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Drug Dev Ind Pharm ; 41(5): 819-24, 2015 May.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24738789

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OBJECTIVE: The goal of this study is to develop an ultra-high performance liquid chromatographic method for the quantitative determination of artemisinin at very low concentrations using selective ion mass spectroscopic detection. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Separation was conducted using a C4 100 mm× 2.1 mm column, and the mobile phase consisted of an isocratic two-component system consisting of 60% of a 0.1% aqueous solution of formic acid and 40% acetonitrile at a flow rate of 0.4 ml/min. The drug was detected by means of an electrospray mass spectrometer with selective ion monitoring of the [M-H2O+H](+) with m/z of 265.3 in positive ion mode. RESULTS: The calibration curves of artemisinin obtained from the UPLC/MS system were linear in the three ranges analyzed, with a correlation coefficient of no less than 0.9996 for all sets of standards. The peak tailing factor for all measurements were ≤1.7. The method proved to have good repeatability and linearity. DISCUSSION: The described analytical method reached a LOQ of 0.010 µg/ml with an isocratic system and enables an analysis rate of 20 samples per hour. The linearity of the standards was excellent for all sets of standards analyzed. CONCLUSION: The method presented in this study provides a rapid and suitable means for the determination of artemisinin at very low concentrations. This is especially significant when performing dissolution studies where, due to the low solubility of artemisinin, a method that can measure the drug at nanogram levels is necessary.


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Antimalarials/analysis , Artemisinins/analysis , Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid/methods , Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization/methods , Antimalarials/chemistry , Artemisinins/chemistry , Calibration , Limit of Detection , Reproducibility of Results , Solubility
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