Sensitive and validated TLC densitometry method coupled with fluorescence detection for quantitative determination of the newly co-formulated drugs, celecoxib and amlodipine besylate in tablet dosage form

New, sensitive, rapid, cost-effective, and validated stability-indicating thin layer chromatographic (TLC) method coupled with fluorescence (FL) detection was developed for the quantitative analysis of celecoxib (CEL) and amlodipine besylate (AMLO) in their laboratory prepared binary mixture using the non-fluorescent TLC silica gel 60 plates. Ethyl acetate: diethylamine: 1-propanol (9:1:0.2, V/V) was used as a developing system. The retention factor (R f ) for each drug was 0.80 ± 0.03 and 0.44 ± 0.01 for CEL and AMLO, respectively. The plates were excited at 264 nm for the simultaneous FL measurement of CEL and AMLO, the calibration curves were linear over a concentration ranges of 30.0–300.0 ng/band and 15.0–150.0 ng/band with mean percentage recoveries of 99.80 ± 0.85 and 99.80 ± 0.77 For CEL and AMLO, respectively. The developed method was applied for the stability studies of the cited drugs in their laboratory prepared binary mixture and the forced degradation products were determined when present in presence of the pure drugs so the method can be considered as a stability-indicating one and it was validated as per ICH guidelines and proved to be accurate and precise.