Journal
JOURNAL OF LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY & RELATED TECHNOLOGIES
Volume 30, Issue 5-8, Pages 1077-1092Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/10826070601128451
Keywords
ibogaine; noribogaine; NMR; IR; LC-MS; stability studies; alkaloids of Tabernanthe iboga
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The aim of this study was: i) to carry out a structural analysis of ibogaine and noribogaine, ii) to identify products formed under light exposure (daylight or 254 nm, 20 degrees C) of the two drugs in methanolic solutions, and iii) to examine the alkaloid contents of a specimen of root bark of the Tabernanthe iboga shrub using liquid chromatography-electrospray mass spectrometry. After daylight exposure, two oxidation products were detected: ibochine and iboluteine from ibogaine, and desmethoxyibochine and desmethoxyiboluteine from noribogaine. After exposure to 254 nm of the ibogaine solution, another compound that could possibly be the analogous lactam of iboluteine was detected. From the liquid chromatography electro-spray-mass spectrometry analysis of the root barks of a specimen of the Tabernanthe iboga shrub, seven alkaloids were detected: ibochine (m/z 325), ibogaline (m/z 341), iboluteine (m/z 327), ibogaine (m/z 311), ibogamine (m/z 28 1) and voacangine (mlz 369). The last compound characterized by the protonated species (M + H)(+) at m/z 309 has not been identified. In all samples, ibogaine was the principal alkaloid observed; its concentration ranged from 1.8 to 5.93 mg/g. For the other indole alkaloids, the peak areas of ibogaline, ibogamine and voacangine represent 11.9, 21.5, and 30.5% of that of ibogaine, respectively.
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