Item | Specification |
Appearance | White or almost white crystalline powder |
Identification | IR, HPLC |
Solubility | Very soluble in methanol, freely soluble in N,N dimethylformamide and in alcohol, practically in soluble in water. |
Residue on ignition | ≤0.10 % |
Organic impurities (procedure-2) | Ascomycin 19-epimer ≤0.10 % |
Ascomycin ≤0.50 % | |
Desmethyl tacrolimus ≤0.10 % | |
Tacrolimus 8-epimer ≤0.15 % | |
Tacrolimus 8-propyl analog ≤0.15 % | |
Unknown impurity -I ≤0.10 % | |
Unknown impurity -II ≤0.10 % | |
Unknown impurity -III ≤0.10 % | |
Total impurities ≤1.00 % | |
Optical rotation (on as is basis) (10mg/ml in N,Ndimethylformamide) | -110.0° ~ -115.0° |
Water content (by KF) | ≤4.0% |
Residual solvents (by GC) | Acetone ≤1000ppm (In-house) |
Di-isopropyl ether ≤100ppm (In-house) | |
Ethyl ether ≤5000ppm | |
Acetonitrile ≤410ppm | |
Toluene ≤890ppm | |
Hexane ≤290ppm | |
Microbial test (in house) | Total aerobic microbial count ≤100cfu/gm |
Total yeast and mould count ≤10cfu/gm | |
Specified organisms (Pathogens) (E.coil, salmonella sps., S.aureus. Pseudomonas aeruginosa) should absent | |
Assay (by HPLC) (on anhydrous and solvent free basis) | 98%~102% |