Simultaneous determination of ascorbic acid (AA), acetylsalicylic acid (ASP) and paracetamol (PAR) in their synthetic mixtures and effervescent tablets were performed by Haar and Mexican continuous wavelet transforms (HAAR-CWT and MEXH-CWT, respectively) together with double divisor technique. The signal processing methods are based on the application of HAAR-CWT and MEXH-CWT to the double divisor-ratio spectra (DDRS). These spectra were obtained by dividing the absorption spectra of pure compound and its ternary mixtures by a double-divisor or standard spectrum corresponding to a mixture of two compounds in ternary mixture. A combined use of HAAR-CWT and MEXH-CWT with double divisor-ratio spectra (DDRS) was denoted by DDRS-HAAR CWT and DDRS-MEXH CWT. To check the ability or applicability of the developed DDRS-CWT methods, the double divisor-ratio spectra-derivative spectrophotometric (DDRS-DS) method, as a comparison method, was applied to the above mentioned samples containing AA, ASP and PAR and satisfactory results were obtained.
Haar wavelet transform; mexican wavelet transform; double divisor-ratio spectra; ternary mixture analysis; effervescent tablet
