Phenylephrine hydrochloride (PHE)

A simple UV-Visible spectrophotometric method is developed for the simultaneous determination of Ebastine and Phenylephrine hydrochloride in pharmaceutical dosage form using  the  first order derivative spectrophotometric method. The determination of both the drugs is based on the respective zero crossing point (ZCP) of their first order derivative spectra obtained in methanol. The first order derivative spectra were obtained using methanol as a solvent and the determinations were made at 241.0 nm (ZCP of Phenylephrine HCl) for Ebastine and 232.0 nm (ZCP of Ebastine) for Phenylephrine hydrochloride. The linearity was obtained in the concentration range of 4-24 μg/ml for both drugs and correlation coefficient (r2) were found to be 0.9994 and 0.9991 for Ebastine and Phenylephrine hydrochloride respectively. The percentage purity of drugs in combined tablet dosage form was found to be 100.02 % for Ebastine and 99.89 % for Phenylephrine hydrochloride. The % recoveries were found to be 99.88% for Ebastine and 99.24% for Phenylephrine hydrochloride.  The method was found to be simple, accurate and precise and was applicable for the simultaneous determination of Ebastine and Phenylephrine in tablet dosage form.

Cetrizine hydrochloride and Phenylephrine hydrochloride are used in combination in the treatment of allergy. The aim of this project work is to develop selective, accurate, specific and economic RP–HPLC method for simultaneous estimation of Cetrizine hydrochloride and Phenylephrine hydrochloride in Bulk and Tablet dosage form. The reverse phase C18 (250 mm × 4.6 mm i.d) column with 5 µm particle size was used. Acetonitrile: Water was taken as mobile phase was with a flow rate of 1 mL/min and detection was carried out at 222 nm. The retention time of Cetrizine hydrochloride and Phenylephrine hydrochloride was 1.956 min and 4.561 min respectively. The calibration curves were linear (>0.998) in the range of 5-25 μg/ml for Cetrizine hydrochloride and Phenylephrine hydrochloride. The Limit of Detection for Cetrizine hydrochloride and Phenylephrine hydrochloride was found to be 0.26 μg/mL and 0.51μg/mL. The Limit of Quantification was found to be 0.81μg/mL and 1.54 μg/mL respectively for Cetrizine hydrochloride and Phenylephrine hydrochloride. The developed method was simple, selective and precise and can be used for routine analysis of Cetrizine hydrochloride and Phenylephrine hydrochloride in tablet dosage form.