1984 Volume 33 Issue 9 Pages E383-E388
A simple and sensitive spectrophotometric method for the determination of sulpyrine utilizing the decrease in the absorbance of ο-hydroxyhydroquinonephthalein-cerium(IV) complex was established. The method could be used in the concentration range of 2 - 20 μg/10 ml of sulpyrine; where the effective molar "desorptivity" at 570 nm was 1.2 × 105 dm3 mol-1 cm-1 The other pyrazolone derivatives(antipyrine, aminopyrine and phenylbutazone) could be also determined in the same way. The proposed method was successfully applied to the determination of sulpyrine in commercial injections.