Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2004, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (2): 256.

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Enantiomeric Separation of Galantamine in Drug for Alzheimer's Disease and Its Quality Control by Capillary Electrophoresis

YAN Liu-Shui, ZHAO Ji-Yuan, LUO Guo-An, SUN Ming, WANG Yi-Ming, YANG Xue-Dong   

  1. Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  • Received:2002-08-14 Online:2004-02-24 Published:2004-02-24

Abstract: A method for capillary electrophoretic enantiomeric separation of a novel drug for Alzheimers disease, Galantamine, has been established with α-cyclodextrin as the chiral additive. General equations and data analysis approach are presented to relate molibilities to equalibrium constants in simple binding equilibria and used to determine bonding constants and thermodynamic parameters for host-guest complexation of galantamine enantiomers with cyclodextrin selector. The effects of cyclodextrin concentration and type, buffer concentration and its pH, and separation voltage were investigated. The mechanism of enantioselectivity is discussed by combining with the computer simulating conformational analysis. The maximal resolution of 3.60 was obtained . The bonding constants of host-guest complex of galantamine enantiomers with α-cyclodextrin, KR-CD and KS-CD, is 33.98 L/mol and 23.90 L/mol, respectively. The established method was successfully applied to the detect ion of the non-effective component in the raw material of galantamine. Ten structural analogues were found, and the content of R enantiomer is 0.82%. The concentration linear rang is 0.015—1.0 mmol/L with the analysis precision of 0.20% and 2.6% for the measurement of migration time and peak area, respectively. Thus, the method could be used as a rapid and reliable tool for quantity control of the drug.

Key words: Galantamine, Cyclodextrin, Bonding constant, Chiral separation, Pharmaceutical analysis

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