Research Article

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

Table 2

Results obtained by the proposed first-derivative spectrophotometric method for determination of TRG and TAD.

ItemTRG at 260.4 nmTAD at 274 nm

Range of linearity (μg/mL)5–502.5–25
Regression equationA = 0.0067 C·μg/mL–0.0008A = 0.0288 C·μg/mL–0.0094
Regression coefficient (r)0.99980.9997
LOD (μg/mL)1.210.77
LOQ (μg/mL)3.672.34
6.31 × 10−55.41 × 10−4
0.0020.006
Confidence limit of the slope0.0067 ± 4.23 × 10−70.0288 ± 9.93 × 10−6
Confidence limit of the intercept−0.0008 ± 1.87 × 10−6−0.0094 ± 6.05 × 10−5
Standard error of the estimation0.0020.006
Accuracy
Laboratory prepared (mean ± SD)
99.43 ± 0.7899.31 ± 0.45
Standard addition (mean ± SD)99.51 ± 1.36
Precision
Intraday % RSD
0.45–0.53–0.710.43–0.51–0.64
Interday % RSD0.28–0.41–0.510.27–0.39–0.46
Drug in dosage form (mean ± SD)99.37 ± 0.89

Standard deviations of the slope Sb & intercept Sa.