Stability Indicating Liquid Chromatographic Method for Estimation of Trihexyphenidyl Hydrochloride and Risperidone in Tablet Formulation : Development and Validation Consideration

Abstract EN

This paper describes validated reverse phase high-performance liquid chromatographic (RP-HPLC) method for simultaneous estimation of trihexyphenidyl hydrochloride (THP) and risperidone (RSP) in the pure powder form and in combined tablet dosage form.

The HPLC separation was achieved on a core shell C18 (100 mm length × 4.6 mm, 2.6 μm particle size) using methanol : ammonium acetate buffer 1% (85 : 15 v/v; pH-6.5) as mobile phase and delivered at flow rate of 0.8 mL/min.

The calibration plot showed good linear relationship with r2 = 0.997 ± 0.001 for THP and r2 = 0.998 ± 0.001 for RSP in concentration range of 50–175 μg/mL and 50–175 μg/mL, respectively.

LOD and LOQ were found to be 0.40 and 1.29 μg/mL for THP and 1.24 and 3.92 μg/mL for RSP.

Assay of THP and RSP was found to be 100.16 ± 0.03% and 99.83 ± 0.02%, respectively.

THP and RSP were subjected to different stress conditions (acidic, basic, oxidative, thermal, and photolytic degradation).

The degraded product peaks were well resolved from the pure drug peak.

The method was successfully validated as per the ICH guidelines.

The developed RP-HPLC method was successfully applied for the estimation of THP and RSP in tablet dosage form.