“…A review of literature revealed that few spectrophotometric methods for the assay of verapamil hydrochloride based on charge transfer complexes with 2,3,5,6-tetrachloro-p-benzoquinone, 13 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano p-benzoquinone and 2,5-dichloro-3,6-dihydroxy-p-benzoquinone, 14 chromotrope 2B and chromotrope 2R azodyes, 15 extractable ion-pair complexes with bromothymol blue, bromophenol blue, bromocresol green, bromocresol purple and methyl orange. 16 However, a simple spectrophotometric procedure based on the reaction of the drug with an oxidant is not known.…”