Lhoëst G, Maton N, Verbeeck R
Department of Pharm. Sciences--UCL, Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry, Brussels, Belgium.
Pharm Acta Helv. 1993;68(1):35-41. doi: 10.1016/0031-6865(93)90006-r.
A new demethylated metabolite, extracted from erythromycin-induced rabbit liver microsomes incubation media, isolated by HPLC and identified by FAB/MS and NMR, is described. Moreover, NMR spectra suggest the existence of tautomeric forms of this O-demethylated metabolite of FK506.