Rapid monitoring the water extraction process of Radix Paeoniae Alba using near infrared spectroscopy

Abstract

Near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy has been developed into one of the most important process analytical techniques (PAT) in a wide field of applications. The feasibility of NIR spectroscopy with partial least square regression (PLSR) to monitor the concentration of paeoniflorin, albiflorin, gallic acid, and benzoyl paeoniflorin during the water extraction process of Radix Paeoniae Alba was demonstrated and verified in this work. NIR spectra were collected in transmission mode and pretreated with smoothing and/or derivative, and then quantitative models were built up using PLSR. Interval partial least squares (iPLS) method was used for the selection of spectral variables. Determination coefficients ([Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]), root mean squares error of prediction (RMSEP), root mean squares error of calibration (RMSEC), and residual predictive deviation (RPD) were applied to verify the performance of the models, and the corresponding values were 0.9873 and 0.9855, 0.0487[Formula: see text]mg/mL, 0.0545[Formula: see text]mg/mL and 8.4 for paeoniflorin; 0.9879, 0.9888, 0.0303[Formula: see text]mg/mL, 0.0321[Formula: see text]mg/mL and 9.1 for albiflorin; 0.9696, 0.9644, 0.0140[Formula: see text]mg/mL, 0.0145[Formula: see text]mg/mL and 5.1 for gallic acid; 0.9794, 0.9781, 0.00169[Formula: see text]mg/mL, 0.00171[Formula: see text]mg/mL and 6.9 for benzoyl paeoniflorin, respectively. The results turned out that this approach was very efficient and environmentally friendly for the quantitative monitoring of the water extraction process of Radix Paeoniae Alba.