Spectrophotometric Determination Mefenamic Acid , in Pharmacutical Preparation by oxidative coupling 2,4,dinitrophenyl hydrazine by N-bromo succinmide

Document Type : Research Paper

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Tikrit University – College of Education for women

Abstract

This eserech includes the development of spectrophotometric method for determination of mefenamic acid via oxidative coupling with the 2,4,dinitrophenyl hydrazine reagent in presence of oxidizing agent N-bromo succinmide in the alkaline medium to form a colored-dye red, which dissolved in water and showed the highest intensity of absorption at λmax 528 nm. The method has been obeyed Beer's law in the concentration range 2-8 µg.ml-1, with molar absorptivity of 3.6873 ×104 L. mol-1. cm-1, Sandel Index value 0.006535 µg.cm-2, the detection limited 0.011 µg.ml-1, with correlation coefficient 0.992. The relative standard deviation of the method does not exceed 2.27%. The proposed method was applied successfully for the determination of Mefenamic acid in tablets by both the direct and standard addition methods, the recovery ranged between 99.3-100.2%.

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