Enantiomeric separation of cizolirtine and metabolites on amylose tris (3,5-dimethylphenyl carbamate) chiral stationary phase.

The enantiomeric resolution of (+/-)-cizolirtine, (+/-)-cizolirtine-N-oxide, (+/-)-N-desmethylcizolirtine and (+/-)-5(alpha-hydroxybenzyl)-1-methylpyrazole was achieved on amylose tris (3,5-dimethylphenyl carbamate) chiral stationary phase known as Chiralpak AD using hexane/2-propanol/triethylamine (80:20:0.05, v/v/v) as the mobile phase. The flow rate of the mobile phase used was 1.0 ml/min with UV detection at 230 nm. The values of R(s) of the resolved enantiomers of (+/-)-cizolirtine, (+/-)-cizolirtine-N-oxide, (+/-)-N-desmethylcizolirtine and (+/-)-5(alpha-hydroxybenzyl)-1-methyl pyrazole were 1.20, 0.60, 1.16 and 1.15, respectively.