Disclosure of Invention
The present invention is directed to solving at least one of the problems of the prior art, and therefore an aspect of the present invention is to provide a detection method for simultaneously detecting a plurality of impurities in nitrofurantoin, such as nitrofurazone, furfural, diethyl 5-nitrofuraldehyde, impurity D, impurity J, and impurity K; the detection method is carried out by using a high performance liquid chromatograph, and the mobile phase consists of a mobile phase A and a mobile phase B and adopts gradient elution. The chemical structural formula of the impurity is as follows:
the invention discovers that when the high performance liquid chromatography is adopted to detect nitrofurazone, 5-nitrofurfural diethyl ester, furfural and other related substances in nitrofurantoin, the selection of a mobile phase has great influence on the separation of impurities, and when the mobile phase A and the mobile phase B with fixed proportion are adopted to detect, the impurities are difficult to be well separated; through a great deal of attempts, the nitrofurantoin, nitrofurazone, 5-nitrofuraldehyde diethyl ester, furfural and other impurities can be effectively separated by adopting the elution mode, and the running time is shortened.
Preferably, the specific operation steps of the detection method are as follows:
s1, sample solution: taking nitrofurantoin, precisely weighing, adding a solvent for dissolving, and quantitatively diluting to prepare a test solution;
s2, comparison solution: precisely measuring a test solution, and quantitatively diluting with a solvent to obtain a nitrofurantoin control solution;
s3, mixing solution: dissolving nitrofurantoin reference substance in solvent, precisely adding nitrofurazone reference substance, furfural reference substance, 5-nitrofuraldehyde diethyl ester reference substance, impurity D reference substance, impurity J reference substance, and impurity K reference substance, and quantitatively diluting to obtain mixed solution;
s4, positioning solution of each impurity: taking a furacilin reference substance, precisely weighing, and dissolving with a solvent to prepare a furacilin positioning solution; taking a furfural reference substance, precisely weighing, and adding a solvent to dissolve to prepare a furfural positioning solution; taking a 5-nitrofurfural diethyl ester reference substance, precisely weighing, and adding a solvent to dissolve to prepare a 5-nitrofurfural diethyl ester positioning solution; precisely weighing an impurity D reference substance, and dissolving the impurity D reference substance by adding a solvent to prepare an impurity D positioning solution; precisely weighing impurity J reference substance, and dissolving with solvent to obtain impurity J positioning solution; precisely weighing an impurity K reference substance, and dissolving the impurity K reference substance in a solvent to prepare an impurity K positioning solution;
s5, adjusting an instrument: octadecylsilane chemically bonded silica is used as a filling agent for a chromatographic column, a mobile phase A and a mobile phase B are used for regulating the column temperature, the flow velocity of the mobile phase and the detection wavelength, and gradient elution is adopted;
s6, determination: and precisely measuring each solution prepared from S2 to S4, respectively injecting the solution into a liquid chromatograph, and recording a chromatogram.
Preferably, the concentration of the sample solution in S1 is 0.8-1.2 mg/ml.
Preferably, the concentration of the control solution in S2 is 0.08-0.12 μ g/ml.
Preferably, the concentration of the nitrofurantoin reference substance in the mixed solution in S3 is 0.8-1.2 mg/ml, the concentration of the nitrofurazon reference substance is 0.08-0.12 mu g/ml, the concentration of the furfural reference substance is 0.4-0.6 mu g/ml, and the concentrations of the 5-nitrofurfural diethyl ester reference substance, the impurity D reference substance, the impurity J reference substance and the impurity K reference substance are all 0.8-1.2 mu g/ml.
Preferably, the concentration of each impurity positioning solution nitrofurazone positioning solution in the S4 is 0.08-0.12 mu g/ml; the concentration of the furfural positioning solution is 0.4-0.6 mu g/ml; the concentration of the 5-nitrofurfural diethyl ester positioning solution is 0.8-1.2 mu g/ml; the concentration of the impurity D positioning solution is 0.8-1.2 mug/ml; the concentration of the impurity J positioning solution is 0.8-1.2 mug/ml; the concentration of the impurity K positioning solution is 0.8-1.2 mu g/ml.
Preferably, the solvent is 50% acetonitrile.
Preferably, the chromatographic column in S5 uses octadecylsilane chemically bonded silica as a filler, and the specification is Inertsil ODS-3, 250mm multiplied by 4.6mm,5 μm.
Preferably, the mobile phase A is phosphate buffer solution, the concentration of the phosphate buffer solution is 0.05mol/L, the pH value is adjusted to 7.1 +/-0.1 by using sodium hydroxide solution, and the mobile phase B is 100% acetonitrile; adjusting the column temperature to 25-35 ℃, adjusting the flow rate of the mobile phase to 0.9-1.1 ml/min, adjusting the detection wavelength to 375nm to detect nitrofurantoin, nitrofurazone, D and K, and 304nm to detect diethyl 5-nitrofuraldehyde, furfural and J. The pH value of the phosphate buffer has great influence on the separation degree of the nitrofurantoin and the nitrofurazone, and when the pH value of the phosphate buffer is 7.1 +/-0.1, the separation effect is better; not only can ensure that the separation degree of the nitrofurantoin and the nitrofurazone reaches more than 4.0, but also can ensure that other impurities are effectively separated. Because the difference of ultraviolet absorption wavelengths of all impurities in the nitrofurantoin is large, all the impurities are difficult to be detected at the same wavelength, and the invention can detect 6 impurities by using the wavelengths of 375nm and 304 nm.
Preferably, the gradient elution is adopted, the total volume of the mobile phase is 100%,
in 0-4 min, the volume of the mobile phase A is 98 percent, and the volume of the mobile phase B is 2 percent;
in the 4 th to 30 th min, the volume of the mobile phase A is decreased from 100% to 80%, and the volume of the mobile phase B is increased from 2% to 20%;
at 30-60 min, the volume of the mobile phase A is decreased from 80% to 45%, and the volume of the mobile phase B is increased from 20% to 55%;
at the time of 60-65 min, the volume of the mobile phase A is 45%, and the volume of the mobile phase B is 55%;
at 65-66 min, the volume of the mobile phase A is increased from 45% to 98%, and the volume of the mobile phase B is decreased from 55% to 2%;
at 66-75 min, the volume of the mobile phase A is 98%, and the volume of the mobile phase B is 2%.
The invention has the following beneficial effects:
the invention provides a detection method for simultaneously determining various impurities in nitrofurantoin by using a high performance liquid chromatograph according to the structural characteristics and the properties of a product. The method adopts gradient elution chromatographic conditions, can further simultaneously determine and separate the 6 impurities, can effectively separate the impurities from the nitrofurantoin, further improves the sensitivity and the accuracy of detection of each component by optimizing the conditions, meets the limit requirements of each impurity, and greatly reduces the detection cost and the operation difficulty.
The method has the advantages of simple equipment, high analysis speed, good specificity, low detection cost, high accuracy, and capability of quickly, simply and accurately controlling the amount of impurities and reducing the safety risk of the medicine. The method has strong specificity and high repeatability, is convenient for quality detection and impurity monitoring of the nitrofurantoin, is beneficial to popularization of the nitrofurantoin impurity detection method, and is beneficial to safe popularization and application of the nitrofurantoin.
Additional aspects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in the description which follows, and in part will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention.
Detailed Description
In order that the above objects, features and advantages of the present invention can be more clearly understood, the present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments. It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments of the present application may be combined with each other without conflict.
In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention, however, the present invention may be practiced otherwise than as specifically described and thus the scope of the present invention is not limited by the specific embodiments disclosed below.
The present example provides a method for simultaneously measuring a plurality of impurities in nitrofurantoin by using a high performance liquid chromatograph, which comprises the following steps:
a chromatographic column: octadecylsilane chemically bonded silica is used as a filler, and the specification of a chromatographic column is Inertsil ODS-3, 250mm multiplied by 4.6mm,5 mu m; mobile phase A: phosphate buffer (the concentration of the phosphate buffer is 0.05mol/L, and the pH value is adjusted to 7.1 +/-0.1 by using sodium hydroxide solution); mobile phase B:100% acetonitrile; flow rate: 0.9-1.1 ml/min; column temperature: 25 to 35 ℃; detection wavelength: 375nm,304nm; gradient elution is used, and the total volume of the mobile phase is 100%.
In 0-4 min, the volume of the mobile phase A is 98 percent, and the volume of the mobile phase B is 2 percent;
in 4-30 min, the volume of the mobile phase A is decreased from 100% to 80%, and the volume of the mobile phase B is increased from 2% to 20%;
at 30-60 min, the volume of the mobile phase A is decreased from 80% to 45%, and the volume of the mobile phase B is increased from 20% to 55%;
at 60-65 min, the volume of the mobile phase A is 45%, and the volume of the mobile phase B is 55%;
at 65-66 min, the volume of the mobile phase A is increased from 45% to 98%, and the volume of the mobile phase B is decreased from 55% to 2%;
at 66-75 min, the volume of the mobile phase A is 98%, and the volume of the mobile phase B is 2%.
Test solution: the nitrofurantoin is precisely weighed, dissolved by a solvent (50% acetonitrile solution) and quantitatively diluted by water to prepare a test sample solution of 1 mg/ml.
Control solution: the sample solution was precisely measured and quantitatively diluted with a solvent (50% acetonitrile solution) to prepare a 1. Mu.g/ml nitrofurantoin control solution.
Mixing the solution: dissolving nitrofurantoin reference substance in 50% acetonitrile solution, precisely adding nitrofurazone reference substance, furfural reference substance, 5-nitrofurfural diethyl ester reference substance, impurity D reference substance, impurity J reference substance, and impurity K reference substance, and quantitatively diluting to obtain mixed solution; wherein the concentration of the nitrofurantoin reference substance is 1mg/ml, the concentration of the nitrofurazone reference substance is 0.1 mu g/ml, the concentration of the furfural reference substance is 0.5 mu g/ml, and the concentrations of the 5-nitrofurfural diethyl ester reference substance, the impurity D reference substance, the impurity J reference substance and the impurity K reference substance are respectively 1 mu g/ml.
Each impurity localization solution: taking a furacilin reference substance, precisely weighing, and dissolving with a solvent (50% acetonitrile solution) to obtain a furacilin positioning solution with the concentration of 0.1 mu g/ml;
taking a furfural reference substance, precisely weighing, adding a solvent (50% acetonitrile solution) to dissolve to prepare a furfural positioning solution with the concentration of 0.5 mu g/ml;
taking a 5-nitrofurfural diethyl ester reference substance, precisely weighing, adding a solvent (50% acetonitrile solution) to dissolve to prepare a 5-nitrofurfural diethyl ester positioning solution with the concentration of 1 mu g/ml;
precisely weighing an impurity D reference substance, and dissolving with a solvent (50% acetonitrile solution) to obtain an impurity D positioning solution with the concentration of 1 microgram/ml;
precisely weighing impurity J reference substance, and dissolving with solvent (50% acetonitrile solution) to obtain impurity J positioning solution with concentration of 1 μ g/ml;
taking an impurity K reference substance, precisely weighing, and adding a solvent (50% acetonitrile solution) to dissolve to prepare an impurity K positioning solution with the concentration of 1 mu g/ml.
The specific preparation process of each solution and the experimental verification process and results of the method of the invention are shown in experimental examples one to four.
Example one
Specificity test
Preparation of a test solution: the nitrofurantoin is precisely weighed to be about 20mg, placed in a 20ml measuring flask, dissolved by adding 10ml of 50 percent acetonitrile, diluted to the scale with water and shaken up to be used as a test solution.
Preparation of control solution: a suitable amount of the test solution was measured precisely, and diluted with a solvent to give a solution containing 1. Mu.g of nitrofurantoin per 1ml, which was used as a control solution.
Preparation of mixed solution: taking about 20mg of nitrofurantoin reference substance, adding 10ml of acetonitrile for dissolving, precisely adding a proper amount of nitrofurazone reference substance, furfural reference substance, 5-nitrofuraldehyde diethyl ester reference substance, impurity D reference substance, impurity J reference substance and impurity K reference substance, adding water for diluting to prepare a solution containing 1mg of nitrofurantoin reference substance, 0.1 mu g of nitrofurazone reference substance, 0.5 mu g of furfural reference substance, and 1 mu g of 5-nitrofuraldehyde diethyl ester reference substance, impurity D reference substance, impurity J reference substance and impurity K reference substance in each 1ml, and taking the solution as a mixed solution.
Preparing an impurity positioning solution: taking a proper amount of furacilin reference substances, precisely weighing, adding 50% acetonitrile for dissolving and diluting to obtain a solution of 0.1 mu g/ml, and taking the solution as a furacilin positioning solution; taking a proper amount of furfural reference substance, precisely weighing, adding 50% acetonitrile for dissolving and diluting to obtain a solution of 0.5 mu g/ml, and taking the solution as a furfural positioning solution; taking a proper amount of a 5-nitrofurfural diethyl ester reference substance, precisely weighing, adding 50% acetonitrile to dissolve and dilute to obtain a solution with the concentration of 1 mu g/ml, and taking the solution as a 5-nitrofurfural diethyl ester positioning solution; taking appropriate amount of impurity D reference substance, impurity J reference substance and impurity K reference substance, precisely weighing, dissolving with 50% acetonitrile, and diluting to obtain 1 μ g/ml solution as impurity D, impurity J and impurity K positioning solution.
And (3) determination: octadecylsilane chemically bonded silica is used as a filler for a chromatographic column, a mobile phase A is phosphate buffer solution (6.8 g of monopotassium phosphate is dissolved by adding 500ml of water, the pH value is adjusted to 7.1 +/-0.1 by using 1mol/L sodium hydroxide solution), a mobile phase B is 50% acetonitrile, the column temperature is 30 ℃, the flow rate is 1ml per minute, the detection wavelength is 375nm and 304nm, and gradient elution is adopted.
Precisely measuring the prepared control solution, the mixed solution and each impurity positioning solution by 10 μ l, injecting into a high performance liquid chromatograph, and recording chromatogram. The results are shown in Table 1, and the chromatograms of the mixed solutions are shown in FIGS. 1 and 2.
TABLE 1 results of specificity-location test
And (4) conclusion: the solvent does not interfere the determination of known impurities in the test solution, the separation among the impurities, the impurities and the main peak is good, and the number of theoretical plates meets the requirements of the determination of related substances.
Example two
Linear and range test
Preparation of linear solution: taking appropriate amounts of a nitrofurantoin reference substance, a nitrofurazone reference substance, a 5-nitrofuraldehyde diethyl ester reference substance, an impurity D reference substance, a furfural reference substance, an impurity J reference substance and an impurity K reference substance, precisely weighing appropriate amounts, dissolving with acetonitrile, quantitatively diluting to obtain solutions each containing 200 mu g of impurities per 1ml, taking the solutions as storage solutions, precisely weighing appropriate amounts, and diluting with a solvent (50% acetonitrile solution) to obtain a series of linear solutions.
Precisely measuring 10 μ l of each solution, injecting into a liquid chromatograph, and recording chromatogram; the results are shown in Table 2.
TABLE 2 results of the Linear and Range tests
And (4) conclusion: (1) The linear relation of nitrofurantoin in the concentration range of 0.032-2.107 mug/ml (corresponding to 0.003% -0.20% of the detected concentration) is good, the linear regression equation is y =46625.0590x +366.5408, r =0.9998, the percentage of the Y-axis intercept corresponding to 100% concentration response value is 0.7%.
(2) Furacilin: the linear relation is good in the concentration range of 0.020-0.196 mug/ml (corresponding to 0.002% -0.020% of the detected concentration), the linear regression equation is y =51453.0467x +16.0732, r =0.9997, the percentage of the Y-axis intercept corresponding to 100% of the concentration response value is 0.3%.
(3) Impurity D: the linear relation is good in the concentration range of 0.029-1.960 mu g/ml (corresponding to 0.003% -0.20% of the detected concentration), the linear regression equation is y =38339.0547x +345.4003, r =0.9998, and the percentage of the Y-axis intercept corresponding to 100% of the concentration response value is 0.9%.
(4) Impurity K: the linear relation is good in the concentration range of 0.030-2.025 mu g/ml (corresponding to 0.003% -0.2% of the detected concentration), the linear regression equation is y =38034.2562x +163.6797, r =0.9998, and the percentage of the Y-axis intercept corresponding to 100% of the concentration response value is 0.4%.
(5) 5-nitrofurfural diethyl ester: the linear relation is good in the concentration range of 0.050-1.997 mug/ml (corresponding to 0.005% -0.20% of the detected concentration), the linear regression equation is y =29072.9433x +94.8157, r =1.0000, and the percentage of the Y-axis intercept corresponding to 100% concentration response value is 0.3%.
(5) And (3) furfural: the linear relation is good in the concentration range of 0.099-0.990 mug/ml (corresponding to 0.01% -0.1% of the detected concentration), the linear regression equation is y =10382.3386x +48.6341, r =0.9997, the percentage of the Y-axis intercept corresponding to 100% concentration response value is 0.9%.
(7) Impurity J: the linear relation is good in the concentration range of 0.021-2.061 mug/ml (corresponding to 0.002% -0.2% of the detected concentration), the linear regression equation is y =74858.6593x +508.6866, r =0.9998, and the percentage of the Y-axis intercept corresponding to 100% of the concentration response value is 0.6%.
EXAMPLE III
Recovery test
Impurity reference substance: taking a proper amount of furacilin, 5-nitrofurfural diethyl ester, an impurity D, furfural, an impurity J and an impurity K as reference substances, precisely weighing, dissolving with acetonitrile, and quantitatively diluting with a solvent (50% acetonitrile solution) to prepare a solution containing 1 mu g/ml of furacilin, 5 mu g/ml of furfural and 10 mu g/ml of other impurities in each 1ml of solution as an impurity reference substance stock solution. Precisely measuring 2ml of the reference stock solution, placing in a 20ml measuring flask, diluting with solvent to scale, and shaking; 2 parts are prepared in parallel.
Preparation of an accuracy solution:
50% accuracy solution: precisely weighing about 20mg of a test sample, placing in a 20ml measuring flask, adding about 10ml of acetonitrile for dissolving, adding 1ml of impurity reference substance stock solution, adding water for diluting to scale, and shaking up to obtain the final product; 3 parts are prepared in parallel.
100% accuracy solution: precisely weighing about 20mg of a test sample, placing in a 20ml measuring flask, adding about 10ml of acetonitrile for dissolving, adding 2ml of impurity reference substance stock solution, adding water for diluting to scale, and shaking up to obtain the final product; 6 parts are prepared in parallel.
150% accuracy solution: precisely weighing about 20mg of a test sample, placing in a 20ml measuring flask, adding about 10ml of acetonitrile for dissolving, adding 3ml of impurity reference substance stock solution, adding water for diluting to scale, and shaking up to obtain the final product; 3 parts are prepared in parallel.
Preparing a background solution:
taking about 20mg of a test sample, precisely weighing, placing in a 20ml measuring flask, adding about 10ml of acetonitrile to dissolve, adding water to dilute to a scale, and shaking up to obtain the final product.
The solutions were measured precisely at 10. Mu.l each and injected into a liquid chromatograph, and the results are shown in tables 3 to 8.
TABLE 3 verification of related substance methods-Furacilin recovery results
TABLE 4 relevant materials method validation-results on recovery of impurity D
TABLE 5 verification of related materials methods-results on recovery of impurity K
TABLE 6 verification of 5-Nitro-furfural diethyl ester recovery results by related substance methods
TABLE 7 verification of related materials methods-Furfural recovery results
TABLE 8 verification of related substances methods-results on recovery of impurity J
And (4) conclusion: the result of the impurity recovery rate test shows that the recovery rates of 12 accuracy samples of nitrofurazone, an impurity D, an impurity K, 5-nitrofurfural diethyl ester, furfural and an impurity J are all 80-120%, the average recovery rates are 104.54%, 104.14%, 101.36%, 100.14%, 105.32% and 101.51%, and the table 3-9 shows that the recovery rates of the impurities meet the measurement requirements of the product on the known impurities, and the method is good in accuracy.
Example four
Durability test
Taking the mixed solution in the first experimental example, and respectively carrying out column temperature of 25 ℃ and 35 ℃; the flow rate is 0.9ml/min and 1.1ml/min; the results of the tests carried out at pH7.0 and pH7.2 for the mobile phase are shown in tables 9 to 10.
TABLE 9 durability test results (375 nm mixed solution-degree of separation)
TABLE 10 durability test results (304 nm mixed solution-degree of separation)
And (4) conclusion: under the condition of fine-tuning chromatography, the separation degrees among impurities, impurities and main peaks in the mixed solution meet the requirements. Indicating that the method is of good durability.
The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention, and it is obvious to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made in the present invention. Any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.