Determination of norfloxacin in human urine by capillary electrophoresis with electrochemiluminescence detection

A fast and sensitive approach that can be used to detect norfloxacin in human urine using capillary electrophoresis with end-column electrochemiluminescence (ECL) detection of \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$${\text{Ru}}{\left( {{\text{bpy}}} \right)}^{{2 + }}_{3} $$\end{document} is described. The separation column was a 75-μm i.d. capillary. The running buffer was 15 mmol L−1 sodium phosphate (pH 8.2). The solution in the detection cell was 50 mmol L−1 sodium phosphate (pH 8.0) and 5 mmol L−1\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$${\text{Ru}}{\left( {{\text{bpy}}} \right)}^{{2 + }}_{3} .$$\end{document} The ECL intensity varied linearly with norfloxacin concentration from 0.05 to 10 μmol L−1. The detection limit (S/N=3) was 0.0048 μmol L−1, and the relative standard deviations of the ECL intensity and the migration time for eleven consecutive injections of 1.0 μmol L−1 norfloxacin (n=11) were 2.6% and 0.8%, respectively. The method was successfully applied to the determination of norfloxacin spiked in human urine without sample pretreatment. The recoveries were 92.7–97.9%.