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Advanced Approach towards Electrochemical Oxidation and Determination of Aripiprazole Using Gold and Boron-Doped Diamond Electrodes

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Publication Date2025-05-01
JournalJournal of The Electrochemical Society
AuthorsNebojša D. Nikolić, Sanja Mutić, Sanja Stevanović, Dušan Mijin, Slobodan Petrović

The antipsychotic drug aripiprazole (ARP) can be determined at the trace level in biological samples employing an easy-to-use and very sensitive electrochemical approach. The cyclic voltammetric behavior of ARP at the gold (Au) electrode and the boron-doped diamond electrode (BDDE) was investigated and suggested that the ARP oxidation process is irreversible and adsorption-controlled. The morphology of ARP on the Au electrode surface was studied using optical microscopy and atomic force microscopy techniques. The various experimental parameters of the SW-AdSV method were optimized for the quantitative determination of ARP at the anodically pretreated BDDE (+2.4 V; 60 s). Under optimized conditions (pH 3.0; accumulation potential (E acc ) of 0.5 V and accumulation time (t acc ) of 180 s), a linear concentration range was from 0.10 ng ml −1 to 16.91 ng ml −1 , while the relative standard deviation did not exceed 4.6%, and the evaluated detection limit (LOD) was 0.03 ng ml −1 . The interference study confirmed adequate selectivity of the proposed SW-AdSV method and BDDE towards ARP. During the analysis of ARP in spiked urine sample, good recovery and reproducibility were achieved, suggesting a good application capability and reliability of the developed voltammetric method for monitoring ARP in biological samples.