Determination of Boanmycin in Pharmaceutical Preparations by a Simple and Rapid Ion-pair LC Method

An ion-pair HPLC method with UV detection is described for the determination of boanmycin in freeze-dried pharmaceutical preparations. Chromatographic separation was achieved on a 5 μm Agilent Eclipse XDB-C18 column (150 × 4.6 mm). The mobile phase contained methanol, acetonitrile, 055 M sodium hexanesulfonate and 0.08 M acetic acid in water. UV detection was at 291 nm. The assay was validated over a linear concentration range from 0.05 to 120 μg mL−1. The method was applied to determine the content of BAM in freeze-dried powders.