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Bagherimetkazini, Seyedehelahe ; Matysik, Frank‐Michael

Ascorbic Acid Electrooxidation: See the Unseen With Real‐Time Electrochemistry–Mass Spectrometry

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Bagherimetkazini, Seyedehelahe und Matysik, Frank‐Michael (2026) Ascorbic Acid Electrooxidation: See the Unseen With Real‐Time Electrochemistry–Mass Spectrometry. ChemElectroChem 13 (18), e70305.

DOI zum Zitieren dieses Dokuments: 10.5283/epub.80885


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This work unveils a streamlined yet powerful hyphenated analytical strategy for real-time detection of electrogenerated oxidation products of one of the most-studied vitamins, ascorbic acid (AA), directly on the surface of a screen-printed carbon electrode (SPCE), offering unprecedented mechanistic insight into the AA redox pathway. Unexpectedly, this study revealed the detection of an oxidation ...

This work unveils a streamlined yet powerful hyphenated analytical strategy for real-time detection of electrogenerated oxidation products of one of the most-studied vitamins, ascorbic acid (AA), directly on the surface of a screen-printed carbon electrode (SPCE), offering unprecedented mechanistic insight into the AA redox pathway. Unexpectedly, this study revealed the detection of an oxidation product at applied potentials exceeding 1.4 V. To track, detect, and identify AA alongside its electrooxidation products, we deployed advanced online electrochemistry‍–mass spectrometry (EC–MS) as well as electrochemistry–capillary electrophoresis–mass spectrometry (EC–CE–MS). While many mechanistic studies have long established dehydroascorbic acid (DHAA) as the primary product of AA electrooxidation, the present work uncovers an extended electrochemical pathway for rather high electrode potentials. Specifically, when the applied oxidation potential exceeds 1.4 V on the SPCE surface, a secondary, low-stability oxidation product, 2,3-oxalyl-L-threonolactone (OxTL), is detected. In this potential region, conventional voltammetric techniques are practically unable to detect electrogenerated species because the current response is already dominated by anodic water decomposition. In this report, we demonstrate that short-lived oxidation products of DHAA can be generated electrochemically and detected in situ by hyphenated EC–MS and EC–CE–MS techniques at relatively positive potentials.



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DokumentenartArtikel
Titel eines Journals oder einer ZeitschriftChemElectroChem
VerlagWiley
Open Access ArtDEAL (Wiley Gold)
Band13
Nummer des Zeitschriftenheftes oder des Kapitels18
Seitenbereiche70305
Datum14 September 2026
Veröffentlichungsdatum06 Okt 2026 09:31
InstitutionenChemie und Pharmazie > Institut für Analytische Chemie, Chemo- und Biosensorik
Chemie und Pharmazie > Institut für Analytische Chemie, Chemo- und Biosensorik > Instrumentelle Analytik (Prof. Frank-Michael Matysik)
Projekte
Gefördert von: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (441791263)
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WertTyp
10.1002/celc.70305DOI
Stichwörter / Keywordsascorbic acid | capillary electrophoresis | electrochemistry | mass spectrometry
Dewey-Dezimal-Klassifikation500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 540 Chemie
StatusVeröffentlicht
BegutachtetJa, diese Version wurde begutachtet
An der Universität Regensburg entstandenJa
URN der UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-808856
Dokumenten-ID80885

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