“…The most widely used technique for the assay of SBS in pharmaceuticals has been visible spectrophotometry; procedures based on such varied reactions as redox [13,14 ], reduction followed by chelation [15], oxidative coupling [16,17], diazotization and coupling [18,19], nitrosation [20], nitration [21], nitration followed by Meisenheimer complex formation [22], and charge-transfer complex formation [23] are found in literature. However, many of these procedures suffer from one or the other disadvantage (Table 1) such as poor sensitivity, a heating or extraction step, critical working conditions, or the use of organic solvents; and hence are unsatisfactory for routine analysis.…”