Five new biguanides, found as impurities in chlorhexidine digluconate
solutions, were synthesized by addition of amines to aminonitriles. No
nstoichiometric additions required to prepare the unsymmetrical biguan
ides resulted in low yields of the desired impurities, which were isol
ated by flash chromatography and characterized by HPLC-UV, HPLC-MS, an
d H-1 NMR.