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Mechanism of oxidation of ketorolac by hexacyanoferrate(III) in aqueous alkali: A thermodynamics and kinetics study
Badi, Seema S.,Tuwar, Suresh M.
, p. 916 - 929 (2014)
The kinetics of the oxidation of ketorolac by hexacyanoferrate(III) (HCF) in aqueous alkaline medium at a constant ionic strength of 0.75 mol·dm-3 was studied spectrophotometrically at 300 K. A plausible mechanism was proposed and the rate law was derived. The mechanism of oxidation of ketorolac (KET) in alkaline medium has been shown to proceed via a KET-HCF complex, which decomposes in a slow step followed by other fast steps to give the products. The main oxidative product was identified as (2,3-dihydro-1-hydroxy-1H-pyrrolizin-5-yl-)(phenyl)methanone and is characterized by its LC-ESI-MS spectrum. Thermodynamic parameters of various equilibria of the mechanism were calculated and activation parameters ΔH A, ΔS A, ΔG A and log10 A were found to be 29.9 kJ·mol-1, -220 J·K -1·mol-1, 96 kJ·mol-1 and 2.70 respectively.
Characterization of forced degradation products of ketorolac tromethamine using LC/ESI/Q/TOF/MS/MS and in silico toxicity prediction
Kalariya, Pradipbhai D.,Raju,Borkar, Roshan M.,Namdev, Deepak,Gananadhamu,Nandekar, Prajwal P.,Sangamwar, Abhay T.,Srinivas
, p. 380 - 391 (2014/05/20)
Ketorolac, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, was subjected to forced degradation studies as per International Conference on Harmonization guidelines. A simple, rapid, precise, and accurate high-performance liquid chromatography combined with electrospray ionization quadrupole time-of-flight tandem mass spectrometry (LC/ESI/Q/TOF/MS/MS) method has been developed for the identification and structural characterization of stressed degradation products of ketorolac. The drug was found to degrade in hydrolytic (acidic, basic, and neutral), photolytic (acidic, basic, and neutral solution), and thermal conditions, whereas the solid form of the drug was found to be stable under photolytic conditions. The method has shown adequate separation of ketorolac tromethamine and its degradation products on a Grace Smart C-18 (250-mm-×-4.6-mm i.d., 5-μm) column using 20-mM ammonium formate (pH-=-3.2): acetonitrile as a mobile phase in gradient elution mode at a flow rate of 1.0-ml/min. A total of nine degradation products were identified and characterized by LC/ESI/MS/MS. The most probable mechanisms for the formation of degradation products have been proposed on the basis of a comparison of the fragmentation of the [M-+-H]+ ions of ketorolac and its degradation products. In silico toxicity of the drug and degradation products was investigated by using topkat and derek softwares. The method was validated in terms of specificity, linearity, accuracy, precision, and robustness as per International Conference on Harmonization guidelines. Copyright