A rapid spectrophotometric method for determination of piperazine

A spectrophotometric method has been developed for the determination of piperazine and its salts (citrate, phosphate, and tartrate) without prior separation, based on the interaction of piperazine or any of its salts with phenothiazine and N-bromosuccinimide in aqueous methanol. The products exhibit absorption maxima at 448, 595 and 645 nm. Measurements are made at 595 nm. Beer's law is obeyed in the concentration range 0.5-5 mug/ml for piperazine salts and 0.5-3 mug/ml for piperazine hexahydrate. The method is rapid, simple and successful for analysis of some pharmaceutical preparations.