Magister Scientiae - MSc / In this study two medicinal plant species, namely Galenia africana and Elytropapus rhinocerotis, the former belonging to the family Aizoceae and the latter belonging to the family Asteraceae, have been investigated and different compounds isolated and characterized. Both species are important plants used in traditional medicine in Africa and particularly in South Africa. Flavanoids are secondary metabolites found in plants. They have a protective function against UV radiation and have a defence against invading illnesses due to their important antioxidant activity. Much of the food we eat and some beverages we drink contain flavonoids. The aim of this study was to investigate the electrochemistry of flavanoids isolated from these species. / South Africa

A proteína A de superfície de pneumococo (PspA) é encontrada na superfície de todas as cepas de Streptococcus pneumoniae e candidata promissora para novas vacinas pneumocócicas. Foi desenvolvido um processo de purificação da PspA4Pro cujas etapas iniciais foram: ruptura da biomassa celular, precipitação do homogenato obtido com o detergente brometo de cetiltrimetilamônio (CTAB) e remoção do precipitado por centrifugação. Foram avaliadas cromatografias de troca iônica (aniônica, catiônica), afinidade por metais, interação hidrofóbica e mista de troca catiônica e hidrofóbica. Utilizando precipitação com CTAB, cromatografia de troca aniônica, crioprecipitação em pH4,0 e cromatografia de troca catiônica atingiu-se a pureza requerida de PspA4Pro (>95%) com recuperação entre 14% e 33%. O processo alcançou níveis aceitáveis de endotoxina no produto final e a PspA4Pro purificada foi reconhecida por anticorpos anti-PspA4, manteve sua atividade e sua estrutura secundária. / Pneumococcal surface protein A (PspA) is found in all Streptococcus pneumoniae strains and is a promising candidate to be used in new pneumococcal vaccines. A purification process for PspA4Pro which inicial steps were: cell disruption, precipitation of the homogenate with the cationic detergent cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) and pellet removal by centrifugation. The chromatographic techniques tested were ion exchange (anionic and cationic), immobilized metal affinity, hydrophobic interaction and mix mode with hydrophobic and cationic ligands. Using CTAB precipitation, anion exchange chromatography, crioprecipitation in pH4.0 and cation exchange chromatography the PspA reached the required purity (>95%) with recovery between 14% and 33% . The process reached acceptable levels of endotoxin in the final product and the purified PspA4Pro was recognized by anti-PspA4 antibodies and manteined its activity and secondary structure.

Les procédés multi-colonnes de chromatographie ont connu depuis quelques années un développement tel qu'ils sont devenus des standards industriels à toutes échelles, depuis celle des produits pharmaceutiques à haute valeur ajoutée jusqu'à celle des grands intermédiaires chimiques. La spécificité du présent travail consiste à étudier, pour ces procédés, l'influence d'un gradient d'élution. Il s'agit de faire varier au cours du temps la force éluante de la phase mobile. L'objectif est d'augmenter la productivité et le taux de récupération d'un produit à haute valeur ajoutée, tout en répondant à des contraintes de pureté. L'utilisation d'un gradient de solvant, courante en chromatographie analytique, fait l'objet d'un intérêt plus récent en chromatographie préparative. Les applications visées concernent des séparations de mélanges complexes où l'espèce cible a une affinité intermédiaire pour le support solide par rapport à celle des autres espèces, ce qui est souvent le cas lors de la purification de biomolécules issues de matières premières naturelles ou issues des biotechnologies. Dans ce cas, la séparation conduit à trois fractions, des impuretés faiblement retenues, la fraction intermédiaire et des impuretés fortement retenues. Pour notre étude, un mélange modèle, peu coûteux et non toxique, de cinq acides aminés a été choisi. Ces acides aminés ont été choisis en tenant compte de leur caractère apolaire et hydrophobe. Les séparations ont été réalisées par chromatographie en phase inverse. Dans un premier temps, une étude expérimentale, réalisée à l'aide d'une chaîne HPLC, a permis de déterminer les paramètres des isothermes d'adsorption de chaque acide aminé pour différentes teneurs en solvant organique de l'éluant. Une loi empirique a permis de relier le facteur de rétention k à la composition de la phase mobile (K = f (xméthanol)). Un travail de modélisation/simulation, reposant sur l'approche d'une cascade de mélangeurs, a ensuite permis de simuler les séparations obtenues dans le cas d'une seule colonne, puis dans le cas d'un système multi-colonnes. L'utilisation des lois reliant les facteurs de rétention k à la concentration en modifieur a alors permis de réaliser des simulations pour différents gradients de solvants. Dans le cas d'une seule colonne, le gradient a été optimisé en minimisant la durée de la séparation et en respectant une contrainte sur la résolution des pics des 2 espèces les plus difficiles à séparer. Une bonne adéquation a été observée entre les simulations et les résultats expérimentaux obtenus avec un gradient sur une seule colonne. Des expérimentations numériques ont alors été réalisées dans le cas du système multi-colonnes. Les paramètres opératoires optimaux ont été déterminés dans le cas du mélange étudié. Ces réglages seront ainsi utilisés lors de la validation expérimentale qui sera réalisée sur l'unité pilote. Cette unité comporte trois colonnes. Il s'agit d'un procédé séquentiel cyclique. Pour le mode opératoire retenu, chaque cycle comporte 8 étapes. A chaque étape les alimentations et soutirages des différentes colonnes sont modifiées. Pour le soutirage qui correspond à la fraction de l'espèce cible, les critères étudiés seront la pureté et le taux de récupération / Multi-column chromatographic processes have known, for a few years, a development on all scales, from high added value pharmaceutical products to major chemical intermediates. The specificity of the present work is to study the influence of a gradient elution for these processes. It consists in varying the eluent strength of the mobile phase over the time. The aim is to increase the productivity and the recovery ratio of a high added value product, while satisfying the constraints of purity. Solvent gradient is currently used in analytical chromatography and presents a recent interest in preparative chromatography. The applications concern separations of complex mixtures where the target species has an intermediate affinity for the solid phase compared to other species, which is often the case during the purification of biomolecules extracted from natural raw materials or resulting from biotechnologies. In this case, separation leads to three fractions, impurities weakly retained, an intermediate fraction and impurities strongly retained. For our study, a model mixture, inexpensive and nontoxic, of five amino acids was selected considering their nonpolar and hydrophobic character. The separations were carried out by reversed phase chromatography. An experimental study using a HPLC system was first carried out with single-element solution of each amino acid in isocratic mode. This enabled to determine adsorption isotherm parameters. An empirical law giving the retention factor as a function of eluent composition was determined (K = f (xmethanol)). A work of modeling / simulation, assuming linear isotherm and based on the mixed cells approach, permitted to simulate the separations obtained in the case of a one-column process, then in the case of a multi-column system. The use of retention factors laws allowed to carry out simulations for different solvent gradients. In the case of a single column, a simple methodology was developed to calculate the optimal solvent gradient. The gradient was optimized by minimizing the separation time and by respecting a constraint on the peaks resolution of the two species which are the most difficult to separate. A really good adequacy was observed between simulations and the experimental results. Numerical experimentations, executed in the case of the multi-columns process, made it possible, yet, to find the optimal operating parameters in the case of the studied mixture. These settings will be applied in the experimental validation which will be realized on the pilot unit. This unit has three columns. It is a cyclic sequential process. For the selected operating mode, each cycle contains eight steps. At each step, inlets ant outlets streams of different columns are switched. The criteria for the target species fraction are purity and recovery

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Les travaux de cette thèse portent sur le développement de nouvelles méthodologies de purification des peptides pharmaceutiques par chromatographie de partage centrifuge (CPC) dans le but de l'introduction de cette technique comme outil de R&D mais surtout de production en milieu industriel. Le caractère original de ces travaux porte essentiellement sur l'introduction de nouveaux systèmes de solvants et la mise au point de nouveaux procédés de purification en mode CPC co-courant. Les différents aspects liés à l'industrialisation des différents procédés de purification ont également été étudiés.La première partie des travaux a consisté en l'étude de quelques nouveaux aspects de l'intérêt de l'application du mode co-courant en chromatographie de partage centrifuge. Une méthodologie originale de purification des peptides tensioactifs non ioniques en mode CPC co-courant a été mise au point. Cette méthodologie a permis de résoudre les problèmes de perturbations hydrodynamiques et de perte de phase stationnaire engendrés par le caractère tensioactif de ces molécules et a été appliquée avec succès à la purification d'une cyclosporine modifiée douée d'une activité anti-virale et faiblement soluble dans les solvants usuellement utilisés en CLHP. Une étude fondamentale de l'effet du peptide sur le comportement hydrodynamique des deux phases lors de la séparation et la visualisation des modèles d'écoulement au sein de la colonne CPC a permis la mise en évidence du role de la ciclosporine modifiée dans la perturbation de la composition des phases du système chromatographique. D'autres aspects de l'intérêt du mode co-courant en CPC ont été étudiés lors de cette étude, notamment l'amélioration de la robustesse et de la résolution de la séparation.La seconde partie des travaux a porté sur le développement de nouveaux systèmes biphasiques de solvants particulièrement adaptés à la purification des peptides hydrophobes non-ioniques, notamment les intermédiaires de synthèse protégés, qui sont très faiblement solubles dans la plupart des solvants communs utilisés en chromatographie. Deux gammes quaternaire et quinaire de systèmes biphasiques de solvants, ainsi qu'un système biphasique ternaire ont été introduits. L'originalité de ces systèmes porte sur l'usage de solvants verts à fort caractère solvatant tel que le Methyl-THF et le cyclopentyl methyl ether (CPME). Les systèmes développés ont été efficacement utilisés pour la purification en CPC d'une exénatide protégée de 39 acides aminés et d'un peptide protégé de 8 acides aminés intermédiaire de la synthèse de la bivalirudine. Ces systèmes devraient être utiles pour une utilisation générale en CPC pour la séparation des peptides synthétiques hydrophobes libres ou protégés. / The work presented in this thesis deals with the development of new methodologies for the purification of pharmaceutical peptides by centrifugal partition chromatography (CPC) in order to introduce this technique as a tool for R & D but also in industrial production. The original character of this work relies on the introduction of new solvent systems and the development of new purification processes based on the co-current CPC mode. The different aspects of the process intensification and industrialization have also been studied.In the first part of the work, a study of some new aspects of the interest of the application of the stationary phase co-current mode in CPC is described. An original method for the purification of non-ionic tensioactive peptides in the co-current CPC mode was developed. This method has been successfully applied to the purification of a modified cyclosporine showing a therapeutic interest. This particular elution mode, taking advantage of the liquid nature of the stationary phase, appears to be an efficient solution to get round some hydrodynamic instabilities that sometimes appears during a purification intensification by CPC. A fundamental study of the effect of the peptide on the hydrodynamic behavior of the two phases in the separation and visualization of flow patterns within the CPC column allowed highlighting the role of the peptide in the disruption of phases composition of the chromatographic system. Other aspects of the interest of the co-current mode in CPC were investigated in this study, including the improvement of the efficiency and the resolution of the separation.The second part of the work focused on the development of new biphasic solvent systems particularly suitable for the purification of hydrophobic non-ionic peptides, including protected intermediates, which are very poorly soluble in the most common solvents used in chromatography. Two new scales of biphasic solvent systems showing a wide range of polarity and a ternary biphasic system were introduced to overcome solubility problems often encountered with synthetic hydrophobic protected peptides. The originality of these systems relies on the use of green solvents with high solvating character such as Methyl-THF and cyclopentyl methyl ether (CPME). The developed systems have been effectively used for the purification in CPC of a 39mer protected exenatide and and a 8mer protected peptide intermediate of bivalirudin synthesis.

<p>This thesis concerns the development and validation of high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) methods aimed for two industrially important areas: (i) analysis of biotechnological synthesis and (ii) determination of adsorption isotherm parameters. There is today a lack of detailed recommendations for analytical procedures in the field of biotechnological production of drugs. Therefore, guidelines were given for analytical development and validation in this field; the production of 9α-hydroxyprogesterone was used as model. In addition, a rapid method using HPLC coupled with diode-array-detection (DAD) and mass spectrometry (MS), was developed for the preliminary identification and quantification of the product. In addition, requirements and recommendations were developed for the selection of the internal standard and for its inclusion in the process liquid. By using this approach the precision and accuracy of the quantitative method were considerably improved. </p><p>Preparative chromatography is a powerful separation method for the purification of pure compounds from more or less complex sample mixtures. One such mixture can be the process liquid from a fermentation, another example can be a racemic mixture of compounds whose enantiomeric constituents must be isolated. Computer-assisted modeling can be used to optimize preparative chromatography. However, competitive adsorption isotherm parameters are required as input data for the computer simulations. In this thesis, a new injection technique, based on a firm theoretical basis, was developed for the peak perturbation (PP) method allowing the determination of binary competitive adsorption isotherm parameters from a broad concentration range. With the new method the determination of adsorption isotherm parameters from a quaternary mixture could be done for the first time. The profiles simulated with these parameters showed excellent agreement with the corresponding experimental profiles, validating the accuracy of the adsorption isotherm parameters derived by the new method.</p>

<p>This thesis concerns the development and validation of methods for characterization of multi-component preparative LC systems. Measurements of competitive adsorption isotherms are performed to gain detailed information about the interactions inside the chromatography column. This information increases our understanding of the separation process and makes it possible to perform computer simulations and numerical optimizations to find optimal operating conditions.</p><p>The methods under focus are called “the tracer-pulse method”, “the inverse method”, and “the inverse method on plateaus”. They are extensions of existing methods, with new experimental and numerical procedures to enable rapid and accurate multi-component adsorption isotherm determination. In the validation it was shown that they can produce results agreeing with traditional methods and that the acquired adsorption isotherm parameters can be used in simulations to accurately predict the outcome of preparative LC separations.</p><p>The methods were used to characterize several complex LC systems and two phenomena were discovered and theoretically treated: 1) The presence of invisible deformed peaks in single-component systems. 2) Peak deformations encountered with modern chiral stationary phases, caused by strongly adsorbed eluent additives. The latter type of deformation was highly tuneable and it was possible to adjust the enantiomer peak shapes so that the peaks tailed in opposite directions with the sharp sides in between, yielding baseline resolution at remarkably high sample loads.</p><p>In a final applied study both the LC-based perturbation peak method and a biosensor method based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR) were used for the first time for detailed characterization of chiral drug-protein interactions. The fundamental properties of the two very different methods were compared and it was found that the LC method is more suitable for multi-component analysis and that the SPR method is more suitable for stronger interactions.</p>

This thesis concerns the development and validation of high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) methods aimed for two industrially important areas: (i) analysis of biotechnological synthesis and (ii) determination of adsorption isotherm parameters. There is today a lack of detailed recommendations for analytical procedures in the field of biotechnological production of drugs. Therefore, guidelines were given for analytical development and validation in this field; the production of 9α-hydroxyprogesterone was used as model. In addition, a rapid method using HPLC coupled with diode-array-detection (DAD) and mass spectrometry (MS), was developed for the preliminary identification and quantification of the product. In addition, requirements and recommendations were developed for the selection of the internal standard and for its inclusion in the process liquid. By using this approach the precision and accuracy of the quantitative method were considerably improved. Preparative chromatography is a powerful separation method for the purification of pure compounds from more or less complex sample mixtures. One such mixture can be the process liquid from a fermentation, another example can be a racemic mixture of compounds whose enantiomeric constituents must be isolated. Computer-assisted modeling can be used to optimize preparative chromatography. However, competitive adsorption isotherm parameters are required as input data for the computer simulations. In this thesis, a new injection technique, based on a firm theoretical basis, was developed for the peak perturbation (PP) method allowing the determination of binary competitive adsorption isotherm parameters from a broad concentration range. With the new method the determination of adsorption isotherm parameters from a quaternary mixture could be done for the first time. The profiles simulated with these parameters showed excellent agreement with the corresponding experimental profiles, validating the accuracy of the adsorption isotherm parameters derived by the new method.

This thesis concerns the development and validation of methods for characterization of multi-component preparative LC systems. Measurements of competitive adsorption isotherms are performed to gain detailed information about the interactions inside the chromatography column. This information increases our understanding of the separation process and makes it possible to perform computer simulations and numerical optimizations to find optimal operating conditions. The methods under focus are called “the tracer-pulse method”, “the inverse method”, and “the inverse method on plateaus”. They are extensions of existing methods, with new experimental and numerical procedures to enable rapid and accurate multi-component adsorption isotherm determination. In the validation it was shown that they can produce results agreeing with traditional methods and that the acquired adsorption isotherm parameters can be used in simulations to accurately predict the outcome of preparative LC separations. The methods were used to characterize several complex LC systems and two phenomena were discovered and theoretically treated: 1) The presence of invisible deformed peaks in single-component systems. 2) Peak deformations encountered with modern chiral stationary phases, caused by strongly adsorbed eluent additives. The latter type of deformation was highly tuneable and it was possible to adjust the enantiomer peak shapes so that the peaks tailed in opposite directions with the sharp sides in between, yielding baseline resolution at remarkably high sample loads. In a final applied study both the LC-based perturbation peak method and a biosensor method based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR) were used for the first time for detailed characterization of chiral drug-protein interactions. The fundamental properties of the two very different methods were compared and it was found that the LC method is more suitable for multi-component analysis and that the SPR method is more suitable for stronger interactions.

The main goal of the work presented in this thesis is to improve the reliability of existing methods for speciation analysis of organotin compounds Species-specific isotope dilution (SSID) calibration in combination with gas chromatography – inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry was used to investigate the transformation of phenyltin species during sample preparation. Isotope-enriched phenyltin species were synthesized from corresponding isotope-enriched tin metals. SSID with a mixture of phenyltin species (PhTs) from one isotope was used to evaluate different extraction procedures for the determination of PhTs in fresh water sediment. Preparative liquid chromatography was used to produce single isotope-enriched phenyltin species making a multi-isotope spike (MI) SSID calibration possible. Different extraction procedures for the analysis of phenyltin species in biological samples were evaluated by applying MI-SSID. Degradation of TPhT and DPhT during sample extraction was observed and quantified. Accurate results were therefore obtained. A sample preparation procedure using mild extraction conditions with reasonable recoveries is described. The stability of organotin standards was investigated under different storage conditions. Mono- and diphenyltin were found to be redistributed and degraded during storage in methanol but were stabilized in sodium acetate/ acetic acid. A fast redistribution between monobutyl- and diphenyl tin has been observed and therefore it is therefore recommended that standards be derivatized as soon as possible after butyl- and phenyltin standards are mixed. Included in the thesis is also an investigation of the analytical potential of using instrumentation based on atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS) for speciation analysis of organotin compounds. The method was based on gas chromatographic separation, atomization in a quartz tube and detection by line source (LS) AAS and for comparison, by state of the art continuum source (CS) AAS. Analytical performances of CSAAS system were found to be better compared to LSAAS.