Practical aspects in chiral separation of pharmaceuticals by capillary electrophoresis (original) (raw)
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A rapid and simple method for separation of enantiomers of a variety of compounds is desirable as information regarding the enantiomeric composition may not be provided by the chemical suppliers especially chemical drug compounds. These drugs are commercially available with no information regarding whether they are pure enantiomers or racemic mixtures. Each enantiomer may have different pharmacological activity. Thus the information of chirality is important. This work aims to employ a capillary electrophoresis with UV detection as a simple and rapid method for separation of enantiomers to determine the compound chirality. The developed method has been applied for separation of different functional chemicals of drugs, such as β-blockers and neurotransmitter, by using a single capillary electrophoresis method. The buffer conditions for the capillary method were optimized with regards to the chiral selector type and concentration for improving the efficiency of enantiomer separation. ...
As part of a comprehensive screening program on the separation of chiral drugs by capillary zone electrophoresis, we have investigated the enantio-separation of 54 drug racemates with i-cyclodextrin as a chiral solvating agent (CSA), thus complementing previous studies on 34 drug racemates. Fourteen out of the 54 analytes investigated have been separated into the enantiomers, yielding an overall success rate of 24.4% for 86 drug racemates investigated in total.
Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, 1996
Three fl-cyclodextrin derivatives--carboxymethyl-, dimethyl-and hydroxypropyl-fl-cyclodextrin--were tested as chiral selectors for the enantioseparation of seven basic drugs in free solution capillary electrophoresis, using buffers made of 100 mM phosphoric acid adjusted to pH 3.0 with triethanolamine in fused silica capillaries thermostatted at 15°C. The best results with respect to chiral resolution were obtained with carboxymethyl-fl-cyclodextrin (CMCD): the enantiomers of all compounds examined were completely resolved with this fl-cyclodextrin derivative. The influence of the CMCD concentration on the migration times, the apparent electrophoretic mobility difference and the resolution of the drug enantiomers was investigated thoroughly. Particularly impressive resolution values, up to 23.7, were obtained for several compounds in these capillary electrophoretic systems, using CMCD in the 5-15 mM concentration range.
Enantiomer separation of drugs by capillary electrophoresis using proteins as chiral selectors
Journal of Chromatography A, 2000
The separation of drug enantiomers using proteins as the chiral selectors in capillary electrophoresis (CE) is considered in this review. The proteins used include albumins such as bovine serum albumin, human serum albumin and serum albumins from other species, glycoproteins such as a-acid glycoprotein, crude ovomucoid, ovoglycoprotein, avidin and riboflavin 1 binding protein, enzymes such as fungal cellulase, cellobiohydrolase I, pepsin and lysozyme and other proteins such as casein, human serum transferrin and ovotransferrin. Protein-based CE is carried out in two modes: in one proteins are immobilized or adsorbed within the capillary, or protein-immobilized silica gels are packed into the capillary (affinity capillary electrochromatography mode), and in the other proteins are dissolved in the running buffer (affinity CE mode). Furthermore, the advantages and limitations of the two modes and the factors affecting the chiral separations of various drugs by protein-based CE are discussed.
Journal of Chromatography A, 1997
Enantioseparation in capillary electrophoresis using 2-O-(2-hydroxybutyl)-â-CD as a chiral selector The resolving ability of 2-O-(2-hydroxybutyl)-b-CD (HB-b-CD) with different degrees of substitution (DS = 2.9 and 4.0) as a chiral selector in CZE is reported in this work. Fourteen chiral drugs belonging to different classes of compounds of pharmaceutical interest such as b-agonists, antifungal agents, ageneric agents, etc., were resolved. The effects of the DS of HB-b-CD on separations were also investigated. The chiral resolution (R s) was strongly influenced by the concentrations of the CD derivative, the BGE, and the pH of the BGE. Under the conditions of 50 mmol/L Tris-phosphate buffer at pH 2.5 containing 5 mmol/L HB-b-CD, all 14 analytes were separated. The very low concentration necessary to obtain separation was particularly impressive. The DS had a significant effect on the resolution of the chiral drugs and the ionic strength of the separation media; hence, the use of a well-characterized CD derivative is crucial.
Enantioselective determination by capillary electrophoresis with cyclodextrins as chiral selectors
Journal of Chromatography A, 2000
This review surveys the separation of enantiomers by capillary electrophoresis using cyclodextrins as chiral selector. Cyclodextrins or their derivatives have been widely employed for the direct chiral resolution of a wide number of enantiomers, mainly of pharmaceutical interest, selected examples are reported in the tables. For method optimisation, several parameters influencing the enantioresolution, e.g., cyclodextrin type and concentration, buffer pH and composition, presence of organic solvents or complexing additives in the buffer were considered and discussed. Finally, selected applications to real samples such as pharmaceutical formulations, biological and medical samples are also discussed.
Journal of Chromatography A, 1998
A method for resolving the enantiomers of various 2-arylpropionic acids (viz. ketoprofen, ibuprofen and fenoprofen) by capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) using a background electrolyte (BGE) containing a cyclodextrin as chiral selector is proposed. The effects of the type of cyclodextrin used and its concentration on resolution were studied and heptakis-2,3,6-tri-O-methyl-b-cyclodextrin was found to be the sole effective choice for the quantitative enantiomeric resolution of all the compounds tested. The influence of pH, BGE concentration, capillary temperature and addition of methanol to the BGE on resolution and other separation-related parameters was also studied. The three compounds studied can be enantiomerically resolved with a high efficiency in a short time (less than 20 min) with no capillary treatment. This makes the proposed method suitable for assessing the enantiomeric purity of commercially available pharmaceuticals.
Chiral separation of basic drugs by capillary electrophoresis with carboxymethylcyclodextrins
Journal of Chromatography A, 2002
Capillary electrophoresis (CE) with carboxymethylated bor g-cyclodextrins was used to achieve the rapid enantiomeric separation of a set of basic drugs. The enantiomers of 12 chiral amino-containing pharmaceutical compounds belonging to various therapeutic categories were analyzed by CE using an uncoated 60 cm375 mm I.D. silica capillary. Several experimental parameters such as the nature, concentration and pH of the buffer, nature and concentration of the anionic cyclodextrin and temperature were studied in order to optimize the enantiomeric separation. The variation of the solute partition coefficient for the chiral selector, the enantioselectivity and resolution factors are used to assess the quality of the chiral separation. It is shown that the solute affinity for the chiral selector is not related to its enantioresolution factor. None of the two cyclodextrin selectors used was able to separate the whole set of basic drugs.
Journal of Chromatography A, 2002
A total of 26 different cyclodextrin (CD) derivatives with different functional groups and degrees of substitution were tested against 35 basic pharmaceutical compounds in an effort to investigate their effectiveness as chiral selectors for enantiomeric separation in capillary electrophoresis (CE). Testing was performed under the same conditions using a low pH buffer (25 mM phosphate buffer at pH|2.5). Five CD derivatives, namely, highly sulfated-b-CD, highly sulfated-a-CD, hydroxypropyl-b-CD (degree of substitution|1), heptakis-(2,6-O-dimethyl)-b-CD, and heptakis(2,3,6-O-trimethyl)-b-CD were identified to be most effective for enantiomeric separations and have a wide range of enantiomeric selectivity towards the model compounds. Over 90% of the model compounds were enantiomerically resolved with the five identified CD derivatives, at a minimum resolution of 0.5. An additional 20 compounds were also tested to demonstrate the validity of the identified CD derivatives. The five CD derivatives were recommended as the starting chiral selectors in developing enantiomeric separation methods by CE.
Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, 1999
A simple, systematic method was developed for rapidly screening potential capillary electrophoresis (CE) separation conditions for small, amine-containing enantiomers. During method development, 39 pairs of enantiomers were investigated and partial or complete separation was achieved in every case. Baseline resolution was achieved by these initial screening conditions in over half of the cases. The screening strategy uses a bare fused silica capillary and a pH 2.5 amine-modified phosphate buffer containing one of the selected cyclodextrins (CD): dimethyl-b-CD, hydroxypropyl-b-CD, hydroxypropyl-a-CD, hydroxypropyl-g-CD and sulfated-b-CD. An additional set of compounds have been screened by this approach to demonstrate the validity of the method. The paper outlines the experimental work carried out to develop the screen and describes how one might implement it for a new compound.