The Generally Useful Estimate of Solvent Systems (GUESS) method enables the rapid purification of methylpyridoxine regioisomers by countercurrent chromatography

摘要

The TLC-based Generally Useful Estimate of Solvent Systems (GUESS) method was employed for countercurrent chromatography solvent system selection, in order to separate the three synthetic isomers: 3-O-methylpyridoxine, 4′-O-methylpyridoxine (ginkgotoxin) and 5′-O-methylpyridoxine. The Rf values of the three isomers indicated that ChMWat +2 (chloroformmethanol-water 10:5:5, v/v/v) was appropriate for the countercurrent chromatography. The isomer separation was highly selective and demonstrated that the TLC-based GUESS method can accelerate solvent system selection for countercurrent chromatography. Accordingly, the study re-emphasizes the practicality of TLC as a tool to facilitate the rapid development of new countercurrent and centrifugal partition chromatography methods for this solvent system. Purity and structure characterization of all samples was performed by quantitative ¹H NMR.