Nonaqueous capillary electrophoretic separation and thermo-optical absorbance detection of five tricyclic antidepressants and metabolism of amitriptyline by Cunninghamella elegans

✍ Scribed by Xing-Fang Li; Chung-Sheng Liu; Pieter Roos; Eugene B. Hansen Jr.; Carl E. Cerniglia; Professor Norman J. Dovichi

• Book ID: 102832342
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 518 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0173-0835
• DOI: 10.1002/elps.1150191821

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

We developed a technique based on nonaqueous capillary electrophoresis and laser‐based thermo‐optical absorbance detection to assay five antidepressants with similar structures and mass‐to‐charge ratios. A mixture of methanol and acetonitrile with ammonium acetate was essential to achieve baseline resolution of these compounds. We investigated the effects of ammonium acetate concentration, temperature, applied voltage, and capillary length on separation efficiency. The nonaqueous capillary electrophoresis and laser‐based thermo‐optical absorbance detection technique was used to study the metabolism of amitriptyline by Cunninghamella elegans. Sample preparation procedures were simplified for fast screening of the parent drug and its metabolites. Reproducible electropherograms were obtained from replicate cultures of C. elegans growing in the presence of amitriptyline.