Abstract
Toxic impurities were found in leucomycin and its preparation, however the content determination of impurities was challengeable due to the lacking of their reference standards. In this study, we developed high-performance liquid chromatography method coupled with charged aerosol detection (CAD) for the quantification of related substance of leucomycin (kitasamycin) bulk drugs and tablets, however, the CAD was not yet popular. In order to carry out quantitation work conveniently in the laboratory without CAD instruments, a high-performance liquid chromatography method coupled with ultraviolet (UV) detection was developed with the assistant of the HPLC-CAD results. The relative response of impurities on CAD chromatogram was used for guiding the establishment of HPLC-UV method, which could achieve the quantitation task in the absence of impurity reference standards. The developed HPLC-UV method was validated according to the ICH guideline and showed good precision, reproducibility and linearity with determination coefficient higher than 0.9999. The limit of detection and quantitation were 0.3 and 0.5 μg mL−1, respectively. The recoveries were 92.9 %–101.5 % at the spiked concentration levels of 0.1 %, 0.8 %, 1.0 and 1.2 % with relative standard deviations (RSDs, n = 3) lower than 2.0 %. Finally, the developed HPLC-CAD and -UV methods were compared by the determination of impurities in several batches of leucomycin bulk drugs and tablets. The results demonstrated that the developed HPLC-UV method was simple and reliable. This study developed methods to quantify the related substance in leucomycin and tablets, and discussed a strategy of the conversion of HPLC-CAD method to HPLC-UV method. The developed methods could be considered for implementation into pharmacopeial monographs in the future.
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