A robust method to quantify low molecular weight contaminants in heparin: detection of tris(2-n-butoxyethyl) phosphate

Date
2011-01-01Author
Sassaki, Guilherme L.
Riter, Daniel S.
Santana Filho, Arquimedes P.
Guerrini, Marco
Lima, Marcelo A. [UNIFESP]
Cosentino, Cesare
Souza, Lauro M.
Cipriani, Thales R.
Rudd, Timothy R.
Nader, Helena B. [UNIFESP]
Yates, Edwin A.
Gorin, Philip A. J.
Torri, Giangiacomo
Iacomini, Marcello
Type
ArtigoISSN
0003-2654Is part of
AnalystDOI
10.1039/c0an01010cMetadata
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Recently, oversulfated chondroitin sulfate (OSCS) was identified in contaminated heparin preparations, which were linked to several adverse clinical events and deaths. Orthogonal analytical techniques, namely nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and capillary electrophoresis (CE), have since been applied by several authors for the evaluation of heparin purity and safety. NMR identification and quantification of residual solvents and non-volatile low molecular contaminants with USP acceptance levels of toxicity was achieved 40-fold faster than the traditional GC-headspace technique, which takes similar to 120 min against similar to 3 min to obtain a (1)H NMR spectrum with a signal/noise ratio of at least 1000/1. the procedure allowed detection of Class 1 residual solvents at 2 ppm and quantification was possible above 10 ppm. 2D NMR techniques (edited-HSQC (1)H/(13)C) permitted visualization of otherwise masked EDTA signals at 3.68/59.7 ppm and 3.34/53.5 ppm, which may be overlapping mononuclear heparin signals, or those of ethanol and methanol. Detailed NMR and ESI-MS/MS studies revealed a hitherto unknown contaminant, tris(2-n-butoxyethyl) phosphate (TBEP), which has potential health risks.
Citation
Analyst. Cambridge: Royal Soc Chemistry, v. 136, n. 11, p. 2330-2338, 2011.Sponsorship
Brazilian agency Fundacao AraucariaBrazilian agency FINEP (PRONEX-CARBOIDRATOS, PADCT II/SBIO)
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
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