• Analytical Science and Technology
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.405-409
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• 1993

Spectrophotometric assay for memantine HCl was developed by using sodium 1-(4-methoxypheyl) cinnamonitrile-2-sulfonate (MPCN) as an UV labelling reagent. The optimum derivatizing condition was obtained by incubation for 30 min at pH 5.0 in the presence of 20-fold molar excess of the labelling reagent. The absorbance of reaction product was measured at 324.5 nm and detection limit was $0.43{\mu}g/ml$. A linear range was $5.0{\times}10^{-6}{\sim}6.5{\times}10^{-5}M$ of memantine HCl. The linear regression analysis of absorbance at various drug concentration was r=0.9998 (n=6). When applied to memantine HCl ampule and tablet, it gave the mean contents of $100.08{\pm}0.72%$ and $99.75{\pm}0.77%$, respectively.