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TALANTA
Volume 62, Issue 3, Pages 531-538Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2003.08.026
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square-wave voltammetry of azithromycin; carbon paste electrode; dosage forms; urine
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Azithromycin (AZ) is the first member of a class of macrolide azalides antibiotics called azolides. A simple and selective square-wave voltammetric (SWV) method has been developed for the determination of azithromycin in pure form, in pharmaceutical preparation and in biological samples. Determination of azithromycin was accomplished with hand-make carbon paste electrode (CPE) in oxidative screen mode. The counter and reference electrodes were a Pt wire and a Ag/AgCl, respectively. Various parameters that can influence the peak signal (effect of buffer, ionic strength, accumulation time, pH and the composition of the paste) have been scrutinized. The best results were obtained in acetonitrile-aqueous I M sodium acetate-acetic acid buffer (pH 4.6) containing 0.1 M KCl (1:9; v/v) using a 15% paraffin oil CPE. The limits of detection and quantification of the pure drug are 0.463 and 1.544 ppb (with the correlation coefficient, r = 0.9785 and the standard deviation, S.D. = 0.1 (n = 5), for the accumulation time of 60 s), respectively. The method was successfully applied to the determination of the drug in urine and two forms of pharmaceutical formulations. Recoveries were 99.2-100.5% with S.D. = 0.1-and 0.8% (n = 5). (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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