Febuxostat is a selective inhibitor of xanthine oxidase that is used for the treatment of hyperuricaemia in patients with gout. An isocratic liquid chromatographic method was developed and validated for the determination of febuxostat. Chromatographic separation was achieved on a C18 column using sodium acetate buffer (pH 4.0)-acetonitrile (40:60, v/v), with a flow rate 1.2 mL/min (ultraviolet detection at 254 nm). Linearity was observed in the concentration range of 0.1-200 µg/mL (R(2) = 0.9999) with a linear regression equation of y = 21148x - 2025.1. The limit of quantification was found to be 0.0783 µg/mL and the limit of detection was found to be 0.0257 µg/mL. Febuxostat was subjected to stress conditions of degradation in aqueous solutions, including acidic, alkaline, oxidation, photolysis and thermal degradation. The forced degradation studies were performed by using sodium hydroxide, hydrochloric acid, hydrogen peroxide and thermal and ultraviolet radiation. Febuxostat is more sensitive toward acidic conditions than oxidation and very resistant toward alkaline, thermal and photolytic degradations. The method was validated as per the guidelines of the International Conference on Harmonization. The intra-day and inter-day precision (relative standard deviation) was found to be 0.29-0.41 and 0.63-0.76, respectively. The method is simple, specific, precise, robust and accurate for the determination of febuxostat in pharmaceutical dosage forms (tablets).

Introduction: Pterostilbene, a stilbenoid possess diversified pharmacological activities. In the present study, a stability-indicating liquid chromatographic method was proposed for the determination of Pterostilbene in pharmaceutically available formulations. Materials and Methods: The chromatographic separation was achieved on Phenomenex C8 type column as stationary phase. UV detection was carried out at 219 nm. Pterostilbene was subjected to various stress conditions such as acidic, alkaline, oxidative, thermal and photolytic degradations. Results:The drug was found to be sensitive towards acidic and alkaline stress conditions. The proposed method was validated as per the ICH guidelines and successfully applied to the available marketed formulations. Conclusion:The proposed method is selective, specific, robust and can be applied for the assay of pharmaceutical dosage forms.

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Background: Exemestane is an active irreversible lipophilic steroidal aromatase inhibitor used to treat breast cancer in addition to surgery and/or radiation in post-menopausal women. It is a white to slightly yellow crystalline powder with a molecular weight of 296.41. Exemestane is freely soluble in N, N-dimethyl formamide, soluble in methanol, and practically insoluble in water. The present robust RP-HPLC method supports the quantitative analysis of Exemestane in pharmaceutical formulations and for carrying out the forced degradation studies.Methods: A novel stability indicating liquid chromatographic method was developed for the determination of Exemestane using HPLC system of Shimadzu Model CBM-20A/20 Alite, equipped with SPD M20A prominence PDA and Zorbax SB C18 (150 mm × 4.6 mm i.d., 3.5 µm particle size) column. A mixture of sodium acetate buffer and acetonitrile (30:70, v/v) was used as a mobile phase with 1.0 ml/min flow rate and the method was validated as per ICH guidelines. Forced degradation studies were performed in different stress conditions such as acidic, basic, oxidation and thermal degradations. Results:The proposed liquid chromatographic method has shown linearity over a concentration range 0.1-200 μg/ml with regression equation y = 59411x -7316 with correlation coefficient 0.999. During the validation process i.e. the intra-day and inter-day precision studies, accuracy and robustness studies the method has shown an RSD of less than 2.0 %. Exemestane is found to be more stable during all the degradation studies because the percentage of degradation was reported to be less than 10. Conclusions:The proposed method was found to be precise, accurate and robust and it can be applied for the determination of Exemestane in any formulations.

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