introductionOfloxacin (OFL), 9-fluoro-2,3-dihydro-3-methyl-10-(4-methyl-1-pierazinyl)-7-oxo-7H-pyrido[1,2,3-de]-1,4-benzoxazine-6-carboxylic acid, Fig. 1, is one of the third-generation members of synthetic fluoroquinolone derivatives with antibacterial activity. This synthetic antibiotic is widely used in the treatment of urinary and respiratory tract infections and other infections, which are caught by Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. 1 The bactericidal activity of OFL results from inhibiting enzyme DNA gyrase required for bacterial DNA replication.2 Because the OFL main escretion pathway is urinary, only trace amounts are found in plasma. 3 Therefore, great attention was paid to study the possibility of exposure to low levels of this medicine.Studies on determination of fluoroquinolones have attracted considerable interest in recent years. OFL is a synthetic fluoroquinolone, and the current analytical methods devoted to determination OFL were capillary electrophoresis, 4 flow-injection spectrophotometry, 5 flow-injection chemiluminescence, 6,7 fluorescence spectrometry, 8 thin layer chromatography, 9 high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) 10 and HPLC-fluorometry. 11 However, these methods were limited in either complicated operation or sophisticated instrumentation or poor selectivity or poor limit of detection. Therefore, the development of a reliable, rapid and accurate method for the determination of OFL is of great importance.Resonance light scattering (RLS) is a scattering-absorptionrescattering process that occurres when the wavelength of the incident beam exists in or close to the absorption band of the aggregation of particles. 12,13 Based on this theory, Pasternack et al. first established a new technique (RLS) to study the aggregations of porphyrins by using a common fluorescence spectrometry. [14][15][16] Huang et al. successfully applied this technique to the determination of nucleic acids at the nanogram level, and its detection limits were much lower than that of the fluorescence quenching method. 17,18 From then on, this simple and sensitive method has been greatly used for analytical purposes. 19,20 The RLS technique applied to the determination of nuclei acids, [21][22][23][24] proteins, 25-29 amino acid, 30 metal ions 31 and medicine 32 has already been reported. This method has proved to be promising based on the enhanced RLS intensity of the assay system. The RLS technique is becoming a novel analytical method characterized with high sensitivity, rapidity and simplicity.In this paper, the RLS spectra of alizarin violet 3B (AV3B) in the presence and absence of OFL are discussed. A reaction between AV3B and OFL occurred, and produced fine particles. The interaction between OFL and AV3B was also studied based on the absorption spectra, scanning electron micrograph and other analytical methods. The RLS signal was derived from fine particles of the formed complex, 13,14 and the intensity was enhanced by increasing the OFL in the system. The enhancement of the RLS intensity was p...