A new approach to the spectrophotometric determination of metronidazole and tinidazole using p-dimethylaminobenzaldehyde

Acta Pharmaceutica

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 407-419

  Adegoke, Olajire ^a   Umoh, Offiong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Diazotization; Nitroimidazoles; P dimethylaminobenzaldehyde; Spectrophotometry

Indexed keywords

4 DIMETHYLAMINOBENZALDEHYDE; AMTIBA; LOXAGYL; METRODOL; METRONIDAZOLE; METROTABS; TINIDAZOLE; TROMET; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAZOTIZATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE; TITRIMETRY;

EID: 77949442654     PISSN: 13300075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10007-009-0039-2     Document Type: Article

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