ABSTRACT
With the COVID-19 outbreak, many challenges are posed before the scientific world to curb this pandemic. The diagnostic testing, treatment, and vaccine development for this infection caught the scientific community's immediate attention. Currently, despite the global proliferation of COVID-19 vaccination, the specific treatment for this disease is yet unknown. Meanwhile, COVID-19 detection or diagnosis using polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based me hods is expensive and less reliable. Moreover, this technique needs much time to furnish the results. Thus, the elaboration of a highly sensitive and fast method of COVID-19 diagnostics is of great importance. The spectroscopic approach is herein suggested as an efficient detection methodology for COVID-19 diagnosis, particularly Raman spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry.
ABSTRACT
The synthesis, characterization and application of 2-(2-hydroxybenzylidenimine)benzene-arsonic acid (HBBA) as a reagent for the fluorimetric determination of boron are described. This reagent reacts with boric acid in 85% w/w sulphuric acid medium to yield a fluorescent compound. The reagent is not fluorescent in those conditions. Heating at 90 degrees for 45 min is needed for the compound to be formed. The linear calibration range is 0.1-8 microg/ml in the solution measured. The detection limit of the method is 0.01 microg/ml. The method has been applied to determine boron in vegetal material.
