Research Article

Fluorometric Determination of Drugs Containing α-Methylene Sulfoxide Functional Groups Using 𝑁 1 - Methylnicotinamide Chloride as a Fluorogenic Agent

Table 5

Recovery data of 15 when assayed in spiked human plasma samples using the proposed method.

DrugClaimed drug concentrationRecovered concentration*% recoveryMean % recovery ± S.D.CV

1 μg/mL1
3
12
15
20
30
40
50
1.01
2.9
12.02
15.1
19.89
30.15
40.09
49.9
101%
97.5%
100.15%
100.6%
99.45%
100.5%
100.3%
99.8%
9 9 . 9 8 ± 1 . 0 4 1.05%

2 ng/mL75
200
500
1000
1200
73.5
210
500
9700
1224
98%
105%
100%
97%
102%
104±3.213.20%

3 ng/mL100
300
1200
1500
103
295
1204
1498
103%
98.3%
100.3%
99.8%
1 0 0 . 2 6 ± 1 . 7 1 1.72%

4 ng/mL100
300
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
101
302
399
603
795
995
1204
1392
101%
100.67%
99.75%
100.5%
99.375%
99.5%
100.33%
99.4%
1 0 0 . 1 1 ± 0 . 6 1 0.62%

5 ng/mL50
200
600
800
1000
1500
2100
51
196
602
810
1012
1485
2125
102%
98%
100.3%
101.25%
101.2%
99%
101.2%
100.42±431.43%

*Average of triplicate analyses for each concentration.