Abstract
A high performance liquid chromatographic method was developed for the kinetic investigation on the acidic hydrolysis of lorazepam in 0.01, 0.1, and 1.0 M hydrochloric acid solutions. In this study, the simultaneous determination of lorazepam and its main degradation product was performed on a reversed phase BDS C-8 column. The mobile phase consisted of a mixture of methanol: acetonitrile: buffer solution containing 0.005 M KH