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ArticleBMC chemistry2023

Exploiting the power of UPLC in separation and simultaneous determination of pholcodine, guaiacol along with three specified guaiacol impurities.

Hager M Mohamed, Hala E Zaazaa, M Abdelkawy, Mahmoud A Tantawy

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Article in BMC chemistry, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hager M MohamedPharmaceutical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Future University in Egypt, Cairo, Egypt.
Hala E ZaazaaAnalytical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Kasr el Aini Street, Cairo, 11562, Egypt.
M AbdelkawyAnalytical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Kasr el Aini Street, Cairo, 11562, Egypt.
Mahmoud A TantawyAnalytical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Kasr el Aini Street, Cairo, 11562, Egypt. mahmoud.eltantawy@pharma.cu.edu.eg.
Cairo University · EGFuture University in Egypt · EG

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Abstract

Pholcodine and guaiacol are widely used together in pharmaceutical syrups for cough treatment. On the other hand, the Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatographic technique is characterized by having the power of increasing chromatographic efficiency and decreasing run time compared to the traditional High Performance Liquid Chromatographic one. In this work, this power was exploited for the simultaneous determination of pholcodine, guaiacol along with three guaiacol impurities, namely; guaiacol impurity A, guaiacol impurity B, and guaiacol impurity E. Good separation was achieved by employing Agilent Zorbax C8 column (50 × 2.1 mm) as the stationary phase, and acetonitrile: phosphate buffer pH 3.5 (40: 60, by volume) as a mobile phase. The proposed method was validated as per International Council for Harmonisation guidelines. Linear relationships, at ranges of 50-1000 µg mL

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Coughpent® syrupGuaiacolImpuritiesPholcodineUPLC

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PMID37055841
PMCPMC10099691
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