Abstract:
OBJECTIVE To establish an HPLC method to determine the content of decitabine for injection and its related substances. METHODS The assay was conducted on a Shimpack VP ODS column(250 mm×4.6 mm, 5 μm) with 0.01 mol·L
-1 solution of potassium phosphate buffer (adjust to pH 6.8 with phosphoric acid)-methanol (98∶2) as mobile phase at the flow rate of 1.0 mL·min
-1. The detection wavelength was set at 220 nm. Temperature was 15 ℃. The injection volume was 5 μL. RESULTS Decitabine was completely separated from impurities. The linear concentration range of decitabine was 5.028-201.12 μg·mL
-1 with the correlation coefficient of 0.999 8. The recoveries(
n=3) of low, medium and high concentration were 99.8%, 100.2%, 99.6%, and RSDs were 0.27%, 0.51%, 0.60%, respectively. Determination of the content of three samples were 100.6%, 99.3%, 99.5%, the related substances were 0.56%, 0.49%, 0.44%. CONCLUSION The method is simple, accurate, specific and suitable for the determination of the content and the related substances of decitabine for injection.