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Facile Preparation of 4-Substituted Quinazoline Derivatives
Published on: February 15, 2016
Determination of quinidine and its major metabolites by high-performance liquid chromatography
Abstract:
A specific and precise assay, capable of quantitating in human plasma simultaneously but separately quinidine, dihydroquinidine and the quinidine metabolites 2'-quinidinone, 3-OH-quinidine and a third metabolite found--tentatively identified as the product formed by rearrangement of quinidine-N-oxide-is reported. The assay uses a normal phase high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) system with a variable-wavelength UV detector at 235 nm and has a limit of sensitivity at approximately 20 ng/ml. The mobile phase consists of hexanes-ethanol-ethanolamine (91.5:8.47:0.03). A 2-ml plasma sample is worked up by adding primaquine base as an internal standard and extracting with ether-dichlormethane-isopropanol (6:4:1). The organic extract is evaporated and the residue reconstituted in 100-600 micron1 of mobile phase and an aliquot injected onto the column. Comparison of this procedure with the Edgar and Sokolow (dichloroethane) extraction--fluorescence procedure and with the Cramer and Isaksson (benzene) double extraction--fluorescence assay indicates that both fluorescence procedures give quinidine concentrations up to 2.3 times those determined by HPLC. These discrepancies were shown to be due to carry-over of metabolites and some extraneous background fluorescence.
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