BACKGROUND Tobramycin, an aminoglycoside antibiotic, is a polar pharmaceutical compound which lacks a UV absorbing chromophore. Due to the absence of a UV absorbing chromophore and high polar nature of this antibiotic, the analysis of such compounds becomes a major challenge. OBJECTIVE To overcome these problems, a novel method for the determination aminoglycoside tobramycin was developed and...

There is a need for simple and inexpensive methods to quantify potentially harmful persistent pesticides often found in our water-ways and water distribution systems. This paper presents a simple, relatively inexpensive method for the detection of a group of commonly used pesticides (atrazine, simazine and hexazinone) in natural waters using large-volume direct injection high performance liquid...

Twenty-one samples of commercial annatto formulations have been analyzed for color content (as bixin or norbixin) using a developed HPLC-PDA method and the results compared with those obtained using UV-vis spectrophotometric methods. HPLC-PDA provided superior qualitative and quantitative data, particularly with respect to the determination of colored degradation compounds. Two samples of norbi...

This study presents an HPLC method for simultaneous analysis of astaxanthin and its carotenoid precursors from Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous. The HPLC method is accomplished by employing a C18 column and the mobile phase methanol/water/acetonitrile/ dichloromethane (70:4:13:13, v/v/v/v). Astaxanthin is quantified by detection at 480 nm. The carotenoid precursors are identified by LC-APCI-MS and...

The increasing demand for enantiopure drugs has led to the development of a variety of stereoselective separation technologies. Among them, high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is well recognized as a powerful, fast and efficient technique, which has been successfully employed for analysis and preparation of enantiomers of drugs. Nowadays, liquid chromatographic techniques are the focu...

Abscisic acid (ABA) was purified from soybean (Glycine max [L.]) seed extract using a preparative high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) procedure. The preparative procedure was rapid (70 minutes per sample), required no prior partitioning for purification and was quantitative as demonstrated with an internal standard of [2-(14)C]ABA, of which 98.9% was recovered.Following purification b...

A liquid chromatography system with an inductively coupled plasma detector is used to prepare a single calibration curve that is useful for multiple analytes. The detector monitors the atomic emission from carbon at 193.09 nm. Hence the analytes need not exhibit appreciable molar absorptivity or native fluorescence. Since the carbon signal is independent of molecular structure, the sensitivitie...

The samples of Satureja subspicata Vis. honey were confirmed to be unifloral by melissopalynological analysis with the characteristic pollen share from 36% to 71%. Bioprospecting of the samples was performed by HPLC-DAD, GC-FID/MS, and UV/VIS. Prephenate derivatives were shown to be dominant by the HPLC-DAD analysis, particularly phenylalanine (167.8 mg/kg) and methyl syringate (MSYR, 114.1 mg/...

in published high performance liquid chromatographic (hplc) methods for analysis of topiramate (tpm) in pharmaceutical dosage forms and raw materials refractive index detector (rid) has been used which is not available in many laboratories and has low sensitivity. we described a new, sensitive and simple hplc method for determination of topiramate in pharmaceutical forms and in-virto dissolutio...

OBJECTIVES 1-hydroxypyrene is an important biomarker of exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which appears in the urine of exposed human subjects. In developing countries, where advanced instruments are not available, the importance of this biomarker demands convenient and sensitive methods for determination purposes. This study aimed at developing a methodology to quantify 1-hy...