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• 19666-40-1 2-(3-chloropropyl)-1,2,4-triazolo<4,3-a>pyridin-3-one 
• 14088-83-6 N-(3-chlorophenyl)-1,2-diaminoethane 
• 108-42-9 3-chloro-aniline 
• 25332-39-2 trazodone hydrochloride 

Relevant academic research and scientific papers

Application of the UHPLC method for separation and characterization of major photolytic degradation products of trazodone by LC-MS and NMR

Drug degradation products are a type of drug impurity which affects the safety of the drug products. Trazodone (TZD) is an antidepressant drug subjected to forced degradation as per ICH embedded guidelines for predicting the drug degradation products. It undergoes degradation in acidic hydrolysis, peroxide induced oxidation and upon exposure to day light and results in the formation of ten degradation products (DPs). A UHPLC method was developed to separate TZD and its DPs using the stationary phase of an Acquity UPLC CSH C18 column (100 × 2.1 mm, 1.7 μm) and a mobile phase of solvent-A (10 mM ammonium acetate, pH 8.5) and solvent-B (methanol) at a flow rate of 0.25 mL min-1 in gradient elution. This method was transferred to a quadrupole time-of-flight tandem mass spectrometer (QTOF-MS/MS) for identification of the DPs. Very interestingly, four dimer DPs were found under photolytic degradation conditions and they are found to be isomers. The major isomer (DP-10) was isolated by using preparative HPLC and its structure was identified using proton and carbon NMR. Three N-oxide DPs were also observed and the site of N-oxidation was identified by using atmospheric pressure chemical ionization mass spectrometry (APCI-MS). The developed UHPLC method was validated as described in the ICH prescribed guidelines and USP general chapter on method validation. The proposed validated stability indicating assay method can be used for identification and quantification of TZD and its DPs in a quality control lab for product release testing and stability studies of the drug in much less time with greater selectivity.

Effect of modifications of the alkylpiperazine moiety of trazodone on 5HT(2A) and α1 receptor binding affinity

A series of triazolopyridine derivatives (compounds 2a-1) were synthesized in order to explore the effect of modifications of the alkylpiperazine moiety of trazodone (fragment A) on binding affinity for 5HT(2A) and α1 receptors. All of the synthesized compounds show a decrease of affinity for both 5HT(2A) and α1 receptors, as compared to trazodone, with the exception of compounds 2b,c which bear a methyl group in an α position to the aliphatic nitrogen atom N1. These compounds showed a decrease of affinity only for the α1 receptor. The stereochemical influence of the piperazine moiety of compound 2c was also evaluated. Enantiomer (S)- 2c showed the most significant differences between 5HT(2A) and α1 receptor affinity (IC50 values) and among the corresponding functional properties (pA2 values). Since (S)-2c cannot generate the metabolite 4-(3- chlorophenyl)piperazine this product was selected for further pharmacological studies.