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Second-Derivative Synchronous Fluorescence Spectroscopy for the Simultaneous Determination of Fluphenazine Hydrochloride and Nortriptyline Hydrochloride in Pharmaceutical Preparations

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A rapid, simple, and highly sensitive second-derivative synchronous fluorimetric (SDSF) method has been developed for the simultaneous analysis of binary mixtures of fluphenazine hydrochloride (FLZ) and nortriptyline hydrochloride (NTP) in their co-formulated tablets. The method is based upon measurement of the native fluorescence of these drugs at constant wavelength difference (Δλ) = 120 nm in acetic acid. The different experimental parameters affecting the fluorescence intensity of the studied drugs were carefully studied and optimized. The fluorescence-concentration plots were rectilinear over the range of 0.25–3.0 and 1–10 μg/ml for FLZ and NTP respectively, with lower detection limits (LOD) of 0.05 and 0.18 μg/ml and quantitation limits of 0.15 and 0.53 μg/ml for FLZ and NTP respectively. The proposed method was successfully applied for the determination of the studied compounds in their synthetic mixtures and in commercial co-formulated tablets. The results obtained were in good agreement with those obtained by the reference methods.

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Walash, M.I., El-Brashy, A., El-Enany, N. et al. Second-Derivative Synchronous Fluorescence Spectroscopy for the Simultaneous Determination of Fluphenazine Hydrochloride and Nortriptyline Hydrochloride in Pharmaceutical Preparations. J Fluoresc 19, 891–904 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10895-009-0488-5

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