Separation and Determination of Ephedrine Enantiomers and Synephrine by High Performance Capillary Electrophoresis in Dietary Supplements

The chiral separation of ephedrine alkaloids by high performance capillary electrophoresis is of great interest since the enantiomers exhibit quantitative and qualitative differences in pharmacological activity. The isomers of (–)-ephedrine, (+)-pseudoephedrine, (–)-N-methylephedrine, (+)-N-methylpseudoephedrine, (+)-norpseudoephedrine and (–)-norephedrine are the major bioactive components of E. sinica (Ma-Huang) which is a Chinese herb used for weight loss and as an energy booster in the US. However, the compounds stereoisomers are not present in the plant material. The electrophoretic separation was performed using a 110 cm × 50 m I.D. (101.5 cm effective length) fused silica capillary. The samples were injected by pressure for 5 s at 50 mbar and the running voltage was 30 kV at the injector end of the capillary. Within 23 min, nine ephedrine compounds and synephrine were separated at 210 nm. The method was successively applied to the determination of the ephedrine compounds in dietary supplement products. Parameters affecting the resolution between (+) and (–)-enantiomers, such as pH, cyclodextrin concentration, temperature, organic modifier, buffer concentration and capillary dimensions were reported.     

二维高效液相色谱技术用于分析中药制剂中麻黄类生物碱

构建了一个离线的二维高效液相色谱系统,以解决成分复杂的中药样品的分离和痕量组分的定量问题。该系统在原有的单泵、单检测器高效液相色谱仪的基础上作了相应的改进而构成,样品先在第一维的Zor-bax SB-C18色谱柱中进行分离之后,利用一个六通切换阀将目标组分切换并收集,浓缩后再注入第二维的Ai-chrom Bond-AQ C18色谱柱中进行分离。利用上述方法对3种麻黄类生物碱进行了二维分离和分析,实验结果表明,样品的分离明显改善,并且这个系统可用于中药的直接进样分析。     

V. Thioanalogues of sparteine lactams. (+)-2-Thiono-17-oxosparteine and (+)-2,17-dithionosparteine

The X-ray and spectroscopic results clearly indicate that the (+)-2-thiono-17-oxosparteine (1) and (+)-2,17-ditihionosparteine (2) are conformationally rigid. In order to analyze deviations of lactam/thiolactam groups from planarity induced by ring constraints, the Dunitz-Winkler approach has been used. The lactam and thiolactam groups are close to planarity, only the lactam group in one of the two independent molecules of 1 is markedly non-planar. The bond angles in the thiolactam and lactam groups are highly diverse. Rings A and C adopt a distorted sofa conformation in both compounds. The distortions in the molecules of 2 as compared with those in the related monothiolactams correspond to the unusual chemical shifts of H5(eq), H5(ax) and H11, as well as to the extremely low J_5ax-6 and extremely large J_5eq-6 coupling constants. Also chemical shifts show a similar regularity being extremely high and low for C2 and C17, respectively.     

Herstellung von 6,14-Ethenomorphinan-Derivaten

Zusammenfassung Dihydronorthevinon (2b) wurde aus Dihydrothevinon (2a) mit Azodicarbonsäurediethylester (DEAD) hergestellt und zu einigen neuen N-substituierten Dihydronorthevinon-Derivaten (2c–2g) umgesetzt. Es wurdenGrignard-Reaktionen dieser Verbindungen mit Methylmagnesiumiodid bzw.tert-Butylmagnesiumchlorid durchgeführt. O-Demethylierungen von3a–3j ergaben die entsprechenden N-substituierten Buprenorphin- bzw. Diprenorphin-Analoga4a–4j.

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Preparation of 6,14-ethenomorphinan derivatives

Summary Dihydronorthevinone (2b) was prepared from dihydrothevinone (2a) with diethyl azodicarboxylate (DEAD) and transformed into a number of new N-substituted dihydronorthevinone derivatives (2c–2g).Grignard reactions of the new compounds with methylmagnesium iodide andtert-butyl-magnesium chloride were studied. O-Demethylation of3a–3j resulted in the corresponding N-substituted buprenorphine and diprenorphine analogs4a–4j.

     

吗啡烷型生物碱类药物的化学发光分析法研究

雷氏盐（ＮＨ４Ｃｒ（ＮＨ３）２（ＳＣＮ）４）．Ｈ２Ｏ）是生物碱类物质的沉淀剂，经研究发现，雷氏盐可以催化鲁米诺与过氧化氢的化学发光反应，而吗啡烷型生物碱能沉淀雷氏盐，可导致鲁米诺－过氧化氢－雷氏盐体系化学发光强度的降低，根据这一发现，本文建立了吗啡烷型生物碱类药物（吗啡，青藤碱，可待因）的流动注射化学发光分析方法，方法有较低的检出限，较宽的线性范围和较好精密度用于一些药物的测定，结果较为满意。     

模板法制备聚乙烯咔唑及其复合物纳米管有序阵列

近十几年来,纳米管引起了人们越来越多的关注,不仅仅是由于它独特的性质,也因为它们在电、磁以及光电器件上具有广泛的应用前景。纳米管的制备方法大体上分为两种:自组装法[1￣3]和模板法[4￣7]。尽管自组装法已成功地制得了一些纳米管,但由于它对构造纳米管的材料有着较严格的     

On the origin of quasi-racemic aplysinopsin cycloadducts, (bis)indole alkaloids isolated from scleractinian corals of the family Dendrophylliidae. Involvement of enantiodefective Diels-Alderases or asymmetric induction in artifact processes involving adventitious catalysts?

Reported here are two novel quasi-racemic (bis)indole alkaloids, cycloaplysinopsin A (5) and cycloaplysinopsin B (6), isolated from tropical Indo-Pacific (Comoros, Philippines) scleractinian corals of the family Dendrophylliidae. Although their structures suggest a Diels-Alder cycloaddition origin from aplysinopsin-type precursors, neither experiments, nor theory allowed us to clearly distinguish an enzymatic process with scarce enantioselection from the intrusion of an adventitious catalyst in the coral extracts, where the chiral environment caused a slight asymmetric induction.     

Synthesis of (±)-pseudoheliotridane by allylboration of 1-pyrroline

Reaction of tricrotylborane with 1-pyrroline proceeds stereoselectively to give (1R ^* ,1′S ^* )-2-(1-methylallyl)pyrrolidine. The latter was converted to the pyrrolizidine alkaloid (±)-pseudoheliotridane through hydroboration-oxidation-intramolecular cyclization. Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 7, pp. 1450–1452, July, 1998.     

Alkylation of 6-(3-Indolyl)indolo[2,3-b]carbazole

The methylation and allylation of 6-(3-indolyl)indolo[2,3-b]carbazole were studied, and its trimethyl and mono-, di-, and triallyl derivatives were obtained.