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  • Title: Development of a simple liquid chromatographic method for the separation of mixtures of positional isomers and anomers of synthetic 2-, 3- and 4-fluorobenzoic acid glucuronides formed via acyl migration reactions.
    Author: Sidelmann U, Hansen SH, Gavaghan C, Nicholls AW, Carless HA, Lindon JC, Wilson ID, Nicholson JK.
    Journal: J Chromatogr B Biomed Appl; 1996 Oct 11; 685(1):113-22. PubMed ID: 8930759.
    Abstract:
    Many drugs containing carboxylate groups form beta-1-O-acyl glucuronides as their major phase II metabolites in vivo. These ester glucuronides are potentially reactive due to the susceptibility of the acyl group to nucleophilic reactions resulting in hydrolysis, acyl migration or covalent adduct formation. In the present study, a number of synthetic fluorobenzoic acid glucuronide conjugates were chosen as models for chromatographic studies. A high-performance liquid chromatography method is presented for the simultaneous determination of the 1-, 2-, 3- and 4-positional isomers of the acyl glucuronides, and their alpha- and beta-anomers for the 2-, 3- and 4-fluorobenzoic acids as well as each aglycone formed as a result of hydrolysis. The same elution order was found for the acyl migrated glucuronide isomers of the three fluorobenzoic acids in their equilibrium mixtures. The alpha-4-O-acyl isomer eluted first followed by the beta-4-O-acyl isomer, then the beta-1-O-acyl, the beta-3-O-acyl, the alpha-3-O-acyl, the alpha-2-O-acyl and finally the beta-2-O-acyl isomer eluted. The method was used to determine the overall degradation rates, the acyl migration rates and the hydrolysis rates of 1-O-(2-fluorobenzoyl)-beta-D-glucopyranuronic acid 1-O-(3-fluorobenzoyl)-beta-D-glucopyranuronic acid and 1-O-(4-flurobenzoyl)-beta-D-glucopyranuronic acid in a buffer system pH 7.4 at 25 degrees C. It was found that the order of beta-1-glucuronide acyl migration rates was 2-fluorobenzoyl > 3-fluorobenzoyl > 4-fluorobenzoyl. Both the acyl migration rates and the elution order were interpreted in terms of electronic effect of the fluorine substituent on the carbonyl carbon.
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