Abstract
A method was developed for the quantitative determination of cefixime in bulk and pharmaceutical preparations using ferroin complex. The method is based on the oxidation of the cefixime with Fe(III) in acidic medium. The formed Fe(II) reacts with 1,10-phenanthroline, and the ferroin complex is measured spectrophotometrically at 510 nm against reagent blank. Beer’s law was obeyed in the concentration range 0.2–10 μg/ml with a good correlation of 0.993. The molar absorptivity was calculated and was found to be 1.375×105 L/mol × cm. The limit of detection (LOD) and limit of quantification (LOQ) were found to be 0.030 and 0.101 μg/ml respectively. The proposed method has reproducibility with a relative standard deviation of 5.28% (n = 6). The developed method was validated statistically by performing a recoveries study and successfully applied for the determination of cefixime in bulk powder and pharmaceutical formulations without interferences from common excipients. Percent recoveries were found to range from 98.00 to 102.05% for the pure form and 97.83 to 102.50% for pharmaceutical preparations.
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