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Attributing a new peak: degradation product or excipient?

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Storage-related degradation and synthesis-related impurity look different on a chromatogram. A growing oxidation peak over time is not a manufacturing finding.

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s.hartmannTL217 Jan 2025#1

Asking directly, because I could not find a straight answer: Attributing a new peak: degradation product or excipient?

A narrow question about attributing a new peak, deliberately narrow, because the broad version has been asked here four times and produced four long threads and no answer.

One question, stated units, stated method, and what I have already ruled out.

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OstrowskiTL2Member Solution27 Jan 2025#2

Storage-related degradation and synthesis-related impurity look different on a chromatogram. A growing oxidation peak over time is not a manufacturing finding.

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w.moreauTL24 Feb 2025#3
Ostrowski, post #2: Storage-related degradation and synthesis-related impurity look different on a chromatogram. A growing oxidation peak over time is not a manufacturing finding. Go to post

This follows post #2 rather than contradicting it.

Deamidation at asparagine or glutamine adds approximately one dalton and frequently produces a close-eluting pair. It is the impurity most likely to be integrated into the main peak by accident.

It is one reading of the data and not the only reasonable one.

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