RP-HPLC Assay for Estimation of Pitavastatin in Bulk and Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms

Abstract

Reverse phase high performance liquid chromatographic (RP-HPLC) method was developed and validated for the estimation of pitavastatin in tablet dosage form. A Phenomenex Luna C18, 150×4.6 mm i.d, 5 µm particle size with mobile phase consisting of buffer 0.01M potassium dihydrogen ortho phosphate pH (3.75) adjusted with dilute orthophosphoric and acetonitrile in the ratio of 20:80 v/v was used. The flow rate was 1.2 mL/min and eluents were monitored at 248 nm. The retention time was 4.1min. The detector response was linear in the concentration of 25-150 µg/mL, with the regression coefficient of 0.9998. Quantification was done by calculating area of the peak and the limit of detection and limit of quantification were 1.9 µg/mL and 5.7 µg/mL respectively. The percentage assay of pitavastatin was 101.1%. The results of study showed that the proposed RP-HPLC method is simple, rapid, precise and accurate which is useful for the routine determination of pitavastatin in bulk drug and in its pharmaceutical dosage forms.