Abstract
The existing chromatographic methods for quantification of these fluoroquinolones, contain certain disadvantages, such as generating peak tailings, which can vary in the range of 1.3-3. The characteristic structure of fluoroquinolones is the main reason for this peak asymmetry. Even official pharmacopoeial methods for these fluoroquinolones allow peak tailing up to value of 2. This problem is usually overcome by addition of characteristic mobile phase additives, as triethylamine, for suppression of secondary analyte-column interactions in reversed phase chromatography, by blocking residual silanol groups from the stationary phase to interact with positive amino-group in the analyte molecule. During our research, we concluded that this problem with high peak asymmetry of these three fluoroquinolones: ciprofloxacin, norfloxacin and moxifloxacin, can be simply avoided by careful selection of the mobile phase constituents: type and percentage of organic solvents and use of organic acid, formic acid. The second important feature is a proper choice of column which yields best peak symmetry, by use of the proposed mobile phase. The best results were obtained with Zorbax C-8 columns, generating peaks with tailing factors ranging from 1.2-1.55. These research results enable creation, development, optimisation and validation of simple, rapid, selective, accurate and precise HPLC methods for quantification of each of these three quinolones in pharmaceutical dosage forms.
References
European Pharmacopoeia, 10th ed., 2019-2020. European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & Healthcare – Council of Europe: Strasbourg.
British Pharmacopoeia, 2022. British Pharmacopoeia Commission - The Stationery Office: London.
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