Abstract:
AIM: To study the photochemical behaviour of folic acid and establish a photochemical fluorimetric method for folic acid determination. METHODS: In (CH
2)
6N
4-HCl medium, a photochemical reaction takes place on irradiation of the folic acid with 365 nm ultravident light. The photochemical product showed an intense fluorescence intensity (λex 280 nm, λem 443 nm), which was 25 times higher than that of the original folic acid. On this basis, the determination of folic acid was carried out. RESULTS: The linear relationship between the fluorescence intensity and concentration of folic acid is over the range of 1.0×10
-7~1.0×10
-5 mol.L
-1, the detection limit is 1.5 nmol.L
-1 and relative standard deviation is 1.6%. The recoveries are in the range of (99.5~106.5)%. CONCLUSION: It can be applied to the determination of folic acid in tablets.