METHOD FOR PURIFYING SALTS OF RIBOFLAVIN 5'-PHOSPHATE, ESPECIALLY MONONATRIUM RIBOFLAVIN 5'-PHOSPHATE

摘要

Process for the purification of salts of riboflavin 5'-phosphate obtained by phosphorylation of riboflavin and reaction of the riboflavin 5'-phosphate (5'-FMN) contaminated with unreacted riboflavin and isomeric riboflavin monophosphates and diphosphates and formed in this process with alkali metal hydroxides or nitrogen bases, which is characterised in that… a) an approximately 1 to 15% strength by weight homogeneous, clear, aqueous 5'-FMN salt solution having a pH from 4 to 7 is prepared from the crude 5'-FMN obtained in the phosphorylation, water, and the alkali metal hydroxide or the nitrogen base, preferably sodium hydroxide solution, optionally with warming at 30 to 100 DEG C,… b) the solution obtained is treated with a suitable polymeric adsorber resin and… c) the 5'-FMN salt largely purified of unreacted riboflavin is isolated from the solution obtained in this process and, if desired, the solution is submitted to a subsequent fine purification. …??The treatment with the suitable polymeric adsorber resin is advantageously carried out in a column packed with adsorber resin. The subsequent fine purification can be carried out by means of crystallisation by evaporation or by chromatography of a 5'-FMN solution containing 1 to 15% by weight of dry material in water or a mixture of water and a lower aliphatic alcohol having a pH between 4 and 7 in a minimum amount of 5 to 50% of the bed volume of the column on RP silica gel derivatised with alkyl groups using water or a mixture of water and a lower aliphatic alcohol as the eluent. The preparative chromatography of 5'-FMN salts on derivatised RP silica gel with water or a mixture of water and a lower aliphatic alcohol as the solvent and eluent is also claimed independently of the pretreatment with the suitable adsorber resin.