A high-performance liquid chromatographic method employing pre-column derivatization with o-phthalaldehyde (OPA) and 2-mercaptoacetic acid was developed for the determination of apramycin, an aminoglycoside antibiotic used in veterinary medicine, in the oral soluble powder form. The chromatographic separation was done by ion-pair HPLC using a C18 reversed-phase column, Synergy Hydro (150 mm x 4.6 mm x 4 µm) and mobile phase composed of 0.005 mol/L sodium octanosulfonate in a mixture of acetonitrile: water: acetic acid (45:55:2) (v/v/v) with a flow rate of 1.0 mL/min; the UV detector was operated at 332 nm. The developed method was validated according to official compendia guidelines, having demonstrated robustness, selectivity and linearity for the... |