Analytical Sciences

Simultaneous Determination of Dopamine and Carvedilol in Human Serum and Urine by First-order Derivative Fluorometry

Huai You WANG,* Yan X,IAO* Juan HAN,* and Xue Shun CHANG**

*College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, People's Republic of China
**Third Occupation Technical School, Licheng Courty, Jinan 250014, People's Republic of China

A sensitive and selective method for simultaneous determination of carvedilol and dopamine was described. The emission wavelengths of carvedilol and dopamine were at 354 nm and 314 nm with the excitation at 290 nm, respectively. The determination of carvedilol and dopamine by normal fluorometry was difficult because the emission spectra of carvedilol and dopamine were overlapped seriously. The first derivative peaks of carvedilol and dopamine were at 336 nm and 302 nm, respectively. The linear regression equations of the calibration graphs of carvedilol and dopamine were C = 0.000557H - 0.00569 and C = 0.00438H - 0.0812, with the correlation coefficients were 0.9953 and 0.9988, respectively. The liner range for the determination of carvedilol was 0.002 µg ml^-1 to 0.02 µg ml^-1, and 0.05 µg ml^-1 to 0.6 µg ml^-1 for dopamine. The detection limits were 1 ng ml^-1 for carvedilol and 0.04 µg ml^-1 for dopamine, respectively. The relative standard derivative (RSD) of 4.38% and 4.35% was observed for carvedilol and dopamine, respectively. The recovery of carvedilol was from 95.00% to 106.7% in human serum and from 97.50% to 105.0% in urine sample. The recovery of dopamine was from 100.0% to 102.5% in human serum and from 97.50% to 105.0% in urine sample. This method is simple and can be used for determination of carvedilol and dopamine in human serum and urine sample with satisfactory results.

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