Mobile Phase pH Research Articles

DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF RP-HPLC METHOD FOR THE SIMULTANEOUS ESTIMATION OF LEDIPASVIR AND SOFOSBUVIR IN BULK AND PHARMACEUTICAL DOSAGE FORM

The day by day new combinations drugs are being introduced in market. Then the multiple therapeutic agents which acts at different sites are used in the management of various diseases and disorders are done. Thus it is necessary to develop methods for analysis with the help of number of analytical techniques which are available for the estimation of the drugs in combination. The analyst were determine the Specific, accurate, simple, selective and stability-indicating RP-HPLC method is developed and validated for simultaneous determination of sofosbuvir and ledipasvir in tablet dosage form. RP-HPLC method was performed on the systronics isocratic HPLC System equipped with SP930 D HPLC pump and dual wavelength UV-VIS detector and C18 column (250 mm × 4.6 mm, 5μm), using the mobile phase (Methanol: Water 83:17 v/v) pH 3.0 with 0.05% acidic acid at a flow rate of 1.0 ml/min, injection volume 20μl and UV detection at 245 nm. This method is validated according to BP, USP and ICH requirements for new methods, which include accuracy, precision, robustness, ruggedness, lod, loq, linearity and range. Linear relationships were obtained in the ranges of 10-50μg/ml and 40-200μg/ml with correlation coefficients of 0.9991 and 0.9994 at Rt value of 7.45 min and 3.50 min for sofosbuvir and ledipasvir respectively. The forced degradation studies as acidity, alkalinity, oxidation and hydrolytic degradation were performed according to ICH guidelines.

Determination of Carbidopa, Levodopa, and Droxidopa by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography–Tandem Mass Spectrometry

ABSTRACTModern treatments of Parkinson’s disease include the use of carbidopa and droxidopa along with levodopa that demonstrates the necessity for their binary and simultaneous determination in pharmaceutical tablets and biological matrices. This study presents a rapid, accurate, and precise method for the simultaneous determination of these analytes by liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry method for the first time. Accordingly, performances of two types of analytical columns, namely, octadecylsilane and hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatographic columns, were tested and better resolution was obtained with the former. The pH of aqueous mobile phase (0.5% formic acid) was adjusted to 2.3 to ensure the analytes were in molecular form. Calibration graphs were obtained using multiple reaction mode and detection limits were in the region from 0.002 to 0.007 µM for both columns. The method developed was applied for quality control samples and tablets and satisfactory recovery values from 100 to 106% were obtained.

Per Aqueous Liquid Chromatography (PALC) as a Simple Method for Native Separation of Protein A

Staphylococcal protein A (protein A) is an important protein frequently used in research studies within the fields of biomedicine and biotechnology. Due to some limitations in available protein purification methods which can hold the native structure of the protein A without changing the folding or adding histidine to structure of this protein, its separation in the native form is difficult. In this study, a new cost-effective and powerful technique was introduced for separation of the full-length and truncated forms of recombinant protein A, without any alteration in their 3D structures. Per aqueous liquid chromatography with bare silica gel stationary phase and water:acetonitrile as the mobile phase was proved to be an attractive choice among the range of separation methods. Similar to hydrophilic liquid chromatography, this method employs high percentage of water in mobile phase. The effects of mobile phase composition, pH, and salt concentration on the retention behavior of protein A on bare silica gel stationary phases were investigated. In this method, applying high amounts of aqueous solvent accompanied by a minimum percentage of organic solvent could successfully separate protein A with preservation of folding, and any affinity-tagged group such as histidine has not occurred on its structure. Purity of the fractions obtained by the proposed method was confirmed using SDS-PAGE, western blotting, and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. According to the results of ELISA, separated proteins retained their ability of binding to antibody.

Separation of aromatic monomers from oxidatively depolymerized products of lignin by combining Sephadex and silica gel column chromatography

Abstract The conversion of lignin into value-added aromatic monomers has attracted much attention as these monomers can be potentially used to prepare liquid fuel rather than heavy oil by further hydrodeoxygenation. A new process combining Sephadex and silica gel column chromatography was employed to obtain aromatic monomers with higher purity. It was found that pH and polarity of mobile phase were the most important factors affecting the separation effect for Sephadex G-10 and silica gel column chromatography, respectively. When the pH of mobile phase reached 10.5, the ionization of hydroxyl together with carboxyl groups resulted in electrostatic repulsion between the aromatic compounds and Sephadex G-10 gel, which counteracted the adsorption caused by hydrogen bond between aromatics and gel, causing the increase of the separation effect. Under the condition of pH above 10.5, Sephadex gel column chromatography gave 78.1% of purity of aromatic monomers (PAM) and 99.5% of recovery of aromatic monomers (RAM) due to the elimination of non-size exclusion effect. Silica gel column chromatography was further conducted to obtain 99.8% of PAM and 73.9% of RAM. The polar mobile phase was favorable for eluting aromatic monomers, while the non-polar mobile phase was beneficial to remove oligomers and increasing the PAM.

A simple, sensitive and rapid isocratic reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography method for determination and stability study of curcumin in pharmaceutical samples.

This study was designed to develop and validate a new reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) method based on Q2 (R1) International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) guideline for determination of curcumin in pharmaceutical samples. The HPLC instrument method was optimized with isocratic elution with acetonitrile: ammonium acetate (45:55, v/v, pH 3.5), C18 column (150 mm×4.6 mm×5 µm particle size) and a flow rate of 1 ml/min in ambient condition and total retention time of 17 min. The volume of injection was set at 20 µl and detection was recorded at 425 nm. The robustness of the method was examined by changing the mobile phase composition, mobile phase pH, and flow rate. The method was validated with respect to precision, accuracy and linearity in a concentration range of 2-100 µg/ml. The limit of detection (LOD) and limit of quantification (LOQ) were 0.25 and 0.5 µg/ml, respectively. The percentage of recovery was 98.9 to 100.5 with relative standard deviation (RSD) < 0.638%. The method was found to be simple, sensitive and rapid for determination of curcumin in pharmaceutical samples and had enough sensitivity to detect degradation product of curcumin produced under photolysis and hydrolysis stress condition.

Validation and Peak Purity Assessment of RP-HPLC Method for Simultaneous Estimation of Amitriptyline HCl, Chlordiazepoxide and Comparison with Spectrophotometry

Purpose : The study was performed with the aim to design a Simple, precise and economical RP-HPLC method have been developed for simultaneous estimation of amitriptyline HCl and chlordiazepoxide in pharmaceutical formulation. Approach : RP-HPLC was developed using WATERS C18 250 mm × 4.6 mm (5 μm) column, utilizing a mobile phase of methanol: acetonitrile: 0.2 M orthophosphoric acid, pH 4.5 (adjusted with triethylamine) 56:24:20 ml (with a flow rate of 1ml/min) and U.V detection was carried out at 240nm. Optimization of this method was carried out as a function of mobile phase composition, pH and flow rate. Peak purity was assessed by spectral comparison method. Findings : RP-HPLC method shows linearity in the range of for 0.05-1.6 μg/ml and 0.01-0.32μg/ml amitriptyline HCl and chlordiazepoxide respectively. The LOD and LOQ values for amitriptyline HCl were 0.0250μg/ml and 0.0759 μg/ml and 0.0045 μg/ml and 0.0135 μg/ml for chlordiazepoxide. The results of % purity was found to be 99.97 ± 0.58 % w/w and 99.29 ± 0.59 % w/w for HPLC method and 98.87 ± 0.03 % w/w and 98.81 ± 1.04 % w/w for first derivative spectrophotometric method for amitriptyline HCl and chlordiazepoxide respectively. Conclusion : Results of descriptive statistics studies conclude that RP-HPLC method found to be more sensitive and convenient than first derivative spectrophotometric method.

Development and Validation of HPLC-DAD and UHPLC-DAD Methods for the Simultaneous Determination of Guanylhydrazone Derivatives Employing a Factorial Design.

Guanylhydrazones are molecules with great pharmacological potential in various therapeutic areas, including antitumoral activity. Factorial design is an excellent tool in the optimization of a chromatographic method, because it is possible quickly change factors such as temperature, mobile phase composition, mobile phase pH, column length, among others to establish the optimal conditions of analysis. The aim of the present work was to develop and validate a HPLC and UHPLC methods for the simultaneous determination of guanylhydrazones with anticancer activity employing experimental design. Precise, exact, linear and robust HPLC and UHPLC methods were developed and validated for the simultaneous quantification of the guanylhydrazones LQM10, LQM14, and LQM17. The UHPLC method was more economic, with a four times less solvent consumption, and 20 times less injection volume, what allowed better column performance. Comparing the empirical approach employed in the HPLC method development to the DoE approach employed in the UHPLC method development, we can conclude that the factorial design made the method development faster, more practical and rational. This resulted in methods that can be employed in the analysis, evaluation and quality control of these new synthetic guanylhydrazones.

Structural characterization of electrochemically and in vivo generated potential metabolites of selected cardiovascular drugs by EC-UHPLC/ESI-MS using an experimental design approach

In the last few years, a number of studies were conducted which aimed at understanding the mechanisms of cardiovascular drug, metabolism, and there is still the need to determine the metabolites of cardiac drugs for the purpose of metabolism control. In this study, we employ a direct combination of electrochemical oxidation and mass spectrometric (EC-MS) identification for monitoring the oxidation pathway of ten cardiovascular drugs (metoprolol, propranolol, propafenone, mexiletine, oxprenolol, pirbuterol, pindolol, cicloprolol, acebutolol and atenolol). Oxidation was accomplished in an electrochemical thin-layer cell coupled on-line to electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (EC/ESI-MS). For further characterization of electrochemical products, the approach involving liquid chromatography linked to tandem mass spectrometry was used. Appropriate conditions for oxidation and identification processes with such parameters as the potential value, mobile phase (type and pH) and working electrode were optimized. Optimization was performed with the use of central composite design (CCD). Besides electrochemical oxidation of analytes (phase I of metabolic transformation), addition of glutathione (GSH) for follow-up reactions (phase II conjunction) was also investigated. The electrochemical results were compared to in-vivo experiments by analyzing plasma and urine samples from patients who had been administered selected cardiovascular drugs. These results show that electrochemistry coupled to mass spectrometry turned out to be an analytical tool suitable to procure a feasible analytical base for the envisioned in vivo experiments.

Chromatographic HPV‐16 E6/E7 plasmid vaccine purification employing L‐histidine and 1‐benzyl‐L‐histidine affinity ligands

Affinity chromatography based on amino acids as interacting ligands was already indicated as an alternative compared to ion exchange or hydrophobic interaction for plasmid DNA purification. Understanding the recognition mechanisms occurring between histidine-based ligands and nucleic acids enables more efficient purification of a DNA vaccine, as the binding and elution conditions can be adjusted in order to enhance the purification performance. Decreasing pH to slightly acidic conditions increases the positive charge of histidine ligand, what influences the type of interaction between chromatographic support and analytes. This was proven in this work, where hydrophobic effects established in the presence of ammonium sulfate were affected at pH 5.0 in comparison to pH 8.0, while electrostatic and cation-π interactions were intensified. Histidine ligand at pH 5.0 interacts with phosphate groups or aromatic rings of plasmid DNA. Due to different responses of RNA and pDNA on mobile phase changes, the elution order between RNA and pDNA was changed with mobile phase pH decrease from 8.0 to 5.0. The phenomenon was more evident with L-histidine ligand due to more hydrophilic character, leading to an improved selectivity of L-histidine-modified chromatographic monolith, allowing the product recovery with 99% of purity (RNA removal). With the 1-benzyl- L-histidine ligand, stronger and less selective interactions with the nucleic acids were observed due to the additional hydrophobicity associated with the phenyl aromatic ring. Optimization of sample displacement chromatography parameters (especially (NH4 )2 SO4 concentration) at slightly acidic pH enabled excellent isolation of pDNA, by the removal of RNA in a negative mode, with binding capacities above 1.5mg pDNA permL of chromatographic support.

Preparation of molecularly imprinted polymers for warfarin and coumachlor by multi-step swelling and polymerization method and their imprinting effects

Monodisperse molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) for warfarin (WF) and coumachlor (CC), MIPWF and MIPCC, respectively, were prepared using 4-vinylpyridine (4-VPY) as a functional monomer and ethylene glycole dimethacrylate (EDMA) as a crosslinker by multi-step swelling and polymerization. Six kinds of MIPWF, MIPWF1 − MIPWF6, were prepared varying the concentrations of WF and 4-VPY, while maintaining the EDMA concentration constant, and their retention and molecular recognition properties were evaluated using a mixture of sodium phosphate buffer and acetonitrile as a mobile phase in LC. In addition to shape recognition, hydrogen bonding, ionic and hydrophobic interactions could affect the retention and molecular recognition of WF on MIPWF, and ionic interactions seem to govern the retention and molecular recognition of WF above mobile phase pH 6 associated with higher molar ratio of 4-VPY to EDMA. Furthermore, MIPCC was prepared under the same conditions with MIPWF6, which gave the highest imprinting factor for WF. WF could be recognized more strongly on MIPCC than MIPWF6, and the imprinting factors of WF on MIPWF6 and MIPCC, respectively, are 2.68 and 5.03 using 20mM sodium phosphate buffer − acetonitrile (30/70, v/v)(final pH 6.1) as the mobile phase. This result indicates that the use of CC as a template molecule instead of WF could be useful for getting a higher imprinting factor for WF and for avoiding the leakage problem in the assay of WF in LC.

The use of LC predicted retention times to extend metabolites identification with SWATH data acquisition

The application of predicted LC retention time to support metabolite identification was evaluated for a metabolomics MS/MS database containing 532 compounds representative for the major human metabolite classes. LC retention times could be measured for two C18 type columns using a mobile phase of pH=3.0 for positive ESI mode (n=337, 228) and pH=8.0 for negative ESI mode (n=410, 233). A QSRR modelling was applied with a small set of model compound selected based on the Kennard-Stone algorithm. The models were implemented in the R environment and can be applied to any library. The prediction model was built with two molecular descriptors, LogD2 and the molecular volume. A limited set of model compounds (LC CalMix, n=16) could be validated on two different C18 reversed phase LC columns and with comparable prediction accuracy. The CalMix can be used to compensate for different LC systems. In addition, LC retention prediction was found, in combination with SWATH-MS, to be attractive to eliminate false positive identification as well as for ranking purpose different metabolite isomeric forms.

Surface radical chain-transfer reaction in deep eutectic solvents for preparation of silica-grafted stationary phases in hydrophilic interaction chromatography

In this paper, deep eutectic solvents (DESs) were firstly used as new and green solvents for the preparation of polymer-grafted silica stationary phases. 1-Vinylimidazole and acrylic acid were homopolymerized and copolymerized on silica via surface radical chain-transfer reaction in the DESs. Three stationary phases including poly(1-vinylimidazole)-, poly(acrylic acid)-, poly(1-vinylimidazole-co-acrylic acid)-grafted silica were obtained and characterized by elemental analysis and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Their hydrophilic interaction chromatographic properties were investigated for separation of nucleosides, nucleobases, saccharides and amino acids. The retention changes of nucleosides and nucleobases on these columns were investigated under different chromatographic conditions including acetonitrile content, salt concentration, pH of mobile phase and column temperature. The repeatability of these columns was also investigated. The results demonstrate that DESs can be used as new media for the synthesis of silica-based stationary phases by homopolymerization and copolymerization on the surface of porous silica particles.

A novel multi-hyphenated analytical method to simultaneously determine xanthine oxidase inhibitors and superoxide anion scavengers in natural products

Natural products, such as rosmarinic acid and apigenin, can act as xanthine oxidase inhibitors (XOIs) as well as superoxide anion scavengers, and have potential for treatment of diseases associated with high uric acid levels and oxidative stress. However, efficient simultaneous screening of these two bioactivities in natural products has been challenging. We have developed a novel method by assembling a multi-hyphenated high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) system that combines a photo-diode array, chemiluminescence detector and a HPLC system with a variable wavelength detector, to simultaneously detect components that act as both XOIs and superoxide anion scavengers in natural products. Superoxide anion scavenging activity in the analyte was measured by on-line chemiluminescence chromatography based on pyrogallol-luminol oxidation, while xanthine oxidase inhibitory activity was determined by semi-on-line HPLC analysis. After optimizing multiple elements, including chromatographic conditions (e.g., organic solvent concentration and mobile phase pH), concentrations of xanthine/xanthine oxidase and reaction temperature, our validated analytical method was capable of mixed sample analysis. The final results from our method are presented in an easily understood visual format including comprehensive bioactivity data of natural products.

Continuous screening of analytical parameters facilitates efficient development of HPLC methods required for impurity profiling

ABSTRACTDeveloping a robust analytical HPLC–UV method to characterize a drug candidate during an early stage of development is a major challenge when not all impurity standards are available. Here, we report our efforts to devise an efficient strategy for HPLC method development using continuous screening of analytical parameters without impurity standards. This strategy uses small incremental changes in the mobile phase pH and column temperature to trace each impurity on an overlay chromatogram. We tested this method using benzocaine as the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API), and compounds with similar structures to represent unknown impurities. Despite the coelution of peaks, results identified the number of impurities and indicated the starting point and parameter variables of the ensuing optimization step. Further, we demonstrated that the retention time of each peak as a function of mobile phase pH accounts for the apparent pKa of known and unknown compounds in the presence of an organic solvent. This information is critically important to the selection of a robust pH range for HPLC methods.

Separation, optimization, and quantification of cytokinins by a recently developed amide-embedded stationary phase

ABSTRACTIn this study, some plant growth regulators known as cytokinins [kinetin (K), zeatin (Z), thidiazuron (TDZ), benzylaminopurine (BAP), and dimethylallylaminopurine (AAP)] were separated by HPLC using an amide-embedded mixed-mode stationary phase which was synthesized by Aral et al. in recent years. The effect of mobile phase content, mobile phase pH, buffer concentration, and temperature on separation process was studied. In addition, a quantitative determination of cytokinins from Salvia limbata extract was studied, and some validation parameters such as limit of detection (LOD), limit of quantification (LOQ), and relative standard deviation (RSD) were calculated as a range of 0.03–0.1, 0.1–0.26 mg/L, and 0.03–0.08, respectively.

Development of a New Method Based on Chiral Ligand-Exchange Chromatography for the Enantioseparation of Propranolol.

A new chromatographic procedure was proposed for the separation of propranolol (PRN) enantiomers based upon enantioselective chiral ligand-exchange chromatography. The separation was carried out on a short C8 column leading to considerably short separation time. L-alanine and Cu2+ were applied as chiral selector and central bivalent complexing ion, respectively. It was found that the kind of copper salt could influence the enantioseparation efficiency. The separation on the C8 stationary phase was more efficient than that on the C18 column. It was shown that the pH of mobile phase, organic modifier content of mobile phase, mole ratio of chiral ligand to bivalent ion and Cu (L-alanine) 2 concentration in the mobile phase were important in enantioseparation efficiency. Water/methanol (70:30) mixture containing L-alanine-Cu2+ (7:1) was found to be the best mobile phase condition for PRN enantioseparation. All effective parameters were optimized in order to improve the separation efficiency. The optimized HPLC method was utilized for analysis of propranolol enantiomers in spiked human blood plasma samples.

Influence of the mobile phase and molecular structure parameters on the retention behavior of protonated basic solutes in chaotropic chromatography

In this study, we present novel insights into the pH-dependent retention behavior of protonated basic solutes in chaotropic chromatography. To this end, two sets of experiments were performed to distinguish between mobile phase pH and ionic strength effects. In the first set, the ionic strength (I) was varied with the concentration of NaPF6 and additives that adjusted the mobile phase pH, while in the second set, I was kept constant by adding the appropriate amount of NaCl. In each set, the retention behavior of 13 analytes was qualitatively examined in 21 chromatographic systems, which were defined by the NaPF6 concentration in their aqueous phases (1–50mM) and the pH of their mobile phases (2, 3 or 4); the acetonitrile content was fixed at 40%. The addition of NaCl significantly reduced the differences among retention factors at studied pH values due to the effect of the Na+ ions on PF6−adsorption to the stationary phase and the magnitude of the consequential development of the surface potential. A quantitative description of the observed phenomenon was obtained by an extended thermodynamic approach. The contribution of ion-pair formation in the stationary phase to the retention of the solutes was confirmed across models at the studied pH values in the set with varying I. In the systems with a constant I, the shielding effect of the Na+ ions on the surface charge lowered the attractive surface potential and diminished the aforementioned interactions and hence the effect of the mobile phase pH on analyte retention. Eventually, we developed a readily interpretable empirical retention model that simultaneously takes into account analyte molecular structures and the most relevant chromatographic factors. Its coefficients have clear physical meaning, and owing to its good predictive capabilities, the model could be successfully used to clarify the contributions of analyte molecular structures and chromatographic factors to the specific processes underlying separation in chaotropic chromatography.

A mechanistic study of geminal dicationic ionic liquids as mobile phase additives for improving the separation performance of high-performance liquid chromatography.

Due to the acidity and strong polarity of auxinic herbicides, separation of these compounds in food and environmental samples is a great challenge. In this study, 12 geminal dicationic ionic liquids (GDILs) were synthesized and used as mobile phase additives to separate six auxinic herbicides. The effects of the kind of dication, the length of linkage chain, the kind of anion, the concentration of GDILs, and the pH of mobile phase for the separation were investigated in detail. Compared with [C4MIm][BF4], GDILs ([C8(MIm)2][BF4]2) showed higher resolution, better peak shape, and lower retention factor. The separation performance of additives was in the order of [C8(MIm)2][BF4]2>[C8(MPy)2][BF4]2, [(C4)2MPiz][BF4]2, [C8(MMo)2][BF4]2, [C4MIm][BF4], [C8(MPid)2][BF4]2>[C8(HBOc)2][BF4]2>TBAB. GDILs showed the best separation under the following conditions: cation: imidazolium; length of linkage chain: 8; anion: BF4-; mobile phase pH: 3; concentration: 5mmolL-1. The separation mechanism of GDILs may mainly be due to their symmetric structure and the abundance of positive charge sites which could help GDILs shield the residual silanol and interact with analytes more efficiently to improve the peak shapes, resolution, and retention. In addition, the GDILs in the mobile phase and anions adsorbed on the stationary phase also greatly affected the separation. GDILs used as mobile phase additives to separate auxinic herbicides showed high efficiency separation and low damage to HPLC columns, and the developed chromatographic method had excellent linearity, accuracy, precision, and repeatability. The application and mechanism study of GDILs in HPLC would be instructive to determine and separate acid herbicides in food and environmental samples. Graphical abstract As HPLC mobile phase additives, GDILs show high separation performance due to their unique symmetric structures.

Extent of the influence of phosphate buffer and ionic liquids on the reduction of the silanol effect in a C18 stationary phase

The presence of anionic free silanols in the silica-based stationary phases gives rise to broad and asymmetrical peaks when cationic basic compounds are chromatographed using hydro-organic mobile phases. The addition to the mobile phase of a reagent with ionic character prevents the access of analytes to the free silanols, improving the peak shape. The silanol activity can be affected by the buffer concentration and mobile phase pH, factors that are not always considered sufficiently in the literature. In this work, the chromatographic behaviour of three basic β‐adrenoceptor antagonists (acebutolol, nadolol and timolol), using mobile phases containing acetonitrile, was examined at different phosphate buffer concentrations (5–50mM) and mobile phase pH (2–8), in the absence and presence of three imidazolium-based ionic liquids (1‐ethyl-, 1‐butyl- and 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride). All factors were evaluated through both the retention and peak shape. The imidazolium cations can block the access of cationic analytes through electrostatic interaction with the anionic silanols, or association with the alkyl chains bound to the stationary phase. In previous reports, the protection mechanism was demonstrated to be directly related to the cation size. The studies in this work reveal that the effectiveness of the mobile phase additive as silanol blocker also depends on the concentration of the buffer anion and the protonation degree of the silanols on the stationary phase. Increasing amounts of phosphate at low pH give rise to increasing retention times. Also, the peak shape is improved, which indicates the influence of phosphate on blocking the activity of free silanols. However, the benefits obtained by the combined effect of buffering the mobile phase at low pH and the use of a bulky additive are lost at pH>6.

Arsenic speciation in water and biota samples at trace levels by ion chromatography inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry

ABSTRACTA sensitive, reliable, simple and rapid analytical method was developed for the determination of arsenite [As(III)], arsenate [As(V)] and arsenobetaine (AsB) species using ion chromatography combined with inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (IC-ICP-MS). Inorganic and organic arsenic species were separated with an anion exchange column (Dionex AS9) and a 50 mM sodium bicarbonate mobile phase (pH 10) at a flow rate of 1.0 mL min−1. %RSD values were found to be lower than 5.1% for all arsenic species. The limits of detection (LOD) obtained for As(III), As(V) and AsB were 16.5 ng L−1, 14.1 ng L−1 and 6.2 ng L−1, respectively. The developed analytical method was tested using AsB certified reference material (NMIJ CRM 7901-a), and spring water certified reference material (UME CRM 1201) for accuracy check. This method was applied for the quantitative determination of arsenic species in different water samples and chicken samples as a solid matrix.