Ms. Garcia et al., DETERMINATION OF PENICILLAMINE OR TIOPRONIN IN PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS BY FLOW-INJECTION ANALYSIS, Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis, 11(8), 1993, pp. 633-638
Two flow injection analysis (FIA) methods, using spectrophotometric de
tection, are proposed for the determination of penicillamine or tiopro
nin [N-(2-mercaptopropionylglycine)]. The procedures are based on the
formation of yellow complexes between these thiol-containing drugs and
Pd(II), in a 1 M or 0.25 M HCl medium, respectively. With peak height
as a quantitative parameter, penicillamine is determined over the ran
ge 1.0 x 10(-5)-7.0 x 10(-4) M; for tiopronin the range is 1.0 x 10(-5
)-6.0 x 10(-4) M. The methods have been applied to the routine determi
nation of the drugs in pharmaceutical preparations.