On-Line Standard Addition Technique for the Determination of Elements in the Samples with High Dissolved Solids by ICP-OES: Application to Determination of Rare Earth Elements in Geological Samples

A simple and rapid on-line standard addition method for analysis of samples with high dissolved solids by ICP-OES is reported. The method involves on-line addition of standard solutions to the sample using a T-piece, prior to the sample introduction system. The standard addition method is commonly used in the analysis of samples with complex matrices. However, the conventional standard addition method is a tedious and time-consuming process. Therefore, in this study, on-line standard addition technique was offered to significantly decrease the analysis time and increase the simplicity of the standard addition method. The performance of the proposed method was tested by determination of rare earth elements in geological samples. This method showed a high level of accuracy in comparison with external calibration and internal standard addition methods.     

Spectrophotometric determination of some anti-tussive and anti-spasmodic drugs through ion-pair complex formation with thiocyanate and cobalt(II) or molybdenum(V)

Two rapid, simple and sensitive extractive specrophotometric methods has been developed for the determination of anti-tussive drugs, e.g., dextromethorphan hydrobromide (DEX) and pipazethate hydrochloride (PiCl) and anti-spasmodic drugs, e.g., drotaverine hydrochloride (DvCl) and trimebutine maleate (TM) in bulk and in their pharmaceutical formulations. The proposed methods depend upon the reaction of cobalt(II)-thiocyanate (method A) and molybdenum(V)-thiocyanate ions (method B) with the cited drugs to form stable ion-pair complexes which extractable with an n-butnol-dichloromethane solvent mixture (3.5:6.5) and methylene chloride for methods A and B, respectively. The blue and orange red color complexes are determined either colorimetrically at lambdamax 625 nm (using method A) and 467 or 470 nm for (DEX and PiCl) or (DvCl and TM), respectively (using method B). The concentration range is 20-400 and 2.5-50 microg mL-1 for methods A and B, respectively. The proposed method was successfully applied for the determination of the studied drugs in pure and in pharmaceutical formulations applying the standard additions technique and the results obtained in good agreement well with those obtained by the official method.     

Calculation of polymer blend compositions from Raman spectra: A new method based on parameter estimation techniques

A simple method to determine polymer blend compositions from their Raman spectra is presented. The method is based on expanding linearly the experimentally measured Raman spectrum of the blend, in terms of Raman spectra of pure components. A smooth function has also been included in the linear expansion to take into account the fluorescence interference, inherent to Raman spectroscopy. The coefficients of the linear expansion that give the best fit to the experimentally measured Raman spectrum of the blend are found by using a standard method of parameter estimation (Marquardt–Levenberg). These coefficients are directly related to the blend composition via a simple calibration procedure. Unlike standard methods of processing Raman spectra as deconvolution and curve‐fitting—which use Gaussian and/or Lorentzian functions to approximate the spectrum bands—the proposed method does not require either baseline correction or previous knowledge of peak parameters. Also, this method requires less CPU time than deconvolution and curve‐fitting procedures, and it is easy to automate. The proposed method has been applied to blends made out of two polymers: Polystyrene (PS) and poly(phenylene oxide) (PPO), to test its precision and consistency. Excellent agreement was found between calculated and expected blend compositions. Also, the reconstructed spectra agree very well with the experimentally measured blend spectra. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci B: Polym Phys 38: 1013–1023, 2000     

Rapid ultraviolet spectrophotometric and liquid chromatographic methods for the determination of natamycin in lactoserum matrix

Two rapid and simple methods were developed for the determination of natamycin in lactoserum matrix by ultraviolet (UV) spectrophotometry and liquid chromatography (LC) with diode-array detection. The methods involve protein precipitation with methanol, followed by centrifugation. No cleanup is necessary. The applicable concentrations of natamycin in lactoserum range from 2 to 500 mg/L for samples analyzed by both methods. The detection and quantitation limits are 0.07 and 0.23 mg/L, respectively, for the UV spectrophotometric method and 0.1 and 0.32 mg/L, respectively, for the LC method. The methods were applied satisfactorily to the determination of natamycin in various commercial lactosera. Both methods were validated independently by standard additions and Youden methodologies, which verified their accuracy. Once the 2 proposed methods were validated independently, the validation of one method was carried out with the other.     

Extractive colorimetric method for the determination of dothiepin hydrochloride and risperidone in pure and in dosage forms

Three rapid, simple, reproducible and sensitive extractive colorimetric methods (A--C) for assaying dothiepin hydrochloride (I) and risperidone (II) in bulk sample and in dosage forms were investigated. Methods A and B are based on the formation of an ion pair complexes with methyl orange (A) and orange G (B), whereas method C depends on ternary complex formation between cobalt thiocyanate and the studied drug I or II. The optimum reaction conditions were investigated and it was observed the calibration curves resulting from the measurements of absorbance concentration relations of the extracted complexes were linear over the concentration range 0.1--12 microg ml(-1) for method A, 0.5--11 mug ml(-1) for method B, and 3.2--80 microg ml(-1) for method C with a relative standard deviation (RSD) of 1.17 and 1.28 for drug I and II, respectively. The molar absorptivity, Sandell sensitivity, Ringbom optimum concentration ranges, and detection and quantification limits for all complexes were calculated and evaluated at maximum wavelengths of 423, 498, and 625 nm, using methods A, B, and C, respectively. The interference from excipients commonly present in dosage forms and common degradation products was studied. The proposed methods are highly specific for the determination of drugs I and II, in their dosage forms applying the standard additions technique without any interference from common excipients. The proposed methods have been compared statistically to the reference methods and found to be simple, accurate (t-test) and reproducible (F-value).     

气态—紫外分光光度法测定水和废水中硫化物

本文介绍了在对样品无需进行预先吹气分离,显色的条件下,通过对硫化氢气体在气相状态下紫外分光光度法的测定来完成对水和废水中硫化物测定的方法。本方法不但操作简单、快速,而且准确性和精密度都优于标准化学方法,颜色、混浊及其它共存离子对本方法均无干扰。对于低含量样品的测定,本方法具有明显的优点。     

Sorption-Fluorimetric Determination of Quinolones in Waste and Natural Waters with a Smartphone

Moscow University Chemistry Bulletin - A simple, affordable, and safe (green chemistry) method is proposed for determining 17 quinolone antibiotics in waste and natural waters by the...     

Extraction-spectrophotometric determination of some antihistaminic agents with fast green FCF

A rapid, simple, precise, accurate and highly sensitive method for the determination of some antihistaminic agents such as dimethindene maleate (DMM), embramine hydrochloride (EMH), isothipendyl hydrochloride (IPH), mebhydrolin napadisylate (MHn), methdilazine hydrochloride (MDH), promethazine hydrochloride (PMH), trimeprazine tartrate (TMT) and triprolidine hydrochloride (TPH) in bulk samples and pharmaceutical preparations is proposed. The method is based on the formation of a chloroform-soluble ion-association complex between the antihistaminic agent and Fast Green FCF at pH 5.0 with an absorption maximum at 620 nm. The composition of antihistaminic agent and Fast Green FCF in each ion-association complex is studied. The relative standard deviation of the proposed method is less than 1.3%, the percent recovery is 99.4–100.2% and the results are not significantly different from the standard methods at the 95% confidence level.     

Use of alizarin red S as a chromogenic agent for the colorimetric determination of dothiepin hydrochloride in pharmaceutical formulations

The present study describes two simple, rapid, selective and cost-effective spectrophotometric methods for the determination of dothiepin hydrochloride (DOTH), an antidepressant drug, in bulk drug and pharmaceutical formulations. The first method (method A) is based on the formation of yellow colored ion-pair complex between DOTH and alizarin red S (ARS) in acid medium which was extracted into dichloromethane and the absorbance was measured at 445 nm. The second method (method B) is based on the breaking of the yellow DOTH–ARS ion-pair complex in alkaline medium followed by the measurement of the violet color free dye at 570 nm. Under the optimized conditions, Beer’s law is obeyed over the concentration ranges of 2.50–55.0 and 1.00–35.0 μg ml⁻¹ DOTH for method A and method B, respectively. The molar absorptivity, Sandell’s sensitivity, detection and quantification limits are also calculated. The methods were validated for intra-day and inter-day accuracy and precision; selectivity and robustness and ruggedness. The proposed methods were applied successfully to the determination of DOTH in pure drug and commercial formulations. The accuracy and reliability of the proposed methods were further established by parallel determination by the official method and also by recovery studies via standard addition technique.     

X射线荧光光谱滤纸片法测定矿石中的铜

我们用Ｘ射线荧光光谱滤纸片法分析了古今１３铜矿石样品中的铜含量，测量结果与化学法一致。此法不需要铜矿石的标样，而且手续简单，方便，检出限低，灵敏度高，测量结果正确可靠，是分析矿石中单一或几个元素的含量较好的方法之一。     

Quick analytical method for the determination of iodide and iodate ions in aqueous solutions

An analytical quick-test method was developed to determine iodide and iodate ions in aqueous solutions using solid phase extraction cartridges for sample preparation. Work was focussed on finding simple, but efficient conditions for quantitative separation of iodate and iodide. Iodine amounts were then determined by standard methods. Ion-exchange absorbers in cartridge form were used. Selectivity and yield of the species separation were studied at pH value of 5-10 and various solution compositions using ¹³¹I radioactive tracer. The electrolytes used were diluted alkaline, nitrate and boric acid-borate solutions. Application to nuclear reactor cooling water analysis or environmental investigations and monitoring is proposed.     

Determination of chlorpheniramine maleate and tincture ipecac in dosage form by liquid chromatography with ultraviolet detection

A procedure was developed and validated for measuring chlorpheniramine maleate and tincture ipecac (as emetine hydrochloride) by reversed-phase liquid chromatography with methanol-10 mM sodium heptanesulfonate (20 + 30) as the mobile phase; the pH was adjusted to 4 with acetic acid, and the flow rate was at 1.5 mL/min, with ultraviolet detection at 254 nm. Propyl paraben was used as the internal standard. The standard curves were linear (r = 0.998 and 0.9998) for both chlorpheniramine maleate and emetine hydrochloride over the ranges of 5-100 and 0.1-40 microg/mL, respectively. The mean recoveries +/- standard deviation were 101.37 +/- 2.77% for chlorpheniramine maleate and 98.8 +/- 1.47% for emetine hydrochloride. The proposed method was applied to the determination of chlorpheniramine maleate alone in tablet and syrup dosage forms. The method also was applied to the determination of the emetine content of ipecac liquid extract and tincture ipecac; the results were compared with those of the method of the British Pharmacopoeia. The proposed method was applied successfully to the simultaneous determination of chlorpheniramine maleate and tincture ipecac, as emetine hydrochloride, in syrup dosage form. Both drugs and the internal standard were separated from all interfering components in < 5 min. The proposed method is simple, specific, and economical, when compared with other published methods that determine each component alone.     

Simultaneous determination of potassium guaiacolsulfonate, guaifenesin, diphenhydramine HCl and carbetapentane citrate in syrups by using HPLC-DAD coupled with partial least squares multivariate calibration

A simple and rapid analytical procedure was proposed for the determination of chromatographic peaks by means of partial least squares multivariate calibration (PLS) of high-performance liquid chromatography with diode array detection (HPLC-DAD). The method is exemplified with analysis of quaternary mixtures of potassium guaiacolsulfonate (PG), guaifenesin (GU), diphenhydramine HCI (DP) and carbetapentane citrate (CP) in syrup preparations. In this method, the area does not need to be directly measured and predictions are more accurate. Though the chromatographic and spectral peaks of the analytes were heavily overlapped and interferents coeluted with the compounds studied, good recoveries of analytes could be obtained with HPLC-DAD coupled with PLS calibration. This method was tested by analyzing the synthetic mixture of PG, GU, DP and CP. As a comparison method, a classsical HPLC method was used. The proposed methods were applied to syrups samples containing four drugs and the obtained results were statistically compared with each other. Finally, the main advantage of HPLC-PLS method over the classical HPLC method tried to emphasized as the using of simple mobile phase, shorter analysis time and no use of internal standard and gradient elution.     

A new spectrophotometric method for the determination of finasteride in tablets

A simple, rapid, accurate, precise and sensitive colorimetric method for the determination of finasteride in tablets is described. The proposed methods are based on the formation of ion-pair complexes between the examined drug with bromophenol blue (BPB), bromocresol green (BCG) and bromothymol blue (BTB), which can be measured at the optimum lambda(max). Beer's law is obeyed in the concentration ranges 3.0-15.0, 3.0-15.0 and 5.0-20 microg/mL with BPB, BCG and BTB, respectively. The detection limits of FIN was found to be 1.16 microg/mL for BPB, 1.17 for BCG, 1.76 microg/mL for BTB. All the methods gave similar results and were validated for selectivity, linearity, precision and sensitivity. The proposed methods were directly and easily applied to the pharmaceutical preparation with accuracy, resulting from recovery experiments between 100.11 and 100.33% for BPB, 100.17 and 100.67% for BCG and 100.33 and 100.60% for BTB methods. The low relative standard deviation values indicate good precision and high recovery values indicate accuracy of the proposed methods. The proposed methods have been applied to the determination of drug in commercial tablets. Results obtained from the analysis of commercial preparations with the proposed methods are in good agreement with those obtained with the official HPLC method.     

Direct injection LC/ESI-MS horse urine analysis for the quantification and identification of threshold substances for doping control. I. Determination of hydrocortisone

Two simple and rapid LC/MS methods with direct injection analysis were developed and validated for the quantification and identification of hydrocortisone in equine urine using the same sample preparation but different mass spectrometric systems: ion trap mass spectrometry (IT-MS) and time-of-flight mass spectrometry (TOF-MS). The main advantage of the proposed methodology is the minimal sample preparation procedure, as particle-free diluted urine samples were directly injected into both LC/MS systems. Desonide was used as internal standard (IS). The linear range was 0.25-2.5 microg ml(-1) for both methods. Matrix effects were evaluated by preparing and analyzing calibration curves in water solutions and different horse urine samples. A great variation of the signal both for hydrocortisone and the internal standard was observed in different matrices. To overcome matrix effects, the unavailability of blank matrix and the excessive cost of the isotopically labeled internal standard, standard additions calibration method was applied. This work is an exploration of the performance of the standard additions approach in a method where neither nonisotopic internal standards nor extensive sample preparation is utilized and no blank matrix is available. The relative standard deviations of intra and interday analysis of hydrocortisone in horse urine were lower than 10.2 and 5.4%, respectively, for the LC/IT-MS method and lower than 8.4 and 4.4%, respectively, for the LC/TOF-MS method. Accuracy (bias percentage) was less than 9.7% for both methods. Copyright (c) 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

聚合物整体柱微萃取-高效液相色谱法检测鸡蛋中的磺胺嘧啶和磺胺二甲嘧啶残留

建立了鸡蛋中磺胺嘧啶和磺胺二甲嘧啶残留量的聚合物整体柱微萃取和高效液相色谱检测方法。以聚(甲基丙烯酸-乙二醇二甲基丙烯酸酯)毛细管整体柱作为萃取装置。为了得到较高的萃取效率,优化了影响萃取效率的参数(萃取流速、萃取体积、样品基质pH值)。样品经过匀浆、乙醇提取、磷酸盐缓冲溶液稀释、离心等步骤后直接进行萃取。鸡蛋中磺胺嘧啶和磺胺二甲嘧啶的检出限分别为11.2 ng/g和8.8 ng/g,在50～5000 ng/g的浓度范围内具有良好的线性关系。加标回收率大于65%,日内、日间测定的相对标准偏差不高于8.2%。结果表明,方法简单、快速、灵敏度高,适用于鸡蛋中磺胺嘧啶和磺胺二甲嘧啶的常规分析。     

碰撞反应池-电感耦合等离子体质谱法测定膨化食品中的铝

采用密闭高压消解技术对样品进行前处理,建立了膨化食品中铝的电感耦合等离子体质谱测定方法。完善样品前处理条件,优化仪器工作参数,并以45Sc为内标元素消除非质谱干扰,以氦气为碰撞反应气消除质谱干扰。在优化的实验条件下,方法的检出限为13.61μg/L,标准曲线的回归系数为0.999 9。同时采用国家标准方法——分光光度法和原子吸收光谱法验证了方法的准确度,三种方法的测定结果没有显著性差异。实验结果表明,方法简单、快速、准确,适用于食品中铝含量的测定。     

Hydride Generation Atomic Fluorescence Spectrometric Determination of Ultratrace Arsenic in High Purity Indium Oxide

A simple, sensitive, and interference free method was proposed for the determination of total arsenic in high purity indium oxide by hydride generation atomic fluorescence spectrometry (HG-AFS). Preconcentration was carried out by distillation of volatile arsenic trichloride. Hydrazine sulfate was used as a prereductant to reduce As (V) to As (III). The volatile arsenic trichloride generation was based on the reaction between As (III) and hydrochloric acid, and vapors were absorbed with water. The method provides a linear response range of 2 ng/mL–70 ng/mL, a detection limit of 0.1 ng/mL, a recovery of 96%–113%, and an average relative standard deviation of 2.42%. The method was validated by means of interlaboratory comparative analysis with the proposed method HG-AFS, and the comparison of data by using proposed method HG-AFS and reference methods of ICP-OES and spectrophotometry.     

Determination of Cholic Acids by Ion Selective Liquid Membrane Electrode in Pharmaceutical Products

Abstract

An ion selective electrode based on a liquid membrane, constituted by a solution of tributylcetylphosphonium benzoate in nitrobenzene, is employed to determine cholic acids in pharmaceutical products by calibration curve and standard addition methods. The results are compared with those obtained with enzymatic and calorimetric methods. The proposed technique is simple, rapid and sufficently accurate.     

Sensitive and selective spectrophotometric methods for the determination of pheniramine maleate in bulk drug and in its formulations using sodium hypochlorite

Two simple, selective and sensitive spectrophotometric methods are described for the determination of pheniramine maleate (PAM) in pure and dosage forms. The method is based on the reaction of PAM with hypochlorite in the presence of Kolthoff buffer (phosphate-borate) of pH 7.0 to form the chloro derivative of PAM, destruction of the excess hypochlorite by nitrite ion (the chloro derivative of drug is unaffected under the optimized conditions) followed by the oxidation of iodide with the chloro derivative of PAM to iodine (I ₃ ^? which is either measured directly at 355 (method A) or reacted with starch to form a blue chromogen measurable at 590 nm (method B). The optimum conditions that affect the reaction were ascertained, and under these conditions linear relationship was obtained in the concentration ranges of 2–50 and 1–25 μg/mL PAM in methods A and B, respectively. The calculated molar absorptivity values are 7.26 × 10³ and 1.28 × 10⁴ L/(mol cm) for method A and method B, respectively. Sandell’s sensitivity values, limits of detection (LOD) and quantification (LOQ) are calculated as per ICH guidelines. The proposed methods were applied successfully to the determination of PAM in tablets and injection with good accuracy and precision and without interferences from common additives. The results obtained by the proposed methods were compared favourably with those of the reference method. The accuracy and reliability of the proposed methods were further checked by recovery studies via standard addition procedure.