Sequential injection technique for the determination of chlorpromazine hydrochloride in pure form and pharmaceutical formulations

A simple, economical, and automated spectrophotometric method for the determination of chlorpromazine hydrochloride by sequential injection analysis using ammonium metavanadate as colorimetric reagent is proposed. The various chemical and physical conditions that affected the reaction have been thoroughly investigated. The calibration curve was linear within the range 10–100 μg/mL. The detection limit (S/N = 3) was 0.7 μg/mL and the limit of quantification (S/N = 10) was 2.3 μg/mL. The sampling frequency was 22 h⁻¹. The method has been used for the determination of chlorpromazine hydrochloride in pure form and pharmaceutical formulations. The t-test has revealed that there is no evidence of significant differences between the obtained results at the 95% confidence level. The method can be applied to the quantitative determination of chlorpromazine hydrochloride. It is also applicable in the quality control of chlorpromazine hydrochloride preparations. The text was submitted by the authors in English.     

多壁碳纳米管修饰电极检测盐酸氯丙嗪的研究

制备了多壁碳纳米管修饰玻碳电极,采用循环伏安法(CV)研究了盐酸氯丙嗪在修饰电极上的电化学特性,发展了一种新的检测盐酸氯丙嗪的电化学分析方法。在最佳实验条件下,用循环伏安法检测盐酸氯丙嗪,其响应电流与盐酸氯丙嗪的浓度在8.0×10-5~1.0×10-3mol/L范围内有很好的线性关系,线性方程为Ip(A)=0.0106c(mol/L)-8×10-8(R2=0.999,n=6),检出限为6.2×10-6mol/L(S/N=3)。方法可用于盐酸氯丙嗪片的测定。     

Sequential optimization of a flow injection spectrophotometric method for the assay of chlorpromazine in pharmaceutical preparations

A new simple flow injection spectrophotometric method for the assay of chlorpromazine using cerium(IV) in sulfuric acid media was developed. The oxidized form of the drug was monitored at the maximum absorbance of 526 nm. The optimum conditions were 0.035M sulfuric acid, 3.80 x 10(-3)M cerium(IV), flow rate 4.85 ml/min, coil length 45 cm and sample size 110 mm(3). Optimization was carried out by the modified simplex method. Response surface methodology was employed to investigate the ruggedness of the method. A sampling frequency of 120 hr(-1) was attained. Relative standard deviations for standard sample were usually less than 0.75. The method was applied to the determination of chlorpromazine in proprietary drugs and results were statistically compared with the official British Pharmacopoeia (BP) method.     

A new sensor for electrochemical determination of captopril using chlorpromazine as a mediator at a glassy carbon electrode

A new simple, selective and rapid cyclic voltammetric method is reported for the accurate and precise determination of captopril using chlorpromazine as a suitable electrocatalyst. It has been shown by cyclic voltammetry, single step chronoamperometry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy that chlorpromazine can catalyze the oxidation of captopril in aqueous buffer solution and produces a sharp oxidation peak current at about 0.625 V vs. saturated calomel reference electrode. The catalytic oxidation peak current of captopril is linearly dependent on its concentration and enables the determination of captopril over the concentration range of 8–1000 μM at pH 5.0, with a detection limit of 4.8 μM. The relative standard deviation for the determination of 400 μM captopril is 0.66% (n = 9). The influence of potential interfering substances on the determination of captopril was studied. The method was satisfactorily applied to the determination of captopril in real samples such as drug and urine.     

Spectrophotometric Determination of Some Tranquillizers and Antidepressants Using 2,3-Dichloro 5,6-Dicyano-p-Benzoquinone

Abstract

A simple and sensitive spectrophotometric method is described for the assay of some tranquillizers and antidepressants, namely, chlorpromazine, imipramine, amitriptyline and chlorprothexine. The method was based on the interaction of these drugs as n-electron donors with 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-p-benzoquinone (DDQ) as λ -acceptor to give a highly coloured radical anion which exhibits maximum absorption at 460 nm. The radical anion was proved by electron spin resonance measurements. The proposed method has been successfully applied for the determination of the examined drugs in tablets. The assay results were in accord with the pharmacopoeial results.     

Spectrofluorimetric Determination of Chlorpromazine Hydrochloride and Thioridazine Hydrochloride

Abstract

Fluorescence spectroscopy was applied to the development of a sensitive and simple method for the determination of chlorpromazine HCl and thioridazine-HCl. The method is based upon development of an intense fluorescence using N-bromosuccinimide as the fluorogenic reagent. The produced fluorescence has very characteristic excitation and emission spectra and was stable for at least one hour. The results were reproducible and as little as 5 ng/ml chloropromazine HCl and 1 ng/ml thioridazine-HCl could be determined. The method was applied successfully to the analysis of various commercially available dosage forms. The obtained results were in good agreement with those of the official BP 93 procedures.     

FREE RADICAL PRODUCTION BY CHLORPROMAZINE SULFOXIDE, AN ESR SPIN-TRAPPING AND FLASH PHOTOLYSIS STUDY

Abstract— Using the spin-trapping technique we have investigated the photolysis of chlorpromazine sulfoxide and promazine sulfoxide. Photolysis of these sulfoxides in aqueous solution resulted in a species which is capable of oxidizing ascorbate, cysteine, glutathione, NADH, and azide by one electron, in addition to extracting hydrogen atoms from ethyl alcohol and dimethyl sulfoxide. These oxidations were not dependent on the presence of dissolved oxygen. The oxidizing species is proposed to be the hydroxyl free radical arising from the homolytic cleavage of the S-O bond of the sulfoxide. Flash photolysis of the chlorpromazine and promazine sulfoxides demonstrated the formation of cation radicals consistent with the loss of the hydroxyl radical from the sulfoxides. In addition we present a simple direct method for the quantitative synthesis of promazine and chlorpromazine sulfoxides from the parent promazine derivatives.     

Sensitive determination of phenothiazines in pharmaceutical preparation and biological fluid by flow injection chemiluminescence method using luminol-KMnO4 system

A flow injection chemiluminescence method was described for the determination of four phenothiazine drugs, namely, chlorpromazine hydrochloride, perphenazine hydrochloride, fluphenazine hydrochloride and thioridazine hydrochloride. Strong Chemiluminescence (CL) signal was produced when above-mentioned drug was injected into the mixed stream of luminol with KMnO₄. The linear ranges of the method were 0.0020-1.0 μg/mL chlorpromazine hydrochloride, 0.0040-3.0 μg/mL perphenazine hydrochloride, 0.0020-5.0 μg/mL fluphenazine hydrochloride and 0.0050-1.0 μg/mL thioridazine hydrochloride. The detection limits were 0.4 ng/mL chlorpromazine hydrochloride, 0.7 ng/mL perphenazine hydrochloride, 2 ng/mL fluphenazine hydrochloride and 0.7 ng/mL thioridazine hydrochloride. The proposed method was applied to the determination of chlorpromazine hydrochloride in injections and in mental patient's urine samples and the satisfactory results were achieved. The possible CL reaction mechanism was also discussed briefly.     

Voltammetric measurement of trace amount of glutathione using multiwall carbon nanotubes as a sensor and chlorpromazine as a mediator

In this work, we propose chlorpromazine as a new mediator for the rapid, sensitive, and highly selective voltammetric determination of glutathione (GSH) using multiwall carbon nanotubes paste electrode (MWCNTPE). The experimental results showed that the carbon nanotubes paste electrode has a highly electrocatalytic activity for the oxidation of GSH in the presence of chlorpromazine as a mediator. Cyclic voltammetry, double potential step chronoamperometry, and differential pulse voltammetry (DPV) are used to investigate the suitability of chlorpromazine at the surface of MWCNTPE as a mediator for the electrocatalytic oxidation of GSH in aqueous solutions. It is shown that chlorpromazine can catalyze the oxidation of GSH in an aqueous buffer solution to produce a sharp oxidation peak current at about +0.70 versus Ag/AgCl as a reference electrode. Kinetic parameters such as electron transfer coefficient and catalytic reaction rate constant, k/h, are also determined. Using DPV and under the optimum conditions at pH 4.0, the electrocatalytic oxidation peak current of GSH shows a linear dependence on GSH concentration in the GSH concentration range of 0.3 to 18.3 µM. The detection limit (3σ) is determined to be 0.16 µM. The relative standard deviation for 1.5 and 5.0 µM GSH are found to be 3.7% and 2.5%, respectively. The proposed method may, thus, also be used as a novel, selective, simple, and precise method for the voltammetric determination of GSH in such real samples as hemolyzed erythrocyte.     

Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Sensing of NADH and Ethanol Based on Immobilization of Electrogenerated Chlorpromazine Sulfoxide onto Graphene‐CdS Quantum Dot/Ionic Liquid Nanocomposite

Here, a simple one‐step solvothermal procedure was employed to synthesize a nanocomposite containing graphene‐nanosheets and CdS quantum dots (GNs‐CdS QDs). The electrochemical oxidation of chlorpromazine (CPZ) to chlorpromazine‐sulfoxide (CPZ‐SO) onto a GNs‐CdS QDs/ionic liquid (IL) nanocomposite modified glassy carbon (GC) electrode give rise to redox‐active products which showed excellent electrocatalytic and photoelectrocatalytic activity toward NADH oxidation at reduced overpotential. A linear response up to 200 µM was obtained for photoamperometric determination of NADH with detection limit 1 µM. Immobilizing alcohol dehydrogenase(ADH) onto the modified electrode via a simple cross linking procedure, the photoelectrochemical capability of the proposed system toward ethanol biosensing was clearly shown.     

Simultaneous determination of psychotropic drugs in human urine by capillary electrophoresis with electrochemiluminescence detection

Amitriptyline, doxepin and chlorpromazine are often used as psychotropic drugs in treatment of the various mental diseases, and are also partly excreted by kidney. This work developed a simple, selective and sensitive method for their simultaneous monitoring in human urine using capillary electrophoresis coupled with electrochemiluminescence (ECL) detection based on end-column ECL reaction of tris-(2,2′-bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) with aliphatic tertiary amino moieties. Acetone was used as an additive to the running buffer to obtain their absolute separation. Under optimized conditions the proposed method displayed a linear range from 5.0 to 800 ng mL⁻¹ for the three drugs with the correlation coefficients more than 0.995 (n = 8). Their limits of detection were 0.8 ng mL⁻¹ (3.6 fg), 1.0 ng mL⁻¹ (4.5 fg) and 1.5 ng mL⁻¹ (6.8 fg) at a signal to noise ratio of 3, respectively. The relative standard deviations for five determinations of 20 ng mL⁻¹ amitriptyline, doxepin and chlorpromazine were 1.7%, 4.2% and 3.6%, respectively. For practical application an extract step with 90:10 heptane/ethyl acetate (v/v) was performed to eliminate the influence of ionic strength in sample. The recoveries of amitriptyline, doxepin and chlorpromazine at different levels in human urine were between 83% and 93%, which showed that the method was valuable in clinical and biochemical laboratories for monitoring amitriptyline, doxepin and chlorpromazine.     

Investigating the post-chemiluminescence behavior of phenothiazine medications in the luminol–potassium ferricyanide system: molecular imprinting–post-chemiluminescence method for the determination of chlorpromazine hydrochloride

A new post-chemiluminescence (PCL) phenomenon was observed when phenothiazine medications were injected into the reaction mixture after the chemiluminescence (CL) reaction of luminol and potassium ferricyanide had finished. A possible reaction mechanism was proposed based on studies of the kinetic characteristics of the CL, CL spectra, fluorescence spectra, and on other experiments. The feasibility of determining various phenothiazine medications by utilizing these PCL reactions was examined. A molecular imprinting–post-chemiluminescence (MI-PCL) method was established for the determination of chlorpromazine hydrochloride using a chlorpromazine hydrochloride-imprinted polymer (MIP) as the recognition material. The method displayed high selectivity and high sensitivity. The linear range of the method was 1.0×10⁻⁸∼1.0×10⁻⁶, with a linear correlation coefficient of 0.9985. The detection limit was 3×10⁻⁹ g/ml chlorpromazine hydrochloride, and the relative standard deviation for a 1.0×10⁻⁷ g/ml chlorpromazine hydrochloride solution was 4.0% (n=11). The method has been applied to the determination of chlorpromazine hydrochloride in urine and animal drinking water with satisfactory results.      

Carbon Black Detector,A Novel Approach to Visible Spectroscopy of Liquids Using Photoacoustic Detection

Abstract

A simple and reproducible method of recording visible spectra of solutions using photoacoustic spectrometry and carbon black as a thermal detector is introduced. Light intensity is proportionally measured by carbon black detector, a microphone system and a simple cell compartment placed after monochromator for liquid samples. Exact match with the absorption spectra is found with certain standard solutions. Aqueous solutions of Cr(III), KMnO₄, disodium fluorescein and chlorpromazine semiquinone cation radicals are tested.     

邻二氮菲分光光度法测定盐酸氯丙嗪

在HAc-NaAc缓冲介质中,盐酸氯丙嗪(CPZ)能定量使Fe(Ⅲ)还原为Fe(Ⅱ),还原生成的Fe(Ⅱ)与邻二氮菲反应生成稳定的红色络合物,并且在一定范围内,CPZ的浓度和生成的红色络合物的吸光度呈良好的线性关系。据此,提出邻二氮菲-Fe(Ⅲ)体系测定盐酸氯丙嗪的新方法。在优化的实验条件下,盐酸氯丙嗪的质量浓度在0.040～15.00 mg/L范围内与吸光度呈现良好的线性关系,线性相关系数R=0.9995,摩尔吸光系数ε=2.8×104 L.mol-1.cm-1,检出限为0.020 mg/L。11次重复测定的相对标准偏差小于2.9%。该方法用于药物中盐酸氯丙嗪的测定,结果满意。     

Indirect Potentiometric Determination of Chlorpromazine with an Oxidative Column In a Flow Injection System

Abstract

A flow-injection method is proposed for the determination of chlorpromazine and other N-substituted phenothiazines. The procedure is based on the oxidation of analyte with lead dioxide entrapped into polymeric material in a packed-bed reactor. The oxidation of the drug yields soluble Pb^2-, which is monitored by means of the lead ion selective electrode in the wall-jet configuration. The calibration graph is linear over the range of 0.01 – 2 μg ml^?1 of chlorpromazine with relative standard deviation of 1.4% and sample throughput 20 h^?1. The developed method was applied to the determination of chlorpromazine in pharmaceutical preparations.     

Study on the interactions of chlorpromazine hydrochloride and promethazine hydrochloride with nucleic acids by resonance Rayleigh scattering spectrum

The interaction between nucleic acids and medicine molecule is one of the important research fields of nucleic acids, which is very valuable for investigating the interactive mechanisms of anti-cancer and anti-virus medicine, screening medicine in vitro, …     

盐酸氯丙嗪与Fe(Ⅲ)的显色反应及测定

研究了在盐酸介质中,三价铁离子能将盐酸氯丙嗪氧化成一种红色的物质,且氧化的程度与盐酸氯丙嗪的量呈正比关系,据此建立了测定盐酸氯丙嗪的分光光度分析方法。实验中最大吸收波长为530nm,摩尔吸光系数为5.13×103 L/(mol·cm),盐酸氯丙嗪的量在5~250μg/10mL范围内与吸光度A有良好的线性关系,方法用于盐酸氯丙嗪药物的测定,其相对标准偏差为0.11%~0.19%,加标回收率为95.0%~97.0%。     

The Use of Internal Standard Method for Dertvative-Spectrophotometric Determination of Chlorpromazine Hydrochloride

ABSTRACT

The use of 1, 10-phenantroline as internal standard (IS) is proposed for spectrophotometric determination of chlorpromazine hydrochloride in pharmaceutical formulations. The spectra of both compounds: analyte and internal standard are partially overlapped, so the Savitzky-Golay alghoritm was used to obtain separated signals of analyte and IS. The best parameters to generate the second-derivative spectra were: ∠λ = 10 nm (5 experimental points) and second polynomial degree. For quantification of chlorpromazine in pharmaceuticals, the zero-crossing technique was used. The values of the second-derivative peaks were measured for chlorpromazine at 256 nm and at 236 nm for IS. Analytical characteristic for proposed method was evaluated (r²=0.9990, detection limit=3.97 ng/ml). The obtained analytical results were in good agreement with results obtained using the UV-spectrophotometric Blazek method.     

稳定回归法用于复方氯丙嗪片的测定

本文应用稳定回归法用于紫外重叠光谱的分析。以复方氯丙嗪为例,不经分离,测定了盐酸氯丙嗪和盐酸异丙嗪的含量。与最小二乘回归法比较,提高了测定结果的准确度和精密度。结果满意。     

N-substituted phenothiazines as redox indicators in bromatometry

Diethazine hydrochloride, butaperazine dimaleate, trifluoperazine hydrochloride, promethazine hydrochloride, prochlorperazine maleate and chlorpromazine hydrochloride have been studied as indicators in bromate titration of quinol, metol and ascorbic acid. They give a very sharp reversible colour change at the equivalence point. Their formal potentials have been determined. A simple but accurate method for the estimation of quinol and metol is reported.