The invention discloses a method for detecting
formamide residues in
allopurinol. The method comprises the following steps: S1, preparing a reference substance
stock solution; s2, preparing a reference substance solution; s3, preparing a
test solution; and S4, detecting. According to the detection method, the dissolvability difference of
allopurinol and
formamide in different solvents is utilized, a
solvent which is easy to dissolve in the
formamide and a
solvent which is difficult to dissolve in
allopurinol are selected, an allopurinol sample is dissolved in a
dimethyl sulfoxide solvent at a
high concentration, then a small amount of
dichloromethane solvent is added, the temperature is reduced, allopurinol is separated out, and the content of allopurinol is detected. And the precipitated allopurinol is removed through
centrifugation, and the finally obtained
test solution only contains residual formamide to be detected (if any). According to the method, the amount of a target object entering a chromatographic
system can be increased, and the interference of too high allopurinol sample concentration on the chromatographic
system is reduced, so that the problem of too low sensitivity of a method for detecting the formamide residue in allopurinol is solved. Moreover,
helium is selected as carrier gas, so that the detection sensitivity can be further improved.