苯丙胺类、氯胺酮、卡西酮类毒品手性分离的研究进展

对映异构体在自然界中普遍存在,在药物化学领域尤为突出。虽然手性药物的对映异构体之间具有相同的化学结构,但它们在药理、毒理、药代动力学、代谢等生物活性方面存在明显差异。苯丙胺类、氯胺酮、卡西酮类毒品也是如此,这3类毒品的手性分离研究在常见毒品中具有代表性。目前常用的手性分离色谱方法有气相色谱法(GC)、高效液相色谱法(HPLC)和毛细管电泳法(CE)。苯丙胺类、氯胺酮、卡西酮类毒品使用以上3种方法进行的手性分离研究具有一定共性:GC较多使用N-三氟乙酰-L-脯胺酰氯和(+)R-α-甲氧基α-三氟甲基苯乙酸两种典型的手性衍生化试剂,HPLC主要应用蛋白质类、多聚糖类和大环抗生素类3种手性固定相,CE中环糊精及其衍生物是最常用的手性选择剂。然而这3种手性分离方法存在各自的不足,GC存在手性衍生化引入杂质、反应温度高影响手性分离等问题,HPLC的应用范围比较有限,成本较高,CE没有明确的方法判断哪种物质是合适的手性选择剂。近年来,这3类毒品的手性分离研究在法医毒物学领域的应用有各自的特点,苯丙胺类毒品的手性分离研究多用于推断市场上毒品的原型及合成路线,氯胺酮的手性分离研究涉及多种生物检材,卡西酮类毒品侧重于手性分离方法的广泛适用性。该文主要遴选近10年国内外核心期刊的文献,对苯丙胺类、氯胺酮、卡西酮类毒品的手性异构体特点及色谱法的手性识别机理进行简单介绍,重点对已有研究的共性以及手性分离在法医毒物学中的应用等内容进行综述。基于以上研究,该文提出未来可以从以下3个方面进行深入研究:一是利用计算机技术建立分子模型深入探究手性识别机理;二是研发新型技术,对超临界流体法进行商用研究;三是将手性分离应用于司法实践、医药研发等实际工作领域。     

An enantiomerically pure 1,5,7-trimethyl-3-azabicyclo[3.3.1]nonan- 2-one as 1H NMR shift reagent for the ee determination of chiral lactams, quinolones, and oxazolidinones

The chiral lactam 1 (or its enantiomer ent-1) was shown to be an effective (1)H NMR shift reagent for the ee determination of chiral lactams, quinolones, and oxazolidinones. It was successfully employed in many cases in which a detection of enantiomers by chromatographic methods failed. The method was extended to a broader range of simple substrates bearing a lactam moiety to evaluate its scope. The NH signals of the substrate enantiomers showed the strongest separation and were used for (1)H NMR integration. In most cases, compound 1 (1.5 equiv; 0.06 M solution) induced a baseline separation of the NH signals and it can consequently be regarded as a generally applicable shift reagent for chiral products with a lactam moiety.     

Retention mechanism of high-performance liquid chromatographic enantioseparation on macrocyclic glycopeptide-based chiral stationary phases

The development of methods for the separation of enantiomers has attracted great interest in the past 20 years, since it became evident that the potential biological or pharmacological applications are mostly restricted to one of the enantiomers. In the past decade, macrocyclic antibiotics have proved to be an exceptionally useful class of chiral selectors for the separation of enantiomers of biological and pharmacological importance by means of high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), thin-layer chromatography and electrophoresis. The glycopeptides avoparcin, teicoplanin, ristocetin A and vancomycin have been extensively used as chiral selectors in the form of chiral bonded phases in HPLC, and HPLC stationary phases based on these glycopeptides have been commercialized. In fact, the macrocyclic glycopeptides are to some extent complementary to one another: where partial enantioresolution is obtained with one glycopeptide, there is a high probability that baseline or better separation can be obtained with another. This review sets out to characterize the physicochemical properties of these macrocyclic glycopeptide antibiotics and, through their application, endeavors to demonstrate the mechanism of separation on macrocyclic glycopeptides. The sequence of elution of the stereoisomers and the relation to the absolute configuration are also discussed.     

Application of thin-layer chromatography in enantiomeric chiral analysis-an overview

Several chiral drugs are produced and administered as pure enantiomers, whereas many others, especially of synthetic origin, are used mainly in the form of racemates. The biological and pharmacological activity of chiral compounds depends on their configuration. The racemic drugs may exhibit quite different activity from the optically pure drugs. Often only one of the enantiomers is pharmacologically active and/or even can be toxic. Since numerous enantiomers have been shown to behave differently from at least one point of view, whether pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic, toxicological or interaction, there seems to be hardly any exception to the general rule that a racemate cannot be considered as a single drug entity. A variety of chromatographic methods have been developed for optical resolution recently. Usually direct separation of the enantiomers is carried out on HPTLC chiral precoated plates or on plates impregnated with chiral substances. TLC techniques are a developing branch of separation and quantitation of drugs, both in pharmaceutical dosage forms and in biological material. This review presents an overview of the current successful enantioseparations of drugs by TLC and their potential in the analysis of the drug racemates.     

毛细管电泳在手性化合物分离分析中的研究进展

手性化合物的对映异构体往往表现出不同的生理活性,因此建立手性化合物的有效分离分析方法具有重要意义。毛细管电泳（CE）是一种分离效率高、分析速度快、样品用量少、分离模式灵活多样的分离分析方法,在手性化合物的分离和检测领域应用广泛。该文主要综述了2017~2019年CE在手性分离分析方面的最新进展,并对其未来的发展趋势进行了展望。     

Comparative analysis of chiral drugs in view of chemometrics

With the development of methods for obtaining chiral compounds as potential drugs, there is also need to develop analytical methods for the separation of both enantiomers. Keeping in mind that the physical and chemical properties of both enantiomers are identical, their different nature will only be revealed in a chiral environment that is appropriately designed. Physicochemical systems can be used to predict the differences in biological activity of both enantiomers. The complexity of the problem requires the use of additional tools, which are various chemometric methods. This paper reviews the application of chemometry in the analysis of chiral drugs and discusses the effects of a combination of chromatographic, electrophoretic, and spectroscopic analysis (UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy, and near-IR spectroscopy aided by cyclodextrin inclusion complexes) with chemometrics for improving the methods of enantioseparation (experimental design), explaining the mechanisms of behavior and chiral recognition (quantitative structure-enantioselective retention relationships) and indicating chiral purity (enantiomeric excess).     

Direct separation of drug enantiomers by high-performance liquid chromatography with chiral stationary phases

The development of chiral stationary phases for HPLC has resulted in renewed interest in methods for the separation of drug enantiomers. This paper provides a brief overview of some of the more recent approaches to the direct resolution of drug enantiomers by HPLC with particular emphasis on their quantification in biological fluids.     

Antibodies as Tailor-Made Chiral Selectors: an Interdisciplinary Approach to Enantiomer Separation and Detection

 It has long been known that the configurational isomers of biologically active compounds, e.g., nutrients, pesticides, and drugs, may exhibit different activities in a chiral environment such as the human body. Although the majority of drugs presently in development are chiral, analytical and preparative methods for the quantitative determination and purification of stereoisomers still lag behind. One reason is that commonly used chiral selectors for the direct resolution of enantiomers are not tailor-made for a specific analyte. The identification of suitable selectors for a particular pair of enantiomers still requires considerable experimentation and is generally demanding with regard to material, time and labor. The rational design of chiral host molecules, therefore, represents a challenge in facilitating enantiomer analysis. In this article, we describe how a combination of techniques ranging from organic synthesis to molecular biology yields antibodies of predetermined specificity and stereoselectivity that can be used as tailor-made chiral selectors for the chromatographic separation of enantiomers and their sensitive detection in immunosensors.     

毛细管电泳-质谱技术在手性化合物分离分析中的研究进展北大核心CSCD

目前使用的绝大多数药物为手性化合物,它们具有相似的物理和化学性质,但药理活性不同,且常以外消旋混合物的形式存在,因此对手性化合物的分离在生物、环境、食品和医药等领域一直备受关注。与广泛使用的液相色谱-质谱(LC-MS)相比,毛细管电泳-质谱(CE-MS)作为一种新型分离分析技术,具有分离效率高、样品和试剂消耗量低、选择性高和分离模式多样化等诸多优势,已经发展成为手性分析领域中有广阔应用前景的分析方法之一。CE-MS结合了CE的高分离效率和低样品消耗以及MS的高灵敏度和强结构解析能力,在蛋白质组学和代谢组学等领域发挥了重要作用。CE杰出的手性拆分能力与MS优势的结合,亦使CE-MS成为实现手性化合物高效分离分析的完美组合。在过去的十几年里,基于不同CE-MS分离模式的高性能手性分析体系层出不穷,如电动色谱-质谱(EKC-MS)、胶束电动色谱-质谱(MEKC-MS)和毛细管电色谱-质谱(CEC-MS)等,并成功应用于医药、生物、食品和环境科学等领域的手性化合物分析。该文主要综述了2011~2021年,CE-MS在手性化合物分析领域的技术、手性选择剂(如改性环糊精和聚合物表面活性剂等)的使用以及在医药等领域应用方面的研究进展,并讨论了不同手性分析模式的局限性,为未来的CE-MS手性分离分析技术发展及应用提供借鉴。     

Capillary electrophoresis and column chromatography in biomedical chiral amino acid analysis

Free amino acids are typically quantified as the sum of their enantiomers, because in terrestrial organisms they mainly exist in the left-handed form. However, with increasing understanding of the biological significance of right-handed amino acids interest in enantioselective quantification of amino acids has steadily increased. Initially, electrophoretic and chromatographic methods using chiral (pseudo)-stationary phases or chiral eluents were applied to the separation of amino acid enantiomers. Later, derivatization of amino acids prior to chromatography with chiral reagents gained in popularity, because the diastereomers formed can be resolved on conventional reversed-phase columns. Novel multi-interaction chiral columns turned attention back to direct chiral chromatographic methods. Hyphenation to mass spectrometry has increasingly replaced optical detection because of superior selectivity, although this has not obviated the need for baseline resolution of amino acid enantiomers. Despite the progress made, enantioselective separation and quantification of amino acids remains an analytical challenge owing to frequently incomplete resolution of all naturally occurring enantiomers and insufficient sensitivity for the determination of the trace amounts of d-amino acids typically found in biological fluids and tissues. Chiral GC-MS analysis of heptafluorobutanol/pentafluoropropionanhydride amino acid derivatives on an Rt-gDEXsa column     

Chiral separation of agricultural fungicides

Fungicides are very important and diverse environmental and agricultural concern species. Their determination in commercial formulations or environmental matrices, requires highly efficient, selective and sensitive methods. A significant number of these chemicals are chiral with the activity residing usually in one of the enantiomers. The different toxicological and degradation behavior observed in many cases for fungicide enantiomers, results in the need to investigate them separately. For this purpose, separation techniques such as GC, HPLC, supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) and CE have widely been employed although, at present, HPLC still dominates chromatographic chiral analysis of fungicides. This review covers the literature concerning the enantiomeric separation of fungicides usually employed in agriculture grouping the chiral separation methodologies developed for their analysis in environmental, biological, and food samples.     

Direct liquid chromatographic enantiomer separation of new fluoroquinolones including gemifloxacin

The enantiomers of gemifloxacin mesylate (formerly LB20304a), a new fluoroquinolone compound with potent in vitro and in vivo antibacterial profile were resolved on a commercially available Crownpak CR chiral stationary phase (CSP). All of the fluoroquinolones, including gemifloxacin used in this study, were well enantioseparated on Crownpak CR(+) column. These results are the first reported for the direct separation of the enantiomers of quinolones on chiral crown ether coated Crownpak CR CSP. The behavior of chromatographic parameters by the change of mobile phase additives for the resolution of gemifloxacin was investigated. Also, the effect of structural change of gemifloxacin on chiral recognition was described.     

毛细管电泳在手性氨基酸拆分中的研究进展

毛细管电泳(capillary electrophoresis,CE)作为一种强有力的手性分离技术,由于操作简单、试剂消耗少及柱效高等优点,受到广泛关注,是近年来手性分离领域的研究热点.氨基酸是组成蛋白质的基本单元,且大多数氨基酸具有手性中心,手性氨基酸是生命体系的一个重要特征.具有手性中心的氨基酸,其对映体间的生物活性往往存在着较大的差异,因此,氨基酸的手性拆分对了解人体及动物生命活动起着举足轻重的作用.主要总结了近5年来毛细管电泳的3种分离模式(毛细管区带电泳、胶束电动毛细管色谱、毛细管电色谱)在氨基酸手性拆分中的发展和应用.     

Characteristics and enantiomeric analysis of chiral pyrethroids

Pyrethroids are synthetic pesticides that originated from the modification of natural pyrethrins to improve their biological activity and stability. They are a family of chiral pesticides with a large number of stereoisomers. Enantiomers of synthetic pyretroids present different insecticidal activity, toxicity against aquatic invertebrates and persistence in the environment so the development of rapid and sensitive chiral methods for the determination of different enantiomers is necessary. Several techniques have been employed for this purpose including gas chromatography, high performance liquid chromatography or more recently capillary electrophoresis and sub or supercritical fluid chromatography. A general view on the different chiral separation methods applied to the analysis of pyrethroids and the most important information about these pesticides is provided in this review.     

Thin-layer chromatography--a useful technique for the separation of enantiomers

Separation of enantiomers has become a well-established technique in many fields of science over the last decade. Unfortunately, even though there are a large number of chiral stationary phases able to perform enantiomeric separation, there is still a great deal of trial and error in developing a method for the separation of enantiomers. Thin-layer chromatography is a very versatile technique, which has brought much advancement in various fields of science. The simplicity of the technique makes it amenable for separation of enantiomers. This paper will present a review of the literature concerning separation of enantiomers. Because of the process of trial and error present in developing a chiral separation method, this paper also presents the mechanism underlying each form of separation. Thus, the methods are presented according to the main mechanism governing the particular separation.     

Enantioselective Liquid Chromatographic Separations Using Macrocyclic Glycopeptide-Based Chiral Selectors

Numerous chemical compounds of high practical importance, such as drugs, fertilizers, and food additives are being commercialized as racemic mixtures, although in most cases only one of the isomers possesses the desirable properties. As our understanding of the biological actions of chiral compounds has improved, the investigation of the pharmacological and toxicological properties has become more and more important. Chirality has become a major issue in the pharmaceutical industry; therefore, there is a continuous demand to extend the available analytical methods for enantiomeric separations and enhance their efficiency. Direct liquid chromatography methods based on the application of chiral stationary phases have become a very sophisticated field of enantiomeric separations by now. Hundreds of chiral stationary phases have been commercialized so far. Among these, macrocyclic glycopeptide-based chiral selectors have proved to be an exceptionally useful class of chiral selectors for the separation of enantiomers of biological and pharmacological importance. This review focuses on direct liquid chromatography-based enantiomer separations, applying macrocyclic glycopeptide-based chiral selectors. Special attention is paid to the characterization of the physico-chemical properties of these macrocyclic glycopeptide antibiotics providing detailed information on their applications published recently.     

Activated alpha-alkyl-alpha-arylacetic acid enantiomers for stereoselective thin-layer chromatographic and high-performance liquid chromatographic determination of chiral amines

The separation of racemic benoxaprofen into the two benoxaprofen enantiomers by preparative high-performance liquid chromatography and the application of the activated enantiomers as derivatization reagents for the simultaneous stereoselective determination of chiral amines in biological material is described. Activated (+)- and (-)-benoxaprofen are both shown to be very sensitive and stable chiral fluorescence markers, applicable to thin-layer chromatography as well as to high-performance liquid chromatography.     

Enantioselective determination by capillary electrophoresis with cyclodextrins as chiral selectors

This review surveys the separation of enantiomers by capillary electrophoresis using cyclodextrins as chiral selector. Cyclodextrins or their derivatives have been widely employed for the direct chiral resolution of a wide number of enantiomers, mainly of pharmaceutical interest, selected examples are reported in the tables. For method optimisation, several parameters influencing the enantioresolution, e.g., cyclodextrin type and concentration, buffer pH and composition, presence of organic solvents or complexing additives in the buffer were considered and discussed. Finally, selected applications to real samples such as pharmaceutical formulations, biological and medical samples are also discussed.     

Direct chromatographic resolution of carnitine and O-acylcarnitine enantiomers on a teicoplanin-bonded chiral stationary phase.

R-(-)-Carnitine (vitamin B(T)) plays an important role in human energy metabolism, by facilitating the transport of long-chained fatty acids across the mitochondrial membranes. Its (S)-enantiomer acts as a competitive inhibitor of carnitine acetyltransferase, causing depletion of the body R-(-)-carnitine stock. Consequently, the separation of carnitine enantiomers is very important both to study their biological activities and to control the enantiomeric purity of pharmaceutical formulations. In the present paper we describe an easy, fast and convenient procedure for the separation of the enantiomers of carnitine and O-acylcarnitines by enantioselective HPLC on a laboratory-made chiral column containing covalently bonded teicoplanin as selector. High enantioselectivity factors (alpha values ranging from 1.31 to 3.02) and short-time analyses characterize the analytical procedure; in addition, analytes are easily detected by evaporative light scattering with no need for preliminary derivatization. The effects of pH and ionic strength of the mobile phase and of the nature of the organic modifier on the enantioselective separations were also investigated.     

Direct chiral resolution of cloquintocet-mexyl and its application to in vitro degradation combined with clodinafop-propargyl

A simple chiral high‐performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method with ultraviolet (UV) detection was developed and validated for measuring Cloquintocet‐mexyl (ClM) enantiomers and clodinafop‐propargyl (CP) using cellulose tris‐(3,5‐dimethylphenylcarbamate) (CDMPC) as chiral stationary phase (CSP). The effects of mobile phase composition and column temperature on the ClM enantiomer separation were investigated. Good separation was achieved by using a mixture of n‐hexane and n‐propanol as mobile phase. Based on the chiral HPLC method, enantioselective quantitative determination analysis methods for this herbicide combined with CP in diluted plasma were developed and validated. The assay method was linear over a range of concentrations (0.5–100 µg/mL) in diluted plasma and the mean recovery was greater than 80% for both enantiomers and CP. The limits of quantification and detection for both ClM enantiomers and CP were 0.5 and 0.2 µg/mL, respectively. Intra‐ and interday relative standard deviations did not exceed 10% for three tested concentrations. The result suggested that the degradation of ClM enantiomers was stereoselective in rabbit plasma, and both rac‐ClM and CP degraded quickly in plasma, showing that the main existing forms with biological effect in animals are their metabolites. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.