Journal
BIOMEDICAL CHROMATOGRAPHY
Volume 35, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/bmc.4874
Keywords
capillary electrophoresis; chiral separation; enantiomers; liquid chromatography; O-desmethylvenlafaxine; venlafaxine
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Venlafaxine (VFX) is a chiral drug used as an antidepressant, with its enantiomers R- and S-VFX exhibiting different pharmacological activities and metabolites showing varying affinity for receptor sites. Studies have investigated enantioselective analysis of VFX and its chiral metabolites using various analytical methods.
Venlafaxine (VFX) is a serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor chiral drug used in therapy as an antidepressant in the form of a racemate consisting of R- and S-VFX. The two enantiomers of VFX exhibit different pharmacological activities: R-VFX inhibits both norepinephrine and serotonin synaptic reuptake, whereas S-VFX inhibits only the serotonin one. R- and S-VFX are metabolized in the liver to the respective R- and S-O-desmethylvenlafaxine (ODVFX), R- and S-N-desmethylvenlafaxine (NDVFX), and R- and S-N,O-didesmethylvenlafaxine (NODVFX). The pharmacological profile of ODVFX is close to that of VFX, whereas the other two chiral metabolites (NDVFX and NODVFX) have lower affinity for the receptor sites. The pharmacokinetics of the VFX enantiomers appear stereoselective, including the metabolism process. In the past 20 years, several studies describing the enantioselective analysis of R- and S-VFX in pharmaceutical formulations and its chiral metabolites in biological matrices were published. These methods encompass liquid chromatography coupled with UV detection, mass spectrometry, or tandem mass spectrometry, and capillary electrophoresis. This paper reviews the published methods used for the determination of the individual enantiomers of VFX and its chiral metabolites in different matrices.
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