VALIDAÇÃO DE MÉTODO PARA DETERMINAÇÃO ELETROANALÍTICA DE EUGENOL EM ÓLEO ESSENCIAL DA ESPÉCIE Cinnamomum zeylamicum (CANELA)

Abstract

This work reports the optimization and validation of an eletro-analytical method for to determine eugenol in essential oil, it obtained of the green leaves of Cinnamomum zeylamicum (cinnamon), with application tested in other essential oils of scientific interest, such as the Origanum (oregano) and Dioic Pepper L (dioic pepper). The vegetable species was collected in Maioba, Paço do Lumiar district, and it submitted to Botanical identification in the Herbarium of the Federal University of Maranhão. The essential oils were extracted for hydrodistillation process and it submitted to the eletro-analytical analyses. Voltammetric of Differential Pulse was the technique chosen, that it use the glass carbon as work electrode, and the buffer Britton Robisson with 55% of Ethanol as electrolyte. They were used an tested in the otmization the following parameters: oxidation potential (+524mV), deposition time (100 s), scan speed (40m V/s), pulse amplitude (100 mV) and pH (3,3). The analytical curve was used as tool for determination of the eugenol percentage in the sample, the procedure was validated, it obtaining LDM = 3,12 x 10-7 mol.L-1 and LQM = 1,12 x 10-6 mol.L-1. The employed method provaided 64,31 % of eugenol in the cinnamon species, 20,2 and 78,31 % in the oregano and dioic pepper essential oils, respectively. The use of the methodology present evidences the potentiality of the application of the differential pulse technique with glass carbon electrode supplying an answer voltammetric precise and exact for the analysis of the eugenol in essential oils.