title: Kinetic spectrophotometric determination of N-acetyl-L-cysteine based on a coupled redox-complexation reaction.
abstract: A novel simple kinetic spectrophotometric method for the determination of N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC) has been developed and validated. The proposed method is based on a coupled redox-complexation reaction, the first step of which is the reduction of Fe(3+) by NAC; the second one includes the complexation of Fe(2+), resulting from the preceding redox reaction, with 2,4,6-trypyridyl-s-triazine (TPTZ). The stable Fe(TPTZ)(2)(2+) complex exhibits an absorption maximum at lambda = 593 nm.The initial rate and fixed-time (at 5 min) methods were utilized for constructing calibration graphs. The graphs were linear in concentration ranges from 4.0 x 10(-6) to 1.0 x 10(-4) mol L(-1) for the initial rate method and 1.0 x 10(-6) to 1.0 x 10(-4) mol L(-1) for the fixed-time method, with detection limits of 1.0 x 10(-6) and 1.7 x 10(-7) mol L(-1), respectively. The proposed methods were successfully applied for the determination of NAC in its commercial pharmaceutical formulations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Technology, University of Split, Teslina 10/V, 21000 Split, Croatia. lkmodun@gmail.com
authors.forename: Lea
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kukoc-Modun
authors.forename: Njegomir
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Radić
mesh_terms: D000111:Acetylcysteine / Q000032:analysis* / Q000737:chemistry*; D007700:Kinetics; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000737:chemistry; D013053:Spectrophotometry / Q000379:methods*; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations; D000111:Acetylcysteine