Determination of sucralose by controlled UV photodegradation followed by UV spectrophotometry

Abstract

A simple and time-efficient UV spectrophotometric method was developed for the determination of sucralose in artificial sweeteners. The procedure is based on the UV spectrophotometric determination of the photodegraded product at 270 nm in alkaline medium (pH 12). LOD for this method was 0.02 g/L, and the calibration curve was found to obey Beer's law in the concentration range of 0.1 to 1.2 g/L, with a correlation coefficient (R2) value of 0.9977. The proposed method was studied for accuracy and precision.