文摘
We present a novel application of the heteronuclearstatistical total correlation spectroscopy (HET-STOCSY)approach utilizing statistical correlation between one-dimensional 19F/1H NMR spectroscopic data sets collected in parallel to study drug metabolism. Parallel one-dimensional (1D) 800 MHz 1H and 753 MHz 19F{1H}spectra (n = 21) were obtained on urine samples collected from volunteers (n = 6) at various intervals up to24 h after oral dosing with 500 mg of flucloxacillin. Avariety of statistical relationships between and within thespectroscopic datasets were explored without significantloss of the typically high 1D spectral resolution, generating1H-1H STOCSY plots, and novel 19F-1H HET-STOCSY,19F-19F STOCSY, and 19F-edited 1H-1H STOCSY (X-STOCSY) spectroscopic maps, with a resolution of ~0.8Hz/pt for both nuclei. The efficient statistical editingprovided by these methods readily allowed the collectionof drug metabolic data and assisted structure elucidation.This approach is of general applicability for studying themetabolism of other fluorine-containing drugs, includingimportant anticancer agents such as 5-fluorouracil andflutamide, and is extendable to any drug metabolism studywhere there is a spin-active X-nucleus (e.g., 13C, 15N, 31P)label present.