Determination of Matrine and Oxymatrine in Radix Sophorae Flavescentis by Resonance Rayleigh Scattering, Second-order Scattering and Frequency Doubling Scattering Technique

In 0.1 mol/L HCl medium, 12-tungstophosphoric（TP） acid reacted with matrine（Mat） and oxymatrine（Oxy） to form an ion-association complex. As a result, the new spectra of resonance Rayleigh scattering（RRS）, second-order scattering（SOS） and frequency doubling scattering（FDS） appeared and their intensities were enhanced greatly. The maximum scattering wavelengths of RRS, SOS and FDS were located at 370, 670 and 390 nm, respectively. The in-crements of scattering intensity were directly proportional to the concentration of Mat and Oxy in a certain range. Based on this, the method for the determination of matrine and oxymatrine has been established. It has been applied to the determination of matrine and oxymatrine in samples of Radix sophorae flavescentis with satisfactory result. The reaction mechanism and reasons of RRS enhancement were discussed.

Resonance Rayleigh Scattering and Resonance Nonlinear Scattering Methods for Determination of Methylene Blue with 12-Tungstophosphoric Acid

In a pH=0.65―1.5 NaAc-HCl medium, methylene blue（MB） reacts with 12-tungstophosphoric acid （TPA） by virtue of electrostatic attraction and hydrophobic force to form a 3：2 ion-association complex. As a result, the intensities of resonance Rayleigh scattering（RRS）, second-order scattering（SOS） and frequency doubling scatte- ring（FDS） are enhanced greatly. The maximum scattering wavelengths of RRS, SOS and FDS are located at 316, 647 and 311 nm. The increments of scattering intensity（△I） are directly proportional to the concentration of MB in a certain range. The methods exhibited high sensitivity, and the detection limits（3s） for MB are 2.3 ng/mL（RRS method）, 5.6 ng/mL（SOS method） and 6.4 ng/mL（FDS method）, respectively. The effects of coexisting substances have been examined, and the results indicate that the methods have good selectivity. Based on the above researches, a new spectral method for the determination of trace amounts of MB has been developed. It can be applied to the determination of MB in human serum, and the recoveries are 97.5%―105.0%. The results are in good agreement with those obtained by the pharmacopoeia method. In this work, the optimum conditions of the reaction and the influencing factors were investigated. In addition, the reaction mechanism and the reasons of the enhancement of resonance light scattering were discussed.

A High Frequency Boundary Element Method for Scattering by Convex Polygons with Impedance Boundary Conditions

We consider scattering of a time harmonic incident plane wave by a convex polygon with piecewise constant impedance boundary conditions.Standard finite or boundary element methods require the number of degrees of freedom to grow at least linearly with respect to the frequency of the incident wave in order to maintain accuracy.Extending earlier work by Chandler-Wilde and Langdon for the sound soft problem,we propose a novel Galerkin boundary element method,with the approximation space consisting of the products of plane waves with piecewise polynomials supported on a graded mesh with smaller elements closer to the corners of the polygon.Theoretical analysis and numerical results suggest that the number of degrees of freedom required to achieve a prescribed level of accuracy grows only logarithmically with respect to the frequency of the incident wave.

Study on Frequency Doubling Scattering and Second-Order Scattering Spectra of Heparin-Methylene Blue System

Binding of heparin with methylene blue (MB) in pH 5.7 Britton Robinson buffer can result in a significant enhancement of frequency doubling scattering (FDS) and second order scattering (SOS). Their maximum scattering wavelengths ( λ max ) appear at 350 nm for FDS and 700 nm for SOS, respectively. The optimum conditions of the reaction, the influencing factors and the relationship between the two scattering intensities and the concentration of heparin have been investigated. The new methods for the determination of trace amounts of heparin based on the FDS and SOS methods have been developed, which exhibit high sensitivities. The detection limits of heparin are 4.36 ng/mL for the FDS method and 3.55 ng/mL for the SOS method, respectively. Both of the methods have fairly good selectivity and were applied to the determination of heparin in sodium heparinate injection samples with satisfactory results. Moreover, the relative mechanisms have also been discussed.