Stripping voltammetric quantification of the anti-diabetic drug glipizide in bulk form and pharmaceutical formulation

J Pharm Biomed Anal. 2007 Mar 12;43(4):1465-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jpba.2006.09.025. Epub 2006 Oct 12.

Abstract

The electrochemical behavior of glipizide at the hanging mercury drop electrode (HMDE) was studied in B-R universal buffers of pH 1.7-11. The voltammograms exhibited a well-defined 4-electron irreversible cathodic peak which attributed to reduction of the two C=N of the pyrazine ring of glipizide molecule. Glipizide was found to has an interfacial adsorptive character onto the mercury electrode surface. A monolayer surface coverage of 1.02x10(-10)mol cm(-2) was estimated and hence each adsorbed glipizide molecule occupied an area of 1.63 nm(2) onto the mercury electrode surface. A simple and precise square-wave adsorptive cathodic stripping (SWAdCS) voltammetric procedure was described for quantification of bulk glipizide with a limit of detection of 1.5x10(-10)M and a limit of quantitation of 5x10(-10)M. The proposed procedure was successfully applied for quantitation of glipizide in its pharmaceutical formulation (Minidiab tablets) without interference from excipients.

MeSH terms

  • Buffers
  • Electrochemistry / methods
  • Electrodes
  • Glipizide / blood*
  • Glipizide / chemistry*
  • Humans
  • Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
  • Hypoglycemic Agents / blood*
  • Hypoglycemic Agents / chemistry*
  • Molecular Structure
  • Pharmaceutical Preparations / analysis
  • Pharmaceutical Preparations / blood
  • Pharmaceutical Preparations / chemistry
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Tablets

Substances

  • Buffers
  • Hypoglycemic Agents
  • Pharmaceutical Preparations
  • Tablets
  • Glipizide