Abstract:
OBJECTIVE To develop a method for related substances of Calcium Gluconate injection, and to identify the structure of impurity whose relative retention time(RRT) was 4.18.
METHODS The related substances were determined by HPLC, which was performed on Xbridge C
8 column(250 mm×4.6mm, 5 μm), the moblie phase was 0.1 mol·L
-1 dipotassium phosphate and 1 mmol·L
-1 tetrabutylammonium hydroxide(pH adjusted to 5.5 by phosphoric acid), the detection wavelength was 210 nm. HPLC-Q-TOF/MS was used to identify the structure of impurity (RRT 4.18).
RESULTS The separation of gluconic acid and its related substances was good. Impurity RRT 4.18 was supposed to be 5-hydroxymethyl furoic acid. The calibration curves of 5-hydroxymethyl furoic acid was linear in range of 0.18-2.26 μg·mL
-1(
r=0.999 0), and its detection limit was 0.06 μg·mL
-1.
CONCLUSION The HPLC method established is accutrate to determine the related substances in Calcium Gluconate injection, which can provide references for the process optimization and quality control of Calcium Gluconate injection.