) to honey and an applied potential of 0.6 V. The proposed method was suitable in terms of precision (RSD < 10 %) results, the accuracy was confirmed in the analysis of the gels through the addition and recovery studies with results between 74 and 107 %. The proposed method was compared to the spectrophotometric method established and showed an excellent agreement, without loss of accuracy or precision, but with the benefit of a significant reduction in the use of enzyme in honey analysis (90 % less) and not use of enzymes for the analysis of whitening gel, making it cheaper than the spectrophotometric method. The method was then applied to the analysis of tooth whitening gels and honey samples of the local market acquired in different cities of the region. Regarding the results of whitening gels showed a medium concentration value of 2.39 % m/m, the limits of detection and quantification were 1.06 and 3.54 μmol L-1 respectively. For honey samples, a mean concentration value of 25.8 μg g-1 were obtained, the detection and quantification limits were 0.78 and 2.59 μg g-1 respectively.