Development of CE-CD Method for Determination Tropane Alkaloids.

A fast method for the determination of tropane alkaloids, using a portable CE instrument with a capacitively coupled contactless conductivity detector (CE-CD) was developed and validated for determination of atropine and scopolamine in seeds from family plants. Separation was obtained within 5 min, using an optimized background electrolyte consisting of 0.5 M acetic acid with 0.