PMID- 37935079 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20231120 LR - 20231120 IS - 1873-3557 (Electronic) IS - 1386-1425 (Linking) VI - 306 DP - 2024 Feb 5 TI - Rapid environmentally benign label free detection of heparin using highly fluorescent N,S-CDs sensing probe through a turn-on mechanism. PG - 123609 LID - S1386-1425(23)01294-5 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.saa.2023.123609 [doi] AB - Heparin (HEP) is one of the oldest anticoagulant drugs that currently still in widespread clinical use. It lacks chromophore and not easily derivatized due to its hydrophilic nature. In this work we developed a green, selective, and sensitive fluorescence sensor for detection of HEP in its injection dosage forms. The sensor is composed of nitrogen and sulfur co-doped carbon quantum dots (N,S-CDs) semi quenched by Fe(3+). The N,S-CDs were prepared using microwave assisted pyrolysis in 3.5 min and exhibited high emission at 425 nm after excitation at 350 nm with high quantum yield of 96%. Owing to the anionic nature of HEP, it could compete with N,S-CDs for Fe(3+) complexation resulting in turning-on the quenched fluorescence. This fluorescence enhancement was linear over a concentration range between 6 and 20 mug/mL (R(2) = 0.99) with a limit of detection of 1.41 microg/ml. The accuracy and precision of the proposed sensor were indicated by percentage recovery values between 98% -102% and %RSD less than 2, respectively. Furthermore, the proposed sensor was successfully applied for determination of HEP in injection dosage form. The developed sensor showed excellent greenness on analytical eco-scale (score 93%) and GAPI scale. CI - Copyright (c) 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Abdella, Aya A AU - Abdella AA AD - Department of Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tanta University, 31111, Egypt. Electronic address: aya.atef.86@pharm.tanta.edu.eg. FAU - Zaki, Asmaa M AU - Zaki AM AD - Department of Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tanta University, 31111, Egypt. Electronic address: pg_142290@pharm.tanta.edu.eg. FAU - Hammad, Sherin AU - Hammad S AD - Department of Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tanta University, 31111, Egypt. Electronic address: sherinhammad@pharm.tanta.edu.eg. FAU - Mansour, Fotouh R AU - Mansour FR AD - Department of Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tanta University, 31111, Egypt. Electronic address: fotouhrashed@pharm.tanta.edu.eg. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20231103 PL - England TA - Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc JT - Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy JID - 9602533 RN - 9005-49-6 (Heparin) RN - 0 (Fluorescent Dyes) RN - 70FD1KFU70 (Sulfur) RN - 7440-44-0 (Carbon) RN - N762921K75 (Nitrogen) SB - IM MH - *Heparin MH - *Quantum Dots MH - Fluorescence MH - Fluorescent Dyes MH - Sulfur MH - Carbon MH - Nitrogen OTO - NOTNLM OT - Co-doped carbon dot OT - Fluorescence OT - Heparin OT - Quenching OT - Turn-on sensor COIS- Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. EDAT- 2023/11/07 18:42 MHDA- 2023/11/20 06:56 CRDT- 2023/11/07 18:00 PHST- 2023/06/14 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/10/14 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2023/10/31 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/11/20 06:56 [medline] PHST- 2023/11/07 18:42 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/11/07 18:00 [entrez] AID - S1386-1425(23)01294-5 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.saa.2023.123609 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc. 2024 Feb 5;306:123609. doi: 10.1016/j.saa.2023.123609. Epub 2023 Nov 3.