Abstract
Hematin can substitute for horseradish peroxidase (HRP) as the catalyst in the determination of hydrogen peroxide using phenolic substrates such as p-hydroxyphenylacetate or p-cresol. Although the peroxidatic activity of hematin from bovine blood is not as great as HRP in terms of unit iron content, the activity per unit weight is substantially greater. Hematin is 500 times less expensive than HRP per unit peroxidatic activity. In hematin-catalyzed systems, reaction development and fluorescence measurement can both be conducted optimally in the same ammoniacal buffer. Hydroxyalkyl hydroperoxides are rapidly hydrolyzed to H2O2 at this pH and are also determined. On the other hand, for methyl hydroperoxide, hematin exhibits only approximately 10% of the sensitivity exhibited by HRP. Hematin is significantly more stable in solution than HRP. The use of hematin as catalyst and p-cresol as the substrate leads to a particularly inexpensive and sensitive system, permitting a limit of detection (LOD) of 7 nM H2O2 in a flow-injection configuration.
Keywords
ChemistryHydrogen peroxideHorseradish peroxidaseCatalysisSubstrate (aquarium)Detection limitPeroxidaseHydrolysisPeroxideHemeChromatographyOrganic chemistryEnzyme
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Genfa Zhang,
Purnendu Κ. Dasgupta
(1992).
Hematin as a peroxidase substitute in hydrogen peroxide determinations.
Analytical Chemistry
, 64
(5)
, 517-522.
https://doi.org/10.1021/ac00029a013
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- 10.1021/ac00029a013