Desenvolvimento, otimização e validação de metodologias por eletroforese capilar para análise de fármacos utilizados no tratamento da tuberculose

Abstract

The main focus of this thesis was the development, optimization and validation of analytical methodologies for analysis of pharmaceutical preparations used for tuberculosis treatment, which contain as active ingredients, ethambutol (ETB), isoniazid (ISO), rifampicin (RIF) and pyrazinamide (PYR) isolated or in association. Two analytical methodologies for ETB analysis in tablets were developed initially: the first one took into account the capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) approach for simultaneous analysis of ETB and its impurity 2-amino-1-butanol using an electrolyte consisting of 60.0 mmol L-1 of acetic acid/acetate buffer, 5.0 mmol L-1 of Cu2+, under normal polarity (+25 kV) and UV detection at 262 nm. The second one was performed by spectrophotometry using 5.0 mmol L-1 of acetic acid/acetate buffer and 0.5 mmol L-1 of Cu2+ for standards and sample dilutions under UV detection at 262 nm. The CuETB complex was necessary for the two methodologies, since ETB presents low molar absorptivity. Some merit figures such as linearity, repeatability, accuracy, limit of detection and limit of quantification were evaluated for both methodologies. These methodologies were compared and they did not present significant differences at the 95% confidence level using the parametric independent sample t test. In a second phase a novel method for the simultaneous analysis of fixed dose combination (FDC) containing ETB, ISO, RIF and PYR by CZE under UV detection was developed, optimized and validated. The experimental condition optimized consisted of an electrolyte containing 50.0 mmol L-1 of acetic acid/acetate buffer and 12.5 mmol L-1 of Cu2+ under normal polarity (+22 kV). This methodology was successfully applied to the analysis of 2-FDC (ISO and PYR) in tablet samples and 4-FDC (ETB, ISO, RIF and PYR) in a sachet sample. Finally, a CZE methodology using UV detection for simultaneous analysis of ISO, its impurities and degradation products such as isonicotinic acid, ethyl isonicotinate, 4-cyanopyridine and isonicotinamide was

ptimized. The optimized experimental condition consisted of an electrolyte containing 50.0 mmol L-1 of acetic acid/acetate buffer and 12.5 mmol L-1 of Cu2+ under normal polarity (+20 kV) and UV detection at 270 nm. It is important to stress that design of experiment such as 32 full factorial design and 33 Box-Behnken design were used as auxiliary tools in the development and optimization of the analytical methodologies (CZE and spectrophotemetric) and robustness evaluation for 4-FDC analysis.