%0 Journal Article %T Desenvolvimento e valida£¿£¿o de um m¨¦todo anal¨ªtico para quantifica£¿£¿o por espectroscopia UV de captopril em comprimidos de libera£¿£¿o prolongada %A Stulzer %A Hellen Karine %A Piazzon Tagliari %A Monika %A Segatto Silva %A Marcos Antonio %J Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Qu¨ªmico - Farmac¨¦uticas %D 2006 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X an analytical method using an ultraviolet spectroscopy (uv) was developed and validated to quantify the drug captopril in tablets of delayed release. the available parameters were: specificity, linearity and range, precision, accuracy and robustness. the linearity in the range of 5.0 - 40.0 ¦Ìg/ml presented a correlation coefficient of 0, 9998. the excipients in the formulation did not interfere with the analysis and the recovery was quantitative 100, 20 ¡À 0, 28%. all results were satisfactory and the method proved to be adequate to quantify captopril in delayed release tablets. %K captopril %K analytical validation %K uv spectroscopy. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0034-74182006000200005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en