resolving spectra overlapping based on net analyte signal for simultaneous spectrophotometric determination of fluoxetine and sertraline

the net analyte signal standard addition method was used for simultaneous spectrophotometric determination of sertraline and fluoxetine in pharmaceutical preparations. the method combines the advantages of the standard addition method with the net analyte signal concept to enable the extraction of information about an analyte from the spectra of multi-component mixtures. this method uses full spectrum realization and does not require calibration and prediction steps. determination requires only a few measurements. the limit of detection for fluoxetine was 0.31 µg ml-1 and for sertraline was 0.20 µg ml-1. the root mean square error for fluoxetine was 0.45 and for sertraline was 0.39.