title: RP-HPLC Estimation of Imipramine Hydrochloride and Diazepam in Tablets.
abstract: A simple and rapid reversed phase-high performance liquid chromatographic method was developed for simultaneous determination of imipramine hydrochloride and diazepam in pharmaceutical formulations. The elution was done in isocratic mode utilizing a mobile phase consisting of methanol:water:0.1M sodium acetate (30:50:20 v/v/v) on Chromosil C18 column with a flow rate of 1.0 ml/min and with detection at 243 nm. The measured retention time was 3.33±0.02 min for imipramine hydrochloride and 4.64±0.02 min for diazepam. Linearity was measured in the range 25-150 μg/ml for imipramine hydrochloride (r(2)=0.999) and in the range 5-30 μg/ml for diazepam (r(2)=0.9994), respectively. The limits of detection and quantitation were 0.03 and 0.1 μg/ml for imipramine hydrochloride and 0.02 and 0.07 μg/ml for diazepam. Satisfactory validation was also obtained from recovery (100.95-101.52% for imipramine hydrochloride and 99.47-100.33% for diazepam) studies, intraday and interday precision (<2%) and robustness results. The reported method was the first study of these drugs in combination and could be employed for routine quantitative determination of imipramine hydrochloride and diazepam in tablets.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Nagarjuna Nagar, Guntur-522 510, India.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Srikantha
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Nagarjuna Nagar, Guntur-522 510, India.
authors.forename: R R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Raju
keywords: Diazepam; Imipramine HCL; RP-HPLC; Tablet dosage form; UV detection