Table 3 Determination of Safinamide mesylate (SAF) in Parkimedine® tablets using the proposed chemometric methods and the results of standard addition technique.

From: Chemometric-assisted spectrophotometric approach for stability assessment of safinamide and its synthetic precursor in antiparkinsonian formulation with sustainability profiling

Pharmaceutical formulation

Proposed chemometric methods

Standard addition technique

Drug

Models

Claimed (µg/mL)

%Found ± SDa

Pure added

(µg/mL)

%Recovery of the pure addedb

Parkimedine® tablets(Each tablet was Labelled to Contain 100 mg SAF)

SAF

PCR

6

98.55 ± 0.987

3.0

98.67

6.0

100.61

12.0

102.05

Mean ± SD

100.44 ± 1.692

PLS

98.92 ± 0.947

3.0

99.66

6.0

100.90

12.0

102.15

Mean ± SD

100.90 ± 1.245

siPLS

100.33 ± 0.722

3.0

101.99

6.0

102.05

12.0

99.13

Mean ± SD

101.06 ± 1.664

  1. a Average of five determinations.
  2. b Average of three experiments.