PMID- 23850937 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20140227 LR - 20130729 IS - 1873-264X (Electronic) IS - 0731-7085 (Linking) VI - 84 DP - 2013 Oct TI - Improved quality-by-design compliant methodology for method development in reversed-phase liquid chromatography. PG - 215-23 LID - S0731-7085(13)00263-X [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.jpba.2013.06.013 [doi] AB - A complete strategy dedicated to quality-by-design (QbD) compliant method development using design of experiments (DOE), multiple linear regressions responses modelling and Monte Carlo simulations for error propagation was evaluated for liquid chromatography (LC). The proposed approach includes four main steps: (i) the initial screening of column chemistry, mobile phase pH and organic modifier, (ii) the selectivity optimization through changes in gradient time and mobile phase temperature, (iii) the adaptation of column geometry to reach sufficient resolution, and (iv) the robust resolution optimization and identification of the method design space. This procedure was employed to obtain a complex chromatographic separation of 15 antipsychotic basic drugs, widely prescribed. To fully automate and expedite the QbD method development procedure, short columns packed with sub-2 mum particles were employed, together with a UHPLC system possessing columns and solvents selection valves. Through this example, the possibilities of the proposed QbD method development workflow were exposed and the different steps of the automated strategy were critically discussed. A baseline separation of the mixture of antipsychotic drugs was achieved with an analysis time of less than 15 min and the robustness of the method was demonstrated simultaneously with the method development phase. CI - Copyright (c) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Debrus, Benjamin AU - Debrus B AD - School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, University of Lausanne, Boulevard d'Yvoy 20, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland. FAU - Guillarme, Davy AU - Guillarme D FAU - Rudaz, Serge AU - Rudaz S LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20130621 PL - England TA - J Pharm Biomed Anal JT - Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis JID - 8309336 RN - 0 (Antipsychotic Agents) RN - 0 (Solvents) SB - IM MH - Antipsychotic Agents/chemistry MH - Chromatography, Liquid/*methods MH - Chromatography, Reverse-Phase/*methods MH - Hydrogen-Ion Concentration MH - Research Design MH - Software MH - Solvents/chemistry MH - Temperature OTO - NOTNLM OT - Automated method development OT - Computer-assisted method development OT - Design space OT - Quality by design OT - Robustness EDAT- 2013/07/16 06:00 MHDA- 2014/02/28 06:00 CRDT- 2013/07/16 06:00 PHST- 2013/03/29 00:00 [received] PHST- 2013/05/31 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2013/06/06 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2013/07/16 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/07/16 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/02/28 06:00 [medline] AID - S0731-7085(13)00263-X [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.jpba.2013.06.013 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Pharm Biomed Anal. 2013 Oct;84:215-23. doi: 10.1016/j.jpba.2013.06.013. Epub 2013 Jun 21.