Demonstration of Penicillamine as a Product in Benzylpenicillenic Acid Degradation in Neutral Media Using Differential Pulse Polarography

Jemal, Mohammed; Hem, Stanley L.; Knevel, Adelbert M.

doi:10.1002/jps.2600670306

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“…Mitsumori studied the degradation of penicillin G in phosphate buffer at pH 7.0 and reached the conclusion that penicillin G degrades to benzylpenicilloic acid, then to secondary products. Jemal found penicillamine as a degradation product at neutral pH and proposed that it originated from benzylpenicillenic acid.…”

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Effect of Buffer Solution and Temperature on the Stability of Penicillin G

Lü

Xing

et al. 2008

J. Chem. Eng. Data

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The effect of medium, molar ratio of buffer to penicillin G sodium, pH, and temperature on the stability of penicillin G sodium was investigated. The stability of penicillin G sodium in various media is in the order of: citrate buffer > acetate buffer > phosphate buffer > sodium bicarbonate > 0.9 % NaCl and 5 % glucose. In the case of the citrate buffer, to maintain stability for a long time, the molar ratio should be higher than 0.75. The degradation kinetics of penicillin in citrate buffer was determined over a pH range of 4.0 to 10.0 and temperatures from (5 to 50) °C. By plotting the data of log k versus pH at constant temperature, V-shaped curves were obtained with a minimum around pH 7.0. The plots of ln k versus 1/T at constant pH are linear, and the lines at all pH values are almost parallel to each other. By fitting to the Arrhenius equation, the activated energy obtained is 83.5 kJ • mol -1 • K -1 . The best condition to maintain reasonable stability of penicillin G sodium is using the citrate buffer solution with a molar ratio of buffer to penicillin g 0.75, pH ≈ 7.0, temperature e 25 °C.

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