Spectrophotometric Determination of Naproxen in Pure and Pharmaceutical Preparations

ABSTRACT

Naproxen reacts with 1-naphthylamine and sodium nitrite to give an orangish red colour having maximum absorbance at 460-480 nm (working wavelength 480 nm). The reaction is selective for naproxen with 0.001 mg/ml as visual limit of quantitation and provides a basis for a new spectrophotometric determination. The reaction obeys Beer's law from 0.01mg to 6.5 mg/10ml of naproxen and the relative standard deviation is 1.5%. The quantitative assessment of tolerable amount of other drugs is also studied.

Keywords::

• Spectrophotometer
• naproxen
• 1-naphthylamine
• sodium nitrite