Abstract:
OBJECTIVE To develop LC-MS method for the simultaneous determination of impurities A, C, and D of caspofungin acetate.
METHODS Waters CORTECS
® C
18+(4.6 mm×150 mm, 2.7 μm) was used as the chromatography column. Mobile phase A and B were 0.1% formic acid-H
2O and 0.1% formic acid-CH
3CN, respectively. Electrospray ion source-single quadrupole mass spectrometry was used to detect impurities A and C in positive ion mode and impurity D in negative ion mode.
RESULTS The correlation coefficient
r was ≥ 0.999 in linearity ranges of impurities A, C and D. The average recoveries were 100.5%, 104.1% and 105.2%, respectively, with RSD<4%(
n=6). The LOQs (
S/N=10) of impurities A, C and D were 31.8, 6.99 and 15.5 ng·mL
-1 respectively. The contents of impurities A, C and D in the three samples were all below the limits.
CONCLUSION The developed LC-MS method is simple, sensitive, and applicable, which can be used to simultaneously determine impurities A, C and D in caspofungin acetate and can also provide a reference for the detection of other impurities in caspofungin acetate.