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Determination of Allantoin
in Drug Preparations
by Quantitative High
Performance TLC
a a
Joseph Sherma & Patricia S. Cortelyou
a
Department of Chemistry , Lafayette College ,
Easton, Pennsylvania, 18042
Published online: 19 Dec 2006.
To cite this article: Joseph Sherma & Patricia S. Cortelyou (1986) Determination
of Allantoin in Drug Preparations by Quantitative High Performance TLC, Journal
of Liquid Chromatography, 9:16, 3415-3421, DOI: 10.1080/01483918608077791
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JOURNAL OF LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY, 9(16), 3415-3421 (1986)
Department of Chemistry
Lafay ette College
Easton, PennsyZvania 18042
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
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component t h a t promotes h e a l i n g
b i o l o g i c a l f l u i d s (10,11)h a s a l s o been r e p o r t e d .
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T h i s paper d e s c r i b e s t h e d e t e r m i n a t i o n of a l l a n t o i n i n v a g i n a l
s t a n d a r d s w i t h t h e d e t e c t i o n r e a g e n t 1-dimethylaminobenzaldehyde on
EXPERIMENTAL
Standard S o l u t i o n
P r e p a r a t i o n of a 1.00 p g / p l d i s t i l l e d w a t e r s o l u t i o n i n a 25 m l
v o l u m e t r i c f l a s k r e q u i r e d g e n t l e h e a t i n g on a h o t p l a t e t o a f f e c t
complete d i s s o l v i n g .
Sample P r e p a r a t i o n
occasional s t i r r i n g . A f t e r c o o l i n g t o room t e m p e r a t u r e , t h e
s o l u t i o n was t r a n s f e r r e d q u a n t i t a t i v e l y t o a 25 m l v o l u m e t r i c
ALLANTOIN IN DRUG PREPARATIONS 3417
flask, which was filled to the line with distilled water. Cloudy
is 1.00 pg/pl.
acidic ethanol and samples were heated for 15 minutes rather than
TLC Determination
The initial zones were dried thoroughly with a ha rdrier and the
-
p-dimethylaminobenzaldehyde detection solution (0.25 g reagent in
Chromaflex f i b e r o p t i c s s c a n n e r a s d e s c r i b e d e a r l i e r ( 1 , Z ) . A
of t h e s t a n d a r d s , t h e amounts of a l l a n t o i n i n t h e sample a l i q u o t s
1-Dimethylaminobenzaldehyde r e a g e n t d e t e c t e d a l l a n t o i n as a
s i l i c a g e l j u n c t i o n r e q u i r e d 30 m i n u t e s . The l i n e a r i t y c o r r e l a t i o n
c o e f f i c i e n t f o r t h e s c a n a r e a s of t h e t h r e e s t a n d a r d s v e r s u s micro-
6 % and u s u a l l y l e s s t h a n 2 % .
T r i p l i c a t e a n a l y s i s of cream Sample 5 y i e l d e d c o n s i s t e n t l y
d u p l i c a t e sample a l i q u o t s f o r t h e f i r s t a n a l y s i s of t h i s product
TABLE I
A B 3w 5w 7P9
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Reference 2. The only compounds that are detected with the p-di-
and aminacrine (R
F
< 0.1). The sulfas become yellow immediately
m u l t i p l e samples u s i n g a common s e r i e s of s t a n d a r d s on a s i n g l e
p l a t e a l l o w s h i g h sample throughput t o be a c h i e v e d .
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
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