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Ellman's Spectrophotometric Analysis Of Rivastigmine : What Is The Melting Point Of Chemicals

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All the chemicals used in the synthesis were of analytical grade purity and were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (India). Rivastigmine was obtained as a gift sample from Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (Silvassa, India). Melting point of the synthesized analogues was determined by using Stuart melting point apparatus and were uncorrected. Equimolar (0.01mol) quantity of NaCNO in 25ml of warm water was added with continuous stirring, the reaction mixture was allowed to stand for 4 h and the product was obtained by filtration, washed with water, dried in an oven below melting point and recrystallized from ethanol to afford key intermediate-1 .The precipitate was obtained by filtration, washed with water, dried in an oven below melting point and recrystallized from ethanol to afford key intermediate-2 .Equal moles of intermediate-2 (0.456g, 0.003mol) in 5ml of ethanol mixed with equal moles of the different aldehyde or ketone was refluxed for 2hrs and glacial acetic acid was added to adjust the pH of the reaction between 5-6. The solid obtained after cooling was filtred, dried and crystallized from 95% ethanol to afford compounds .Ellman’s spectrophotometric analysis [16] was used to determine IC50 values. This method is based on the reaction between synthetic substrate acetylthiocholine iodide (ATChI) and 5,5-dithio-bis-(2-nitrobenzoicacid) (DTNB) to produce a yellow colour (5-mercapto-2-nitrobenzoicacid) which was detected by Colorimeter. Determination of IC50 values was performed by recording the rate of increase in the absorbance at 412 nm for 5 min.
Stock solution of AChE was obtained by dissolving AChE in 0.1 M phosphate buffer (pH 8). The final solution for assay consisted of 0.1 M phosphate buffer (pH 8.0) with the addition of 340 mM 5, 5-dithio-bis (2-nitrobenzoic acid) (DTNB), 0.02 unit/mL of AChE and 550 mM of substrate (acetylthiocholine iodide, ATChI). Different concentrations of test compounds (inhibitors) between 20% and 80%) were selected in order to obtain inhibition of the enzymatic activity. From the inhibitors (synthesized analogues) solution (50 µL), increasing concentrations of the inhibitors were added to the assay solution and were pre-incubated for 20 min at 37 oC with the enzyme followed by

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