Simultaneous Spectrophotometric Estimation of Artesunate and Mefloquine

Table 2

Optical characteristics and other parameters.

Parameters	ART	MEF
Working wavelength (nm)	240	222
Linearity range (𝜇g/mL)	10–60	20–120
Molar absorptivity	3.7	6.6
Limit of detection (𝜇g/mL)	0.54	0.45
Limit of quantitation (𝜇g/mL); 𝑌=𝑚𝑥+𝑐	1.79	1.48
Slope	0.003	0.006
Intercept	0.0001	0.0003
Regression coefficient	0.999	0.998