Analytical investigation of ternary mixture of phenylephrine hydrochloride, dimetindene maleate and benzalkonium chloride using validated stability indicating HPLC-DAD method
- 8 July 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy
- Vol. 46 (8), 1278-1288
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03639045.2020.1788064
Abstract
A stability-indicating high performance liquid chromatography method with diode array detection (HPLC-DAD) was developed and validated for simultaneous determination of phenylephrine hydrochloride (PHR), dimetindene maleate (DMD) and benzalkonium chloride (BZM) in nasal drops and gel dosage forms. Effective liquid chromatographic separation was accomplished by employing Venusil XBP Cyano column (4.6 x 250 mm, 5 µm particle size) with gradient elution of the mobile phase consisting of buffer solution of potassium dihydrogen phosphate (0.025 M) and sodium 1-butane sulfonate (SBS) (0.025 M) (adjusted to pH 6.0) and acetonitrile. Peak areas of PHR, DMD and BZM at 271, 256 and 206 nm respectively were measured and correlated to their concentrations. Peaks of PHR and DMD eluted at retention times 3.76 and 9.06 min respectively, while BZM eluted as a couple of peaks at 11.88 and 12.51 min. The proposed HPLC procedure was carefully validated in terms of system suitability, linearity, ranges, precision, accuracy, specificity, robustness, detection and quantification limits. The linearity range for both PHR and BZM was 10–400 μg/mL and DMD was 5–300 μg/mL with correlation coefficients >0.9999. The studied compounds were subjected to stress conditions of neutral, acidic and alkaline hydrolysis, oxidation and thermal degradation. Good resolution of the three compounds from their forced degradation products proves specificity and stability-indicating merits of the proposed method. In addition, resolution of the three drugs under investigation from some pharmaceutical compounds of different medicinal categories showed the high specificity of the described method.Keywords
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