{"title":"Differential Pulse Voltammetric Determination of Paracetamol Using Activated Glassy Carbon Electrode","authors":"Meselu Eskezia Ayalew, Dereje Yenealem Ayitegeb","doi":"10.20431/2349-0403.0706004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2349-0403.0706004","url":null,"abstract":"The electrochemical property of paracetamol was investigated at a glassy carbon electrode and activated glassy carbon electrode. Differential pulse voltammetry and cyclic voltammetry were used as diagnostic techniques in the determination of paracetamol. The activated glassy carbon electrode exhibited excellent electro-catalytic behaviour for the oxidation of PAR as evidenced by the enhancement of the oxidation peak current and the shift in the oxidation peak potential to less positive values by (13mv) in comparison with a bare GCE. In the present work the activated glassy carbon electrode was prepared by activating 200 s in a time base technique at a potential of 1750 mV. The electrode process of paracetamol was studied and some the experimental parameters which affect the response paracetamol, such as pH, effect of PAR concentration and scan rate on AGC electrode. The analysis of cyclic voltammogram gave fundamental electrochemical parameters including the electroactive surface coverage, the electron transfer coefficient and the heterogeneous rate constant (ks). The variation of scan rate study shows that the system undergoes adsorption controlled process. The equation of the calibration curve was found to be: Ip=0.429C + 6.43, R2=0.993. The LOD and LOQ for the developed method were determined to be 8×10-8 mol L-1 and 2.6×10-7mol L-1 respectively. Phosphate buffer pH 7.0 was selected for analytical purpose.","PeriodicalId":13721,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Advanced Research in Chemical Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88487845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interphase Mass Transfer- An Important Mass Transfer Phenomenon","authors":"Sunil jayant Kulkarni","doi":"10.20431/2349-0403.0801003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2349-0403.0801003","url":null,"abstract":"Various theories were proposed in past to explain interphase mass transfer. For the case of gas liquid interphase mass transfer, it is well known fact that for every concentration in one phase, there is equilibrium concentration in other phase. The departure from this equilibrium state is causing the mass transfer. Wetted wall column experiments were considered for understanding of two resistance concepts [1,2]. Theories namely Film theory, penetration theory and surface renewal theory were proposed by various investigator to explain the interphase mass transfer and relation between diffusivity and mass transfer coefficient. Interphase mass transfer has been interesting area of investigation because of its complexity and importance in mass transfer in many processes[3,4].","PeriodicalId":13721,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Advanced Research in Chemical Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77405130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toxicity Assessment of Heavy Metals in Soils around Transformers in University of Port Harcourt, Choba, Nigeria","authors":"Ayomide Adetutu Idowu, G. Iwuoha","doi":"10.20431/2349-0403.0801004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2349-0403.0801004","url":null,"abstract":"Transformers has inbuilt dielectric substances and various forms of oils that serve various functions. In addition to transformer metal wares, these oils contain trace amount of various heavy metals which could leak and constitute environmental problems by adding up to the soil’s concentration. Soils have been found to be the major sink for heavy metals when released into the environment. It has been noted that most heavy metals do not undergo microbial or chemical degradation because they are nondegradable and as a result, there is bioaccumulation of their total concentrations after being released to the environment and it affects the food chain [1],[2],[3].","PeriodicalId":13721,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Advanced Research in Chemical Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79787957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bio Fuel Synthesis from Waste Feed Stocks-An Insight","authors":"Parkar Saima Munawar, Mulukh Rutuja Santosh, Narhari Gautami Jagdish, Kulkarni Sunil Jayant","doi":"10.20431/2349-0403.0801005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2349-0403.0801005","url":null,"abstract":"Solid waste generation through various human activities is increasing day by day. A large portion of solid waste contains agricultural and domestic waste. Agricultural waste is increasing rapidly with increase in population as there is hike in the food requirements. Globally, tons of food are wasted from the domestic kitchen and nearly equal amount of waste is also produced. Thus, it is necessary to treat these wastes properly and to use these wastes as a raw material to manufacture the other useful products to reduce the amount of waste generated. These two types of wastes can be utilized to manufacture useful products/energy generation at very low-cost rather than improper disposal [1].","PeriodicalId":13721,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Advanced Research in Chemical Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91516318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Synthesis and Evaluation of Some Oxime Esters as New Attractants for Cockroaches","authors":"A. Aliyu, J. Dauda, R. Larayetan","doi":"10.20431/2349-0403.0704002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2349-0403.0704002","url":null,"abstract":"Cockroaches are disease causing agents. They are known to be carriers of protozoan, bacterial, helminth and viral diseases (Pandey et al, 1994). A study by Fakoorziba, et al (2010), isolated twenty five (25) different species of medically important bacteria with 22 of them Gram negative bacteria from P. americana and B. germanica. It has been found that P. americana may also play a role in the transmission of E. tenella among chicken and between chicken flocks (Jarujareet et al, 2019).","PeriodicalId":13721,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Advanced Research in Chemical Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78764056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Gemeda, Deresa Kebeba, Teferi Damto, G. Legesse
{"title":"Chemical and Physical Properties of Adulterated Honey and Developing Means of Identifying Adulterants","authors":"M. Gemeda, Deresa Kebeba, Teferi Damto, G. Legesse","doi":"10.20431/2349-0403.0705003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2349-0403.0705003","url":null,"abstract":"Honey is defined as a naturally sweet mixture produced by bees (Apis mellifera) from the nectar or from secretions of living parts of plants or excretions of plant sucking insects on the living parts of plants transform and combine with specific substances of their own (such as enzymes), deposit, dehydrate, store and leave in the beeswax honeycombs to ripen and mature. It is typical sugary foodstuff; according to present-day regulations, apart from other forms of honey no other or additives can be added to it. The aim of this study was to develop identification means of adulterated honey using chemical and physical analysis. Adulteration of honey was obtained by mixing and homogenizing major honey adulterants so far known like sugar, banana, “sheb”, molasses and water with different ratio. Moisture content, electrical conductivity, PH, ash, free acidity (FA) and Hydroxymehylfurfural of adulterated and pure honey were determined. The pure honey free acidity content is significantly different from adulterated honey in all treatments group (P<0.05). Highest FA content (458.33±1.66 meq/kg) recorded in (honey: sugar: water: sheb) treatment. Adulteration affects the purity and quality properties of honey, by using the ash content, free acidity and electrical conductivity adulteration can be identified and color parameter is not recommended for identification of adulterated honey.","PeriodicalId":13721,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Advanced Research in Chemical Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76620293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fingerprint Intermolecular Interactions of Sodium and Potassium Complexes","authors":"M. Bhavya, R. Malarvizhi","doi":"10.20431/2349-0403.0709003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2349-0403.0709003","url":null,"abstract":"The complex of sodium and potassium salts is characterized by using UV-Visible, FT-IR, NMR, Singlecrystal X-ray diffraction, Hirshfeld surfaces, and Fingerprint plots. The crystal belongs to the monoclinic system and p121/n1, p21/n space group. The corresponding peaks for chlorine atoms are absent in the NMR spectra of the complexes. The small red spot in Hirshfeld surfaces indicates the presence of CH...π interactions in the sodium complex. Absence of Metal...Metal interactions were also observed in both sodium and potassium complex. Fingerprint plots of Hirshfeld surfaces were used to detect and examine the percentage of hydrogenbonding interactions.","PeriodicalId":13721,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Advanced Research in Chemical Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89281021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yara M. Elkady, Sobhy M. El-Adl, M. Baraka, M. Sebaiy
{"title":"HPLC Method for Simultaneous Determination of Ascorbic acid, Phenylephrine, Paracetamol, Caffeine in Their Pure and Dosage Forms","authors":"Yara M. Elkady, Sobhy M. El-Adl, M. Baraka, M. Sebaiy","doi":"10.20431/2349-0403.0706002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2349-0403.0706002","url":null,"abstract":"An isocratic HPLC method has been developed for determination of ascorbic acid, phenylephrine, paracetamol, and caffeine in their pure and tablet forms. Separation was carried out at room temperature on an Kinetex 2.6 C18 100A (4.6 mm × 100 mm) column using a mobile phase of 0.05 M potassium dihydrogen phosphate buffer (pH 3.50 by ortho-phosphoric acid): acetonitrile: methanol (70:20:10). The flow rate was 1 mL/min, maximum absorption was measured at 220 nm and linearity was in the range of 1-50 μg/mL for all drugs. The retention times of ascorbic acid, phenylephrine, paracetamol and caffeine were reported to be 1.83, 2.94, 3.74 and 5.13 minutes, respectively, indicating a very short analysis time compared with other reported methods. Also, limits of detection were reported to be 0.76, 0.82, 0.47 and 0.24 μg/mL for ascorbic acid, phenylephrine, paracetamol, and caffeine respectively, showing a high degree of the method sensitivity. The proposed method was validated in terms of linearity, accuracy, precision and robustness according to ICH guidelines and results were compared statistically with reference methods in respect of precision and accuracy.","PeriodicalId":13721,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Advanced Research in Chemical Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80660968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessment of Water Needs in Ezinihitte Local Government Area of Imo State, Nigeria","authors":"T. Nnadozie, V. A. Wirnkor","doi":"10.20431/2349-0403.0708002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2349-0403.0708002","url":null,"abstract":"The study is aimed at assessing the water needs of the people of Ezinihitte LGA. This was cropped from the problem that emanated from the observed Government efforts on water provision, which had remained grossly inadequate to cover the entire communities, the dearth of available water facilities and how the villagers trek to long distances in search of water. Major issues of discourse included the distribution of water to households and how their water needs are tackled. Three hypotheses were tested and the questionnaire survey method was employed. The multi-stage sampling technique was used, and the sample size was 416. Data from the questionnaire were collected, tabulated into frequency distribution table and analyzed by using regression, correlation and ANOVA techniques. While testing the hypothesis, it was found that the quantity of water supplied was insufficient in the study area. Data from different sources show high positive correlation coefficient of variables indicating significant relationships between the quantities of water currently consumed and that required to be consumed. The study was concluded by recommending the involvement of the federal, state and local governments and other interest groups as well as the benefitting communities in water projects.","PeriodicalId":13721,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Advanced Research in Chemical Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88342274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biosensors for Bacteria for Artwork","authors":"Georgia-Paraskevi Nikoleli","doi":"10.20431/2349-0403.0703001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2349-0403.0703001","url":null,"abstract":"An artwork such as a painting can be a good example of a place that microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi can colonize. Bacteria have a part in deteriorating, and preserving artwork and paintings. Bacterial processes may produce colored pigments work arts. Bacterial culturing was widely used to explore their pigments by scientists and artists. The same pigments are also utilized in the processes of coloring various foods, textiles, and paints. Microbes may also play a significant role to deterioration and preservation of art work. The metabolic steps of microbes can affect the ancient cave art and may cause deteriorative harm to these works of arts. Bacteria may cause both deteriorative and resolving. A number of bacteria have been utilized in restoring artworks and and also in their preservation and stopping their deterioration.","PeriodicalId":13721,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Advanced Research in Chemical Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80900161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}