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Comparative Study of Two Different Chromatographic Approaches for Quantitation of Hydrocortisone Acetate and Pramoxine Hydrochloride in Presence of Their Impurities

Comparative Study of Two Different Chromatographic Approaches for Quantitation of Hydrocortisone Acetate and Pramoxine Hydrochloride in Presence of Their Impurities

Fawzia Ibrahim, Asmaa Kamal El-Deen, Kuniyoshi Shimizu

J Food Drug Anal. 2018 Jul;26(3):1160-1170.

PMID: 29976408

Abstract:

In the present study, we compare the performance of two reversed-phase liquid chromatographic approaches using different eluents either conventional hydro-organic eluent or micellar one for simultaneous estimation of hydrocortisone acetate and pramoxine hydrochloride in presence of their degradants and process-related impurities; hydrocortisone and 4-butoxyphenol, respectively. For conventional reversed-phase liquid chromatography (RPLC), separation of the studied compounds was completed on an Inertsil ODS 3-C18 column (150 mm × 4.6 mm, 5 μm particle size) with a mobile phase consists of 50 mM phosphate buffer (pH 5.0): acetonitrile (50: 50, v/v). For micellar liquid chromatography (MLC), an Eclipse XDB-C8 column (150 mm × 4.6 mm, 5 μm particle size) was chosen for the separation with a green mobile phase consists of 0.15 M sodium dodecyl sulfate, 0.3% triethylamine and 10% n-butanol in 20 mM orthophosphoric acid (pH 5.0). Both methods were extended to analyze hydrocortisone acetate and pramoxine hydrochloride in their co-formulated cream. RPLC was superior to MLC with regard to sensitivity for the estimation of impurities. While, MLC represents an eco-friendly, less hazardous and biodegradable approach. Furthermore, the direct injection of the cream to the system without the need to laborious samples pretreatment, excessive amount of analysis time and/or use of large amount of toxic organic solvents is one of the outstanding advantages of MLC.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP122764801	Hydrocortisone phosphate triethylamine		122764-80-1	Price
AP637581-A	Pramoxine hydrochloride		637-58-1	Price

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