Development of thermogravimetric method to quantitative determination of mebendazole

The objective of this work was to develop and validate a fast and reproducible method able to determine the concentration of mebendazole in raw materials and tablets. The samples were analyzed by dynamic thermogravimetry, in the heating rates of 10, 20, 40, 60 and 80°C min^–1, in the atmospheres of nitrogen and nitrogen with synthetic air. Obtained data were used in the equations of Antoine and Langmuir, with the purpose to get the pressure curves of those. Vapor pressure curves of drug and tablet of mebendazole were evaluated using the mathematical indexes of difference factor, f ₁, and similarity factor, f ₂, to compare its profiles. The data showed that there is no significant difference between the vapor pressure profiles of drug and tablet of mebendazole in both environmental conditions studied, what confirms that the process is really vaporization. The concentration of mebendazole was determined in the raw material and tablets with the drug.