Baclofen impurities: Facile synthesis and novel environmentally benign chromatographic method for their simultaneous determination in baclofen

An efficient, economic and high yielding method was described for the synthesis of baclofen (BAC) pharmacopoeial impurities (impurity A and impurity B) which can be used for gram-scale synthesis. Furthermore, a novel ecofriendly thin-layer chromatographic TLC-densitometric method was established and validated for the determination of BAC and its synthesized impurities. The developed TLC-densitometric method is based on the chromatographic separation using TLC plates (60 F254 ) using a green mobile phase of ethyl acetate-methanol-ammonia solution, 33% (8:2:0.1, by volume) with UV scanning at 220 nm. The proposed method was validated with respect to International Conference on Harmonization guidelines. The validated method was successfully applied for determination of BAC in pure form and in its commercial dosage form. Additionally, the greenness profile of the developed method was evaluated and compared with those of the reported chromatographic methods. The developed method was found to be superior to the published methods, being environmentally benign.