Challenges and Advances in Pharmaceutical Research Vol. 1

Abstract

Objective: An efficient, high performance liquid chromatographic method has been developed and validated for the quantification of related substances in pioglitazone hydrochloride drug substance.

Methods: This method includes the determination of three related substances in pioglitazone hydrochloride. The mobile phase A is 0.1% w/v triethylamine in water with pH 2.5 adjusted by dilute phosphoric acid. The mobile phase B is premixed and degassed mixtures of acetonitrile and methanol. The flow rate was 1 ml/min. The elution used was gradient mode. The HPLC column used for the analysis was symmetry C18 with a length of 250 mm, internal diameter of 4.6 mm and particle size of 5.0 microns.

Results: The developed method was found to be linear with the range of 0.006-250% with a coefficient of correlation 0.99. The precision study revealed that the percentage relative standard deviation was within the acceptable limit. The limit of detection and limit of quantitation of the impurities was less than 0.002%and 0.006% with respect to pioglitazone hydrochloride test concentration of 2000 µg/ml respectively. This method has been validated as per ICH guidelines Q2 (R1). The specificity, solution stability and robustness of the method show that the impurity PGR-II and PIO-II were process related impurities and N-oxide was degradation impurity. This indicates that the equipment was suitable, accurate, precise, sensitive and fit for study.

Conclusion: A reliable, economical HPLC method was magnificently established for quantitative analysis of related substances of pioglitazone hydrochloride drug substance.