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1 Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
The urine and bile of rats injected s.c. with codeine phosphate were chromatographed on columns of Amberlite XAD-2 and IRC-50 resins. Evaporation of the methanolic effluent gave a residue which was purified by recrystallization from aqueous methanol. Paper and thin-layer chromatography, ultraviolet and infrared spectrophotometry, elemental analyses, morphine and glucuronic acid content established the identity of this product as morphine-3-glucuronide dihydrate. Free codeine, morphine, norcodeine and normorphine were identified in the free alkaloid fraction.
Submitted on October 10, 1969