Development and Validation of Green Chromatographic Approaches for Simultaneous Determination of Aspirin, Rosuvastatin and Clopidogrel in their Tertiary Mixture

Abstract

Reduction of environmental pollution sources is the main target of green chemistry; it is applied across the life cycle of a chemical product. Scientists try to switch to eco-friendly practices to diminish the negative impact of chemicals and solvents on the environment. Analytical chemistry is one of the main fields that mounted green chemistry approach. In this work, sensitive and selective green chromatographic methods with UV detection are described for the simultaneous determination of aspirin, rosuvastatin and clopidogrel. The first proposed method is an RP-HPLC one, which was described and successfully validated for the simultaneous separation and determination of the three components on Prontosil Hyperchom C18 (250 × 4.6 mm, 5 μm) column using an isocratic elution. The second method was a TLC spectrodensitometry in which the three components were separated, identified and quantified. The drugs were applied on silica gel plates, and developed using n-heptane: acetone: glacial acetic acid (60:40:0.4, by volume). The three drugs resolved bands were quantified by spectrodensitometric scanning at 240 nm. Both methods were validated according to ICH, statistically compared to the official methods with full greenness investigation to confirm that the proposed methods are viable alternatives for quality assessment of this combination.