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• Modern methods to determine vitamin E in foods and feeds

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  Camelia Bara

  Lucian Bara

  Vasile Bara

  Ligia Bara

  Cristian Domuta

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  Highly specific and sensitive, the proposed fluorometric method for determining α-tocopherol is robust and fairly fast. It
  has been tested in parallel with a conventional thin layer chromatographic method on foods and feeds. The only necessary
  cleanup is the usual saponification. The unsaponificable fraction can be extracted with ethyl ether or, preferably, with
  Extrelut columns. Reagents and their solvents are added to the isooctane solution before each successive reaction and are
  then eliminated by partition with water. The α-tocopherol (α-T) derivative always remains in isooctane. The first step is
  nitrosation and elimination of tocopherols and tocotrienols other than α-isomers. α-T is then oxidized to α-tocored (α-TR)
  with a mixture of sulfuric acid, ferric chloride, and iodine bromide. Α-TR is then condensed to a new reagent: 4,5-dimethylo-
  phenylenediamine. The phenazine formed is strongly fluorescent. Iodine and bromine add to the double bonds of α-
  tocotrienol present and quench the fluorescence of its phenazine.