I. Panderi et M. Parissipoulou, 2ND-DERIVATIVE SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC DETERMINATION OF NAPROXEN IN THE PRESENCE OF ITS METABOLITE IN HUMAN PLASMA, Analyst, 119(4), 1994, pp. 697-701
A second-derivative spectrophotometric method for the determination of
naproxen in the absence or presence of its 6-desmethyl metabolite in
human plasma is described. The method consists of direct extraction of
the non-ionized form of the drug with pure diethyl ether and determin
ation of the naproxen by measuring the peak amplitude (mm) in the seco
nd-order derivative spectrum at a wavelength of 328.2 nm. The efficien
cy of the extraction procedure expressed by the absolute recovery was
94.6 +/- 0.7% (mean +/- s) for the concentration range tested, and the
limit of quantification attained according to the IUPAC definition wa
s 2.42 mg l(-1) The linear dynamic range for naproxen was 5.0-100.0 mg
l(-1), the correlation coefficient for the calibration graphs was exc
ellent, r = 0.99993 (n = 6), the precision (S-r) was better than 4.58%
and the accuracy was satisfactory (E(r) < 2.32%). The results obtaine
d by the proposed method were in good agreement with those found by an
HPLC method.