{"title":"Measurement of Diketene Using In Situ Derivatization-Headspace-Gas Chromatography","authors":"Noémi Göröcs, Balázs Volk","doi":"10.1007/s10337-025-04398-4","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>During the registration procedure of a drug substance, the actual and potential impurities must be summarized in a legal documentation. Diketene is a reactive chemical compound which is used for the introduction of an acetoacetyl structural unit into organic compounds. Since this material commonly used as a reagent in the pharmaceutical industry, it is a potential impurity of certain drug substances. The aim of this work was to develop and validate a suitable method for the analysis of diketene by means of decomposition headspace gas chromatography. The product of the derivatization reaction is acetone, which can be easily measured by gas chromatography. Various parameters have been integrated into the elaborated limit test validation, such as specificity, detection limit (LD), quantification limit (LQ), system precision, recovery at limit level, robustness and solution stability. The limits of detection and quantification are 60 and 200 ppm, respectively. Using the above-mentioned new analytical method, the concentration of diketene can be determined accurately. These precise measurements are necessary for the appropriate characterization of the drug substance, which is a prerequisite step of a marketing authorization for the finished product.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":518,"journal":{"name":"Chromatographia","volume":"88 4","pages":"279 - 285"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Chromatographia","FirstCategoryId":"92","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10337-025-04398-4","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"BIOCHEMICAL RESEARCH METHODS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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During the registration procedure of a drug substance, the actual and potential impurities must be summarized in a legal documentation. Diketene is a reactive chemical compound which is used for the introduction of an acetoacetyl structural unit into organic compounds. Since this material commonly used as a reagent in the pharmaceutical industry, it is a potential impurity of certain drug substances. The aim of this work was to develop and validate a suitable method for the analysis of diketene by means of decomposition headspace gas chromatography. The product of the derivatization reaction is acetone, which can be easily measured by gas chromatography. Various parameters have been integrated into the elaborated limit test validation, such as specificity, detection limit (LD), quantification limit (LQ), system precision, recovery at limit level, robustness and solution stability. The limits of detection and quantification are 60 and 200 ppm, respectively. Using the above-mentioned new analytical method, the concentration of diketene can be determined accurately. These precise measurements are necessary for the appropriate characterization of the drug substance, which is a prerequisite step of a marketing authorization for the finished product.
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Separation sciences, in all their various forms such as chromatography, field-flow fractionation, and electrophoresis, provide some of the most powerful techniques in analytical chemistry and are applied within a number of important application areas, including archaeology, biotechnology, clinical, environmental, food, medical, petroleum, pharmaceutical, polymer and biopolymer research. Beyond serving analytical purposes, separation techniques are also used for preparative and process-scale applications. The scope and power of separation sciences is significantly extended by combination with spectroscopic detection methods (e.g., laser-based approaches, nuclear-magnetic resonance, Raman, chemiluminescence) and particularly, mass spectrometry, to create hyphenated techniques. In addition to exciting new developments in chromatography, such as ultra high-pressure systems, multidimensional separations, and high-temperature approaches, there have also been great advances in hybrid methods combining chromatography and electro-based separations, especially on the micro- and nanoscale. Integrated biological procedures (e.g., enzymatic, immunological, receptor-based assays) can also be part of the overall analytical process.