| Abstract: | Abstract Spectrophotometric procedure is described for the quantitative determination of diphenadione [2-(diphenylacetyl)-1,3-indandione], based on direct spectrophotometric measurements of the absorbances of its iron (III), iron (II) and cobalt (II), metal complexes at 488 nm, 505 nm and (334 nm, 372 nm), respectively. The drug reacts with metals in the ratio of 3:1 and 2:1 for iron (III) and for both iron (II) and cobalt (II) respectively. The obtained complexes have apparent molar absorptivities of 1.48 × 103 1 mol?1 cm?1, 0.714 × 103 1 mol?1cm?1 and (1.70 × 103 1 mol?1cm?1, 1.93 × 103 1 mol?1cm?1) for iron (III), iron (II) and cobalt (II) complexes, respectively. The procedure is suggested for the determination of 51–400 μg.ml?1 diphenadione via the iron (II) complex and 35–170 μg.ml?1 diphenadione via both cobalt (II) and iron (III) complexes. The suggested procedure has accuracies of 99.79 ± 0.67%, 99.64 ± 0.37% and (100.09 ± 0.53%, 99.99 ± 0.42%) for the metal complexes of iron (III), iron (II) and cobalt (II), respectively. |
