Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate chromatographic behavior of geometric isomers of olopatadine and benzalkonium chloride in HILIC mode with the aim to define optimal chromatographic
conditions suitable for their determination in eye drops. In order to get the most suitable chromatographic conditions,design of experiments (DoE) methodology was employed.
On the basis of the obtained mathematical models, an appropriate interpretation of chromatographic behavior of investigated analytes in the mixture was carried out. The multi-objective robust
optimization is performed aiming to achieve maximal retention of the first eluting peak, satisfactory separation of the critical peak pair and satisfactory robustness of the obtained separation
criterion in terms of all investigated factors. The measurement of the robustness is performed calculating the partial derivatives of the response function with respect to the investigated factors.
Grid point search methodology was applied for identification of the optimal chromatographic conditions