Separation of Ramipril Optical Isomers by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography

Abstract

High-performance liquid chromatographic methods for determining the optical purities of ramipril, a novel angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor, and its synthetic intermediates have been developed. Analytical procedures were established for the resolution of optical isomers of two moieties, precursor I and precursor II, used for the preparation of ramipril. No occurrence of racemization during condensation reaction of the two precursors could be unambiguously confirmed by the proposed methods. On the basis of analytical data ramipril bulk material proved to be optically pure.