Journal
MOLECULES
Volume 27, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules27092657
Keywords
paracetamol; ibuprofen; caffeine; classical least-square; simultaneous; spectroscopy
Funding
- Vietnam Ministry of Education and Training [B2020-DHH-16]
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This paper simultaneously determined the concentrations of PAR, IBU, and CAF in tablets using the classical least-squares method and molecular absorption spectrophotometric measurement. A simple and cost-effective analytical procedure was developed.
In this paper, the classical least-squares (CLS) method with molecular absorption spectrophotometric measurement was used to determine simultaneously paracetamol (PAR), ibuprofen (IBU), and caffeine (CAF) in tablets. The absorbance spectra of the standard solutions and samples were measured over a wavelength from 220 to 300 nm with a 0.5 nm step. The concentration of PAR, IBU, and CAF in the sample solutions was calculated by using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and a program called CLS-Excel written in Microsoft Excel 2016. The method and the CLS-Excel program were tested on mixed standard laboratory samples with different PAR, IBU, and CAF concentration ratios, and they showed only small errors and a satisfying repeatability. An analytical procedure for tablets containing PAR, IBU, and CAF was developed. The reliability of the procedure was proved via the recovery and repeatability of the analysis results with an actual tablet sample and by comparing the mean contents of active substances in the tablets obtained from the analytical procedure with the HPLC method. The procedure is simple with a reduced cost compared with the HPLC standard method.
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