Conventional and enantioselective determination of a new blood glucose-lowering agent in biological fluids using liquid-liquid extraction and high-performance liquid chromatography.

Two analytical methods are described for the determination of 2-(4-tert.-butylphenoxy)-7-(4-chlorophenyl)heptanoic acid sodium salt (I) in animal models (beagle dog and rat). Method 1 is conventional reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography on an octadecylsilane column with an eluent of acetonitrile-0.02 M potassium buffer (pH 3) (65:35, v/v). Method 2 is used for the enantioselective determination of I. This method uses a chiral column (Chiralcel OJ) with an eluent of n-hexane-2-propanol (95:5, v/v) containing 3 ml/l trifluoracetic acid. The analytical procedure has a recovery of more than 90%; within-run precision of less than 5.1%, and between-run precision of less than 4.3%.