Spectrophotometric Determination of Some Pharmaceutically Active Amides and Imides

Abstract

The determination of nicotinamide, alloxan, saccharin, barbitone and theobromine is achieved by a simple and rapid spectrophotometric method. The proposed method depends on the bromine oxidation of the amide or imide functional groups with the formation of N - bromoamide or N - bromoimide respectively, having a positive bromine atom. The oxidation products oxidize iodide ions to iodine which is measured as its starch complex.

The method is suitable for the determination of : 0.08–0.4, 0.5–5, 20–80, 25–200 and 50–400 mg with a mean accuracy (P′ = 0.05) of 99.29 ± 1.39%, 101.36 ± 1.44 %, 101.28 ± 1.85 %, 99.94 ± 1.24 % and 100.82 ± 1.29 % for the mentioned compounds respectively.