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To cite this Article Bunaciu, Andrei A., Bacalum, Elena, Aboul-Enein, Hassan Y., Elena Udristioiu, Gabriela and Fleschin,
erban(2009)'FT-IR Spectrophotometric Analysis of Ascorbic Acid and Biotin and their Pharmaceutical Formulations',Analytical
Letters,42:10,1321 — 1327
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PHARMACEUTICAL ANALYSIS
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INTRODUCTION
The techniques used for the assay of ascorbic acid and biotin are
high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC; Gioia et al. 2008;
Chaistain, Bowers-Komrod, and McCormick 1985), spectrophotometry
(Meng et al. 2008; Ozyurek et al. 2007), and solid-phase 125I-avidin assay
techniques (Tolymat and Mock 1989). There are some studies regarding
FT-IR analysis of ascorbic acid (Lohmann, Pagel, and Penka 1984) and
biotin (Swamy, Heimburg, and Marsh 1996).
The aim of the present study is to investigate the potential of FT-IR
spectrometry to quantify vitamin C and vitamin H in pharmaceutical pre-
parations. The proposed analytical method in this study was performed
on standards of vitamin C and vitamin H and four different pharmaceu-
tical formulations (namely Biotin, sample A, containing about 1000 mg of
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EXPERIMENTAL
Apparatus
Ascorbic acid and biotin standards used for this study were provided
by Sigma (St. Louis, MO) and Merck (Darmstadt, Germany) respec-
tively. The pharmaceuticals were manufactured by Nature Bounty,
Inc., Bohemia, NY, USA (BIOTIN1 1000 mmg=tablet, sample A), by
Memphis Co. for Pharmaceutical and Chemical Industries Cairo, Egypt
(CEREVOL1 500 mg=tablet ascorbic acid, sample B), and by Euro-
pharm Braşov Romania (SUPRADYN1 150 mg of ascorbic acid and
250 mg biotin per tablet, sample C), respectively. Spectral grade KBr from
Merck was used for disk preparation.
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Recommended Procedures
Figures 2 and 3 show the spectra of standard ascorbic acid and biotin
as well as for the pharmaceutical preparations using the KBr disk
method.
Figure 2. FT-IR standard spectra for ascorbic acid and biotin, respectively.
FT-IR Spectrophotometric Analysis of Ascorbic Acid and Biotin 1325
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CONCLUSIONS
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