Issue 48, 2019

1H NMR determination of 1,3-dicyclohexylurea, glutaric acid and triethylamine in medical four-arm poly(ethylene glycol)-N-hydroxysuccinimide-glutarate for better quality control

Abstract

Absorbable vascular sealing medical glue, which belongs to Class III medical devices, is a special new material for preventing the leakage of cerebrospinal fluid. Medical four-arm poly(ethylene glycol)-N-hydroxysuccinimide-glutarate (4-arm-PEG-SG) with a molecular weight of 20 000 is the main component of the absorbable medical glue. According to its quality standard, the quality control of residues 1,3-dicyclohexylurea (DCU), glutaric acid (GA) and triethylamine (TEA) is required. A rapid analytical method of quantitative 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR) for the determination of residues DCU, GA and TEA in medical 4-arm-PEG-SG was established in the present study. The peaks at δ 1.56 (4H, m), δ 2.71 (4H, t, J = 6.7 Hz), and δ 2.42 (6H, q, J = 7.2 Hz) were selected for quantifying DCU, GA and TEA, respectively, with deuterated pyridine as the solvent and tetramethylsilane as the internal standard. The 1H NMR assay was validated by several experimental parameters including specificity, linearity, accuracy, precision, robustness, limit of detection (LOD), limit of quantification (LOQ) and stability. The average recoveries obtained were in the range of 99.48–102.02% for all three residues. Compared with the HPLC and GC approaches, the proposed 1H NMR method proved to be a powerful tool for quantification due to its unique advantages of simplicity, rapidity and high robustness, especially not requiring standard compounds for calibration curve preparation.

Graphical abstract: 1H NMR determination of 1,3-dicyclohexylurea, glutaric acid and triethylamine in medical four-arm poly(ethylene glycol)-N-hydroxysuccinimide-glutarate for better quality control

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
10 Jul 2019
Accepted
05 Nov 2019
First published
06 Nov 2019

Anal. Methods, 2019,11, 6176-6183

1H NMR determination of 1,3-dicyclohexylurea, glutaric acid and triethylamine in medical four-arm poly(ethylene glycol)-N-hydroxysuccinimide-glutarate for better quality control

F. Li, H. Liu, Y. Zhang and S. Wang, Anal. Methods, 2019, 11, 6176 DOI: 10.1039/C9AY01471C

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