Development and Validation of an RP-HPLC Method for Estimation of Chlorpheniramine Maleate, Ibuprofen, and Phenylephrine Hydrochloride in Combined Pharmaceutical Dosage Form

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to develope a simple, precise, accurate, and reproducible reversed phase high performance liquid chromatographic method for the quantitative determination of chlorpheniramine maleate, ibuprofen, and phenylephrine hydrochloride in combined pharmaceutical dosage form. Analysis was carried out using acetonitrile : mathanol : phoshphate buffer (50 : 20 : 30, v/v/v, pH 5.6) mobile phase at 1.0 mL/min flow rate and Sunfire C 18 column (5 μm × 250 mm × 4.6 mm) as stationary phase with detection wavelength of 220 nm. The retention times of chlorpheniramine maleate (CPM), ibuprofen (IBU), and phenylephrine hydrochloride (PHE) were 4.2 min, 13.6 min, and 2.7 min, respectively. The proposed method was validated with respect to linearity, accuracy, precision, specificity, and robustness. The linearity for chlorpheniramine maleate, ibuprofen, and phenylephrine hydrochloride was in the range of 0.5–2.5 μg/mL, 25–125 μg/mL, and 1.25–6.25 μg/mL, respectively. The % recoveries of all the three drugs were found to be 99.44–101.61%, 99.39–101.79%, and 98.66–101.83%. LOD were found to be 32, 120, and 68 ng/mL for CPM, IBU, and PHE, respectively. The method was successfully applied to the estimation of chlorpheniramine maleate, ibuprofen, and phenylephrine hydrochloride in combined pharmaceutical dosage form.