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A New Straightforward Method for Lipophilicity (logP) Measurement using 19F NMR Spectroscopy
Published on: January 30, 2019
[A novel microemulsion electrokinetic chromatography for measuring lipid-water partition coefficients of
Xue-Mei Jiang1, Wei-Li Wei, Zhi-Ning Xia
1Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China.
Aims:
To establish a novel microemulsion electrokinetic chromatography (MEEKC) method for measuring lipid-water partition coefficients ( logP(ow)) of pharmaceuticals without using microemulsion phase marker in order to avoid the error from tracing the migration time of microemulsion phase.
Methods:
The migration time of microemulsion phase (t(me)) was obtained by non-linearity fitting with logP(ow) values from literature and measured migration time (t(m)) of a series of organic compounds, a calibration curve for estimating logP(ow) of pharmaceuticals was thus obtained. In addition, the accuracy of the values measured by MEEKC was evaluated.
Results:
The logP(ow) values of 4 pharmaceuticals measured by MEEKC method presented in this paper were close to those determined by shake-flask method, and the average error between values from two methods was 0.15 logarithm units. Furthermore, according to the suggested theory, the measurement accuracy of logP(ow) is correlated with different t(m) in MEEKC.
Conclusion:
The proposed method is simple, rapid, reproducible, and reliable with high measurement accuracy, which can be useful to estimate lipid-water partition coefficients of pharmaceuticals.
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