Chemometric Calculation for Determination of Betamethasone and Neomycin Mixture in Cream Supply by Ultraviolet Spectrophotometry

BACKGROUND: Chemometric can be defined as a branch of analytical chemistry using statistical principles to design and select optimal analytical procedures and experiments. The chemometric technique that applies in the design of quantitative calibration curves in the spectral analysis is very important in quality control of the component contained in the drug mixture of 2 or 3 drug components or more, especially the component that has the adjacent wavelength when the spectrum overlap. AIM: The purpose of this study was to conduct research that examines betamethasone and neomycin mixture in cream with the UV spectrophotometric methods using a chemometric calculation. METHODS: Chemometric calculation for determination of betamethasone and neomycin mixture in cream supply by ultraviolet spectrophotometric. RESULTS: The result of betamethasone and neomycin levels were 91.35% and 97.56%, relative standard deviation (RSD) for betamethasone and neomycin 0.93%; 1.73% and recovery percentage 99.09%; 99.94%. On the multivariate calibration of PLS betamethasone and neomycin with each RMSEC value of 0.0230 and 0.3553 with the value of RMSECV 0.7187 and 0.3586 with RMSEP value 0.1558 and 0.0820. Thus, the predictive ability of the research is still acceptable and is well used for grade determination of betamethasone and neomycin content fulfil the requirement for cream preparation according to USP edition XXX. CONCLUSION: Methods of UV spectrophotometric with chemometric can be used in the determination of BET and NEO levels in cream preparations and BET level is 91.35% with a range of 90-110%, and NEO level is 97.56% with a range of 94.45-98.71%. These levels have met the requirements of the levels listed in Indonesian Pharmacopoeia, 2014.