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This work was supported by the Priority Research Centers Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2009-0093819).
A highly sensitive spectrofluorimetric method was developed for the determination of levodopa based on the formation of a ternary complex with Eu3+ in the presence of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid. It was found that this complex manifests intense fluorescence at 591 and 613 nm with excitation at 372 nm and maximum intensity was obtained at 613 nm. Under the optimum conditions, the enhanced fluorescence intensity was proportional to the concentration of levodopa over the range of 3×10-9-2.5×10-7 mol L-1 with limit of detection (LOD) of 4.37×10-10 mol L-1. The method offers higher sensitivity and selectivity which could be effectively applied for the determination of levodopa in pharmaceutical and biological samples.
This work was supported by the Priority Research Centers Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2009-0093819).