Quantitative analysis of metformin in antidiabetic tablets by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

U. Contreras; N. Ornelas-Soto; M. A. Meneses-Nava; O. Barbosa-García; P. L. López-de-Alba; L. López-Martínez

doi:10.1117/12.902173

25 October 2011 Quantitative analysis of metformin in antidiabetic tablets by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

U. Contreras, N. Ornelas-Soto, M. A. Meneses-Nava, O. Barbosa-García, P. L. López-de-Alba, L. López-Martínez

Proceedings Volume 8011, 22nd Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Light for the Development of the World; 80112Q (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.902173
Event: International Commission for Optics (ICO 22), 2011, Puebla, Mexico

Abstract

Nowadays the production of counterfeit and low quality drugs affects human health and generates losses to pharmaceutical industries and tax revenue losses to government. Currently there are several methods for pharmaceutical product analysis; nevertheless, most of them depend on complex and time consuming steps such as sample preparation. In contrast to conventional methods, Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is evaluated as a potential analytical technique for the rapid screening and quality control of anti-diabetic solid formulations. In this paper authors propose a simple method to analyze qualitatively and quantitatively Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) such as Metformin hydrochloride. The authors used ten nanosecond duration pulses (FWHM) from a Nd:YAG laser produces the induced breakdown for the analysis. Light is collected and focused into a Cerny-Turner spectrograph and dispersed into an ICCD camera for its detection. We used atomic emissions from Chlorine atoms present only in APIs as analyte signal. The analysis was improved using Bromine as internal standard. Linear calibration curves from synthetic samples were prepared achieving linearity higher than 99%. Our results were compared with HPLC results and validation was performed by statistical methods. The validation analysis suggests that both methods have no significant differences i.e., the proposed method can be implemented for monitoring the pharmaceutical production process in-situ in real time or for inspection and recognition of authenticity.

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U. Contreras, N. Ornelas-Soto, M. A. Meneses-Nava, O. Barbosa-García, P. L. López-de-Alba, and L. López-Martínez "Quantitative analysis of metformin in antidiabetic tablets by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy", Proc. SPIE 8011, 22nd Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Light for the Development of the World, 80112Q (25 October 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.902173

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Statistical analysis

Chlorine

Calibration

Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy

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