A study of impurities and degradation products in Oroxylin A by a validated liquid chromatographic method with analysis of their formation pathways

Autor: X.-Zh. Xu, F. Feng, Sh.-L. Xie, Ch.-Y. Wu, W.-Y. Liu
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Acta Chromatographica. 25:451-464
ISSN: 2083-5736
1233-2356
DOI: 10.1556/achrom.25.2013.3.4
Popis: Summary Oroxylin A (5,7-dihydroxy-6-methoxyflavone), which has showed multiple pharmacological effects, was semi-synthesized chemically as a pharmaceutical agent. Its impurities, degradation products and their formation pathways remain unknown. In the present study, two impurities (5,6,7-trihydroxyflavone, 5-hydroxy-6,7-dimethoxytlavone) and a degradation product (5,7-dihydroxy-8-methoxyflavone) in Oroxylin A bulk drug substance were identified, and their formation pathways were proposed. A reversed phase liquid chromatographic method for the simultaneous determination of Oroxylin A and the three compounds was developed on a C18 column using methanol-acetonitrile-0.1% acetic acid (54:23:23, v/v/v) as the mobile phase. The detection was performed at 271 nm. The method was validated to be robust, precise, specific and linear between 4 and 40 μg mL−1; the limits of detection and quantification of Oroxylin A were 0.01 and 0.04 μg mL−1, respectively. The developed method was found to be suitable to check the q...
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