The Theoretical Description of Furfural and Lactic Acid Cathodic Determination in Bread and Milk

Abstract

The process of the electroanalytical cathodic determination of furfural and lactic acid in fermented bread and milk on vanadium oxyhydroxide-modified cathode has been developed and analyzed theoretically. The correspondent mathematical model analysis confirms this process's efficiency for furfural and lactic acid determination in a mildly acidic and neutral medium by a cathodic determination to propyleneglycol and furfuroic alcohol. Considering that both the compounds and their reduction products are less ionized in acidic media, cathodic reduction tends to be more efficient than anodic electrooxidation.