RETRACTED ARTICLE: Determination of sulpha drugs and ascorbic acid,individually or in mixture,withN-chlorosuccinimide

New spectrophotometric and titrimetric methods for the determination of sulphonamides withN-chlorosuccinimide (NCS) were developed. The spectrophotometric measurements can be made at 324–395 nm at pH 7.4 at room temperature, the stoichiometry being 1: 2, (p-H₂N-C₆H₄-SO₂NHR): (NCS) forming a dibromination product in presence of acidified potassium bromide. Potentiometrically or visually using methyl red as indicator, sulphonamides are titrated in pharmaceutical preparations by NCS always in presence of acidified potassium bromide. Ascorbic acid is determined alone and also in combinations, by first titrating it using potassium iodide and starch or 2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol as indicator. Acylation or diazotization of the aromatic amino groups that prevents substitution at the two ortho positions, is used as additional prereaction to analyze various binary and ternary mixtures of certain sulphonamides. These methods are accurate, simple, rapid, reproducible, useful at higher concentrations, do not involve any preseparation, and can tolerate several compounds that cause interference in other methods.Paper presented at the Eastern Analytical Symposium, New York, USA, 1985, No. 168     

Measurement of polyunsaturated fatty acids of myocardial lipids by high performance liquid chromatography

Summary This report describes a modified method for the separation and analysis of polyunsaturated fatty acids such as 20:4, 20:5, and 22:6, using HPLC. The results show that these fatty acids are well separated from the saturated acids. Since the unsaturated fatty acids elute earlier than saturated acids, and this method does not require the fractionation of free fatty acids using thin layer chromatography, a necessary step for the gas chromatographic analysis, the recoveries of polyunsaturated fatty acids were significantly higher as compared to those from gas chromatography. Furthermore, HPLC and gas chromatographic methods gave identical results for the acyl chain composition of phosphatidylserine. The advantages of using HPLC over gas chromatography in determining the acyl chain composition of free fatty acids and phospholipids are also discussed.     

Studies in spiroheterocycles. Part XIII. Synthesis of a novel spiro system: Spiro[9H-acridine-9,3′-[3h]indol]-2′(1′H)-one and related compounds from new fluorinated spiro[3H-indole-3,9′-[9H]xanthen]-2(1H)-ones

A new spiroheterocyclic system spiro[9H-acridine-9,3′-[3H]indol]-2′(1′H)-one and related compounds have been prepared by the reaction of spiro[3H-indole-3,9′-[9H]xanthen]-2(1H)-ones with aromatic amine or ammonium acetate. The latter were prepared by heating fluorinated indole-2,3-diones with m-/p-cresols or α-naphthol in the presence of sulphuric acid at 230-240°. The synthesized compounds have been characterized on the basis of their elemental analyses, ir, nmr (1_H, 13_C, 19_F) and mass spectral data.