Methdilazine Hydrochloride Oral Solution
» Methdilazine Hydrochloride Oral Solution contains not less than 93.0 percent and not more than 107.0 percent of the labeled amount of methdilazine hydrochloride (C18H20N2S·HCl).
Packaging and storage—
Preserve in tight, light-resistant containers.
USP Reference standards 
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USP Methdilazine Hydrochloride RS 
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Identification—
Transfer a volume of Oral Solution, equivalent to about 4 mg of methdilazine hydrochloride, to a 60-mL separator, add 5 mL of 0.1 N hydrochloric acid, and extract with 10 mL of ether, discarding the extract. Add 10 mL of sodium bicarbonate solution (1 in 10) to the separator, and extract with 3 mL of chloroform. Filter the extract through a pledget of cotton. Evaporate the chloroform, carefully removing the last trace of solvent in a small vacuum flask: the IR absorption spectrum of a potassium bromide dispersion of the methdilazine so obtained exhibits maxima only at the same wavelengths as that of a similar preparation of USP Methdilazine Hydrochloride RS that has been treated in the same manner.
pH 791:
between 3.3 and 4.1.
791:
between 3.3 and 4.1.
Alcohol content, Method II 611:
between 6.5% and 7.5% of C2H5OH.
611:
between 6.5% and 7.5% of C2H5OH.
Assay—
Standard preparation—
Dissolve a suitable quantity of USP Methdilazine Hydrochloride, accurately weighed, in chloroform, and quantitatively dilute with chloroform to obtain a solution having a known concentration of about 400 µg per mL.
Assay preparation—
Transfer a volume of Oral Solution, equivalent to about 4 mg of methdilazine hydrochloride, to a 60-mL separator, add 10 mL of a saturated solution of sodium chloride, and extract with three 10-mL portions of chloroform, transferring the extracts to a 100-mL volumetric flask.
Procedure—
Transfer 10.0 mL of Standard preparation to a 100-mL volumetric flask, and add 20 mL of chloroform. To this flask and to the flask containing the Assay preparation add 4.0 mL of buffered palladium chloride TS, dilute with alcohol to volume, and mix. Concomitantly determine the absorbances of the solutions in 1-cm cells at the wavelength of maximum absorbance at about 460 nm, with a suitable spectrophotometer, using a mixture of 30 mL of chloroform, 4 mL of palladium chloride TS, and 66 mL of alcohol as the blank. Calculate the quantity, in mg, of methdilazine hydrochloride (C18H20N2S·HCl ) in each mL of the Oral Solution taken by the formula:
(0.01C / V)(AU / AS)
in which C is the concentration, in µg per mL, of USP Methdilazine Hydrochloride RS in the Standard preparation; V is the volume, in mL, of Oral Solution taken; and AU and AS are the absorbances of the solutions from the Assay preparation and the Standard preparation, respectively.
Auxiliary Information—
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| Topic/Question | Contact | Expert Committee |
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| Monograph | Feiwen Mao, M.S.
Senior Scientific Liaison 1-301-816-8320 |
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| Reference Standards | RS Technical Services 1-301-816-8129 rstech@usp.org |
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