Research Article

Different Spectrophotometric Methods for Simultaneous Determination of Trelagliptin and Its Acid Degradation Product

Table 1

Results obtained by the proposed simultaneous equation spectrophotometric method for determination of TRG and TAD.

ItemTRG at 274 nmTRG at 260.4 nmTAD at 274 nmTAD at 260.4 nm

Range of linearity (μg/mL)5–505–502.5–252.5–25
Regression equationA = 0.0276 C·μg/mL + 0.0056A = 0.0208 C·μg/mL + 0.0063A = 0.0129 C·μg/mL–0.0050A = 0.0505 C·μg/mL–0.0117
Regression coefficient (r)0.99990.99970.99900.9999
LOD (μg/mL)1.01 μg/mL1.450.760.42
LOQ (μg/mL)3.05 μg/mL4.412.321.27
2.16 × 10−42.35 × 10−41.54 × 10−43.28 × 10−4
0.0080.0090.0030.006
Confidence limit of the slope0.0276 × 5.95 × 10−60.0208 × 4.89 × 10−60.0129 × 1.99 × 10−60.0505 × 1.66 × 10−5
Confidence limit of the intercept0.0056 × 4.50 × 10−50.0063 × 5.46 × 10−5−0.0050 × 1.42 × 10−5−0.0117 × 7.11 × 10−5
Standard error of the estimation0.0090.0080.0030.006
Accuracy
Laboratory prepared (mean ± SD)
100.66 ± 0.10100.96 ± 0.86
Standard addition (mean ± SD)98.55 ± 1.70
Precision
Intraday % RSD
0.04–0.53–0.560.05–0.54–0.55
Interday % RSD0.40–0.54–0.920.45–0.52–0.92
Drug in dosage form (mean ± SD)100.98 ± 0.39

Standard deviations of the slope Sb & intercept Sa.