Abstract
New, simple, rapid, and precise reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatographic (LC) methods were developed for the simultaneous determination of chlorzoxazone (CH) and ketoprofen (KT) in binary mixtures and in ternary mixtures containing the CH degradation product, 2-amino-4-chlorophenol (CD). The analytes were separated by LC on a Lichrosphere<sup/> 60 C18 column (250 4 mm, 5 m). The mobile phases, methanolwater (40:60, v/v) at 1 mL/min and methanol0.05% phosphoric acid (60:40, v/v, pH 2.81) at 1.5 mL/min, satisfactorily resolved the binary and ternary mixtures, respectively. The UV detector was operated at 280 nm for the determination of CH and at 254 nm for the determination of KT and CD. Linearity, accuracy, and precision were found to be acceptable over the concentration ranges of 20240 and 560 g/mL for CH and KT, respectively, in the binary mixtures and 50300, 1060, and 20160 g/mL for CH, KT, and CD, respectively, in the ternary mixtures. The optimized methods proved to be specific, robust, and accurate for the quality control of CH and KT in pharmaceutical preparations.