化学计量学用于决明子色谱指纹图谱峰纯度的鉴别

应用化学计量学方法鉴别色谱指纹图谱的峰纯度。对背景进行扣除后,用对照组分光谱构建正交投影矩阵对目标色谱峰的光谱进行投影,以目标色谱峰投影后的残余光谱与投影前的原始光谱的夹角余弦为判据鉴别目标色谱峰的峰纯度：用该方法对决明子药材色谱指纹图谱的峰纯度进行识别,鉴别出大黄素、大黄酚和大黄素甲醚三个纯色谱峰。此方法用于色谱指纹图谱峰纯度的鉴别,结果可靠。     

Application of HPLC and Dual Wavelength Detection to the Analysis of Phenolic Compounds in Apples

Abstract

High-performance liquid chromatography, coupled with a programmable UV/visible detector, was applied to the identification and quantification of the phenolic compounds of apple tissue. The identity and purity of unknown components eluted from the HPLC column were established by comparing retention times and absorbance ratios with those of authentic compounds. In Golden Delicious apples, components with retention times agreeing with those of authentic catechin, epicatechin, chlorogenic acid, protocatechuic acid, p-hydroxybenzoic acid, p-coumaric acid, ferulic acid, and sinapic acid were found. However, comparison of absorbance ratios with those of authentic compounds suggested that many of the components that eluted in this system as single, symmetrical peaks were mixtures rather than individual compounds. This method helped to eliminate inaccurate identifications or faulty assumptions about homogeneity of HPLC “peaks”, errors that can occur when traditional HPLC methods that rely solely on detection at a single wavelength are employed. The method should have general applicability to plant extracts.     

New methods for spectrometric peak purity analysis in chromatography

Simple methods for peak purity analysis in chromatography are proposed for accurately assaying the chromatographic or electrophoretic process by spectroscopy. With these methods, the purity at each point of a chromatographic peak containing an unknown type and number of components can be detected and visualized. The ‘absorbance (A) diagram' is constructed by plotting the absorbance values of different wavelengths against each other. When only straight lines are obtained for different wavelength combinations, only one component was detected in the corresponding peak. Bent curves in the A diagrams mean that at least two components were registered. Straight lines in the absorbance difference quotient (ADQ) diagrams indicate that two components occur in the corresponding peak. Bent curves signify that at least three components were registered. The new methods are demonstrated using the HPLC technique for the separation of chlorogenic acid and epicatechin. Integral A and ADQ diagrams and the corresponding mean diagrams complete the new concept.     

一种基于光谱分析的二元不完全重叠色谱峰的分离解析方法

基于二极管阵列检测器获得的色谱-光谱数据,建立了一种二元不完全重叠液相色谱峰的解析方法: 色谱数据经过去噪、归一化处理后,计算各时间点的光谱差异并进行系统聚类分析,提取特征光谱后,利用非负最小二乘法对色谱-光谱矩阵进行解析,得到基于特征光谱的流出曲线,进而得到分离后的色谱峰。将解析结果和纯标样的色谱峰进行比较,解析后的光谱图和纯标样的光谱图无显著差异,保留时间相差小于0.01 min。实验结果表明,该方法在二元不完全重叠液相色谱峰的解析方面能取得良好的效果。     

Development of an obidoxime chloride reference material: a metrological approach to the determination of chromatographic purity

A metrological approach to determination of the chromatographic purity of obidoxime chloride and the corresponding obidoxime chloride reference material (RM) with a certified chromatographic purity value have been developed. This value was defined as the ratio of the sum of peak areas of obidoxime chloride isomers to the total peak area of detected substances including impurities (%) under specified HPLC–UV conditions. The RM homogeneity and stability were studied using HPLC with UV detection and evaluated as satisfactory. The certified value calculated from the results of an interlaboratory trial was equal to 99.9% with the expanded uncertainty of 0.6% at the level of confidence 0.95 and the coverage factor 2. The RM certified value, like other results of chromatographic purity determination traceable to the reference measurement procedure, is not traceable directly to the SI mole. However, the results are comparable in metrologically traceable environments, i.e. when relevant measuring laboratory instruments are calibrated with traceability chains to the corresponding SI units. Therefore, the RM can be used as a measurement standard (calibrator) for analytical instruments and as a control sample for quality control of HPLC obidoxime chloride assay results.     

Measurement of Caffeine Metabolites in Urine Using Diode-Array Detection HPLC

Abstract

Diode-array detection high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) offers significant advantages when compared to conventional UV HPLC detection. These advantages include important spectral information such as the τ max and the UV spectra of each eluting peak. The spectral scans are obtained at the peak start, peak apex and peak end. This provides a comparison of these spectra so that peak homogeneity can be calculated. Standard spectra can be stored and compared to eluting peaks for “purity”. Therefore, peak identification is based not only on retention time but the aforementioned spectral information.

Recently, pathways involved in the metabolism of caffeine have been determined. One of the pathways involves the N-acetyltransferase system. Thus, a safe non-invasive and convenient procedure is now available to determine the N-acetylation phenotype. This is important because a number of toxicities have been associated with acetylator phenotype.

The present paper indicates the utility of the diode-array detector for performing these studies. Use of this detector provides greater accuracy and reliability in correctly identifying the key metabolites required for classification as compared to conventional detection HPLC.     

Correction of retention time shifts for chromatographic fingerprints of herbal medicines

In this study, the combination of chemometric resolution and cubic spline data interpolation was investigated as a method to correct the retention time shifts for chromatographic fingerprints of herbal medicines obtained by high-performance liquid chromatography-diode array detection (HPLC-DAD). With the help of the resolution approaches in chemometrics, it was easy to identify the purity of chromatographic peak clusters and then resolve the two-dimensional response matrix into chromatograms and spectra of pure chemical components so as to select multiple mark compounds involved in chromatographic fingerprints. With these mark components determined, the retention time shifts of chromatographic fingerprints might be then corrected effectively. After this correction, the cubic spline interpolation technique was then used to reconstruct new chromatographic fingerprints. The results in this work showed that, the purity identification of the chromatographic peak clusters together with the resolution of overlapping peaks into pure chromatograms and spectra by means of chemometric approaches could provide the sufficient chromatographic and spectral information for selecting multiple mark compounds to correct the retention time shifts. The cubic spline data interpolation technique was user-friendly to the reconstruction of new chromatographic fingerprints with correction. The successful application to the simulated and real chromatographic fingerprints of two Cortex cinnamomi, fifty Rhizoma chuanxiong, ten Radix angelicae and seventeen Herba menthae samples from different sources demonstrated the reliability and applicability of the approach investigated in this work. Pattern recognition based on principal component analysis for identifying inhomogenity in chromatographic fingerprints from real herbal medicines could further interpret it.     

用紫外-可见光检测器进行色谱峰的光谱分析方法

采用紫外－可见光检测器和自编吸收光谱分析程序对色谱峰在１９５～７００ｎｍ波长范围内进行扫描,得到样品和标准品的吸收光谱图,通过对二者进行比较来鉴定色谱峰纯度,操作简便,具有一定的实用价值。     

Isolation and determination of paspalitrem-type tremorgenic mycotoxins using liquid chromatography with diode-array detection

A liquid chromatographic (LC) method is described for the isolation and determination of the tremorgenic mycotoxins paxilline (Penicillium paxilli NRRL 6110), paspaline, paspalinine and paspalicine (Claviceps paspali). Following a Soxhlet extraction of a mould-contaminated matrix using chloroform, the crude extract was partitioned between hexane and 80% aqueous methanol. The latter fraction, containing the desired toxin(s), was evaporated to dryness, the residue dissolved in methylene chloride and the solution analysed by liquid chromatography using a Supelcosil LC-Si column eluted with methylene chloride-diethyl ether (9 + 1, v/v). A mixture containing standards of these compounds was similarly analysed. All toxins were detected using a UV diode-array detector. The generated UV spectra and chromatographic data of the standard toxins were stored in a computer as a library and used to identify these toxins in a crude mixture. The purity of the separated peaks and the amount of toxin in the crude mixture were also determined. The toxins were isolated by selectively collecting the eluted peaks using a programmable fraction collector equipped with a peak level sensor. Further confirmation of compound identity was achieved by mass spectrometry using the direct inlet probe method. In comparison with methods used previously to isolate these toxins, the present technique is fast and allows the acquisition of complete UV spectral information and chromatographic data and the isolation of multiple toxins in a single chromatographic operation.     

An information-based computational technique for estimation of chromatographic peak purity

Assessment of the purity of chromatographic peaks is an important step in developing and validating purification procedures for complex mixtures. While curve-fitting techniques can be useful for determining the retention times and relative concentrations of the components of a chromatographic peak, their utility is limited by the lack of unambiguous criteria for determining the number of such components. In this work, we present a computational technique for analyzing chromatograms to estimate the number of components, their retention times, and their relative concentrations. In contrast to Fourier-transform-based techniques, the technique we present does not require manual peak identification. It is based on curve-fitting and uses the Akaike information criterion to estimate the number of components. Application of the technique to chromatograms obtained from size-exclusion and reverse-phase chromatography of test mixtures indicates that it is useful for the characterization of complex mixtures.     

Implementation and efficiency of an automatic peak-purity-control procedure in HPLC-UV-VIS-coupling based on principal component analysis

Summary Based on a thorough knowledge of the actual system precision significance testing of the primary eigen values, resulting from principal component analysis of the two-dimensional data array of HPLC with photodiode-array detection, is a powerful means to uncover unresolved chromatographic peaks. The implementation of this chemometric technique for assuring peak homogeneity and results showing the efficiency for two-component peaks in regard to spectral characteristics, chromatographic resolution and absorbance ratio of the investigated compounds are presented.     

A Comment on the Use of Colorimetric Determinations of Phenolic Compounds in Surface Water

Abstract

Total phenolic compound values were determined in samples of river water by means of the Folin-Ciocalteu colorimetric method, while HPLC with UV detection was used to identify individual phenols. Preconcentration was needed in all cases to meet the required detection limits. Given the absorption coefficients of the components, the error incurred when a curve calibrated against phenol only is used to evaluate a mixture was calculated.     

中药川芎和赤芍配伍规律的方法研究

提出应用HPLC-PAD-MS研究中药配伍多种化学成分的基本思路,指出应用色谱保留时间、紫外光谱及质谱等多信息、综合对照的方法确定合煎液中各峰的归属,从而进一步研究了中药的配伍规律.首先建立了一套稳定、重复而可靠的液相色谱分析方法进行分离,再用统一的分析方法对分离的色谱图进行数据处理.在HPLC-PAD-MS分析中可得到各成分的保留时间、紫外光谱和分子量信息.通过比较合煎液和单煎液中各成分的保留时间及分子量信息可确定合煎液各峰的归属,最后比较了单煎液和合煎液的化学成分变化.结果表明,川芎和赤芍配伍后有一新峰产生,同时有两个成分含量发生变化.     

A Simple and Efficient Approach for Estimating Recovery of a Preparative Reversed Phase HPLC Purification

The widely applied reversed phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) is an indispensable purification technique in drug discovery. During drug discovery, recovery was usually calculated based on the weight of the purified product after drying over the weight of the crude material multiplied by the assumed purity from HPLC/UV area percent of the product. Such a purity assumption can be off significantly when the crude material contains water, solvents, other UV-inactive impurities and inorganic salts. In this paper, we report a simple and efficient way to estimate recovery of preparative HPLC purification process. It is based on the ratio of the HPLC/UV peak area measured for the product in the crude solution and that in the final collected fraction with both accounted for their volumes. This approach eliminates not only the need for drying of the collected fraction to calculate recovery but also the inaccuracy associated with the true content in the crude sample using the traditional method. A systematic study was conducted to verify this method using caffeine mixed with various UV-active and -inactive impurities. The calculated recoveries using this approach were found to be consistent within 4% with the true recoveries based on dry weight estimation. The approach has been successfully applied for our in-house purifications. Furthermore, the approach was extended to library purifications, where in many cases heart-cutting the desired peaks is used to meet the purity requirements.

     

Direct Combination of a High Performance Liquid Chromatograph and a Circular Dichroism Spectrometer for Separation and Structural Analysis of Proteins

Abstract

Basic studies of the combined system of a high performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC) and a circular dichroism (CD) spectrometer for separation and analysis of proteins are described. The HPLC-CD measurement of standard protein mixture was easily carried out by using a micro flow-cell device with a beam condenser and with a thin cell of a 1 mm-optical path. The effluent was firstly monitored at 280 nm by using an UV detector and subsequently monitored at 220 nm by using a CD spectrometer. The CD spectrum at each chromatographic peak by CD was measured in the wavelength region of 250–195 nm by a stopped flow method.     

Hyphenation of capillary high-performance liquid chromatography with matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry for nano-scale screening of single-bead combinatorial libraries

This paper focuses on the technical aspects of chemical screening from 384-well plate nano-scale single-bead combinatorial libraries. The analytical technique utilized is a combination of capillary liquid chromatography with ultraviolet detection and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry. The HPLC/MALDI-MS hyphenation is achieved by means of a micro-fraction collector with a peak detection system that automatically collects the peaks onto the MALDI targets for subsequent characterization. Several experimental parameters such as type of 384-well plate, well-plate sealing foils, and a column-switching procedure were investigated using a small test library of nine components. Additionally, the influence of different MALDI matrices, different MALDI targets and sample-spotting techniques on the MALDI detection sensitivity as well as the ruggedness and sample throughput capacity of this technique were studied. Optimum results for the analytes investigated were obtained with 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid using on-line mixing of HPLC effluent and matrix solution. To demonstrate the potential of this capillary HPLC/MALDI-TOFMS method, its application to several single-bead libraries was investigated. The instrumental method allowed for the rapid identification and purity assessment of combinatorial libraries with detection limits down to the higher femtomole level using both UV detection and MALDI mass spectrometry.     

应用人工神经网络鉴定高效液相色谱峰纯度

首次应用人工神经网络（ａｒｔｉｆｉｃｉａｌｎｅｕｒａｌｎｅｔｗｏｒｋ,简称ＡＮＮ）鉴定色谱峰纯度,根据判定指标,采用改良反向传播算法对系统进行描述和预报,结果正确,收敛较快,具有一定的理论和实用价值。     

联用色谱数据的双窗口因子分析

利用组分光谱的特征信息,发展了一种能直接对联用色谱重叠峰中组分进行定性定量分析的新方法──双窗口因子分析（dualwindowfactoranalysis,DWPA）。该法可从多组分重叠峰中定性目标组分,且在未经其它组分的分辨下可直接对目标组分的光谱、色谱进行分辨。因此更适应于联用色谱对复杂体系中待测组分的定性定量分析。用该法成功地对4组分重叠峰进行了分析,实验结果令人满意。     

Application of Thin Layer,Ion Exchange and High Performance Liquid Chromatography to Separate Pharmacologically Active Components of an African Arrow Poison of Plant Origin

Abstract

We have applied thin layer chromatography (TLC), ion exchange chromatography (IEC) and, high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) to separate and identify the pharmacologically active components of an african arrow poison of plant origin. On the basis of Rf values obtained from TLC, the active components of the toxin are unlike d-tubocurarine, atropine and, scopolamine. Dowex 1 × 2 IEC of 630 mg of crude toxin on a 2.5″ × 33″ column with step gradient elution (NaCl, 0.1 - 1. OM and NaOH, 0.1M) led to the identification of three distinct peaks. When the components of each of the three peaks were subjected to HPLC, the results confirmed the homogeneity of each of the isolated peaks except for the third peak which was a doublet.     

Resolution of Overlapping Chromatographic Peaks Using a Genetic Algorithm

ABSTRACT

A genetic algorithm for resolution of overlapping chromatographic peaks (GAROCP) using real-number coding, non-uniform mutation and arithmetical crossover methods is described in this paper. It was applied to resolution of highly overlapped multicomponent high-performance liquid chromatographic peaks by fitting experimental chromatogram to the exponentially modified Gaussian (EMG) model. The genetic algorithm was used to find the minimum of fitting error to optimize the parameters in the EMG functions which determine the shape and area of each peak. The applicability of the method was investigated with both simulated signals calculated by EMG functions and experimental multicomponent overlapping chromatograms.