Determination of penicillamine, penicillamine disulfide and penicillamine-glutathione mixed disulfide by high-performance liquid chromatography with electrochemical detection.
G T Yamashita, D L Rabenstein
Index: J. Chromatogr. A. 491(2) , 341-54, (1989)
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Abstract
Methodology is described for the simultaneous determination of D-penicillamine, penicillamine disulfide and the penicillamine-glutathione mixed disulfide, as well as glutathione and glutathione disulfide, in human plasma, erythrocytes and urine. The various thiols and disulfides are separated by reversed-phase ion-pairing liquid chromatography with detection by an electrochemical detector with dual gold/mercury amalgam electrodes in series. The thiols are detected at the downstream electrode; the disulfides are reduced at the upstream electrode and then detected as the thiols at the downstream electrode. Detection limits (at a signal-to-noise ratio of 2.0) are in the picomole range for 20 microliters of injected solution for all compounds except penicillamine disulfide, which has a detection limit of 600 pmol in 20 microliters. A convenient method is described for preparation of the penicillamine-glutathione mixed disulfide by thiol/disulfide exchange with standardization of the solution by 1H NMR spectroscopy.
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