A stability-indicating HPLC assay for metronidazole benzoate |
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Authors: | Bempong Daniel K Manning Ronald G Mirza Tahseen Bhattacharyya Lokesh |
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Institution: | The United States Pharmacopeia, 12601 Twinbrook Parkway, Rockville, MD 20852, USA. dkb@usp.org |
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Abstract: | A simple and rapid stability-indicating HPLC assay procedure has been developed and validated for metronidazole benzoate. The HPLC conditions were as follows, column: Waters Symmetry C8, 5 microm packing, 4.6 mm x 250 mm; detection: UV at 271 nm; injection volume: 20 microl; mobile phase: acetonitrile-0.1% glacial acetic acid in monobasic potassium phosphate (0.01 M) (40:60, v/v); isocratic elution under ambient temperature at 2.0 ml min(-1). The procedure separated metronidazole benzoate and its potential degradation products, metronidazole and benzoic acid, in an overall analysis time of about 6 min with metronidazole benzoate eluting at about 5 min. The injection repeatability was 0.03%, and the intraday and interday repeatability were 0.4 and 0.7%, respectively. The procedure provided a linear response over the concentration range 0.2-800 microg ml(-1) (r=1.0000) with the limits of detection and quantitation 0.03 and 0.2 microg ml(-1), respectively. The solubilities of metronidazole benzoate in water, 0.01 M hydrochloric acid and 0.05 M phosphate buffer, pH 6.8, determined each in triplicate using the procedure, were 0.2 mg ml(-1) (R.S.D. 7%), 0.4 mg ml(-1) (R.S.D. 2%) and 0.2 mg ml(-1) (R.S.D. 8%), respectively. The results show no detectable hydrolysis of metronidazole benzoate in 0.01 M hydrochloric acid at 37 degrees C or in the mobile phase at ambient temperature in 10 h. |
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