The combination of naproxen sodium (NAP) and pseudoephedrine hydrochloride (PSE) has an effect as a pain reliever, fever reducer and nasal decongestant in pharmaceutical tablet formulations. Particularly, the above combination temporarily relieves cold, sinus and flu symptoms such as sinus pressure, minor body aches and pains, headache, nasal and sinus congestion (promotes sinus drainage and restores freer breathing through the nose) and fever.In the literature, NAP in single component samples was investigated by voltametry 1) and spectrofluorometry.2) HPLC was applied to the simultaneous quantitation of NAP and PSE impurities.3) NAP with other compounds in the samples was determined by using HPLC, 4) chemometric methods 5,6) and capillary electrophoresis. 7) Determination of PSE in human plasma was carried out by HPLC. 8) PSE with other compounds in the sample was carried out by using HPTLC, 9) capillary electrophoresis. 10) HPLC, 11) spectrophotometry, 12,13) derivative and ratio spectra derivative spectrophotometry 14) and ratio spectra derivative spectrophotometry, and Vierord's method.
15)Although HPLC, as a comparison method, is the current method of choice for the analysis of multicomponent pharmaceutical formulations, it requires a separation treatment and several injections during analysis. In chromatographic analysis, the main problems of this method involve the optimization of experimental conditions such as selection of column type, temperature of column, variety and composition of mobile phase, selection of one specific wavelength and cheap instrumentation. In spite of the fact that this method undoubtedly provides more sensitive determination than the spectrophotometric methods, the calculations at one specific wavelength produce some errors in the process of construction of linear regression equations. Namely, in the case of a single wavelength detector response classic HPLC gives some chromatographic area errors coming from injection and instrumental fluctuations, as well as the other sources. Therefore, the above mentioned facts affect the result of analysis. For these reasons, the simultaneous use of chromatograms to obtain a multiwavelength PDA detector response will eliminate the errors of single regression equations based on single wavelength. The injection (times of) frequency until achievement of the final result will decrease by the simultaneous use of HPLC and chemometric calibration techniques. This procedure reduces the time of analysis and consumption of reactants.In recent years, chemometric calibrations such as classical least-squares (CLS), inverse least squares (ILS), principle component regression (PCR) and partial least squares (PLS) have been applied to the analysis of analytical data obtained from many instruments. [16][17][18][19][20] Chemometric calibration techniques have been subjected to the resolution of overlapping spectra for the determination of active compounds in samples containing two or more compounds. [21][22][23][24] In our study, CLS, PCR and PLS calibration te...