Abstract
In this work a new spectrophotometric method for quantitative determination of levodopa has been developed. The red - orange color produced by the reaction between levodopa
and benzhydrazide, p-nitrobenzhydrazide or p-aminobenzhydrazide
in alkaline media is used for spectrophotometric determination in the
visible region. In this method, 0.5 ml hydrazide reagent is added to 10 ml of
levodopa solution diluted with hydrochloric acid, 0.40 ml of 0.3N
sodium hydroxide solution is added for benzhydrazide, 0.70 ml of
5 w / v sodium hydroxide solution is added for p-nitro or p-aminobenzhydrazide.
The waiting period, wavelengths, E 1 2e e
and the concentrations in accordance Beer's Law are dependent to the reagents
used. Data obtained are 35 mins, 480 nm, 646, 0.5-15 mcg / ml for benzhydrazide, 10 mins, 490 nm, 724, 0.5-20 mcg/ml for p-nitrobenzhydrazide
and 40 mins, 490 nm, 798, 0.5-14 mcg/ml for
p-aminobenzhydrazide respectively. The solutions should be allowed
to keep at room temperature for all three reagents. Measurements
are made against the reagent blanks, prepared under the same conditions.
The variability (standart deviation, confidence limites with
o .95 probability) and reliability (standart error, and relative error)
of this method have been calculated for three reagents at different
concentrations using ten samples for each experiment.
It is found that p-nitrobenzhydrazide is reliable from other
reagents to the reaction time, the limits of concentrations of levodop