A New Approach for the Voltammetric Determination of Amoxicillin in the Dosage Form Using Azo Coupling Reaction with Sulphanilamide

The novel method of amoxicillin (AM) determination has been developed using single-sweep polarography. The proposed method is based on the obtaining of yellow coloured azo compound due to azo coupling reaction of previous diazotized sulphanilamide (SA) (in the medium of 0.6 M hydrochloric acid) with amoxicillin at pH=9.0 with the further reduction of the formed analytical form on a dropping mercury electrode. Voltammetric determination of amoxicillin is carried out due to the reduction peak of azo group of the obtained azo compound in the presence of 0.05 mol ⋅ L⁻¹ Na₂B₄O₇ as a background electrolyte at the potential E_c^p2=−0.55 V and potential sweep rate of 2.5 V ⋅ s⁻¹. The developed voltammetric method has two linear ranges of the determined concentrations (0.05–2.0) ⋅ 10⁻⁵ mol ⋅ L⁻¹ and (0.2–1.0) ⋅ 10⁻⁴ mol ⋅ L⁻¹ and the high sensitivity: LOD without the removing of unreacted sodium nitrite is 1.1 ⋅ 10⁻⁶ mol ⋅ L⁻¹, and 7.2 ⋅ 10⁻⁷ mol ⋅ L⁻¹, when NaNO₂ excess is removed using urea. The developed voltammetric technique of AM determination has been approved during the analyses of tablets and oral suspension.