Research Article

Manipulating Ratio Spectra for the Spectrophotometric Analysis of Diclofenac Sodium and Pantoprazole Sodium in Laboratory Mixtures and Tablet Formulation

Table 1

Regression parameters obtained for the determination of diclofenac (DCL) and pantoprazole (PAN) using the proposed methods.

ParametersRatio spectra peak to peak measurementRatio derivative methodMean centering of ratio spectra
DCLPANDCLPANDCLPAN

Wavelength(s) (in nm)318.0 and 251.0 318.0 and 251.0 326.0 337.0 318.0 318.0
Calibration range (μg/mL)2.0–24.02.0–20.02.0–24.02.0–20.02.0–24.02.0–20.0
Slope0.55070.01870.03510.02430.42600.1668
Intercept0.11120.0045−0.00480.0039−0.00710.0125
Correlation coefficient ( )0.99810.99770.99980.99960.99980.9991
LOD (μg/mL)0.5830.5970.6050.6880.5600.543
LOQ (μg/mL)1.7651.8111.8322.0851.6961.645

LOD: limit of detection; LOQ: limit of quantitation.