Discrimination Between Natural Caffeine and Synthetic Caffeine / 中国药房

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE:To establish a method to distinguish between synthetic caffeine and natural caffeine METHODS:To identify the related substances obtained from synthetic caffeine and natural caffeine by HPLC,TLC,fluorescence spectrophotometry and X-ray powder diffraction RESULTS:Synthetic caffeine and natural caffeine can be identified by testing the related substances in them CONCLUSION:Using the described method,synthetic caffeine and natural caffeine can be discriminated accurately