RESUMO
Two highly simple, economical, accurate and sensitive spectrophotometric methods for determination of dopamine hydrochloride (DAH) in either pure form and pharmaceutical formulations are described. The first method is based on determination of (DAH) spectrophotometrically at maximum absorbance 280 nm (method A). The second one is based on reduction of alkaline KMnO4 by (DAH) leading to the formation of green manganate species which are measured at 610 nm (method B). Under optimized conditions, the calibration graphs were linear in the range of 3.793 - 45.513, 0.190 - 4.362 µg.mL-1 of (DAH) for methods A and B respectively. The developed methods were successfully applied for the determination of dopamine hydrochloride in pharmaceutical samples.