High-performance liquid chromatographic and capillary electrophoretic methods for the quantitation of the (S)-terbutaline in (R)-terbutaline

Transient isotachophoresis with field-amplified sample injection for on-line preconcentration and enantioseparation of some β-agonists

Transient isotachophoresis with field-amplified sample injection (FASI), using β-CD as the chiral selector and tetrabutylammonium hydroxide (TBAOH) as the additive, was applied for on-line preconcentration and enantioseparation of three β-agonists, namely, cimaterol, clenbuterol and terbutaline. The experimental conditions for both simultaneous enantioseparation and on-line preconcentration methods have been investigated in detail. Under the optimum conditions, the detection limits (defined as S/N = 3) of this method were found to be 1 ng mL-1 for all three pairs of β-agonists enantiomers. Compared with conventional electrokinetic injection, the enhancement factors were greatly improved to be 250-fold. Finally, the proposed method has been applied for the analysis of human urine samples.

Quantification of Terbutaline in Pharmaceutical Formulation and Human Serum by Adsorptive Stripping Voltammetry at a Glassy Carbon Electrode

The electrochemical oxidative behavior of terbutaline at the glassy carbon electrode was studied in a series of the Britton-Robinson buffer of pH 2--11. Cyclic and square-wave voltammograms of terbutaline at the pH values </=9 exhibited a single irreversible anodic peak. A fully validated, simple, sensitive and precise square-wave adsorptive anodic stripping voltammetric procedure was described for the determination of terbutaline in bulk form, tablets and human serum. For 5x10(-8) M bulk terbutaline a mean recovery of 98.78+/-0.94% (n=5) was achieved following its preconcentration by adsorptive accumulation onto the glassy carbon electrode at a +0.15 V (vs. Ag/AgCl/KCl(s)) for 180 s. Limit of detection of 6x10(-9) M and limit of quantitation of 2x10(-8) M terbutaline were achieved in the bulk form or its formulations (Bricanyl tablets). The described square-wave adsorption anodic stripping voltammetric procedure was successfully applied for the determination of terbutaline in human serum following medium exchange. Limit of detection of 1.41x10(-8) M (3.173 ng ml(-1)) and limit of quantitation of 4.70x10(-8) M (10.575 ng ml(-1)) were achieved in human serum with a mean recovery of 98.11+/-1.13%.

Stereoselective chromatography of cardiovascular drugs: an update

This review reports the latest achievements in chromatographic enantioseparations of various classes of cardiovascular drugs and selected applications of these methods in pharmaceutical and clinical analysis. The use of these drugs as test compounds for new chiral stationary phases and different parameters of chromatographic processes is also presented.