RESUMEN
A novel approach to high-throughput, targeted liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) analysis has been developed. A single chromatographic system can be used for the analysis of a range of 20 drugs and metabolites with a total analysis time of 36 s (one 96-well plate of prepared samples per hour). To demonstrate the applicability of this approach to quantitative analysis, a method has been validated for the therapeutic drug monitoring of clozapine and norclozapine following automated extraction from human plasma. Chromatographic retention times were 11.4 and 12.4 s for norclozapine and clozapine, respectively (for both analytes the chromatographic peak width was less than 1 s). Comparison with a conventional LC-MS/MS method (5 min analysis time) showed excellent agreement. This new approach offers analysis times more akin to flow-injection analysis, but is likely to be more widely applicable because of chromatographic resolution from residual matrix components and isobaric interferences.
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Antipsicóticos/sangre , Antipsicóticos/uso terapéutico , Cromatografía Liquida/métodos , Clozapina/análogos & derivados , Clozapina/uso terapéutico , Plasma/metabolismo , Clozapina/química , Monitoreo de Drogas/métodos , Humanos , Reproducibilidad de los ResultadosRESUMEN
The biomimetic synthesis of a pentacyclic alkaloid (keramaphidin B, 1), an intermediate in the biogenetic pathway to the manzamine alkaloids, has been achieved. Compound 1 was formed by an intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction of macrocycle 2 in buffer followed by reduction with NaBH4 . This reaction provides the first direct expeimental evidence for the authors' biosynthetic hypothesis.