Photometric extraction method for determination of cephalexin

Microchimica Acta - Tập 66 - Trang 185-194 - 1976
P. Papazova1,2, P. R. Bontchev1,2, M. Kacarova1,2
1Chemical Pharmaceutical Institute, Sofia
2Department of Analytical Chemistry, Sofia University, Bulgaria

Tóm tắt

A photometric extraction method is developed for determination of cephalexin. Cephalexin is hydrolysed for 5 min in sulphuric acid medium on a steam-bath, the hydrolytic product forming a coloured compound with ninhydrin in 25% H2SO4. This compound is extracted with CHCl3 and its absorbance measured at 520 nm. The reaction is selective — it is negative for the initial reagents in the cephalexin synthesis and for most other antibiotics. The only two antibiotics giving a similar reaction — ampicillin and cephalotin — do not interfere in the determination of cephalexin. The method is rather simple and permits rapid determination of cephalexin with satisfactory precision and accuracy — coefficient of variation 0.91–1,36%, relative error of the determination 0.66–1,19% (95% confidence limits).

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