Title:Use of Chemical Reagents in Non-fluorescent Pharmaceutical Labels:
A Comprehensive Review
Volume: 19
Issue: 6
Author(s): Barla Karuna Devi*, Kuchana Madhavi, Swathi Naraparaju and Rajeshwari Deverakonda
Affiliation:
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Gokaraju Rangaraju College of Pharmacy, Hyderabad, 500 090, Telangana,
India
Keywords:
Spectrofluorimetry, non-fluorescent, reagents, drugs, derivatization, fluorescence spectrometer.
Abstract: Spectrofluorimetry is an analytical technique with high sensitivity, specificity, and
simplicity, and is very economical. Drugs that lack native fluorescence are derivatized with reagents
so that highly fluorescent compounds are formed that can be readily detected by spectrofluorimetry.
There are different reagents such as 4-chloro-7-nitrobenz-2-oxa-1,3-diazole (NBD-Cl),
N- methylnicotinamide chloride (NMNCl), 9-flurenylmethylchloroformate (FMOC-Cl), dansylchloride
(DNS-Cl), 3-methyl-2-benzothiazolinone hydrazone hydrochloride (MBTH), 1,2-
naphthoquinone-4-sulfonate (NQS), 1,4- benzoquinone, 4-fluro-7-nitrobenzofurazan (NBD-F),
ninhydrin, benzoin, N- bromo succinimide (NBS), acetylacetone & HCHO, ortho-phthalaldehyde
(OPA), and 2-cyanoacetamide used in spectrofluorimetric determination of the drugs that lack native
fluorescence. The present review highlights these reagents with principle, reaction conditions,
and their applications.