Narasimharaju B. C, Devalarao G, Ramanjaneyulu S. Spectrophotometric Method for the Determination of Ezetimibe in Pharmaceutical Formulations. Biomed. Pharmacol. J.;1(1)

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Bh. Ch. Narasimharaju^¹, G. Devalarao^² and Sikharam Ramanjaneyulu^³

^¹A.S.N.Pharmacy College, Burripalem Road, Tenali  (India).

^²KVSR Siddhartha College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vijayawada (India).

^³St.Ann’s College of Pharmacy, Chirala  (India).

 Corresponding Author E-mail: bhchnraju@yahoo.com

Abstract

A Simple and reproducible spectrophotometric method has been developed for the determination of Ezetimibe in bulk and in dosage forms. The lmax of Ezetimibe was found to be 234 nm. Linearity for this method lies in the range of 5-20 µg/ml. The proposed method is sensitive, accurate, reproducible and useful for the routine determination of Ezetimibe in tablet dosage form. No interference was observed from the excipients.

Keywords

Ezetimibe; UV Spectrophotometer

Introduction

Ezetimibe is a new Class of lipid lowering drug, which differs from other classes of cholesterol reducing compounds. It is chemically as (3R, 4S)-1-(4-Flourophenyl-3 Hydroxy propyl]-4-(Hydroxy pheny-2-azetidinone¹.

James E.Patrick et al studied the Ezetimibe pharmacokinetics². Literature survey reveals the availability of few analytical methods such as HPCL^3-5 ,LC-MS⁶, derivative spectrophotometry⁷ and voltammetry⁸ for determination of Ezetimibe in pharmaceutical Formulations. In the present investigation the authors propose a simple, sensitive and Reproducible spectrophotometric method for determination of Ezetimibe.The method is based on the measurement of light absorption in UV region in ethanol.

Expermental

Instrument

Spectral and absorbance measurements were made

On Shimadzu UV/V is spectrophotometer 1601 with 1 cm matched quartz cells.

Materials and Methods

Hetero Drug House private limited, Hyderabad, supplied Ezetimibe gratis. The tablets were obtained commercially. All other chemicals were of analytical grade.

Method

UV Spectrophotometer

The stock solution of Ezetimibe was prepared by dissolving 50 mg of pure drug in ethanol in a 50ml volumetric flask. It was diluted as and when required. The absorbance of 10-μg/ml was measured against a solvent blank between 200-400 nm. A graph was plotted and the absorption maximum was determined as 234 nm, which is shown in fig 1. A calibration curve was obtained at 234 nm for a series of concentrations in the range of 5-20 μg/ml. It was found to be linear and hence, suitable for the estimation of the drug. The slope, intercept correlation coefficient and optical characteristics⁹ and summarized in Table 1.

Table 1: optical characteristic and precision data.

For five replicate analysis with in Beer’s law limits

Figure 1 : Λmax Of Ezetimibe.   Click here to View figure

Market sample Analysis

Twenty tablets were weighed and finely powered. An accurately weighed portion of this equivalent to 50 mg of Ezetimibe was transferred in the 50 ml volumetric flasks containing about 25ml ethanol. The contents were sonicated for 30 min with intermittent shaking to ensure the complete solubility of the drug and then filtered through 0.45µm membrane filter. The volume was made to the mark with ethanol. The results are shown in table 2,

Table 2: Results of Assay.

Recovery studies

To study the accuracy and reproducibility¹⁰ of the proposed method, adding a known amount of drug to preanalysed sample at three levels and the percentage of recoveries were found out. The results are summarized in Table 3, which was found to be satisfactory.

Table 3: Recovery studies of Ezetimibe.

Results and discussion

The λ _max of Ezetimibe in ethanol was found to be 234 nm. The amount of drug determined by the proposed method was in good agreement with label claimed providing the accuracy of the proposed method. The low percentage relative standard deviation indicates the reproducibility of the method. The method is useful for tablet formulation where there is no interference of excipients in the absorbance of Ezetimibe.Thus the proposed method was simple, accurate and reproducible and can be used for the routine analysis of Ezetimibe in bulk and in pharmaceutical dosage forms.

Acknoledgements

The authors are grateful to m/s Hetro Drug House Private Limited, Hyderabad, for providing the authentic of Ezetimibe sample and Dr. Ceeal Analytical Lab, Chennai, for providing the facilities to carry out the present investigation.

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