Retention of the Components of Pentalgin N Tablets in HPLC on a Sorbent with Modifying Nitrile Groups

The retention of analgin, caffeine, phenobarbital, and codeine—components of the medicine Pentalgin N—on a chromatographic column filled with the Nova-Pak CN HP sorbent with modifying nitrile groups as a function of the pH of the mobile phase, the concentrations of the organic modifier acetonitrile and potassium dihydrogen phosphate in the mobile phase was studied. The optimum conditions of the separation of the components were selected.     

Porous silica particles grafted with an amphiphilic side‐chain polymer as a stationary phase in reversed‐phase high‐performance liquid chromatography

The amphiphilic polymer‐grafted silica was newly prepared as a stationary phase in high‐performance liquid chromatography. Poly(4‐vinylpyridine) with a trimethoxysilyl group at one end was grafted onto porous silica particles and the pyridyl side chains were quaternized with 1‐bromooctadecane. The obtained poly(octadecylpyridinium)‐grafted silica was characterized by elemental analysis, diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy and Brunauer–Emmett–Teller analysis. The degree of quaternization of the pyridyl groups on the obtained stationary phase was estimated to be 70%. The selective retention behaviors of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons including some positional isomers were investigated using poly(octadecylpyridinium)‐grafted silica as an amphiphilic polymer stationary phase in high‐performance liquid chromatography and results were compared with commercially available polymeric octadecylated silica and phenyl‐bonded silica columns. The results indicate that the selectivity toward polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons exhibited by the amphiphilic polymer stationary phase is higher than the corresponding selectivity exhibited by a conventional phenyl‐bonded silica column. However, compared with the polymeric octadecylated silica phase, the new stationary phase presents similar retention behavior for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons but different retention behavior particularly for positional isomers of disubstituted benzenes as the aggregation structure of amphiphilic polymers on the surface of silica substrate has been altered during mobile phase variation.     

羧基甜菜碱型亲水作用色谱柱的制备及性能研究

以甲基丙烯酰氧乙基二甲基乙酸铵(CBMA)为功能单体,利用表面引发原子转移自由基聚合(Surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization, SI-ATRP)技术,将CBMA接枝到硅胶表面,得到接枝聚合物CBMA的亲水作用色谱固定相(Silica-CBMA).通过改变SI-ATRP反应体系中单体的浓度,制备了3种不同接枝量的亲水作用色谱固定相.考察了Silica-CBMA固定相对有机酸类化合物的分离性能以及流动相中pH值、盐浓度、水含量等因素对溶质保留行为的影响.结果表明,在亲水作用色谱模式下,Silica-CBMA固定相对有机酸类化合物的分离是离子交换作用与亲水作用的混合色谱模式.流动相中盐浓度增大,溶质保留减弱,符合离子交换作用特征;固定相和溶质的离子化程度受流动相pH值影响较大,pH值增大,溶质保留增强;而溶质的保留时间随流动相水含量增加而降低则是典型的亲水作用色谱特征.使用自制Silica-CBMA柱,建立了芦丁片中维生素C、芦丁含量的亲水作用色谱测定方法,操作方法简单,为强极性样品的分离测定提供了新方法.     

Chromatographic separation of paracetamol,caffeine, and aspirin on an adsorbent with immobilized nitrile groups and the analysis of Askofen P tablets

The chromatographic properties of the pharmaceutical preparations of paracetamol, caffeine, and aspirin are studied on adsorbents with immobilized nitrile groups. The effects of the concentration of acetonitrile and potassium phosphate in the mobile phase and the pH of the mobile phase on the retention of analytes and a possible additive, salicylic acid, are studied. In comparison to a column with a C18 adsorbent used earlier for routine analysis, the chromatograms obtained are characterized by higher separation efficiency, while the proposed separation procedure is more cost-effective and rapid.     

Preparation and Characterization of Temperature-responsive Porous Monoliths

A new temperature‐responsive porous monolith has been prepared by surface‐initiated activators generated by electron transfer atom transfer radical polymerization (AGET ATRP) grafting poly(N‐isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAAm) within the pores of the porous polymer monolith. The grafting copolymerization was carried out by a method based on a continuous flow‐through technique without special deoxygenation procedure needed in the general ATRP. The addition of ascorbic acid could counteract the oxidation effect of oxygen diffusing into the reaction system. The resulting grafted monolith was characterized by a mercury intrusion method and the size of macropore was 3.65 µm, which was suitable for flow through the monolith for HPLC. The thermally responsive property of the grafted monolith was evaluated by HPLC using steroids with various hydrophobicities as probes. Through determination of retention factor of each steroid on the grafted monolith at different temperatures using water as mobile phase, it was found that the slope of the plot of retention factor of each steroid versus the temperature changed around the low critical solution temperature (LCST, 32°C) of PNIPAAm in water. It was relative to the grafted PNIPAAm temperature sensitivity that a hydrophobic and hydrophilic alternation would take place around its LCST. Based on this thermally responsive property, the grafted monolith was used as stationary phase for HPLC and to separate the steroids using water as mobile phase by changing the column temperature. As a mobile phase, water is much better than organic solvents concerning the environment.     

Influence of graft interface polarity on hydration/dehydration of grafted thermoresponsive polymer brushes and steroid separation using all-aqueous chromatography

We have prepared poly( N-isopropylacrylamide) (PIPAAm) brush-grafted surfaces with varied temperature-responsive hydrophobic properties through surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP). These temperature-responsive surfaces were characterized by chromatographic analysis using modified silica beads as a chromatographic stationary phase in aqueous mobile phase. Mixed silane self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) comprising ATRP initiator and silanes with various terminal functional groups were formed on the silica bead surfaces. IPAAm was then polymerized by ATRP using the CuCl/CuCl2/Me6TREN catalyst system in 2-propanol at 25 degrees C for 16 h. The chromatographic retention behavior of steroids on the resulting PIPAAm brushes made on more polar silane components was distinct from that on more apolar silane interfaces. Retention times for steroids on PIPAAm mixed apolar silane graft interfaces were significantly longer than those on analogous polar silane interfaces due to enhanced dehydration of PIPAAm brushes on apolar silane-grafted surfaces. Changes in retention factor, k', on polar silane PIPAAm-grafted interfaces were relatively large compared to that on apolar PIPAAm grafted interfaces due to larger hydration/dehydration alterations of grafted PIPAAm brushes on the former surfaces. Applied step-temperature gradients from 50 to 10 degrees C show that PIPAAm brushes on polar silane interfaces tend to hydrate more, leading to shorter retention times. In conclusion, the polarity of the grafted interface significantly influences the grafted PIPAAm brush hydration/dehydration characteristics and subsequently also the temperature-modulated separation of bioactive compounds in all-aqueous chromatography.     

Preparation of hydrophilic polymer-grafted polystyrene beads for hydrophilic interaction chromatography via surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization

A one-step procedure based on surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization (SI-ATRP) to hydrophilize monodisperse poly(chloromethylstyrene-co-divinylbenzene) beads has been presented in this work, using 2-hydroxyl-3-[4-(hydroxymethyl)-1H-1,2,3-triazol-1-yl]propyl 2-methylacrylate (HTMA) as a monomer. The chain length of the grafted poly(HTMA) was controlled via varying the ratio of HTMA to initiator on the surface of the beads. When using the grafted beads as a stationary phase in hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC), good resolution for nucleobases/nucleosides was obtained with acetonitrile aqueous solution as an eluent; while for phenolic acids and glycosides, they could be eluted and separated in the presence of TFA. The retention time of the solutes increased with the amount of the grafted HTMA. The retention mechanisms of solutes were investigated by the effects of mobile phase composition and buffer pH on the retention of solutes. The results illustrated that the retention behaviors of the tested solutes were dominated by hydrogen bonding interaction and electrostatic interaction. From the chemical structure of the ligands, the modified beads could not only be used as a stationary phase in HILIC, but also act as a useful building block to develop new stationary phases for other chromatographic modes such as affinity media.     

The effect of the structure of bonded cyanoalkyl stationary phases on their selectivity in the liquid chromatographic separation of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons

Summary The paper discusses the effect of the length and structure of the hydrocarbon chain connecting the nitrile group to the silica gel surface on the chromatographic properties of cyanoalkyl phases.When using non-polar and polar mobile phases, the selectivity of the cyanodecyl phases toward PAHs is higher than of the cyanopropyl phase and of hydroxylated silica gel.Polar additives to the mobile phase drastically decrease the retention on silica gel and on the cyanopropyl phase while affect the properties of cyanodecyl phases only to a considerably less degree. Newly synthesized phases with different structures of the hydrocarbon chain are compared with the commerical cyano-and ODS-phases. The retention mechanism on the cyanoalkyl phases is discussed.     

A novel hydrophilic polystyrene-based beads for hydrophilic interaction chromatography by surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization

A one-step procedure to hydrophilize monodisperse poly(chloromethyl-styrene-co-divinylbenzene) beads has been presented with 2-hydroxy-3-[4-(hydroxymethyl)-1H-1,2,3-triazol-1-yl]propy1 2-methylacrylate(HTMA) as monomer by surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization(SI-ATRP).The length of the grafted poly(HTMA) chain was varied via controlling the ratio of HTMA to initiator on the surface of the beads.Using these grafted beads as the stationary phase in hydrophilic interaction chromatography,good separation was obtained for nucleosides in the mobile phase of acetonitrile-water.It was also found that the retention time and selectivity of solutes showed a positive relationship with the length of the grafted poly(HTMA) chain.     

Effect of the ionic composition of a mobile phase on the chromatographic retention of profen enantiomers on a chiral adsorbent with grafted eremomycin antibiotic

The effect of ionic composition of mobile phase on retention and chromatographic separation of optical isomers of several derivatives of 2-arylpropanoic acid on a chiral stationary phase Diaspher-Chiralsel-E with a grafted eremomycin antibiotic was studied. As was shown, the mechanism of retention differs from that for hydrophobic reverse-phase adsorbents, as it involves a substantial ion-exchange component that determines the nonmonotonic dependence of the retention factor and the enantioselectivity on eluent pH. The effect of the concentration of buffer salt in the eluent on the chromatography of this class of compounds is discussed.     

新型苯基桥键色谱固定相的热力学性质

将制备的球形苯基桥键型杂化介孔色谱固定相与商品化的C18和苯基键合硅胶固定相对比,研究其热力学性质。以稠环芳烃为例,探讨了溶质在固定相和流动相之间的迁移焓变、迁移熵变等热力学参数的变化。结果表明,与两种商品化的固定相不同,实验制备的苯基桥键固定相不存在明显的焓-熵补偿效应,证实新型桥键固定相分离机理是疏水作用、π-π作用、包结作用等协同作用的结果。     

The chromatographic behavior and thermodynamic characteristics of adsorption of profen enantiomers on silica gel with grafted eremomycin antibiotic

The chromatographic retention and thermodynamic characteristics of adsorption of several derivatives of 2-arylpropanoic acid on a chiral stationary phase with a grafted eremomycin antibiotic under the conditions of liquid chromatography with water-ethanol mobile phases were studied. The dependences of retention characteristics and selectivity on eluent pH were revealed. The difference between the adsorption mechanisms of acids with one and two benzene rings was demonstrated. Compensation effect manifestations in these systems are discussed.     

原子转移自由基聚合法用于以单分散树脂为基质的强阳离子交换色谱固定相的制备及其色谱性能研究

以7μm单分散交联聚甲基丙烯酸环氧丙酯树脂表面键合溴异丁酰溴为引发剂,以CuCl/CuCl2/2,2-联二吡啶(Bpy)为催化体系,采用封闭体系,在氮气保护下,以乙烯基苯磺酸钠(NaSS)为单体、N,N-二甲基甲酰胺(DMF)水溶液为溶剂,制备了强阳离子交换色谱(SCX)固定相,并用元素分析与红外光谱法对其进行了表征....     

Controllable preparation of a hydrophilic/ion‐exchange mixed‐mode stationary phase by surface‐initiated atom transfer radical polymerization using a mixture of two functional monomers

Mixed‐mode chromatographic stationary phases require functionalization with at least two functional groups to yield multiple interactions with analytes. Departing from reported methods, a mixture of two different monomers, glycidyl methacrylate and 2‐dimethylaminoethylmethacrylate, was grafted onto the surface of silica by a one‐step surface‐initiated atom transfer radical polymerization to prepare a novel hydrophilic interaction/anion‐exchange mixed‐mode chromatographic stationary phase. The grafted amounts of functional groups were controlled via varying the ratio of monomers in the polymerization system. The influences of water content, salt concentration and pH in the mobile phase were investigated to illustrate the mixed interaction between the stationary phase and analytes. The retention of various solutes on three columns, especially acidic and basic solutes, showed an obvious dependence on the ratio of the two monomers in the polymerization system. The results indicated that the strategy proposed in this work was beneficial to develop various types of mixed‐mode chromatographic stationary phases with adjustable selectivity to meet the needs of complex samples. Finally, the column was successfully employed in the isolation of melamine in liquid milk.     

Thiol‐yne Click Adamantane Monolithic Stationary Phase for Capillary Electrochromatography

A porous crosslinked organic polymer based on N‐acryloxysuccinimide (NAS) and ethylene dimethacrylate (EDMA) was prepared inside 75 µm i.d. fused silica capillary as functionalizable monolithic stationary phase for electrochromatographic applications. Succinimide groups on the monolith surface provide reactive sites able to react readily through standard electrophile‐nucleophile chemistry. Propargylamine was used to prepare alkyne functionalized poly(NAS‐co‐EDMA). Onto this thiol‐reactive polymer surface was grafted adamantane units via a photochemically‐driven addition reaction. Chemical characterization was performed in situ after each synthetic step by means of Raman spectroscopy and grafting kinetics was investigated to ensure quantitative grafting of 1‐adamantanethiol. The as‐designed monolithic stationary phase exhibited typical reversed‐phase separation mechanism as evidenced by the linear increase of the logarithm of retention factor of neutral aromatic solutes with the increase of the aqueous buffer content in the mobile phase.     

Effect of the mobile phase composition on the retention behaviour of diphenylsilica pre-coated plates

The retention of some rifamycins and steroids on diphenyl bonded pre-coated silica gel plates, in relation to the mobile phase used, was examined by thin-layer chromatography. Neat organic solvents, non-aqueous and aqueous binary mixtures were tested as eluents. By comparison of retention data for rifamycins and steroids, respectively, under non-aqueous and aqueous conditions, a dual retention mechanism on this diphenyl phase was found. Interactions with the residual silanol groups seemed to prevail when employing as mobile phase the more lipophilic solvents tested, such as chloroform or dichloromethane, whereas interactions with the aryl groups of the bonded phase prevailed when using high polarity alcohols or aqueous mixtures. As a consequence, by changing the mobile phase, a large variation in selectivity with a concomitant change in retention order of the test compounds was observed.     

Interfacial property modulation of thermoresponsive polymer brush surfaces and their interaction with biomolecules

Dense poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PIPAAm) brushes were created on silica bead surfaces by surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP). Interfacial properties of PIPAAm brushes were characterized by thermoresponisve interaction with biomolecules. The grafted amounts of PIPAAm on silica bead surfaces exceeded that from previously reported polymer-hydrogel-modified silica beads prepared by conventional radical polymerization by nearly 1 order of magnitude. Temperature-dependent chromatographic interactions with soluble analytes were modulated by changing the grafted PIPAAm chain lengths. Short PIPAAm-grafted silica beads produce insufficient dehydration and chain aggregation to separate steroids using weak hydrophobic interactions. In contrast, broad unresolved peaks were observed on silica beads column grafted with long PIPAAm chains due to steroid partitioning into thick, densely grafted PIPAAm brush layers. Thus, silica beads column grafted with PIPAAm chains of proper length can demonstrate baseline separation of steroids with relatively high resolution among the tested columns. Relatively longer retention times for steroid analytes were observed on all columns compared to those previously reported for other PIPAAm-grafted silica beads. This indicates that densely PIPAAm-grafted chains enable control of strong hydrophobic interactions with steroids by changing the column temperature. Densely grafted PIPAAm columns were also successful in separating two peptides into two peaks as the column temperature was increased to 40 degrees C. This provides an effective separation alternative for peptides using substantial hydrophobicity without modification of hydrophobic surfaces and/or low mobile phase pH. In conclusion, densely PIPAAm-grafted surfaces exhibit strong, reversible temperature-modulated hydrophobic interactions, facilitating baseline separations of steroids and peptides in aqueous milieu without changes in the mobile phase pH and high ionic strength.     

Immobilised artificial membrane chromatography coupled with molecular probing. Mimetic system for studying lipid-calcium interactions in nutritional mixtures

Immobilised artificial membrane (IAM) chromatography was utilised to study the interactions of usual membrane probes with grafted phosphatidylcholine silica support, in relation to the presence of calcium ions introduced in the mobile phase as they are present in nutritional mixtures. IAM acts as a mimetic membrane of lipid emulsion globules, a major component of nutritional mixtures. The tested probes were 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (DPH), 9-diethylamino-5H-benzo[alpha]phenoxazine-5-one or nile red (NR) and 2-(p-toluidinyl)naphtalene-6-sulfonate (TNS). For each probe, partition coefficients and thermodynamic parameters of transfer from the mobile phase to the IAM stationary phase have been measured. Our results suggested that the interactions of neutral probes (i.e. DPH and NR) with phosphatidylcholine are driven by hydrophobic forces. Addition of calcium chloride to the mobile phase slightly decreased the retention of these neutral probes and dramatically increased that of anionic TNS. Moreover, an enthalpy-entropy compensation study revealed that the mechanism of interaction between TNS and IAM is independent of the calcium concentration. Results argued for the existence of electrostatic repulsion forces exerted by IAM phase towards anionic TNS. Addition of calcium ions into the mobile phase led to the establishment of an ionic double layer at the zwitterionic stationary phase surface weakening the electrostatic barrier and increasing TNS retention. Consequently, it was demonstrated that IAM appears as a suitable model to get a better insight on the lipid-calcium interactions taking place in nutritional mixtures.     

Chromatographic behaviour of low molar-mass polyesters in normal-phase high-performance liquid chromatography

Summary The normal-phase chromatographic retention behaviour of polyesters on bare silica and on a polymer-based polyamine (PA) column has been studied with a variely of binary mobile phases under isocratic conditions. The dependence of experimental retention data on the degree of polymerization (p) and on mobile phase composition (φ) was characterized by to an approach developed by Jandera et al. The bulky repeating unit and the relatively highly polar end groups of the polyesters both had a large influence on retention behaviour. The two effects in combination explain the molar-mass-independent retention observed experimentally at a particular mobile phase composition for all the mobile phase—stationary phase combinations investigated. These conditions were found to be independent of the type of end group. End group separation on a silica column improves when the polarity of the less polar solvent is increased. End group separation is better on the PA column because of a greater difference between the adsorption energy of the alcohol and acid end groups. Better prediction of retention data on the PA column was achieved by use of an approach which assumes two different types of adsorption site. Results enabled further understanding of retention behaviour in normalphase gradient polymer-elution chromatography (NPGPEC) and explained both the dependence of the order of elution onp and differences between the end-group selectivity of different systems.     

接枝型偕胺肟树脂/SiO_2功能复合微粒的制备

用偶联剂γ-(甲基丙烯酰氧)丙基三甲氧基硅烷(KH-570)对微米级硅胶进行了表面化学改性,采用溶液聚合法,在改性硅胶微粒表面接枝丙烯腈(AN),制备了接枝微粒PAN/SiO2。用盐酸羟胺对接枝PAN进行偕胺肟(AO)化转变,制得了接枝有偕胺肟树脂(PAO)的复合型功能微粒PAO/SiO2。采用红外光谱(FT-IR)、热失重(TGA)及扫描电子显微镜(SEM)等测试技术,对接枝微粒PAN/SiO2以及功能微粒PAO/SiO2进行了表征,考察了制备条件对AN的接枝聚合过程及对PAN的偕胺肟化转变过程的影响规律。结果表明,适宜的接枝聚合条件为:引发剂质量分数为1.5%,反应温度为75℃。接枝聚合5h可制得接枝度为0.14g/g的接枝微粒PAN/SiO2。受偕胺肟基团空间位阻的影响,PAN的偕胺肟化转变反应不能进行彻底,适宜的PAN/SiO2偕胺肟化转变反应条件为:介质pH值为6～7,温度70℃,反应时间4h。所制得的功能微粒PAO/SiO2腈基转化率约为78%。