PMID- 28719814 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20180201 LR - 20181202 IS - 1873-264X (Electronic) IS - 0731-7085 (Linking) VI - 145 DP - 2017 Oct 25 TI - Enantiomeric separation of seven beta-agonists by NACE-Study of chiral selectivity with diacetone-d-mannitol-boric acid complex. PG - 399-405 LID - S0731-7085(17)30743-4 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.jpba.2017.06.044 [doi] AB - A rapid and effective nonaqueous capillary electrophoresis (NACE)-ultraviolet (UV) method was developed for the enantiomeric separation of seven beta-agonists. Diacetone-d-mannitol-boric acid complex was used as a new chiral selector. It was in situ synthesized by the reaction of diacetone-d-mannitol and boric acid in methanol medium containing triethylamine. The effects of diacetone-d-mannitol, boric acid, and triethylamine concentrations on the enantioseparation were carefully investigated. Under the optimized conditions, baseline enantioseparation could be obtained for six of the tested beta-agonists within 12min. These results were better than that obtained with d-mannitol-boric acid complex in previous work. (11)B nuclear magnetic resonance ((11)B NMR) was applied to determine the fraction of boron species and confirm the formation of diacetone-d-mannitol-boric acid complex. Validation of the established NACE method was also carried out according to ICH guidelines. Calibration curves showed good linearity with correlation coefficients (r)>/=0.9992 over a certain concentration range for each enantiomer of the tested five beta-agonists. The relative standard deviations (RSDs) of intra-day precisions and inter-day precisions of migration times were