Cyclodextrins determination

Fig. 3 depicts the time-averaged position of phenyl acetates in the cavity of a-cyclodextrin, determined by the above method. In these time-averaged conformations, the centers of the aromatic rings of p-nitrophenyl acetate, phenyl acetate, and nj-nitrophenyl acetate, respectively, are at the heights of 2.2, 1.9 and 1.7 A with respect to the plane comprised of the 6 H-3 atoms of a-cyclodextrin. As shown in Table 1, the calculated values of the anisotropic shielding effects of the aromatic rings of the phenyl acetates on both the H-3 and H-5 atoms agree fairly well with the observed values. 

Fig. 2. Chromatogram showing (a) the Ic separation of A, (+) (T)-(l-ferrocenyl-ethyl)thioethanol B, (+) 1-ferrocenyl-l-methoxyethane and C, (+) 1-mthenocenylethanol, on a 25-cm P-cyclodextrin column (see Table 2), and (b) the potential use of a P-cyclodextrin column to determine optical purity...

Catechin and epicatechin are two flavanols of the catechin family. They are enantiomers. The capillary zone electrophoresis (CE) methods with UV-detection were developed for quantitative determination of this flavanols in green tea extracts. For this purpose following conditions were varied mnning buffers, pH and concentration of chiral additive (P-cyclodextrin was chosen as a chiral selector). Borate buffers improve selectivity of separation because borate can make complexes with ortho-dihydroxy groups on the flavanoid nucleus. 

Acidimetric, spectrophotometric and HPLC assays were developed for determination of 2,3,5,6,7,8-hexahydro-l//-pyrido[l,2-c]pyrimidine-l,3-diones 135 (98M133). Its solubility properties were also characterized. Resolution of the enantiomers of 4-phenyl-2- 4-[4-(2-pyrimidinyl)piperazi-nyl]butyl perhydropyrido[l,2-c]pyrimidine-l,3-dione was achieved on hep-takis(2-N, V-dimethylcarbamoyl)- 6-cyclodextrines (01 JC(A)249). 

A stereoselective determination of enantiomers of 5, its A -oxide and N-desmethyl metabolites in human urine was developed by capillary electrophoresis using laser-induced fluorescence detection and sulfonated /1-cyclodextrin in the running buffer (01JC(B)169). 

Figure 3.7 shows some early examples of this type of analysis (39), illustrating the GC determination of the stereoisomeric composition of lactones in (a) a fruit drink (where the ratio is racemic, and the lactone is added artificially) and (b) a yoghurt, where the non-racemic ratio indicates no adulteration. Technically, this separation was enabled on a short 10 m slightly polar primary column coupled to a chiral selective cyclodextrin secondary column. Both columns were independently temperature controlled and the transfer cut performed by using a Deans switch, with a backflush of the primary column following the heart-cut. 

GC using chiral columns coated with derivatized cyclodextrin is the analytical technique most frequently employed for the determination of the enantiomeric ratio of volatile compounds. Food products, as well as flavours and fragrances, are usually very complex matrices, so direct GC analysis of the enantiomeric ratio of certain components is usually difficult. Often, the components of interest are present in trace amounts and problems of peak overlap may occur. The literature reports many examples of the use of multidimensional gas chromatography with a combination of a non-chiral pre-column and a chiral analytical column for this type of analysis. 

Water plays a crucial role in the inclusion process. Although cyclodextrin does form inclusion complexes in such nonaqueous solvents as dimethyl sulfoxide, the binding is very weak compared with that in water 13 Recently, it has been shown that the thermodynamic stabilities of some inclusion complexes in aqueous solutions decrease markedly with the addition of dimethyl sulfoxide to the solutions 14,15>. Kinetic parameters determined for inclusion reactions also revealed that the rate-determining step of the reactions is the breakdown of the water structure around a substrate molecule and/or within the cyclodextrin cavity 16,17). 

Fig. 2. Geometries calculated (solid lines) and observed (bold dashed lines) for 1-propanol in its a-cyclodextrin adduct. G3 and G6 denote the numbers of glucopyranose units of a-cyclodextrin. H3 and H5 refer to the hydrogen atoms located inside of the cyclodextrin cavity. The hydrogen atoms for the observed geometry of 1-propanol are not shown, since their atomic coordinates have not been determined. The observed 1-propanol is twofold disordered, with site a occupied 80%, site b 20%. Interatomic distances are shown in bold italics on fine dashed lines (nm). Reproduced with permission from the Chemical Society of Japan...

Matsui and Mochida24) have determined the thermodynamic stabilities (log 1 /Kd) for a- and P-cyclodextrin complexes with a variety of alcohols (Table 2) and analyzed the results in connection with the physicochemical properties of the guest molecules by the multivariate technique. The log 1/Kd values were plotted against log Pe, where Pe is the partition coefficient of alcohol in a diethyl ether-water system. The plots for the a- and P-cyclodextrin complexes with eight 1-alkanols gave approximately straight lines with slopes of around one. 

Nishioka and Fujita 78> have determined the Kd values for a- and P-cyclodextrin complexes with m- and p-substituted phenols at pH 7.0. Taking into account the directionality in inclusion of a guest molecule, they assumed three and two probable orientational isomers for the cyclodextrin complexes with m- and p-substituted phenols respectively (Fig. 6). Then the observed Kd values were divided into two or three terms corresponding to the dissociation of the orientational isomers involved (Eqs. 16, 17) ... 

The values of Kd(H) were determined by the extrapolation to n = 0 of the virtually linear plots of log 1/Kd vs. n obtained for cyclodextrin complexes with methyl-,... 

Nishioka and Fujita78) have also determined the Kd values fora- and (S-cyclodextrin complexes with p- and/or m-substituted phenyl acetates through kinetic investigations on the alkaline hydrolysis of the complexes. The Kd values obtained were analyzed in the same manner as those for cyclodextrin-phenol complexes to give the Kd(X) values (Table 5). The quantitative structure-activity relationships were formulated as Eqs. 30 to 32 ... 

Only the hydrophobic and steric terms were involved in these equations. There are a few differences between these equations and the corresponding equations for cyclo-dextrin-substituted phenol systems. However, it is not necessarily required that the mechanism for complexation between cyclodextrin and phenyl acetates be the same as that for cyclodextrin-phenol systems. The kinetically determined Kj values are concerned only with productive forms of inclusion complexes. The productive forms may be similar in structure to the tetrahedral intermediates of the reactions. To attain such geometry, the penetration of substituents of phenyl acetates into the cyclodextrin cavity must be shallow, compared with the cases of the corresponding phenol systems, so that the hydrogen bonding between the substituents of phenyl acetates and the C-6 hydroxyl groups of cyclodextrin may be impossible. 

The importance of the proximity effect in cyclodextrin catalysis has been discussed on the basis of the structural data. Harata et al. 31,35> have determined the crystal structures of a-cyclodextrin complexes with m- and p-nitrophenols by the X-ray method. Upon the assumption that m- and p-nitrophenyl acetates form inclusion complexes in the same manner as the corresponding nitrophenols, they estimated the distances between the carbonyl carbon atoms of the acetates and the adjacent second-... 

Fig. 7. Plots of log k2/k vs. Dc 0 determined by the calculation of van der Waals energies for cyclodextrin complexes with Bland p-substituted phenyl acetates...

Nishioka and Fujita 68 78) have, independently of Van Etten et al.71), determined and analyzed the rate constants, k2, for the cyclodextrin-catalyzed cleavage of m-and p-substituted phenyl acetates (Table 6). They have derived Eqs. 37 to 40 ... 

Makino, Y., Suzuki, A., Ogawa, T., and Shirota, O., Direct determination of methamphetamine enantiomers in urine by liquid chromatography with a strong cation-exchange precolumn and phenyl-p-cyclodextrin-bonded semimicrocolumn, ]. Chromatogr. B, 729, 97, 1999. 

Certain surface-active compounds [499], when dissolved in water under conditions of saturation, form self-associated aggregates [39,486-488] or micelles [39,485], which can interfere with the determination of the true aqueous solubility and the pKa of the compound. When the compounds are very sparingly soluble in water, additives can be used to enhance the rate of dissolution [494,495], One can consider DMSO used in this sense. However, the presence of these solvents can in some cases interfere with the determination of the true aqueous solubility. If measurements are done in the presence of simple surfactants [500], bile salts [501], complexing agents such as cyclodextrins [489 191,493], or ion-pair-forming counterions [492], extensive considerations need to be applied in attempting to extract the true aqueous solubility from the data. Such corrective measures are described below. 

Phenylthiocarbamoyl derivatives of 18 chiral amino acids were separated on a C8 column connected in series to a phenylcarbamoylated (3-cyclodextrin column (Iida et al., 1997). The Cg column separated the derivatized amino acids from one another entering the chiral column. Under this configuration several enantiomers of adjacent amino acids coeluted resulting in poor resolution. However, this configuration was successful in determining the amino acid sequence and chirality of the amino acids in a D-amino acid containing peptide. 

Eto, S., Noda, H., Noda, A. (1994). Simultaneous determination of antiepileptic dmgs and their metabolites, including chiral compounds, via 3-cyclodextrin inclusion complexes by a switching chromatographic technique. J. Chromatogr. B 658, 385-390. 

Motoyama, A., Susuki, A., Shirota, O., Namba, R. (2002). Direct determination of pindolol enantiomers in human serum by column-switching LC-MS/MS using a phenylcarbamate 3-cyclodextrin chiral column. J. Pharm. Biomed. Anal. 28, 97-106. 

Lin et al. [95] used capillary electrophoresis with dual cyclodextrin systems for the enantiomer separation of miconazole. A cyclodextrin-modified micellar capillary electrophoretic method was developed using mixture of /i-cyclodextrins and mono-3-0-phenylcarbamoyl-/j-cyclodextrin as chiral additives for the chiral separation of miconazole with the dual cyclodextrins systems. The enantiomers were resolved using a running buffer of 50 mmol/L borate pH 9.5 containing 15 mmol/L jS-cyclodextrin and 15 mmol/L mono-3-<9-phcnylcarbamoyl-/j-cyclodextrin containing 50 mmol/L sodium dodecyl sulfate and 1 mol/L urea. A study of the respective influence of the /i-cyclodcxtrin and the mono-3-(9-phenylcarbamoyl-/i-cyclodextrin concentration was performed to determine the optical conditions with respect to the resolution. Good repeatability of the method was obtained. 

Gotti et al. [42] reported an analytical study of penicillamine in pharmaceuticals by capillary zone electrophoresis. Dispersions of the drug (0.4 mg/mL for the determination of (/q-penicillaminc in water containing 0.03% of the internal standard, S -met hy I - r-cystei ne, were injected at 5 kPa for 10 seconds into the capillary (48.5 cm x 50 pm i.d., 40 cm to detector). Electrophoresis was carried out at 15 °C and 30 kV, with a pH 2.5 buffer of 50 mM potassium phosphate and detection at 200 rnn. Calibration graphs were linear for 0.2-0.6 pg/mL (detection limit = 90 pM). For a more sensitive determination of penicillamine, or for the separation of its enantiomers, a derivative was prepared. Solutions (0.5 mL, final concentration 20 pg/mL) in 10 mM phosphate buffer (pH 8) were mixed with 1 mL of methanolic 0.015% 1,1 -[ethylidenebis-(sulfonyl)]bis-benzene and, after 2 min, with 0.5 mL of pH 2.5 phosphate buffer. An internal standard (0.03% tryptophan, 0.15 mL) was added and aliquots were injected. With the same pH 2.5 buffer and detection at 220 nm, calibration graphs were linear for 9.3-37.2 pg/mL, with a detection limit of 2.5 pM. For the determination of small amounts of (L)-penicillamine impurity, the final analyte concentration was 75 pg/mL, the pH 2.5 buffer contained 5 mM beta-cyclodextrin and 30 mM (+)-camphor-10-sulfonic acid, with a voltage of 20 kV, and detection at 220 nm. Calibration graphs were linear for 0.5-2% of the toxic (L)-enantiomer, with a detection limit of 0.3%. 

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