The increasing prevalence of strains of Plasmodium falciparum resistant to chloroquine and other antimalarial drugs, necessitates the need for developing novel antimalarial drugs with a potent pharmacological activity. Pyronaridine tetraphosphate (PNDP) is one such drug that is currently undergoing preclinical and clinical trials for use in a chemotherapy treatment of malaria. The present investigation was carried out with the objective of synthesizing carbon-13 [13C]- and deuterium [2H]-labeled PNDP for use in studying the ADME and pharmacokinetics of the drug. Here, we present a methodology to synthesize [13C]- and [2H]-PNDP using a microwave irradiation technique as this method was found to be more advantageous than the classical method. The labeled compounds thus synthesized had a chemical purity of >99% as determined by HPLC and were also found to be relatively stable up to 3 months when stored under standard conditions. Further they also revealed satisfactory instrumental analysis data. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
恶性疟原虫对
氯喹和其他
抗疟药物的耐药性日益普遍,这迫切需要开发具有强效药理活性的新型
抗疟药物。
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四磷酸酯(P
NDP)就是这样一种药物,目前正在进行用于疟疾化疗治疗的临床前和临床试验。本研究旨在合成用于研究药物A
DME和药代动力学的
碳-13(¹³C)和
氘(²H)标记的P
NDP。在此,我们介绍了一种使用微波辐照技术合成[¹³C]和[²H]P
NDP的方法,因为这种方法比经典方法更有优势。合成的标记化合物通过HPLC测定的
化学纯度>99%,并且在标准储存条件下发现相对稳定,可达3个月。此外,它们还显示出令人满意仪器分析数据。版权所有©2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.