Stability-Indicating Densitometric Analysis of Evogliptin Tartrate in Bulk and Tablet Dosage Form.

Abstract

Evogliptin tartrate is a novel dipeptidyl peptidase (DPP-4) inhibitor very recently introduced into the market as an oral hypoglycemic drug. The literature review has revealed no reports of stability-indicating analytical methods so far for evogliptin tartrate. So, the goal of this study was to develop and validate a stability indicating HPTLC method for evogliptin tartrate in bulk and tablet dosage form. For the study pre-coated plates of silica gel 60F254 were utilized as stationary phase and acetonitrile: water: formic acid (30:8:2; v/v/v) was used as a developing system. The densitometric scanning was performed at 270 nm and the method was validated as per ICH guidelines for accuracy, precision, LOD and LOQ. Evogliptin was subjected to forced degradation studies and was exposed to various stress conditions like acid/base hydrolysis, oxidation, thermal stress, and UV light. The developed method furnished compact spots of evogliptin (Rf 0.62 ± 0.05) and was linear in the concentration range of 1-5 µg/spot. The lowest detection and quantitation values were found to be 0.331 and 1.003 µg/spot respectively and % recovery was found to be 101.09. The low RSD values (below 2%) for intra-day (% RSD 1.86) and inter-day (% RSD 1.43) precision studies demonstrated the preciseness of the developed method. All the validation parameters were found to be within the acceptable range prescribed by ICH guidelines indicating that the developed method was accurate, precise, selective, and reproducible. A total of five degradation products were resolved under various stress conditions. The proposed method has a promising application commercially for identification, routine quantitative determination, and monitoring of stability of the evogliptin tartrate in bulk and tablet dosage forms to guarantee its safety, efficacy, and quality. Moreover, the developed method will also help in formulation development and in determining the appropriate storage conditions.