A variety of chemical compounds, intermediates, and reagents
are used during the process of synthesizing active pharmaceutical
ingredients (APIs). Some of these chemicals, intermediates, and reagents,
as well as byproducts of synthetic processes, can have toxic properties
and be present as impurities at low levels in the API or final drug
formulation. If present at high concentrations, the toxic impurities
could cause adverse health effects in humans. This paper describes
a simple and rapid approach for selective removal of acrolein from
APIs using iodixanol as a model API. Several scavengers were tested,
and the resins which showed highest binding efficiency and selectivity
were chosen for further evaluations. The kinetics of acrolein scavenging
in the presence of the API iodixanol and the scavenging capacity of
resins were demonstrated in this paper. The most complete scavenging
is obtained with PS-NH2 which removes 97.8% of acrolein
without any substantial removal of the API during 20 min of reaction
time.
The crossreactivity of molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) and its practical implications are discussed. Screening of MIP libraries is presented as a fasttrack route to discovery of resins selective towards new targets, exploiting the fact that MIPs imprinted with one type of template molecule also show recognition to related and sometimes also to apparently unrelated molecules. Several examples from our own and others' studies are presented that illustrate this crossreactivity and the pattern of recognition is discussed for selected examples.
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