[Determination of chlorhexidine acetate in disinfectant by high performance liquid chromatography]

A high performance liquid chromatography(HPLC) was described for the determination of chlorhexidine acetate in disinfectant on a C18 column using acetonitrile-0.02 mol/L potassium dihydrogen phosphate solution(pH2.5) (40:60) as mobile phase. The regression equation was linear when the chlorhexidine acetate concentration was lower than 1.00 g/L. The detection limit was 8 mg/L. The precision was less than 4.0% and the recovery varied from 99.8% to 115.2%. The method was more sensitive, rapid and simple than other HPLC methods, and the characteristic of low disturbance makes it especially important for the assay of chlorhexidine acetate in compound disinfectant comparing with titrimetry and UV spectrophotometry.