These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: Thermal stability of vitamin C: thermogravimetric analysis and use of total ion monitoring chromatograms.
    Author: Juhász M, Kitahara Y, Takahashi S, Fujii T.
    Journal: J Pharm Biomed Anal; 2012 Feb 05; 59():190-3. PubMed ID: 22075373.
    Abstract:
    The thermal decomposition kinetics and shelf life of vitamin C in nitrogen or air were studied by using thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and evolved-gas analysis-lithium-ion attachment mass spectrometry (EGA-Li⁺IAMS). Arrhenius parameters obtained via TGA were reported for thermal decomposition. For vitamin C in a nitrogen atmosphere, the activation energy (E(a)) was 25.1 kcal/mol and the pre-exponential factor (A) was 2.5 × 10¹¹ min⁻¹. The kinetic parameters estimated via TGA agreed with values estimated from a pyrogram when the weight loss observed by TGA was shown to be due to gas evolution as a result of decomposition of the compound. Thermal stability was expressed by calculating the time for 10% of the vitamin C to decompose at 25 °C (t(90%,25 °C)). The t(90%,25 °C) for vitamin C obtained via TGA or EGA-Li⁺IAMS was higher in nitrogen (2.0 and 2.0 years, respectively) than in air (1.3 and 1.6 years, respectively). This indicates that the type of atmosphere influences vitamin C stability.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]