微乳毛细管电动色谱分析窗口的研究

研究了微乳毛细管电动色谱体系中,表面活性剂、助表面活性剂、微乳液的内相、有机改性剂等微乳组成对分析窗口的影响.以甲醇为电渗流标记物测定电渗流时间,以强疏水性化合物菲为标记物测定微乳液滴(假固定相)的迁移时间,分析时间窗口的变化.最佳条件下,菲的迁移时间和峰面积的相对标准偏差小于1.6%和3.0%(n=6),体系稳定,重复性良好.根据时间窗口的变化规律对其进行适当调节,成功实现了5种水溶性和2种脂溶性维生素的分离,并与毛细管区带电泳及胶束毛细管电动色谱进行了比较.     

微乳电动毛细管色谱分离山酮类化合物的影响因素

在优化微乳系统(如pH、缓冲液浓度、表面活性剂、助乳剂、油相及添加剂)的基础上,对影响微乳电动毛细管色谱(MEEKC)分离山酮类化合物的因素进行了系统研究。以正辛醇-水分配系数(疏水常数log P)、色谱峰对称因子和理论塔板数作为参数,研究了分离条件的改变对MEEKC分离性能的影响。结果表明,色谱条件的改变对疏水性山酮和亲水性山酮分离选择性的影响存在着显著差异,当微乳体系为50 mmol/L硼酸缓冲液(pH 9.5)、10%(体积分数)正丁醇、80 mmol/L正庚烷、120 mmol/L十二烷基硫酸钠和     

微乳毛细管电动色谱快速分析脂溶性维生素

建立了一种新的微乳体系,成功地应用于微乳毛细管电动色谱(MEEKC)快速分析脂溶性维生素VA、VD3和VE.本微乳液的组成为:1.2%(m/m)十二烷基硫酸钠(SDS)-21%(V/V)正丁醇-18%(V/V )乙腈-0.8%(m/m)正己烷-20 mmol/L H3BO3-Na2B4O7缓冲液( pH 8.4 ).该微乳体系中,助表面活性剂正丁醇和有机溶剂乙腈对脂溶性维生素的分离起到了重要的作用.当分离电压为25 kV,柱温为25 ℃时,VA、VD3和VE在13 min内达到基线分离.3种脂溶性维生素的迁移时间和峰面积的RSD(n= 5)<2.5%和4.5%;VA、VD3和VE分别在20～1000、5～1000和5～1000 mg/L范围内与峰面积呈线性关系;检出限(S/N=3)分别为12、 0.72和0.29 mg/L.本体系应用于市售VE胶囊的测定,结果与标示值相符.     

毛细管微乳液电动色谱和胶束电动色谱分离冰毒及其麻黄碱杂质的比较

通过毛细管微乳液电动色谱10 m in内同时分离了安非他明、甲基安非他明、4,5-亚甲基二氧基安非他明(MDA)和3-甲氧基-4,5-亚甲基二氧基安非他明(MDMA)4种苯丙胺类毒品及其麻黄碱、伪麻黄碱、甲基麻黄碱、甲基伪麻黄碱、去甲麻黄碱等麻黄生物碱杂质。比较了毛细管微乳液电动色谱和丁醇改进的胶束电动色谱模式对分离的影响,发现正丁醇是影响分离的最主要因素。本方法具有很好的重复性和稳定性,可实现对冰毒及其麻黄生物碱杂质的快速分析和鉴定,相对保留时间和相对峰面积的RSD分别小于1.3%和5.0%,可用于冰毒的实际来源推断。     

微乳液毛细管电动色谱-场放大富集法灵敏分析尿液中的9种麻醉剂类药物

建立了一种微乳液毛细管电动色谱(MEEKC)-场放大富集(FASI)分析尿液中多种麻醉剂(吗啡、可待因、纳洛酮、海洛因、蒂巴因、可卡因、哌替啶、芬太尼、美沙酮)的方法。考察了微乳液组成、分离电压等因素的影响,得到的最佳微乳液组成(质量分数)为0.6%十二烷基硫酸钠、1.2%正丁醇、0.6%乙酸乙酯和97.6% 10 mmol/L硼砂缓冲液(pH 9.5);分离电压为25 kV。在上述微乳体系中,9种化合物在15 min内得到了基线分离。采用场放大在线富集技术提高了分析灵敏度,检出限(S/N=3)低至0.3 μg/L。模拟尿样样品中9种麻醉剂的加标回收率介于79.4%～119.9%之间,日内相对标准偏差小于5.5%。将该方法应用于美沙酮大鼠体外代谢样品的测定,结果令人满意。     

二维毛细管电泳电化学检测尿样中的β-阻断剂

设计并制作了在柱电化学(EC)检测池,用于在同一根毛细管中进行中心切割二维毛细管电泳(2D-CE)在线纯化分离检测尿样中的6种β-阻断剂.尿样先在15 mmol/L NaAc缓冲液中进行毛细管区带电泳(CZE)分离,带正电荷的β-阻断剂与中性和带负电荷的干扰物质分成不同区带,然后在检测端施加13.8 kPa压力将干扰成分从毛细管入口端排出,同时将目标组分驱送到毛细管入口端,最后在90 mmol/L NaAc-30 mmol/L SDS缓冲液中进行胶束电动毛细管色谱(MEKC)分离.场放大样品堆积(FASS)/胶束推扫在柱双重富集技术不仅有效抵消压力驱送过程中产生的区带扩散,还可进一步压缩样品区带,提高检测灵敏度.本方法成功用于服药后鼠尿样品中6种β-阻断剂的分离测定,经第一维CZE分离排除干扰后,在未涂层毛细管柱(60 cm ×50 μm i.d.)、90 mmol/L NaAc/HAc-30 mmol/L SDS运行缓冲液、检测电位0.8 V、运行电压10 kV条件下,对6种β-阻断剂进行在线富集分离,峰高、峰面积和迁移时间的相对标准偏差(RSD)分别为2.0%～4.1%, 1.4%～3.7%和0.9%～2.7%(n=6).本研究为毛细管电泳在复杂样品在线纯化分析等方面的应用提供了新方法.     

在线扫集-胶束电动毛细管色谱法对活血通脉片中阿魏酸与原儿茶醛的分离测定

建立了在线扫集-胶束电动毛细管色谱法同时分离测定活血通脉片中阿魏酸和原儿茶醛含量的方法。讨论了pH值、十二烷基磺酸钠(SDS)浓度、电压、有机溶剂、进样时间和背景电解质组成对分离效果的影响。结果表明:采用未涂层熔融石英毛细管,以20 mmol/L磷酸二氢钠、140 mmol/LSDS为电泳缓冲液(含16%甲醇,pH2.2),在优化条件下,阿魏酸和原儿茶醛在19 min内出峰,峰面积RSD均小于5%,其线性范围分别为0.67~21.4、0.72~23 mg/L,回收率分别为94%~108%、91%~106%,检出限(S/N=3)分别达55.5、34.8μg/L。与胶束电动毛细管色谱相比,在线扫集-胶束电动毛细管色谱分离效果稳定,重现性好。该方法用于活血通脉片中阿魏酸、原儿茶醛含量的测定,结果满意。     

芯片毛细管电泳分离多种FITC衍生的氨基酸

用芯片毛细管电泳激光诱导荧光检测系统研究了分离多种荧光素异硫氰酸酯(FITC)衍生氨基酸的实验条件.采用以乙醇为有机添加剂的胶束毛细管电动色谱分离体系(50 mmol/LSDS,体积分数为15%的乙醇,5 mmol/L pH 9.2的硼砂缓冲液),在72 mm长的通道上实现了10种常见氨基酸的分离,一次分离的时间小于5 min.     

微乳液毛细管电动色谱法快速测定消炎利胆片中的穿心莲内酯和脱水穿心莲内酯

建立了微乳液毛细管电动色谱同时分析消炎利胆片中穿心莲内酯和脱水穿心莲内酯的方法。考察了缓冲溶液的浓度、pH值、十二烷基硫酸钠(SDS)以及助表面活性剂的含量对分离测定的影响。在由乙酸乙酯-SDS-正丁醇-30 mmol/L硼砂缓冲液(pH 9.5)（质量比为0.5∶0.6∶6.0∶92.9）组成的微乳液体系中,两种内酯在6 min内完成分离。该法简便、快速、选择性好,用于实际样品中穿心莲内酯和脱水穿心莲内酯的分析,获得了满意的结果。     

蛋白质的微乳液毛细管电动色谱分离研究

考察了用微乳液毛细管电动色谱(MEEKC)分离蛋白质时微乳液组成等不同因素对分离的影响,并与胶束电动色谱进行对比,探讨了其分离机理,为蛋白质的分离鉴定提供了一种有力的工具.     

Microemulsion based chromatographic techniques: Past lessons and future directions

Microemulsion Liquid Chromatography (MELC) and Microemulsion Electrokinetic Chromatography (MEEKC) respectively have emerged as new forms of analytical techniques for the separation of drugs of different water solubilities, solving different separation challenges and offer a variety of applications in pharmaceutical industry and routine quality control analysis of drugs. A comprehensive review of the literatures on recent developments in the field of Microemulsion based techniques was made. Various literatures dealing with microemulsion based chromatographic techniques were collected and studied extensively. Major findings of all the important literatures were summarized and classified in an appropriate manner to help reader understand the types, methods and applications of the technique. This article covers basic concepts of microemulsion, their optimization parameters, advantages and disadvantages and a plethora of applications and research done over the last decade. Almost all the major researches done in the field were tried to cover. Microemulsion based chromatographic techniques have been proved to be a newer and interesting technique that is extensively studied nowadays. Due to their polyphasic structure, microemulsion as eluent in both MELC and MEEKC offers a large number of advantages, applications and capability in separating the mixture of components.     

Systematic investigations of different capillary electrophoretic techniques for separation of methylquinolines

The migration behaviour of isoquinoline, quinoline, and methyl derivatives of quinoline in different capillary electrophoretic modes has been systematically investigated. Optimised separation conditions were established by varying the key parameters (solvent, pH, temperature, surfactant concentration, core phase) for aqueous and non‐aqueous capillary zone electrophoresis (NACE), micellar electrokinetic chromatography (MEKC) with anionic or non‐ionic micelles (SDS, Brij 35), and microemulsion electrokinetic chromatography (MEEKC) with charged or uncharged microemulsion droplets. A separation of all quinolines could be achieved by MEEKC with charged droplets, by MEKC or by formamide‐based NACE. Comparing the separations with respect to separation selectivity, substantial changes in migration order could be observed between the different techniques. Regarding separation efficiency, the number of theoretical plates and limits of detection (LOD) have been compared. The best LODs were achieved using SDS as surfactant in MEKC, followed by MEEKC.     

Microstructure of microemulsion in MEEKC

The influences of the composition of microemulsion on the microstructure including dimensions and ζ potentials of microdroplets were measured in details. The average dynamic dimension of microdroplets was measured by dynamic laser light scattering, and ζ potential was determined to characterize average surface charge density of microdroplets. The experiment results showed that increase of the amount of surfactant resulted in decrease of microdroplet size but almost invariant ζ potential, which would enlarge migration time of the microdroplet in MEEKC. With increment of cosurfactant concentration, the microdroplet size had an increasing trend, whereas the ζ potential decreased. Thus, observed migration velocity of microdroplets increased, which made the separation window in MEEKC shortened. Neither dimension nor ζ potential of microdroplets changed by varying both the type and the amount of the oil phase. Adding organic solvent as modifier to microemulsion did not change the microdroplet size, but lowered ζ potential. The migration time of microdroplet still became larger, since EOF slowed down owing to organic solvent in capillary. So, besides increment of surfactant concentration, organic additive could also enlarge the separation window. Increase of cosurfactant concentration was beneficial for separation efficiency thanks to the looser structure of swollen microdroplet, and the peak sharpening might compensate for the resolution and peak capacity owing to a narrow separation window. Except the oil phase, tuning the composition of microemulsion would change the microstructure, eventually could be exploited to optimize the resolution and save analysis time in MEEKC.     

Separation of hydrophobic solutes by organic-solvent-based micellar electrokinetic chromatography using cation surfactants

In this study, the separation of 13 homologous stick-like hydrophobic solutes, i.e., biphenyl nitrile derivatives, by organic-solvent-based micellar electrokinetic chromatography (MEKC) was investigated in terms of separation medium composition, species and concentration of surfactant, other additives, separation voltage and temperature. The results showed that the 13 strong hydrophobic compounds were baseline separated in 25 min with a repeatability of less than 1.3% (RSD) for migration time. The separation medium was a mixture of methanol, 2-propanol and water (58.5:10:31.5), containing 150 mM cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) and 20 mM sodium borate. Variety of solvent composition, temperature and applied voltage all showed remarkable effect on the separation. The organic-solvent-based MEKC method proved to be superior to the aqueous MEKC and microemulsion electrokinetic chromatography (MEEKC) methods for the separation of strongly hydrophobic compounds.     

Chiral separations in microemulsion electrokinetic chromatography. Use of micelle polymers and microemulsion polymers

In this study, microemulsions of the chiral surfactant polysodium N-undecenoyl-D-valinate (poly-D-SUV) was utilized for enantiomeric separation by investigating two approaches using polymeric chiral surfactant in microemulsion electrokinetic chromatography (MEEKC). In the first approach, poly-D-SUV was used as an emulsifier surfactant along with 1-butanol and n-heptane. Enantioseparation of anionic or partially anionic binaphthyl derivatives, anionic barbiturates, and cationic paveroline derivatives were achieved by varying the mass fraction of 1-butanol, n-heptane and poly-D-SUV. For anionic or partially anionic analytes, relatively lower mass fractions of n-heptane, and poly-D-SUV were found to give optimum chiral separations as compared to that for cationic solutes. In the second approach, the chiral microemulsion polymer was prepared by polymerizing mixtures of 3.50% (w/w) of sodium N-undecenoyl-D-valinate (D-SUV) and 0.82% (w/w) of n-heptane (core phase) at varying concentration of 1-butanol. After polymerization, the n-heptane and 1-butanol were removed to yield solvent free microemulsion polymers (MPs) which were then utilized for the separation of anionic binaphthyl derivatives and anionic barbiturates. When MPs of D-SUV were utilized for chiral separation, 1.00% (w/w) 1-butanol and 3.50% (w/w) 1-butanol was optimum for enantioseparation of (+/-)-BNP and (+/-)-BOH, respectively. On the other hand, for anionic (+/-)-barbiturates very low concentration of butanol (0.25%, w/w) provided optimum resolution. Compared with micellar electrokinetic chromatography (MEKC), the use of micelle polymers or microemulsion polymers in MEEKC showed dramatic enhancement for resolution of (+/-)-BNP, while this enhancement was less dramatic for other binaphthyls [(+/-)-BOH, (+/-)-BNA] as well as for (+/-)-barbiturates and (+/-)-paveroline derivatives. However, higher separation efficiency of the enantiomers was always observed with MEEKC than in MEKC.     

Separation of Biphenyl Nitrile Compounds by Microemulsion Electrokinetic Chromatography with Mixed Surfactants

A mixture of nine biphenyl nitrile compounds with high hydrophobicity and similar structures was successfully separated by microemulsion electrokinetic chromatography (MEEKC) within 30 rain. The buffer system contained 100 mmol/L sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), 80 mlnol/L sodium cholate (SC), 0.81% heptane, 7.5% n-butanol, 10% acetonitrile and 10 mmol/L borate. The addition of SC, organic modifiers, sample preparation and temperature all showedremarkable effect on the separation. Meanwhile, the MEEKC method was briefly compared with micellar electrokinetic chromatography (MEKC) method.     

Enantioseparation of esbiothrin by cyclodextrin‐modified microemulsion and micellar electrokinetic chromatography

A comparison between chiral cyclodextrin‐modified microemulsion electrokinetic chromatography (CD‐MEEKC) and cyclodextrin‐modified micellar electrokinetic chromatography (CD‐MEKC) for the enantiomeric separation of esbiothrin was carried out. For both methods, the separation conditions were optimized by varying CD types and concentration, running buffer pH and compositions, organic modifiers, and temperature. The optimal CD‐MEEKC conditions were 0.8% n‐heptane, 2.3% SDS, 6.6% n‐butanol, 90.3% 10 mM sodium tetraborate containing 3% (w/v, the ratio of CD mass to microemulsion volume) methyl‐β‐cyclodextrin, pH 10, 25°C. The optimized CD‐MEKC conditions were 3.3% SDS, 96.7% 10 mM sodium tetraborate containing 5% (w/v) β‐CD, pH 10, 25°C. The difference in physicochemical properties of the buffer and CDs resulted in different optimal CD type. The competitive distribution between the microemulsion (or micelle) and chiral CD contributed to the chiral separation. Both methods provided excellent separation (R_s ～? 3) with similar migration time (ca. 15 min). CD‐MEEKC provided higher separation efficiencies (>300000) than CD‐MEKC (>200000). The LODs for CD‐MEEKC and CD‐MEKC were 4.7 μg/mL and 3.2 μg/mL, respectively. The RSDs of migration time and peak area for CD‐MEEKC were slightly higher than for CD‐MEKC. Both the demonstrated CD‐MEEKC and CD‐MEKC methods provided high efficiencies, low LODs, and reproducible enantioseparations of esbiothrin.     

Determination of Octanol–Water Partition Coefficients by MEEKC Based on Peak-Shift Assay

A novel microemulsion electrokinetic chromatography method based on peak-shift assay (p-s MEEKC) has been developed for the determination of octanol–water partition coefficients (log P _o/w) of compounds. The log P _o/w values of 12 compounds were determined. The RSD of obtained values were less than 5.0% except 4-tert-butylphenol (RSD = 5.9%). All log P _o/w values of the investigated compounds measured by p-s MEEKC were within 0.51 logarithm unit variation as compared to the literature values, with mean difference of 0.27. Compared to the conventional MEEKC method, the novel method does not suffer from the deficiencies related to the reference compounds and migration time of microemulsion phase, and showed the potential of being an alternative method for the determination of log P _o/w values of compounds without reference compounds.