Selectivity patterns in micellar electrokinetic chromatography: Characterization of fluorinated and aliphatic alcohol modifiers by micellar selectivity triangle

The usefulness of the micellar selectivity triangle (MST) for prediction and interpretation of separation patterns in micellar electrokinetic chromatography (MEKC) separations is presented. In addition, we demonstrate the capability of controlling selectivity properties of micelles through addition of organic modifiers with known solvation properties as predicted by MST. The examples are modification of the hydrogen bond donor (HBD) micelle of lithium perfluorooctanesulfonate, the hydrogen bond acceptor (HBA) micelle of tetradecyltrimethylammonium bromide, and the sodium dodecyl sulfate micelles with intermediate hydrogen bonding properties with two hydrophobic organic modifiers. One is an aliphatic alcohol, n-pentanol that can act as both a HBA and a HBD; by contrast, the other organic modifier is a fluorinated alcohol, hexafluoroisopropanol that is a strong HBD modifier and would enhance the hydrogen bond donor strength of micelles. A test sample composed of 20 small organic solutes representing HBA, HBD, and non-hydrogen bond aromatic compounds was carefully selected. The trends in retention behavior of these compounds in different micelles are consistent with the selectivity patterns predicted by the MST scheme. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on the unique selectivity of fluorinated alcohols as modifiers in MEKC. These results demonstrate the usefulness of the MST scheme for identifying pseudo-phases with highly similar or different selectivities and can serve as a guide for judicious selection of modifiers to create pseudo-phases with desired selectivity behavior on a rational basis.     

Electrokinetic chromatographic characterization of novel catanionic surfactants vesicle as pseudostationary phase

A novel catanionic surfactants vesicle system composed of octyltriethylammonium bromide/ sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate (C₈NE₃Br/SDBS) has been developed as pseudostationary phase (PSP) in EKC. The C₈NE₃Br/SDBS system possesses a large vesicle phase region and none of agglomeration phenomena appeared while mixing cationic and anionic surfactants at any molar ratio. Electrophoretic and chromatographic parameters including elution window, hydrophobic selectivity, polar group selectivity, and shape selectivity were characterized using the vesicle at molar ratio of C₈NE₃Br to SDBS of 3:7 as PSP. Compared with SDS micelles, the vesicle PSP possessed a wider elution window and a better selectivity. The retention behavior and selectivity differences between the novel vesicle and SDS micelles were evaluated through linear solvation energy relationship (LSER) analysis. Though the cohesiveness and the hydrogen bond acidity have greatest influences on the solutes retention and selectivity in both the vesicle and SDS micelle, the vesicle PSP demonstrated a higher hydrophobicity and a lower hydrogen bonding donating capability owing to compact bilayer structure of vesicle. Additionally, the vesicle system had a stronger hydrogen bond accepting capability than SDS micelle. Consequently, according to LSER analysis, the bigger coefficients for v, b, and a revealed the vesicle PSP had a better separation selectivity than conventional SDS micelle.     

Chromatographic selectivity triangles

2010 marked the 50th anniversary of the use of selectivity triangles to characterize chromatographic phases. Such plots ultimately identify and quantify the blend of intermolecular interactions that occur between solutes and solvents/phases. The first chromatographic triangle was proposed by Brown and applied to GC stationary phases. Snyder then developed the influential solvent selectivity triangle (SST) based on the gas-liquid partition data of Rohrschneider. The SST was combined with simplex experimental designs to optimize RPLC separations. Subsequent criticisms of the work revolved around the inaccurate predictions that resulted from the SST. These inaccuracies ultimately relate to the inability of the SST to account for the effects of water on the interaction ability of organic solvents. Other criticisms focused on the selection of the three probe solutes (ethanol, dioxane, and nitromethane) that were used to define the apices of the SST. Here, the concerns include the lack of explicit consideration of dispersion interactions and the fact that the three probes do not represent any single intermolecular interaction but rather reflect a blend of intermolecular interactions. The SST approach was modified for NPLC by redefining the triangle apices to reflect the localization, general adsorption, and basicity of NPLC mobile phase modifiers. Because water is generally absent in NPLC, the triangle approach leads to better predictions for NPLC than for RPLC. In subsequent modifications of selectivity triangles, Fu and Khaledi have created a micellar selectivity triangle (MST) based on linear solvation energy relationships (LSERs) and Zhang and Carr have used the Dolan-Snyder hydrophobic subtraction model to create RPLC column selectivity triangles. We end this review by highlighting more recent methods for comparing selectivities and by discussing a new 3D visualization tool for classifying chromatographic systems as having similar or different fundamental energetics of retention and hence having similar or different selectivities.     

Characterization of solvation properties of lipid bilayer membranes in liposome electrokinetic chromatography

The nature of solute interactions with biomembrane-like liposomes, made of naturally occurring phospholipids and cholesterol, was characterized using electrokinetic chromatography (EKC). Liposomes were used as a pseudo-stationary phase in EKC that provided sites of interactions for uncharged solutes. The retention factors of uncharged solutes in liposome EKC are directly proportional to their liposome-water partition coefficients. Linear solvation energy relationship (LSER) models were developed to unravel the contributions from various types of interactions for solute partitioning into liposomes. Size and hydrogen bond acceptor strength of solutes are the main factors that determine partitioning into lipid bilayers. This falls within the general behavior of solute partitioning from an aqueous into organic phases such as octanol and micelles. However, there exist subtle differences in the solvation properties of liposomes as compared to those of octanol and various micellar pseudo-phases such as aggregates of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), sodium cholate (SC), and tetradecylammonium bromide (TTAB). Among these phases, the SDS micelles are the least similar to the liposomes, while octanol, SC, and TTAB micelles exhibit closer solvation properties. Subsequently, higher correlations are observed between partitioning into liposomes and the latter three phases than that into SDS.     

Binary mixed micelles of chiral sodium undecenyl leucinate and achiral sodium undecenyl sulfate: I. Characterization and application as pseudostationary phases in micellar electrokinetic chromatography

Sodium 10-undecenyl sulfate (SUS), sodium 10-undecenyl leucinate (SUL) and their five different mixed micelles at varied percent mole ratios were prepared. The critical micelle concentration (CMC), C₂₀, γ_CMC, partial specific volume, methylene group selectivity, mobilities and elution window were determined using a variety of analytical techniques. These surfactant systems were then evaluated as novel pseudostationary phases in micellar electrokinetic chromatography (MEKC). As a commonly used pseudostationary phase in MEKC, sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) was also evaluated. The CMC values of SUS and SUL were found to be 26 and 16 mM, respectively, whereas the CMC of mixed surfactants was found to be very similar to that of SUL. The C₂₀ values decreased dramatically as the concentration of SUL is increased in the mixed micelle. An increase in SUL content gradually increased the methylene group selectivity making the binary mixed surfactants more hydrophobic. Linear solvation energy relationships (LSERs) and free energy of transfer studies were also applied to predict the selectivity differences between the surfactant systems. The cohesiveness and the hydrogen bond acidic character of the surfactant systems were found to have the most significant influence on selectivity and MEKC retention. The SUS and SDS showed the strongest while SUL showed the weakest hydrogen bond donating capacity. The basicity, interaction with n and π-electrons of the solute and dipolarity/polarizability were the least significant factors in LSER model for the surfactant systems studied. Free energies of transfer of selected functional groups in each surfactant systems were also calculated and found to be in good agreement with the LSER data.     

The selectivity in MEKC of pseudo-stationary phases based on polyelectrolyte complexes: I. composition of the complex

Polyelectrolyte–surfactant complexes (PSC) of polycarboxylic acids with alkyl-trimethylammonium salts look very promising as a new type of pseudo-stationary phase in micellar electrokinetic chromatography. PSC produce an intramolecular micellar phase, and the morphology of the micelles is significantly different from that of the corresponding typical surfactant micelles. Pseudo-stationary phases based on PSC have unique selectivity. In this paper, the effect of the composition () of the PSC of polyacrylic acid (PAA) M_W 130,000 with dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide (DTAB) and of the PSC of PAA M_W 450,000 with DTAB on the separation of DNS–amino acids and phenol derivatives in these systems was investigated. Relative retention and relative selectivity were used to describe the electrophoretic behavior of the amino acids and phenol derivatives. The main advantage of PSC pseudo-phases is that the nature and the structure of micelle-like units, and hence the selectivity of electrophoretic separation, could easily be modified by changing the composition of the complex.     

Comparision of varuious bulk fluids and modifiers as near-crtical mobile phases on a polymeric column using linear solvatio energy realationships

Linear solvation energy realationships (LSERS) were used to qunatitatively compare the relative contributions of dipolarity/polarizability, hydrogen bonding, and other types of intermolecular interactions to retention and selectivity using various bulk moblie phase component. Using experimental condition which differ only by the compostion of the bulk moble phase component, the factors which cause selctivity to differ between HPLC, subcritical fluid chromatography and supercritical fluid charomatography were decovoluted. Heptance-based HPLC mobile phases showed superior selectivities towards analytes which differ in hydrogen bond donating ability, gas-to-hexadecane partion coefficint and dipolarity/ploarizability. subcritical fluid chromatography with HFC-134a (1, 1, 1, 2-tetrafluoroethane) as the bulk fluid produced superior seclectivities for which differ in hydrogen bond accepting ability and execess molar refraction properties. Many of these factors showed temperature dependences which act to attenuate or accenture the particular intermolcular interaction.     

Solvent effects on kinetics of an heteroatomic nucleophilic substitution reaction in ionic liquid and molecular solvents mixtures

Rate constants, k _A, for the aromatic nucleophilic substitution reaction of 2-chloro-3,5-dinitropyridine with aniline were determined in different compositions of 2-propanol mixed with hexane, benzene, and 2-methylpropan-2-ol and 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium ethylsulfate ([Emim][EtSO₄]) with dimethyl sulfoxide at 25°C. The obtained rate constants of the reaction in pure solvents are in the following order: 2-methylpropan-2-ol > dimethyl sulfoxide > 2-propanol > hexane > benzene > [Emim][EtSO₄]. Molecularmicroscopic solvent parameters corresponding to the selected binary mixtures were utilized to study the kinetics of a nucleophilic substitution reaction in order to investigate and compare the effects of the solvents on a chemical process. The influence of solvent parameters including normalized polarity (E _T ^N ), dipolarity/polarizability (π*), hydrogen bond donor acidity (α), and hydrogen bond acceptor basicity (β) on the second-order rate constants were investigated and multiple linear regressions gave much better results with regard to single parameter regressions. The dipolarity/polarizability of media has a positive effect in all mixtures regarding zwitterionic character of the reaction intermediate and the hydrogen bond acceptor basicity of the solvent by stabilizing of activated complex increases the reaction rate.     

Effect of molecular weight on gas selectivity of oriented thin polyimide membrane

In this study, we focused on effect of the molecular weight of polyimide on the gas selectivity of the asymmetric membrane with an oriented surface skin layer prepared at different shear stresses. Asymmetric polyimide membranes, which have a defect‐free surface skin layer supported by a porous substructure, were prepared by a dry/wet phase inversion process. The structures of the asymmetric polyimides consisted of a thin skin layer and a porous substructure characterized by the presence of finger‐voids. The gas selectivities of the asymmetric polyimide membranes increased with an increase in the shear rate or a decrease in the molecular weight, indicating that the oriented polyimide structure in the surface skin layer provided a high size and shape discrimination between the gas molecules. The selectivity values of (O₂/N₂) and (CO₂/CH₄) in the asymmetric polyimide membrane prepared from the 7.2 × 10⁴ molecular weight material at 1000 sec^?1 shear rate were 12 and 143, respectively. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Enthalpies of transfer of pentanol from water to sodium dodecylsulfate-dodecyl-dimethylamine oxide-water mixtures

At a given surfactant-surfactant ratio, the enthalpies of transfer ΔH (W→W+S) of pentanol 0.03m from water to sodium dodecylsulfate (NaDS)-dodecyldimethylamine oxide-water mixtures as functions of the surfactants mixture concentration (m _t) were determined. ForX _NaDS=0.9, ΔH (W→W+S) increases monotonically withm _t such as observed for pure surfactants. ForX _NaDS=0.12 and 0.3, ΔH (W→W+S) increases withm _t up to 0.12m beyond which it decreases withm _t. AtX _NaDS=0.6, two monotonic curves can be distinguished in the ΔH (W→W+S)vs. m _t trend. Experimental data were fitted through an equation previously reported for additives in pure surfactants derived by assuming the pseudo-phase transition model for the micellization and a mass action model for the distribution of the additive between the aqueous and the micellar phases. This method did permit to simultaneously obtain the distribution constant of the alcohol between the aqueous and the micellar phase (and, then, the standard free energy of transfer) and its enthalpy of transfer from the aqueous to the micellar phases. By combining these properties the standard entropies of transfer were calculated. From these results, the excess properties of pentanol in the mixed micelles were calculated as a function of the mixture composition. The excess enthalpies and entropies are positive and compensate with each other leading to null values for the excess free energies in the whole range of the mixed micelles composition.     

Application of Snyder–Dolan classification scheme to the selection of “orthogonal” columns for fast screening of illicit drugs and impurity profiling of pharmaceuticals – I. Isocratic elution

Fourteen judiciously selected reversed phase columns were tested with 18 cationic drug solutes under the isocratic elution conditions advised in the Snyder–Dolan (S–D) hydrophobic subtraction method of column classification. The standard errors (S.E.) of the least squares regressions of log k′ vs. log k′_REF were obtained for a given column against a reference column and used to compare and classify columns based on their selectivity. The results are consistent with those obtained with a study of the 16 test solutes recommended by Snyder and Dolan. To the extent these drugs are representative, these results show that the S–D classification scheme is also generally applicable to pharmaceuticals under isocratic conditions. That is, those columns judged to be similar based on the 16 S–D solutes were similar based on the 18 drugs; furthermore those columns judged to have significantly different selectivities based on the 16 S–D probes appeared to be quite different for the drugs as well. Given that the S–D method has been used to classify more than 400 different types of reversed phases the extension to cationic drugs is a significant finding.     

A computational tool to optimize ligand selectivity between two similar biomacromolecular targets

Summary Algorithms for a new computer program designed to increase ligand--receptor selectivity between two proteins are described. In this program ligand--receptor selectivity is increased by functional modifications to the ligand so as to increase the calculated binding affinity of it to one protein and/or decrease the calculated binding affinity of it to the other protein. The structure of the ligand is modified by selective replacement of atoms and/or functional groups in silico based on a specific set of steric and/or hydropathic complementarity rules involving atoms and functional groups. Relative binding scores are calculated with simple grid-based steric penalty, hydrogen bond complementarity, and with the HINT score model. Two examples are shown. First, modifying the structure of the ligand CB3717 is illustrated in a number of ways such that the binding selectivity to wild type L. casei thymidylate synthase or its E60Q mutant may be improved. Second, starting with a non-selective lead compound that had been co-crystallized with both plant and mammalian 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenases, new compounds (similar to selective ligands discovered by screening) to improve the selectivity of (herbicidal) inhibitors for the plant enzyme were designed by the program.     

Ni-based amorphous alloy membranes for hydrogen separation at 400 °C

Amorphous alloy membranes composed primarily of Ni and early transition metals (ETMs) are an inexpensive alternative to Pd-based alloy membranes, and these materials are therefore of particular interest for the large-scale production of hydrogen from carbon-based fuels. Catalytic membrane reactors can produce hydrogen directly from coal-derived synthesis gas at 400 °C, by combining a commercial water–gas-shift (WGS) catalyst with a hydrogen-selective membrane. In order to explore the suitability of Ni-based amorphous alloys for this application, the thermal stability and hydrogen permeation characteristics of Ni–ETM amorphous alloy membranes has been examined. A fundamental limitation of these materials is that hydrogen permeability is inversely proportional to the thermal stability of the alloy. Alloy design is therefore a compromise between hydrogen production rate and durability. Amorphous Ni₆₀Nb_40−XZr_X membranes have been tested at 400 °C in pure hydrogen, and in simulated coal-derived gas streams with high steam, CO and CO₂ levels, without severe degradation or corrosion-induced failure. Ni–Nb–Zr amorphous alloys are therefore prospective materials for use in a catalytic membrane reactor for coal-derived syngas.     

Olefin group selectivity in non-aqueous reversed-phase LC

Summary The effects of mobile phase composition upon olefin group selectivity (the ratio of the retention factor of a n-alkane to 1-olefin of equal carbon number) has been examined for non-aqueous reversed-phase liquid chromatorphy. Under time-normalized conditions, large variations in olefin group selectivities were noted as the mobile phase constitutents were changes. However, methylene group selectivities were found to be insensitive to the nature of the mobile phase under these conditions. Mobile phases containing alcohols demonstrated low olefin group selectivities compared to those containing acetonitrile as weak solvent. The results of this study explain variations previously observed in the LC separation of olive oil triglycerides that differ in the number of methylene groups and double bonds.     

β-Tetra-brominated meso-tetraphenylporphyrin: A conformational study and application to the Mn-porphyrin catalyzed epoxidation of olefins with tetrabutylammonium oxone

X-ray crystallographic studies have shown that the free base β-tetra-brominated meso-tetraphenylporphyrin (H₂TPPBr₄) has a slightly ruffled structure with the dihedral angles of 70.1–79.2° between the phenyl groups and the porphyrin mean plane. The N(pyrrole)–N(pyrrolenine) distance is very similar to that of the standard planar porphyrins. The decreased N–H bond length of H₂TPPBr₄ with respect to that of meso-tetraphenylporphyrin (H₂TPP) seems to be due to the weaker intramolecular hydrogen bond of the former relative to the latter caused by the electron-withdrawing effects of the β-bromine substituents. The large red shifts of the Soret and Q(0,0) bands of H₂TPPBr₄ in comparison with those of H₂TPP, in spite of the nearly planar porphyrin core of the compound, also may be explained on the basis of the electron-withdrawing effects of the bromine atoms. Oxidation of styrene, the para-substituted derivatives and cyclooctene with tetrabutylammonium oxone in the presence of catalytic amounts of β-tetra-brominated meso-tetraphenylporphyrinatomanganese(III) acetate immediately gives the epoxide as the sole product. Terminal double bonds and unconjugated ones are less reactive than the conjugated double bonds and show lower selectivities. Catalytic activity of the electron-deficient Mn(H₂TPPBr₄)OAc dramatically depends on the Co-catalytic activity of the nitrogen donors as the axial base. The best axial bases are the nitrogenous donors with mixed σ- and π-donor ability to the metal centre.     

Coupling selectivity in the radical‐controlled oxidative polymerization of 4‐phenoxyphenol catalyzed by (1,4,7‐triisopropyl‐1,4,7‐triazacyclononane)copper(II) complex

Various effects on the coupling selectivity of the oxidative polymerization of 4‐phenoxyphenol catalyzed by (1,4,7‐triisopropyl‐1,4,7‐triazacyclononane)copper(II) halogeno complex [Cu(tacn)X₂] are described. With respect to the amount of the catalyst and the nature of the halide ion (X) of Cu(tacn)X₂, the coupling selectivity hardly changed. The Cu(tacn) catalyst possessed a turnover number greater than 1860. As the temperature of the reaction and the polarity of the reaction solvent were elevated, the C O coupling at the o‐position increased, but the C C coupling was not involved. For the polymerization in toluene at 80 °C, poly(1,4‐phenylene oxide), obtained as a methanol‐insoluble part, showed the highest number‐average molecular weight of 4000 with a melting point (T_m) of 195 °C. Only a slight change in the coupling selectivity was observed in the presence or absence of hindered amines as the base. Surprisingly, however, the C O selectivity decreased from 100 to 24% with less hindered amines, indicating that the selectivity drastically changed from a preference for C O coupling to a preference for C C coupling. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci A: Polym Chem 38: 4792–4804, 2000     

Determining Counterion Exchange Selectivities at Micelle Surfaces from Fluorescence Decay Measurements*

A method for determining counterion exchange selectivities at the surface of ionic micelles from time-resolved fluorescence quenching measurements is developed. This method is employed to determine selectivity coefficients for thiosulfate/chloride exchange at the surface of cati-onic hexadecyltrimethylammonium chloride micelles (KTS/CI, ⁼ 1.1 ± 0.4) and for copper (II)/sodium exchange at the surface of anionic sodium dodecyl sulfate micelles (K_Cu/Na= 1.3 ± 0.3). In both cases, the selectivity coefficients are found to be independent of detergent and added salt concentration.     

Micellar effects upon the reaction of hydroxide ion with 2-phenoxyquinoxaline

Cationic micelles of alkyltrimethylammonium chloride and bromide (alkyl = n? C₁₂H₂₅, n? C₁₄H₂₉, and n? C₁₆H₃₃) catalyze and anionic micelles of sodium dodecyl sulfate inhibit the reaction of hydroxide ion with 2-phenoxyquinoxaline (1). Inert anions such as chloride, nitrate, mesylate, and n-butanosulfonate inhibit the reaction in CTABr by competing with OH^? at the micellar surface. The overall micellar effects on rate in cationic micelles and dilute electrolyte can be treated quantitatively in terms of the pseudo-phase ion-exchange model. The determined second-order rate constants in the micellar pseudo-phase are smaller than the second-order constants in water. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Novel alkyl-modified anionic siloxanes as pseudostationary phases for electrokinetic chromatography: II. Selectivity studied by linear solvation energy relationships.

Anionic, water-soluble siloxane polymers modified with different lengths of alkyl chains have very different selectivity than sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) micelles when used as pseudostationary phases in electrokinetic chromatography. The siloxanes in this study are random copolymers with side chains bearing sulfonate groups and alkyl groups (C8, C12, or C18), with the proportion of alkyl groups between 10 and 25% of the total. The differences in selectivity have been studied by linear solvation energy relationships (LSERs). The siloxanes in general have been found to be more cohesive, less polar, more able to interact with solutes through n- and pi-electrons, and more able to accept hydrogen bonds than SDS micelles, while the ability to act as hydrogen bond donors is not significantly different than SDS micelles. In addition, the performance in a pH 7.0 Tris buffer has been investigated and the siloxanes were found to have higher methylene selectivities and more variable electrophoretic mobilities than in borate buffers.