Gas Chromatographic Method for the Quantitative Determination of a Hydrolytic Degradation Impurity in Busulfan Injectable Products.

An efficient and stability-indicating method has been developed and validated for the quantitative determination of tetrahydrofuran (THF), a hydrolytic degradation impurity, in Busulfan injectable pharmaceutical products by using gas chromatograph equipped with a liquid autosampler and a flame ionization detector. The chromatographic separation was performed on a fused silica capillary (Stabilwax; 60 m length × 0.32 mm i.d., 0.5 µm film thickness) column. The methodology was validated in accordance with regulatory guidelines. The proposed method was found to be specific, stable, precise, linear, accurate, robust, and rugged in the concentration range from 4 to 1,080 ppm for THF. The developed method was successfully applied to determine the THF content in Busulfan injectable pharmaceutical products

Reactions of the hexachlorocyclodiphosphazane [MeNPCl3]2 with primary aromatic amines: formation of highly basic bisphosphinimines

Reactions of hexachlorocyclodiphosphazane [MeNPCl3]2 with primary aromatic amines afforded the bisphosphinimine hydrochlorides [(RNH)2(RN)PN(Me)P(NHMe)(NHR)2]+Cl- (R = Ph 1, C6H4Me-4 2 or C6H4OMe-4 3). Dehydrochlorination of 2 and 3 by methanolic KOH yielded highly basic bisphosphinimines [(RNH)2(RN)PN(Me)P(NMe)(NHR)2] (R = C6H4Me-4 4 or C6H4OMe-4 5). Compounds 1-5 have been characterised by elemental analysis and IR and NMR (H-1, C-13, P-31) spectroscopy. The structure of 2 has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The short P-N bond lengths and the conformations of the PN, units can be explained on the basis of cumulative negative hyperconjugative interactions between nitrogen lone pairs and adjacent P-N sigma* orbitals. Ab initio calculations on the model phosphinimine (H2N)3P=NH and its protonated form suggest that (amino)phosphinimines would be stronger bases compared to many organic bases such as guanidine

From NMR Spectra to Structure

This article discusses the existing methods to correlate NMR parameters describing the high resolution NMR spectra of liquids and solid systems with their structural parameters. Those methods are divided into direct and indirect ones. This article includes two types of direct methods: those based on the Nuclear Overhauser Effect (NOE) contributions to the NMR relaxation and those based on direct measurements of the dipolar couplings using several experimental approaches. Indirect methods are based on the intrinsic dependence of J couplings and shieldings on the atomic coordinates of the atoms in a molecule and its surroundings, requiring complex quantum mechanical calculations to relate NMR spectral properties to molecular and crystal structure. This article discusses how changes in chemical bonding, conformation, and stereo configurations that cause measurable changes in NMR parameters closely related to molecular and crystal structure. The final section provides information about the software and hardware required to perform calculations needed to solve structural problems using high resolution NMR. This article intends to provide molecular structural researchers new to the field of NMR, with an overall panorama of the potential of using high resolution NMR for structure elucidation, when other more traditional techniques are not feasible. To this end and to emphasize the didactic value of this work, after each section a brief conclusion has been added to recap the critical concepts.Fil: Facelli, Julio C.. The University of Utah. Center for High Performance Computing; Estados Unidos de América; The University of Utah. Department of Biomedical Informatics; Estados Unidos de América;Fil: Ferraro, Marta Beatriz. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires; Argentina; Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Física; Argentina