Spectrophotometry Determination of Amitriptyline-HCl in Pure and Pharmaceutical Preparations.

ABSTRACT

Amitriptyline-HCl reacts with ammonium molybdate in concentrated sulphuric acid after heating for 20 min. at 100°C to give a green colour having maximum absorbance at 660 nm. The reaction is selective for amitriptyline with 0.01 mg/10ml as visual limit of identification and provides a basis for a new spectrophotometric determination. The reaction obeys Beer's law from 0.01 mg to 1.4 mg/10ml of amitriptyline-HCl and the relative standard deviation is 0.35%. The quantitative assessment of tolerable amount of other drags is also studied.

Keywords::

• spectrophotometer
• amitriptyline-HCl
• ammonium molybdate