“…Several spectrophotometric methods have also been employed to the assay of OXM in bulk and its pharmaceutical preparations used various reagents for determining OXM, these reagents included: 2,6-dichloroquinone chlorimide with an oxidant reagent (Sankar et al, 1987), potassium ferricyanide -Fe(III) (Othman and Sahar, 2013), 4-chloro-7-nitrobenzo-2-oxa-1, 3-diazole (Salama et al, 2018), 2,4,6-tris(2-pyridyl)-5-triazine (Sankar et al, 1988), 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine (Humeidy, 2015), 1,10phenanthroline -iron(III) (Al-Sabha and Rasheed, 2011), 4-aminoantipyrine (Zakaria, 2011), cobaltinitrite-Na (Shingbal and Naik, 1983), cerium sulphate (IV) (Mohammed and Ikram, 2016) and 2,2-bipyridyl (Basheer and Mohammed, 2018). Some of these methods suffer from various limitations, for example, low sensitivity, and a long time to complete the reaction, and low stability of the product.…”