Abstract
Relative hydrophobicity and lipophilicity of 63 compounds with known permeability through the blood–brain barrier (BBB) was examined by partitioning in aqueous dextran-poly(ethylene glycol) two-phase system and octanol-buffer system, and by gradient RP-HPLC at pH 7.4. Combination of the relative hydrophobicity estimates, N(CH 2) obtained by aqueous two-phase partitioning and the lipophilicity (log D exp or log D HPLC) values obtained by the shake-flask technique or HPLC technique allows one to differentiate between compounds capable of crossing the BBB and those that cannot. A simple model for predicting blood–brain distribution is proposed.
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