Química Nova (Jan 2012)

Set-up of a method using LC-UV to assay mometasone furoate in pharmaceutical dosage forms

  • Aline Ferreira Ourique,
  • Renata Vidor Contri,
  • Silvia Stanisçuaski Guterres,
  • Ruy Carlos Ruver Beck,
  • Adriana Raffin Pohlmann,
  • Ana Melero,
  • Ulrich F. Schaefer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0100-40422012000400030
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 35, no. 4
pp. 818 – 821

Abstract

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A reliable method using LC-UV to assay mometasone furoate (MF) in creams or nasal sprays using the same chromatographic conditions was set up. Methanol:water 80:20 (v/v) (1.0 mL min-1) was used as mobile phase. MF was detected at 248 nm and analyzed in a concentration range from 1.0 to 20.0 µg mL-1. The method provided acceptable theoretical plates, peak simmetry, peak tailing factor and peak resolution a short run (5 min). The method showed specificity, good linearity (r = 0.9999) and the quantification limit was 0.379 µg mL-1. Furthermore, the method was precise (RSD 97%) and robust.

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