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ArticleScientific reports2021

Development of a chiral HPLC method for the separation and quantification of hydroxychloroquine enantiomers.

Xisheng Xiong, Kun Wang, Tao Tang, Jinzhi Fang, Yijun Chen

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Xisheng XiongState Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines and Laboratory of Chemical Biology, China Pharmaceutical University, 639 Longmian Avenue, Jiangning District, Nanjing, 211198, China.
Kun WangState Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines and Laboratory of Chemical Biology, China Pharmaceutical University, 639 Longmian Avenue, Jiangning District, Nanjing, 211198, China.
Tao TangState Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines and Laboratory of Chemical Biology, China Pharmaceutical University, 639 Longmian Avenue, Jiangning District, Nanjing, 211198, China.
Jinzhi FangState Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines and Laboratory of Chemical Biology, China Pharmaceutical University, 639 Longmian Avenue, Jiangning District, Nanjing, 211198, China.
Yijun ChenState Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines and Laboratory of Chemical Biology, China Pharmaceutical University, 639 Longmian Avenue, Jiangning District, Nanjing, 211198, China. yjchen@cpu.edu.cn.
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Funding

"111 Project" from the Ministry of Education of China and the State Administration of Foreign Expert Affairs of China 111-2-07"Double First-Class" University project CPU2018GY36Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China 2018YFA0902000Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China 2019ZX09721-001-004-001National Natural Science Foundation of China 21778076
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Abstract

Hydroxychloroquine (2-[[4-[(7-Chloroquinolin-4-yl) amino]pentyl](ethyl) amino]-ethanol, HCQ), an effective anti-malarial drug, has been tested in the clinics for potential treatment of severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Despite the controversy around the clinical benefits of HCQ, the existence of a chiral center in the molecule to possess two optical isomers suggests that there might be an enantiomeric difference on the treatment of COVID-19. Due to their poor resolution and the inability of quantification by previously reported methods for the analysis of HCQ enantiomers, it is necessary to develop an analytical method to achieve baseline separation for quantitative and accurate determination of the enantiomeric purity in order to compare the efficacy and toxicity profiles of different enantiomers. In this study, we developed and validated an accurate and reproducible normal phase chiral high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method for the analysis of two enantiomers of HCQ, and the method was further evaluated with biological samples. With this newly developed method, the relative standard deviations of all analytes were lower than 5%, and the limits of quantification were 0.27 μg/ml, 0.34 μg/ml and 0.20 μg/ml for racemate, R- and S-enantiomer, respectively. The present method provides an essential analytical tool for preclinical and clinical evaluation of HCQ enantiomers for potential treatment of COVID-19.

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Chromatography, High Pressure LiquidAnimalsCOVID-19COVID-19 Drug TreatmentHumansHydroxychloroquineRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyReproducibility of ResultsSARS-CoV-2StereoisomerismHydroxychloroquine

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