title: Inhibitory effect of beta-cyclodextrin on ampicillin polymerization in aqueous solution.
abstract: Ampicillin polymerizes in aqueous solution to produce antigenic polymers; the polymers were separated by anion-exchange chromatography and shown to consist of a dimer, trimer, tetramer and pentamer of ampicillin by the masses found in fast atom bombardment mass spectroscopy. The presence of an intact beta-lactam ring in each of the polymers was revealed by the characteristic positive Cotton effect near 230 nm in their circular dichroism spectra. beta-Cyclodextrin was found to inhibit this polymerization by complex formation involving equimolar quantities of the constituents. Formation of this complex was complete in 10% aqueous solution within 6 hr at 24 degrees C. The positive Cotton effect arising from the beta-lactam ring decreased as the degree of polymerization increased, but was unchanged by the complex formation with beta-cyclodextrin.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Fukuoka University, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Aki
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sawai
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
mesh_terms: D000667:Ampicillin / Q000737:chemistry*; D002852:Chromatography, Ion Exchange; D002942:Circular Dichroism; D003505:Cyclodextrins / Q000737:chemistry*; D011108:Polymers; D012996:Solutions; D016339:Spectrometry, Mass, Fast Atom Bombardment; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet; D047392:beta-Cyclodextrins
chemical_list: D003505:Cyclodextrins; D011108:Polymers; D012996:Solutions; D047392:beta-Cyclodextrins; D000667:Ampicillin; C031215:betadex