Simultaneous Voltammetric Determination of Antihypertensive Drugs Amlodipine and Atenolol in Pharmaceuticals Using a Cathodically Pretreated Boron-Doped Diamond Electrode

• Autor(a) principal: Moraes,Jaqueline T.
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Eisele,Ana P. P., Salamanca-Neto,Carlos A. R., Scremin,Jessica, Sartori,Elen R.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-50532016000701264
• topic: simultaneous determination; amlodipine determination; atenolol determination; diamond electrode; voltammetry

The simultaneous voltammetric determination of antihypertensive drugs amlodipine besylate (AML) and atenolol (ATN) using a cathodically pretreated boron-doped diamond electrode (CP-BDDE) is reported for the first time. The anodic peak potentials of AML and ATN at a CP-BDDE were found to be 0.727 and 1.32 V (vs. Ag/AgCl (3.0 mol L-1 KCl)) in phosphate buffer (pH 7.0), respectively, by cyclic voltammetry. It was observed that the CP-BDDE possesses improved performance for the simultaneous determination of AML and ATN when compared to other carbon-based electrodes in these conditions. Using square-wave voltammetric technique, the obtained analytical curves were linear in the concentration range from 2.9-33 µmol L-1 for AML and 9.8-190 µmol L-1 for ATN, with limits of detection of 0.17 and 0.22 µmol L-1, respectively. The proposed method was successfully applied to the simultaneous determination of AML and ATN in pharmaceutical samples.