Simultaneous HPLC estimation of Amphetamine and Caffeine abuse drugs in Iraqi human addicts

Abstract

The main aim of this research is to establish and validate a high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) process for the separation and estimation of Amphetamine (AM) and Caffeine (CAF) in its illegal formula and in sera of addicts. This method is established on the HPLC separation of the two drugs on the ZORBAX ODS column (250×4.6×5µm particle size). The mobile phase contained 1% ortho-phosphoric acid 85% and 1%of diethyl amine 99%, acetonitrile and methanol ratio was 85:10:5 v/v/v. The flow rate is 1.2 mL.min-1, buffer value pH of 2.5 via isocratic elution also UV detection at 210 nm. The retention times for the two drugs AM and CAF were obtained at 4.425 and 6.456 min, respectively. The calibration curves founded that the linear regression analysis data gave a good linear relationship for the concentration range 1 to 100 µg.mL-1 for AM and CAF. The values achieved for correlation coefficient, slope and intercept were 9999, 8104.2 and 5012 for AM and 0.9999, 9698.5 and 6342.9 for CAF, whereas the LOD and LOQ was 0.51, 1.64 µg.mL-1 for AM and 0.60, 1.32 µg.mL-1 for CAF