Simultaneous Determination of Cephradine, L‐Arginine, and Cephalexin in Cephradine for Injection by Capillary Zone Electrophoresis

Abstract

Applying capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) to separate the components of Cephradine for Injection: cephradine, and L‐arginine, as well as cephalexin, which is the degradation product of cephradine was studied. The best results were achieved with background electrolyte consisting of 50 mM disodium hydrogen phosphate buffer at pH 6.5 and an applied voltage of 20 kV in a bare fused‐silica capillary. The samples were injected at 50 mbar for 4 s. The capillary temperature was 25°C and the UV detection was performed at a wavelength of 195 nm. Histidine was used as internal standard (IS) to ensure acceptable precision data. The linear ranges of cephradine, L‐arginine, and cephalexin were 93.8–6255.6 µg/mL, 47.9–3195.2 µg/mL, and 6.1–405.4 µg/mL, respectively. Quantitative parameters such as accuracy, precision, limit of detection (LOD), and limit of quantitation(LOQ) were all established in CZE mode.