Folic acid, photodegradation

Akhtar MJ, Khan MA, Ahmad I. Photodegradation of folic acid in aqueous solution. J Pharm Biomed Anal 1999 19(3 ) 269-275. 

FIGURE 35.3 Fluorescence intensity = 450 nm) of 10 oM folic acid (FA) in the absence or presence of p-LG, bovine serum albumin (BSA), or a-lactalbumin (a-LA) before and after 110 min of irradiation at an excitation wavelength of 348 nm (protein concentration is 20 pM). (Reprinted from Food Chemistry, 141(2), Liang, L Zhou, P., and Subirade, M., Protective effect of bovine serum albumin, p-lactoglobulin and a-lactalbumin on photodegradation of folic acid, 655-1572. Copyright 2013, with permission from Elsevier.)... 

Liang, L. Zhou, P. Subirade M. Protective effect of bovine serum albumin, P-lactoglobulin and a-lactalbumin on photodegradation of folic acid. Food Chem. 2013,141 (2), 655-1572. 

Several methods for separating single folate compounds such as folic acid from matrix interference are available. Akhtar et al. (75) applied paired-ion chromatography for HPLC determination of folic acid and its photodegradation... 

MJ Akhtar, MA Khan, I Ahmad. High performance liquid chromatographic determination of folic acid and its photodegradation products in the presence of riboflavin. J Pharm Biomed Anal 16 95-99, 1997. 

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