A new analytical method for determination of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate and emtricitabine in pharmaceutical formulations by RP-HPLC method

A simple, rapid, precise, sensitive and reproducible reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) method has been developed for the quantitative analysis of Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate and Emtricitabine in pharmaceutical dosage form. Chromatographic separation of Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate and Emtricitabine was achieved on Waters Alliance -2695, by using Luna C18 (250mm x 4.6mm, 5µm) column and the mobile phase containing 0.1% TEA adjusted pH-2.5 with OPA & ACN in the ratio of 60:40 v/v. The flow rate was 1.0 ml/min, detection was carried out by absorption at 261 nm using a photodiode array detector at ambient temperature. The number of theoretical plates and tailing factor for Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate and Emtricitabine were NLT 2000 and should not more than 2 respectively. The linearity of the method was excellent over the concentration range 30-450 µg/ml and 20-300 µg/ml for Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate and Emtricitabine respectively. The correlation coefficient was 0.999. % Relative standard deviation of peak areas of all measurements always less than 2.0. The proposed method was validated according to ICH guidelines. The method was found to be simple, economical, suitable, precise, accurate & robust method for quantitative analysis of Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate and Emtricitabine study of its stability.