Abstract
The objective of this study was to synthesize derivatives of the anti-HIV drug stavudine (d4T) with more favourable physicochemical properties for transdermal delivery in an effort to increase transdermal penetration of stavudine and thus reduce the severe side effects associated with the dose-dependent oral therapy. The synthesis, hydrolytic stability, and in vitro human skin permeation flux of a series of novel methoxypoly(ethylene glycol) (MPEG) carbonates of stavudine are reported. The carbonates were synthesized in a two-step process by coupling the MPEG promoiety of various chain lengths to C-5 of d4T. In kinetic studies the carbonates proved to be markedly stable in weakly acidic phosphate medium (pH 5.0) with half-lives ranging from 16 to 58 days. The aqueous solubility increased as the ethylene oxide chain lengthened. However, there was no significant increase in the estimated solubility in octanol. In vitro in the phosphate buffer (200 mM; pH 5.0) almost all carbonates permeate the human skin. However, the most effective penetrant, the derivative with 3 ethylene oxide units in the side chain, exhibited a flux of 26.1 nmol/cm2/h as compared to 59.15 nmol/cm2/h of the parent drug stavudine. Thus, no permeation enhancement was observed during this study.
Keywords: Transdermal penetration, methoxypoly(ethylene glycol) (MPEG), ethylene oxide (EO), stavudine
Medicinal Chemistry
Title: Synthesis and In Vitro Transdermal Penetration of Methoxypoly(ethylene glycol) Carbonate Derivatives of Stavudine
Volume: 5 Issue: 6
Author(s): David D. N'Da, Jaco C. Breytenbach, Lesetja J. Legoabe and J. Wilma Breytenbach
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Keywords: Transdermal penetration, methoxypoly(ethylene glycol) (MPEG), ethylene oxide (EO), stavudine
Abstract: The objective of this study was to synthesize derivatives of the anti-HIV drug stavudine (d4T) with more favourable physicochemical properties for transdermal delivery in an effort to increase transdermal penetration of stavudine and thus reduce the severe side effects associated with the dose-dependent oral therapy. The synthesis, hydrolytic stability, and in vitro human skin permeation flux of a series of novel methoxypoly(ethylene glycol) (MPEG) carbonates of stavudine are reported. The carbonates were synthesized in a two-step process by coupling the MPEG promoiety of various chain lengths to C-5 of d4T. In kinetic studies the carbonates proved to be markedly stable in weakly acidic phosphate medium (pH 5.0) with half-lives ranging from 16 to 58 days. The aqueous solubility increased as the ethylene oxide chain lengthened. However, there was no significant increase in the estimated solubility in octanol. In vitro in the phosphate buffer (200 mM; pH 5.0) almost all carbonates permeate the human skin. However, the most effective penetrant, the derivative with 3 ethylene oxide units in the side chain, exhibited a flux of 26.1 nmol/cm2/h as compared to 59.15 nmol/cm2/h of the parent drug stavudine. Thus, no permeation enhancement was observed during this study.
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N'Da D. David, Breytenbach C. Jaco, Legoabe J. Lesetja and Breytenbach Wilma J., Synthesis and In Vitro Transdermal Penetration of Methoxypoly(ethylene glycol) Carbonate Derivatives of Stavudine, Medicinal Chemistry 2009; 5 (6) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/157340609790170470
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/157340609790170470 |
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