“…Spectrophotometry was successfully used for pharmaceutical analysis, involving quality control of commercialized product and pharmacodynamic studies. Spectrophotometric methods for the determination of fluoroquinolones could be classified according to the different reactions: (i) charge-transfer complexation based on the reaction of FQs as electron donors with p-acceptors such as 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-q-benzoquinone, 7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane, q-chloranil, q-nitrophenol, and tetracyanoethylene [ 7 , 14 – 16 ]; (ii) oxidative coupling reaction using oxidative coupling with 3-methyl-2-benzothiazolinonehydrazone hydrochloride and cerium (IV) ammonium sulfate, Fe(III)-MBTH, tris( o -phenanthroline) iron(II), and tris (bipyridyl) iron(II) [ 17 , 18 ]; (iii) ion-pair complex formation with acid-dye reagents such as Sudan III, methyl orange, supracene violet 3B, tropaeolin 000, bromophenol blue, bromothymol blue, bromocresol green, and bromocresol purple [ 8 , 14 , 19 , 20 ]. These methods were related with some major drawbacks such as having narrow linearity range, requiring heating and close pH control, long time for the reaction to complete, and low stability of the colored product formed.…”