SIMULTANEOUS ESTIMATION AND VALIDATION OF RAMIPRIL AND TELMISARTAN BY UV SPECTROPHOTOMETRY

A simple and sensitive spectrophotometric method for the determination of ramipril and telmisartan in pharmaceutical dosage forms has been developed. The absorption maxima were found at 220nm for ramipril and 297nm for telmisartan using 0.1N NaOH as solvent. Beer's law was obeyed for both the drugs in the concentration range of 2-10μg/ml with correlation coefficients 0.999 for both ramipril and telmisartan. The limits of detection for ramipril and telmisartan were found to be 0.142 and 0.405μg/mL respectively and the limits of quantitation were 0.43 and 1.22μg/mL. Accuracy of the method was verified by performing recovery studies using simultaneous equation method and found to be 98.33 to 99.54%w/w for ramipril and 99.36 to 99.82 %w/w for telmisartan. %RSD of repeatability and intermediate precision studies were found to be