Abstract
Two methods for the determination of cloricromene acid in biological samples are described. Cloricromene acid is a catabolite of cloricromene, a coumarin derivative which is active in the cardiovascular system. After oral administration of cloricromene to a rabbit, plasma and platelets were taken at different times and cloricromene acid was then isolated by solid-phase extraction with Sep-Pak C 18 cartridges using acetonitrile—tetrahydrofuran—20% aqueous acetic acid (15:11:74, v/v/v) as eluent. The analyses were performed by reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) combined with fluorescence detection with excitation at 310 nm and emission at 390 nm. The limit of quantification by RP-HPLC was about 50 pg. The catabolite in the plasma was identified by continuous-flow fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry (CF-FAB-MS), also used as a complementary means of RP-HPLC determination. The results obtained by RP-HPLC and CF-FAB-MS showed good agreement.
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