Desenvolvimento e validação de metodologia analítica aplicável ao desenvolvimento farmacotécnico de comprimidos de olanzapina

Abstract

Olanzapine is an antipsychotic active ingredient and its marketing in Brazil, in the form of terminated product, is protected by patent up to 2011. As it is recent in the pharmaceutical market and there is not a methodology described in officials forms that is capable of assuring the quality of new formulations, the objective of this paper was to characterize Olanzapine physical-chemical parameters, to develop and validate, in accordance with RE N°899, from May 29 th 2003, the analytical methodology for assay and dissolution and to apply the developed and validated methodologies in the pharmacotechnical development of tablets. It was characterized some physicalchemical parameters of solubility and of light absorption (from 200 to 400nm) in several solvents and it was developed and validated assay and dissolution methodologies by spectrophotometry with ultraviolet detection (UV) and the assay by high efficiency liquid chromatography with ultraviolet detection (HPLC-UV) for the quantification of olanzapine present in film coated tablets of 2.5, 5.0 and 10.0mg. The active ingredient presented a low solubility in water and the wave lengths of maximum light absorption were within the range of 254 and 273nm. For the dissolution methodology by UV spectrophotometry, the parameters were chloride acid 0.1 mol/L as the dissolution media, volume of 1,000mL (5 and 10mg of Olanzapine) and 500mL (2.5mg of Olanzapine), apparatus II (paddles) and a rotation of 50 rpm. The spectrophotometric parameters were chloride acid 0.1 mol/L as blank and 259nm of wave length. For the assay methodology by UV spectrophotometry, it was used as a solvent and as a blank solution chloride acid 0.1 mol/L and a wave length of 259nm. It was used a ProStar 210 UV/VIS VARIAN high efficient liquid chromatographer, a C18 (150x4,6)mm 5μm column in room temperature (25ºC), a flux of 0,8mL/min, a wave length of 254nm and a mobile phase constituted of a mixture of monobasic potassium phosphate buffer 0,01 mol/L pH 2,5 and acetonitrile (70:30) for the assay methodology by HPLC-UV. The results found from the parameters of specificity, linearity, accuracy, precision, quantification and detection limits and stability in the methodologies validations confirm that they were adequate for the purpose proposed. The methodologies developed and validated were applied in Olanzapine determination in several formulation propositions which have been developed and they assisted the pharmacotechnical development team in the definition of the best olanzapine formulation in the 2.5mg strength.