A procedure was developed for determining caffeine by high-performance thin-layer chromatography on PTSKh-AF-V-UF plates with the methanol-ethyl acetate (1: 3) mobile phase and densitometric detection (254 nm). It was shown that the use of the selective complexation of catechols with Fe+3 cations eliminated their interfering effect in the analysis of different samples of black and green tea.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)930-934
Number of pages5
JournalJournal of Analytical Chemistry
Volume64
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Sep 2009

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