Fluorometric and Spectrophotometric Determination of Pirbuterol Hydrochloride in Authentic and Dosage Forms
Abstract Pirbuterol hydrochloride has been assayed in alkaline medium by using a fluorometric method to measure fluorescence intensity at 372 nm with excitation at 310 nm and by the ▵A method at 242 nm.The linearity ranges are 0.5-4 μg/mL and 10-50 μg/mL, respectively. An authentic pirbuterol HC1 sample was analyzed by nonaqueous potentiometric titration using 0.1N perchloric acid, and the results were compared with those for fluorometric and AA methods. The mean percent recoveries for the authentic sample were 98.72 ± 1.13 and 99.24 ± 0.85, respectively. When applied to commercial capsules containing 10 mg and 15 mg each, the fluorometric method gave mean percent recoveries of 101.11 ± 1.05 and 98.12 ± 0.93; the ▵A method gave mean percent recoveries of 100.57 ± 0.83 and 97.80 ± 0.75, respectively.