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Development and validation of a novel evaporation setup-assisted TLC method with fluorescence detection for determination of flibanserin in pharmaceutical and biological samples

Research Authors
Heba Salah Mousa Noha M.Hosny, Mahmoud Abdelkarim, Mohammed I.Gadallah
Research Date
Research Year
2022
Research Journal
Journal of Chromatography B
Research Publisher
Elsevier
Research_Pages
123204
Research Abstract

A specific and sensitive thin layer chromatographic method coupled with fluorescence detection for determination of flibanserin (FLN) that treats woman hypoactive sexual desire disorder was developed. The proposed method depends on the enhancement of FLN native fluorescence intensity via the exposure of the developed TLC plate to concentrated hydrochloric acid vapors. Herein, an evaporation setup needed for HCl vapors exposure step was designed for the first time to ensure a uniform distribution of the vapors throughout the developed bands on the plate. Chloroform: methanol (9.5: 0.5, v/v) was the optimum mobile phase that gave a compact band (Rf= 0.44 ± 0.02) using TLC aluminium plates precoated with silica gel G 60F254 as a stationary phase. After exposure of the developed TLC plate to HCl vapors, the FLN bands emission intensities were measured after excitation at 275 nm. Conferring ICH …