Arylboronic compounds - Novel carriers for catecholamine selective membrane electrodes

Abstract Arylboronic acids are used as novel carriers for membrane electrodes suitable for direct potentiometric determination of the catecholamine drug dobutamine. The carriers are capable of binding diol groups of catecholamines; solvent extraction data confirm the formation of an 1 : 1 complex. For the electrode based on octyloxyphenylboronic acid, the slope of electrode function is S = 58 mV decade–1; the detection limit is 1.7 · 10–5 mol/L, the linear range 5 · 10–4– 1 · 10–2 mol/L, the response time 10–20 s. The results suggest the potential use of boronic carriers for the detection of biogenic catecholamines.