Chlorpheniramine Maleate Tablets

This article is compiled based on the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) – 2025 Edition

Issued and maintained by the United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP)

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Chlorpheniramine Maleate Tablets contain not less than 90.0 percent and not more than 110.0 percent of the labeled amount of C₁₆H₁₉ClN₂ · C₄H₄O₄.

Packaging and storage—Preserve in tight containers.

USP REFERENCE STANDARDS 〈11〉—

USP Chlorpheniramine Maleate RS

1 Identification—

Disperse a portion of powdered Tablets, equivalent to about 25 mg of chlorpheniramine maleate, in about 20 mL of dilute hydrochloric acid (1 in 100). Dissolve about 25 mg of USP Chlorpheniramine Maleate RS in 20 mL of dilute hydrochloric acid (1 in 100). Treat each solution as follows. Render alkaline, to a pH of about 11, with sodium hydroxide solution (1 in 10). Extract with two 50-mL portions of solvent hexane, collect the extracts in a beaker, and evaporate to dryness. Prepare a Mineral oil dispersion of the residue so obtained and determine the IR absorption spectrum of the preparation in the region between 2 µm and 12 µm: the spectrum of the test preparation exhibits maxima only at the same wavelengths as that of the Standard preparation.

DISSOLUTION 〈711〉—

Medium: 0.01 N hydrochloric acid; 500 mL Apparatus 2: 50 rpm.

Time: 30 minutes.

Procedure—Determine the amount of C₁₆H₁₉ClN₂ · C₄H₄O₄ dissolved by employing UV absorption at the wavelength of maximum absorbance at about 265 nm on filtered portions of the solution under test, suitably diluted with Dissolution Medium, if necessary, in comparison with a Standard solution having a known concentration of USP Chlorpheniramine Maleate RS in the same Medium.

Tolerances—Not less than 80% (Q) of the labeled amount of C₁₆H₁₉ClN₂ · C₄H₄O₄ is dissolved in 30 minutes.

UNIFORMITY OF DOSAGE UNITS 〈905〉: meet the requirements.

2 Assay—

Using a portion of powdered Tablets equivalent to 4 mg of chlorpheniramine maleate, proceed as directed under Salts of Organic Nitrogenous Bases 〈501〉, but using dilute hydrochloric acid (1 in 100) instead of the dilute sulfuric acid (1 in 350), and dilute sulfuric acid (1 in 70), and using solvent hexane instead of the ether, and diluting 10 mL of the Assay preparation with dilute hydrochloric acid (1 in 100) to 25.0 mL to prepare the solution employed for the determination of the absorbance, A , at 264 nm. For the determination of A , prepare a solution containing about 40 mg of USP Chlorpheniramine Maleate RS, accurately weighed, in 200.0 mL of dilute hydrochloric acid (1 in 100), and treat 20.0 mL of this solution the same as the solution in dilute hydrochloric acid (1 in 100) of the portion of Tablets taken. Calculate the quantity, in mg, of C H ClN · C H O in the portion of Tablets taken by the formula:

C(A_U/A_S)

in which C is the weight, in mg, of USP Chlorpheniramine Maleate RS in the 20.0-mL portion of the Standard preparation.