HPLC quantitation of a very hydrophilic 3-hydroxypyridin-4-one chelator using a simple separation procedure and the...

The lack of a method to isolate very hydrophilic 3-hydroxypyridin-4-ones (HPs) from blood has prevented determination of their pharmacokinetics. The objective of this study is to develop method to quantitate these compounds. A simple sample preparation method coupled with high-performance liquid chromatography is used to quantitate 1-[ethan-1-ol]-2-methyl-3- hydroxypyridin-4-one, a very hydrophilic HP, in plasma. Plasma proteins are precipitated by trichloroacetic acid. The baseline file subtraction method is used to improve the resolution of this HP in the presence of interfering chromatographic peaks that could not be resolved from the HP by the methods investigated. The method is used to determine the pharmacokinetics of this HP in rabbits. The precision of the pharmacokinetic results is comparable or better than the results obtained from seven more lipophilic HPs that were separated by a published method. The new method is slightly modified and used in a study of the pharmacokinetics of this HP in the rat, and precision is comparable with results obtained with two more lipophilic HPs determined by the published method. Baseline file subtraction is useful when other methods cannot be used to adequately resolve a hydrophilic analyte from coeluting interfering substances.