Quantitative high-performance liquid chromatographic determinations of aminopyrine and its metabolites in man

A quantitative high-performance liquid chromatographic method, using a polystyrene-divinyl benzene (Hitachi No. 3010 gel) column and aqueous methanol as the mobile phase, was employed for the determination of aminopyrine and its related compounds, 4-acetyl-aminoantipyrine, 4-aminoantipyrine and 4-monomethylaminoantipyrine. Baseline separation could be achieved within 25 min. The method was applied to the recovery of these materials from control urine and human urine. Before separation human urine was adjusted to pH 9 and extracted with ethyl acetate, chloroform and diethyl ether.