DEVELOPMENT OF HPTLC METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUS ESTIMATION OF CIPROFLOXACIN AND ORNIDAZOLE IN COMBINED DOSAGE FORM

A simple and accurate high performance thin layer chromatographic (HPLTC) method has been developed and validated as per ICH guidelines for estimations of Ciprofloxacin (CP) and Ornidazole (ORN) in combined dosage form. The mobile phase was acetonitrile: toluene: water and triethylamine (5.5:1.8:1.5:1.6 V/V) was found to be best which gave high resolution with Rf 0.16 and 0.84 for ciprofloxacin and ornidazole respectively. The linearity of ciprofloxacin and ornidazole was found to be in the range of 0.4 to 0.8 µg/mL and 0.4 to 0.8 µg/mL, respectively. The coefficient of correlation (r2 ) was found to be greater than 0.989 for both the components by this method. The tablet analyses result (n = 5) were found to be > 100.84 % by HPTLC for both the components. The proposed method was found to be simple, accurate and suitable for routine quality control of marketed formulations containing these drugs.