Estimation of the ionization pK(a) of pharmaceutical substances using the computer program Sparc

The computer program sparc was used to calculate the pK(a) values of some important pharmaceutical substances. The sparc models proved to be suitable for estimating the pK(a) values of beta-adrenergic blocking agents and benzodiazepine drugs. Ionization macroconstants, microconstants, zwitterionic equilibria, speciation curves as a function of the pH and the isoelectric points of a semi-essential amino acid, arginine, and an anti-inflammatory, niflumic acid, were calculated.     

Spectrophotometric determination of aluminum and copper ions using spadns

Aluminum and copper ions are selectively estimated spectrophotometrically. These ions form colored complexes with spadns which have a maximum absorbance at 580 nm. The complexes formed with both cations are stable and pH dependant; aluminum is favorably complexed at pH 5, while copper is complexed at pH 7.The percentage recoveries were found to be 99.69 ± 0.75 and 99.32 ± 0.6 with a minimum detection limit of 0.08 and 0.23 g ml^–1 for aluminum and copper ions respectively. There is insignificant interference from the 10-fold concentrations of other metal ions under the proposed reaction conditions.     

Spectroscopic Determination of Heparin Sodium Using Europium (III) as a Probe Ion

Abstract

A sensitive, rapid, accurate and precise procedure for the microdetermination of heparin sodium in bulk, in injection and in blood serum. The procedure was built around the fact that heparin possesses many active binding sites; carboxylic, hydroxylic, amino and sulphonated groups, which are strongly bound to Eu³⁺ ions. Such binding enhances the europium emission at 616 nm which is a forbidden transition. The emission of europium at 592 nm comes from a non hypersensitive transition and is not affected by the ligand which is bound to europium ions. The intensity ratio R, defined as I₅₉₂/I₆₁₆ was used to determine the amount of free and bound europium ions. There is a linear relationship between bound europium ions and heparin sodium within the concentration range 1–12 ug. mL^?1 (0.07–0.84 USP. IN). Reaction conditions were studied and percentage recoveries was 99.77 ± 1.68. The relative stability of the complex was 1.2E⁵ and the correlation coefficient was 0.99923. Heparin was isolated from serum using ECTEOLA-cellulose and Sephadex G25 columns. The method shows good agreement with an anilinonaphthalene-1-sulfonate (ANS) and protamine fluorometric method.     

Fine spectra of the discrete generalized Cesàro operator on Banach sequence spaces

Monatshefte für Mathematik - This paper concerns the spectrum and the fine spectrum of the discrete generalized Cesàro operator $$C_{t}$$ , where $$0\le t<1$$ , on Banach sequence...     

Fluorimetric determination of aminoglycoside antibiotics using lanthanide probe ion spectroscopy

The application of probe ion fluorimetry has succeeded in the microdetermination of six aminoglycoside antibiotics: neomycin, streptomycin, gentamicin, tobramycin, amikacin and kanamycin as sulfate salts in pure form and in some pharmaceutical preparations. The method is based on the reaction of Eu³⁺ ions with aminoglycosides through amino and hydroxy groups. Such interactions enhance the intensity of the 616 nm fluorescence emission of the Eu³⁺ ion. The fluorescence at 592 nm comes from a non-hypersensitive transition and is not affected by the ligand which is bound to the probe ions. The intensity ratio R, defined as I₅₉₂/I₆₁₆ was used to determine the amount of free and bound europium ions. A linear relationship between bound europium ions and aminoglycoside was found within the concentration ranges 20–100 ppm for neomycin, 5–60 ppm for streptomycin, and 10–70 ppm for gentamicin, tobramycin, amikacin, and kanamycin as sulfate salts. The percentage recoveries ranged from 99.22 to 101.07, with standard deviations ranging from ± 1.5 to ± 4.38. The relative stability constants ranged from 5 × 10³ to 2 × 10⁴. The optimum reaction conditions were studied and the results obtained compared favourably with the fluorimetric method using fluorescmine reagent.