Research Article

Use of Charge Transfer Complexation Reactions for the Spectrophotometric Determination of Sumatriptan in Pharmaceuticals

Table 4

Robustness and ruggedness.

 Method SMT taken, g mL−1Method robustness 
 Method ruggedness
Parameters altered
Reagent volume, mLa RSD, % ( )Reaction timeb RSD, % ( )Interanalysts RSD, % ( )Intercuvettes RSD, % ( )

DDQ method16.01.230.931.561.34
32.00.891.151.311.47
48.01.111.491.781.50

I2 method8.001.020.851.401.29
16.01.181.321.631.09
24.01.401.281.751.13

aIn both methods, the volume of reagent was 0.8, 1.0, and 1.2 mL. bThe reaction time was 4, 5, and 6 min in DDQ method and 9, 10, and 11 min in I2 method.