title: Application of centrifugal counter-current chromatography to the separation of macrolide antibiotic analogues. I. Selection of solvent systems based on solubility and partition coefficient investigations.
abstract: As the first part of our studies on counter-current chromatography, the methodology for selecting suitable solvent systems was established based on detailed investigations of solubility and partition coefficients (log K) of macrolide antibiotic analogues. The solubility of two important macrolides, ascomycin and FK-506, was measured in a series of common solvents, where their polarities were ranked with dielectric constants. The partition coefficients of the two macrolides were compared in various binary, ternary, quaternary solvent systems. Hexane-tert.-butyl methyl ether-methanol-water system was selected based on suitable log K of solutes and hydrogen-bonding properties of solvents. In the further optimisation of composition proportions in the multicomponent solvent system, hexane-tert.-butyl methyl ether-methanol-water (1:3:6:5) showed the best solvent selectivity by giving the most prominent difference of partition coefficient (delta log K) between ascomycin and FK-506. With this solvent system, a baseline preparative separation of these two very closely related 23-membered macrolide antibiotics was successfully achieved by employing the newly introduced Quattro counter-current chromatograph.
authors.affiliation: Chemical and Analytical Development, Novartis Pharma AG, Basle, Switzerland.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wang-Fan
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Küsters
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Lohse
authors.forename: C P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Mak
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D002498:Centrifugation; D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002627:Chemistry, Physical; D002845:Chromatography / Q000379:methods*; D006586:Hexanes; D008433:Mathematics; D000432:Methanol; D008738:Methyl Ethers; D012995:Solubility; D012997:Solvents; D016559:Tacrolimus / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014867:Water
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D006586:Hexanes; D008738:Methyl Ethers; D012997:Solvents; D014867:Water; C043243:methyl tert-butyl ether; C058028:immunomycin; D016559:Tacrolimus; D000432:Methanol