EFFECTS OF IONIZING-RADIATIONS ON A PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOUND, CHLORAMPHENICOL

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作者
VARSHNEY, L
PATEL, KM
机构
[1] ISOMED, I AND IPO, Board of Radiation/Isotope Techn., Bombay 400085, India
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RADIATION PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY | 1994年 / 43卷 / 05期
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10.1016/0969-806X(94)90064-7
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O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
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070304 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Chloramphenicol, a broad spectrum antibiotic, has been irradiated using Cobalt-60 gamma radiation and electron beam at graded radiation doses upto 100 kGy. Several degradation products and free radicals are formed on irradiation. Purity, degradation products, free radicals, discolouration, crystallinity, solubility and entropy of radiation processing have been investigated. Aqueous solutions undergo extensive radiolysis even at low doses. Physico-chemical, microbiological and toxicological tests do not show significant degradation at sterilization dose. High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), UV-spectrophotometry, diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) and electron spin resonance spectroscopy (ESR) techniques were employed for the investigations.
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