Direct resolution of a new antifungal agent, voriconazole (UK-109,496) and its potential impurities, by use of coupled achiral-chiral high-performance liquid chromatography

Coupled achiral-chiral high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with an achiral amino-based column coupled with a chiral amylose-based column has been used for qualitative and quantitative determination of the potential chiral and achiral impurities of Voriconazole (UK-109,496), a new antifungal agent with two stereogenic centres. The effect of the organic mobile-phase modifier, ethanol, was studied. The assay response was linearly dependent on concentration over the range 1.2–40.4 μg for Voriconazole and 2.5–104.0 ng for the impurities. The limit of detection was 2.5 ng for each analyte.