Chemometric methods for simultaneous quantification of lactic, malic and fumaric acids

Abstract

Lactic, fumaric and malic acids are commonly used in food and pharmaceutical industries. During microbial production of these compounds, it is important to determine their concentrations in the fermentation broth with a rapid and sensitive method. Spectrophotometry is commonly used. However, UV‐spectral overlap between these organic acids makes it difficult to determine each of them individually from the mixture. In order to overcome this problem, statistical methods, namely principal component regression (PCR) and partial least squares‐1 methods, were tested and compared with conventional HPLC techniques. The absorbance data matrix was obtained by measuring the absorbances of 21 ternary mixtures of lactic, fumaric and malic acids in a wavelength range of 210–260 nm. Calibration and validation were performed by using the data obtained in a mixture of these organic acids. The prediction abilities of the methods were tested by applying them to fermentation broths. The precision of the PCR method was better than that of the partial least squares‐1 method. In the PCR method, the correlation coefficients between actual and predicted concentrations of the organic acids were calculated as 0.970 for lactic acid and 0.996 for fumaric acid in fermentation broths. The concentration of malic acid was not detected due to its low concentration in samples. These results show that the PCR method can be applied for simultaneous determination of lactic, fumaric and malic acids in fermentation broths.

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