ISSN:
1612-1112
Keywords:
Capillary electrophoresis
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Enantiomer separation
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Cyclodextrins
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Pharmaceuticals
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Fenfluramine isomers
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
Summary Capillary zone electrophoresis has been used for the enantiomeric separation of racemic ortho-fenfluramine and meta-fenfluramine employing a phosphate buffer at pH 2.5 added with cyclodextrins. The cyclodextrin type and concentration strongly influenced the chiral resolution. The uncharged β-cyclodextrin polymer gave enantiomeric resolution of both ortho and meta isomers, while γ-cyclodextrin was a good chiral selector for only ortho-fenfluramine; heptakis-2,3,6-tri-O-methyl-β-cyclodextrin permitted base line separation of meta-fenfluramine enantiomers but only partial resolution of racemic ortho-fenfluramine. The optimized electrophoretic method was applied to the quantitative analysis of 1-meta-fenfluramine (minor component in the mixture) and d-meta-fenfluramine in a commercial pharmaceutical formulation. Good reproducibility for migration time and corrected peak areas (R.S.D. 〈0.8% and 〈1.2%, respectively) was achieved and the presence of the minor component of the mixture was found to be in accord to previous determinations performed by other analytical methods.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02318609
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