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Published on: July 4, 2016
Attempts at correlation of the radiolytic species of irradiated solid-state captopril studied by multi-frequency EPR
Alix Engalytcheff1, René Debuyst, Gauthier C A M Vanhaelewyn
1Laboratory of Chemical and Physicochemical Analysis of Drugs, UCL, B.1200 Brussels, Belgium. alix.engalytcheff@cham.ucl.ac.be
Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to provide insight into the processes that occur after the irradiation of solid-state drugs. Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) experiments were performed at two different frequencies, X-band (about 9.5 GHz) and Q-band (about 34 GHz), to identify the radicals present in irradiated captopril. The results confirmed that an irradiated drug can trap several main radicals. Moreover, the radical composition varied as a function of the treatment. In addition, non-volatile final products were studied by liquid chromatography coupled to UV and to mass spectrometry (LC-MS). The variation of the radical composition did not influence the profile of the final products; this appears to indicate that, in the case of captopril, the trapped radicals observed by EPR are not the main precursors of the final products. Finally, high-performance liquid chromatography data appear to indicate that radiosterilization of captopril is feasible.
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