Spectral characteristic investigation on complex of Ni (II) with captopril and its analytical application

In this paper, Ni (II) reacting with captopril (CPT) can form complex in alkaline solution and the formed complex has a characteristic absorption peak at 340nm. The absorbance of the Ni-CPT complex increases linearly with the increased concentration of captopril. The study also shows that ammonia has an obvious sensitizing effect on the absorbance. Based on the study, a new method for the determination of captopril is established. Experimental results show that the linear range of this method under optimum condition is 1.0-60mg/L with correlation coefficient, detection limit and precision of 0.9999, 0.31mg/L and 0.87%, respectively. The method used to determine captopril in commercial captopril tablets has a satisfactory result with the recoveries in the range of 99.0-103.6% and the relative standard deviation (RSD) in the range of 0.8-3.7%. We preliminarily study the reaction mechanism and demonstrate that the complex ratio of Ni (II) with captopril is 1:2 and the formation constant is 6.3×10(9).