What is the method for reduction carboxylic acid to aldehyde and measurment by HPLC and second stage derivatization aldehyde by 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine?
If you have not an appropriated method to quantify carboxylic acids an alternative methodology can be done by the process described above. In first step you use a specific reductive agent to be possible the quantitative transformation of each carboxylic acid to the corresponding aldehyde and after you add 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine to allow the detection of the derivative compound by the detector coupled to HPLC (using the stechiometry of the reaction you can know the amount of the carboxylic acids). However, your question is very general. Please, report your specific problem.
Biotin has several groups that can be reactivity producing side compounds and probably this is the reason of your difficulties. I suggest you the foloowing reference to resolve your problem: Using of HPLC coupled with coulometric detector for the determination of biotin in pharmaceuticals Author(s): Zerzanova, A; Zizkovsky, V; Kucera, R; Klimes, J; Jesensky, I; Dohnal, J; Barron, D
Source: JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL AND BIOMEDICAL ANALYSIS Volume: 45 Issue: 5 Pages: 730-735 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2007.08.010 Published: 2007