Abstract
Counterfeiting and adulteration of prescription drugs, herbal products, and food supplements are a global challenge, causing serious economic loss to drug marketers and health implications for humans. Accordingly, accurate determination of the purity of pharmaceuticals is critical for the quality assurance of prescription drugs. Herein, the first purity analysis of pharmaceuticals naproxen and propranolol in a guided-inquiry laboratory experiment (GILE) setting as part of an undergraduate instrumental analysis laboratory course is reported. The students were able to independently design analytical procedures to determine the purity and percentage composition of suspected adulterated naproxen samples with minimal supervision of the instructor. The results of the determined percentage compositions of naproxen by the students favorably compared with the known compositions of naproxen in their GILE samples provided by the instructor, with a root-mean-square percent relative error of 3.24%. The majority of the...
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