Voltammetric Applications in Drug Detection: Mini Review

The application of electroanalytical techniques plays a very important role in the field of medicinal and pharmaceutical research. These techniques have been routinely used by analytical, inorganic, organic physical as well as biological chemists. In recent years the various voltammetric methods such as Differential pulse voltammetry, Cyclic voltammetry, Linear sweep voltammetry, Square wave voltammetry, Stripping voltammetry etc have gained enormous attention for the determination of different classes of drugs. Electroanalytical techniques gain supreme importance over other techniques in terms of the quantization of trace and ultra-trace components of biological fluids as well as pharmaceutical substances. Therefore, these techniques are alternative in detection and analysis due to their sensitivity, reproducibility and selectivity in terms of qualitative as well as quantitative aspects of the analyte under investigation. The present review focuses on the application of various voltammetric techniques for the analysis of analgesics, antibiotics, anthelmintic, anti-tubercular and anticancer drugs covering the period from 2015 to present.