TITLE:
Simple, Inexpensive and Ecologically Friendly Derivative Spectrophotometric Fluconazole Assay from Nail Lacquer Formulations
AUTHORS:
Alisa Elezović, Amar Elezović, Sabira Hadžović
KEYWORDS:
Nail Lacquer, Fluconazole Assay, Derivative Spectrophotometry
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Analytical Chemistry,
Vol.2 No.2,
February
25,
2011
ABSTRACT: Nail lacquers represent new drug form specifically designed to treat infected nail plate. They are complex organic solutions with specific assaying problems due to the high content of the polymer and plasticizer. Furthermore, there is a lack of assaying methods of active substances from this type of formulations in scientific literature. We developed derivative UV-spectrophotometric method for determination of fluconazole content in antifungal nail lacquer formulations. The method was validated for specificity, linearity, precision (repeatability), intermediate precision and accuracy (recovery). The method is specific, linear in the range of 99.53 - 497.65 μg/ml, precise and showed good recovery (98.79% - 101.77% from all six developed formulations). Besides, it is inexpensive, simple and nontoxic, i.e. ecologically acceptable. This method can be used for assaying fluconazole from this type of formulations.