M. Thomassin et al., COMPARISON OF QUANTITATIVE HIGH-PERFORMANCE THIN-LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHYAND THE HIGH-PERFORMANCE LIQUID-CHROMATOGRAPHY OF PARABENS, Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis, 15(6), 1997, pp. 831-838
A method is described for the densitometric determination of the p-hyd
roxybenzoic esters and p-hydroxybenzoic acid in mixtures or in drugs.
This method is compared with the one used in high performance liquid c
hromatography (HPLC). The calibration curves were linear in interval 0
.250-3.60 mu mol ml(-1) per 200 nl per spot. The limit of detection an
d the relative standard deviation (RSD) are higher than in HPLC (RSD i
s 6% in HPTLC, 3% in HPLC; limit of detection about 40 pmol in HPTLC a
nd 25 pmol in HPLC) but HPTLC quantitative determination of parabens i
n drugs is faster.