A QBD WITH DESIGN-OF-EXPERIMENTS APPROACH FOR DEVELOPMENT OF A STATE-OF-THE-ART UPLC PURITY METHOD FOR CARBAMAZEPINE

A state-of-the-art ultra-performance liquid chromatographic (UPLC) method has been developed for purity testing of carbamazepine. Successful chromatographic separation of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) from its impurities was achieved on a WATERS ACQUITY UPLC CSH C18 column with the dimensions 2.1 mm × 100 mm and 1.7 µm particle size with gradient elution of 0.2% phosphoric acid and acetonitrile in only 5 min. Incorporating Quality by Design (QbD) principles to the method development approach by using the statistical software package Fusion AE allows the study of the relationship between chromatographic parameters (factors) and the resolution (response) between the peaks of interest. In a screening phase, the factors known to have a major effect on column selectivity (stationary phase, pH of the aqueous eluent, organic eluent type, gradient time, and slope) were studied. In the second phase, the chromatographic parameters that were identified as affecting the resolution were studied with addit...