title: Stereoselective RP-HPLC determination of esmolol enantiomers in human plasma after pre-column derivatization.
abstract: A stereoselective reversed-phase HPLC assay to determine S-(-) and R-(+) enantiomers of esmolol in human plasma was developed. The method involved liquid-liquid extraction of esmolol from human plasma, using S-(-)-propranolol as the internal standard, and employed 2,3,4,6-tetra-O-acetyl-beta-d-glucopyranosyl isothiocyanate as a pre-column chiral derivatization reagent. The derivatized products were separated on a 5-microm reversed-phase C18 column with a mixture of acetonitrile/0.02 mol/L phosphate buffer (pH 4.5) (55:45, v/v) as mobile phase. The detection of esmolol derivatives was made at lambda=224 nm with UV detector. The assay was linear from 0.035 to 12 microg/ml for each enantiomer. The analytical method afforded average recoveries of 94.8% and 95.5% for S-(-)- and R-(+)-esmolol, respectively. For each enantiomer, the limit of detection was 0.003 microg/ml and the limit of quantification for the method was 0.035 microg/ml (RSD<14%). The reproducibility of the assay was satisfactory.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis and Drug Metabolism, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310031, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Yi-Hong
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Tong-Wei
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Yao
authors.forename: Su
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zeng
mesh_terms: D002138:Calibration; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D011412:Propanolamines / Q000097:blood* / Q000737:chemistry*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012997:Solvents; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: D011412:Propanolamines; D012997:Solvents; C036604:esmolol