title: Determination of gallamine and its impurities by reversed-phase ion-pair high-performance liquid chromatography and comparison with thin-layer chromatography.
abstract: A reversed-phase, ion-pair high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method for the determination of gallamine and its impurities is described. The separation is achieved on a Nucleosil C18 column with acetonitrile-aqueous phosphate buffer (pH 3.0) (31:69, v/v) containing 0.1 M sodium perchlorate as eluent and on-line UV detection at 200 nm. The method is sensitive (the detection limit is 0.7 ng injected) and reproducible, with a peak area coefficient of variation of 0.19% (n = 15; 3 micrograms injected) and 1.65% (n = 15; 10 ng injected) for a gallamine assay; the detector response is linear over the concentration range 0.5-250 micrograms/ml of gallamine triethiodide with a correlation coefficient of 0.9997. The method has been used to isolate the two main impurities contained in gallamine triethiodide batches; their structures have been determined by NMR and fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry. Various gallamine triethiodide batches have been analysed and the HPLC results compared with those obtained by thin-layer chromatography.
authors.affiliation: Rhône-Poulenc Santé, Centre de Recherches de Vitry, Vitry-sur-Seine, France.
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Mourier
mesh_terms: D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000379:methods; D002855:Chromatography, Thin Layer; D005703:Gallamine Triethiodide / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D005703:Gallamine Triethiodide