Liquid-vapor and liquid-liquid phase equilibria of the Brodholt-Sampoli-Vallauri polarizable water model

Liquid-vapor and liquid-liquid phase equilibria of the polarizable Brodholt-Sampoli-Vallauri water model have been investigated by Gibbs ensemble Monte Carlo computer simulations. The coexisting liquid and vapor densities and energy of vaporization of the model is found to be in a reasonable agreement with experimental data in the entire temperature range of liquid-vapor coexistence. The critical temperature and density of the model are found to be 615 K and 0.278 gcm(3), respectively, close to the experimental values of 647.1 K and 0.322 gcm(3). In the supercooled state two distinct liquid-liquid coexistence regions are observed. The existence of liquid-liquid phase separation of a polarizable water model is demonstrated for the first time.     

一种以含硅藻土的复合材料为介质的支撑液液萃取柱的制备及其应用

以含硅藻土的复合材料为支撑介质,开发了一种独特的支撑液液萃取柱;以一系列酸性、碱性和中性水溶液样品为模型化合物,结合高效液相色谱法(HPLC)对该萃取柱进行了系统评价,同时将其用于复杂基质样品的分析。结果表明: 经该支撑液液萃取柱预处理的苯甲酸、对硝基苯胺和对羟基苯甲酸甲酯水溶液的萃取回收率分别为90.6%、98.1%和97.7%,远超过对应样品经传统液液萃取法处理后的回收率（分别为71.9%、81.9%和83.9%）。对于复杂基质样品的分析,如雪碧中的防腐剂苯甲酸以及牛血清中的中性药物醋酸地塞米松、碱性药物马来酸氯苯那敏及酸性药物吲哚美辛等,样品的加标回收率均在80%和110%之间,相对标准偏差(RSD)均小于15%,符合生物样品的分析要求,且未出现传统液液萃取技术中常见的问题(如乳化现象)。所开发的支撑液液萃取柱具有快速、简单、耐受性好、易于实现自动化和高通量的特点,具有广泛的应用前景。     

Quantitation of verapamil and norverapamil in postmortem and clinical samples using liquid-liquid extraction, solid phase extraction, and HPLC

Summary A sensitive micellar electrokinetic chromatography method for the determination of impurities in SB-209247, a novel LTB₄ antagonist, has been developed. Selectivity was optimised by systematic examination of the effects of the acetonitrile content in the separation buffer. Sensitivity and resolution was enhanced by focusing effects for both charged and neutral analytes achieved by a special sample buffer composition. Minor impurities well below 0.1% peak area ratio can be readily and reliably detected. The validity of the method has been successfully demonstrated with respect to reproducibility of peak area ratios and the linearity of a key impurity. A comparison with HPLC has shown the method has complementary selectivity and competitive sensitivity.     

Stability of selenium and its speciation analysis in water using automatic system separation and HR-ICP-MS measurement

A simple and convenient method has been developed for the pre-concentration and separation of inorganic selenium species from environmental water samples using anion exchange chromatographic column combined with high resolution inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (HR-ICP-MS) measurement. ⁷⁵Se(IV) and ⁷⁵Se(VI) were prepared and used as tracers during the experiments. The volatility of selenium during solution evaporation was investigated to establish a reliable water samples pretreatment procedure. The parameters which affect the uptake of Se(IV) and Se(VI) on Dowex1 × 8 resin was optimized and the procedure for Se(IV) and Se(VI) separation was proposed. Both Se(IV) and Se(VI) are retained on the column in natural or alkaline solution with high distribution coefficient. The successive gradient elution of pre-concentrated species of selenium with HNO₃ solution allows to differentiate between them. Se(IV) and Se(VI) finally were eluted with 0.05 mol/L HNO₃ and 5.0 mol/L HNO₃, respectively. The proposed method has been successfully verified using the certified reference materials (CRMs) of real water samples, and spiked recoveries for real samples were 98%-104% with 5% relative standard deviations (RSDs). The developed procedure is proved to be reliable and can be used for the rapid determination of selenium species in environmental water samples.     

Cyclodextrins and the liquid-liquid phase distribution of progesterone, estrone and prednicarbate

The purpose of the present work was to investigate the interaction of drugs and octanol with hydroxypropyl β- (HPβCD) and γ- (HPγCD) cyclodextrin, sulfobutyl ether β-cyclodextrin (SBEβCD) and randomly methylated-β-cycoldextrin (RMβCD) and to describe the interaction by theoretical models. The poorly soluble steroid drugs progesterone, estrone and prednicarbate were used as model compounds in this study. Hexane and chloroform were also investigated in combination with HPβCD. Octanol formed a complex with all cyclodextrins and the saturation of the aqueous solution with this solvent therefore had a significant effect on the solubilization and extraction potential of cyclodextrins. Hexane had less affinity for cyclodextrins, but the drugs were poorly soluble in this solvent and it could therefore not be used in phase-distribution investigations. Previously we have derived equations that can be used to account for the competitive interaction between two guest compounds that compete for space in the cyclodextrin cavity. These equations were rearranged to calculate the complexation efficacy from phase-solubility data. An equation was derived that obtains intrinsic solubility (S ₀) and intrinsic partition coefficient (P) from the slopes of the phase-solubility and phase-distribution profiles. Investigation of the data showed that the results could not be sufficiently explained by the “classical” drug/cyclodextrin complex model that recognizes the possibility of competitive interactions but ignores any contribution from higher order complexes or aggregation of the cyclodextrin complexes. Relative difference in solubilization potential of different cyclodextrins cannot be translated to relative differences in extraction efficacy. Thus, for these three steroid compounds, RMβCD and SBEβCD gave the best solubilization potential whereas the best extraction efficacy was observed with HPγCD.     

Correlation of liquid-liquid equilibria in aqueous and organic systems using a modified Wilson model

A modified Wilson model is extended to involve three ternary parameters per ternary to allow the model to represent ternary liquid-liquid equilibria accurately. The calculated results for 19 ternary systems obtained from the present modification are compared with the previous results obtained from other modified Wilson models. The model is further extended to treat quaternary liquid-liquid equilibria for six aqueous systems and one nonaqueous system using binary, ternary, and quaternary parameters. Mutual solubilities for 19 systems over a wide temperature range are represented with the model having temperature-dependent energy parameters.     

Liquid chromatographic high-throughput analysis of ketamine and its metabolites in human plasma using a monolithic silica column and solid phase extraction

A rapid and sensitive liquid chromatographic (LC) assay was developed for the simultaneous determination of ketamine (KE) and its two main metabolites, namely, norketamine (NK) and dehydronorketamine (DHNK) in human plasma. Each compound together with an internal standard (Labetalol) was extracted from the plasma matrix using solid phase extraction (SPE). The applicability of monolithic LC phases in the field of quantitative bioanalysis has been evaluated. The existing method with UV detection set at 220 nm was successfully transferred from a conventional reversed phase column to a 10 cm × 4.6 mm i.d. monolithic silica column. By simply increasing the mobile phase flow-rate, run times were about six-fold reduced and consumption of mobile phase were about two-fold decreased, while the chromatographic resolution of the analytes remain unaffected. The method was validated over the range 25-2000 ng/mL for KE, 25-1500 ng/mL for NK, and 15-750 ng/mL for DHNK. The method proved to be precise (within-run precision ranges from 2.2 to 7.2% and between-run precision ranges from 3.7 to 8.2%) and accurate (within-run accuracies ranged from 1.3 to 7.2% and between-run accuracies ranged from 1.5 to 8.7%). The mean absolute recoveries were 95.3, 96.9, and 103.9% for KE, NK and DHNK, respectively. The limit of quantitation (LOQ) and limit of detection (LOD) for KE and NK in human plasma were 25 and 12.5 ng/mL, respectively, and for DHNK were 15 and 7.5 ng/mL (S/N = 3). The assay should be suitable for use in routine determination of KE and its metabolites in human plasma.     

The effect of cyclohexene, a preservative in dichloromethane on the liquid-liquid extraction and analysis of chlorinated drinking water

Liquid-liquid extraction with dichloromethane is the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) method of choice for the analysis of acid or base neutral organic chemicals in water. Free radical chlorination and oxidation products of cyclohexene (the solvent preservative) in dichloromethane have been observed in extracts of chlorinated drinking water (after 10(5) fold concentration) by gas chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The chlorinated cyclohexene derivatives limit the quantitative and qualitative analysis of compounds eluting at Kovát's index less than 700-1000 and the use of these extracts for organoleptic and mutagenic studies. The effect of residual free chlorine in water on the cyclohexene present in the solvent was studied. Over ten cyclohexene derivatives were produced in every case when any residual free chlorine was present in the water. When chlorine is reduced to chloramine, the cyclohexene derivatives were greatly reduced in number and amount.     

On-line extraction of metal ions using liquid-liquid segmentation and a membrane type phase separator for fluorescence detection

Summary A liquid segmented post-column reaction system has been used to extract metal ions from an aqueous eluent into an organic solvent for fluorescence detection. The metals Zr(IV), Ga(III), Sc(III), Y(III), In(III), Al(III), La(III), Zn(II), Cd(II), Ca(II) and Mg(II) have been isocratically separated on a C₁₈ column by virtue of the secondary chemical equilibrium established by an eluent containing n-octanesulfonate, tartaric acid, and hydroxyisobutyric acid. The chelating reagent 8-hydroxyquinoline dissolved in methylisobutyl ketone (MIBK) was used to extract the metals and a membrane type phase separator was effective at separating the phases and directing the organic stream to the detector. The response for this detection approach was linear for metal ion concentrations spanning the range of the detector, and detection limits for most metals were low parts-per-billion (ppb). Band broadening for the extraction system was examined and compared to a direct post-column reaction using oxine dissolved in acetone.     

Calculations on partition equilibria in liquid-liquid extraction systems,applied to the separation of metal ions from aqueous solutions

A program has been developed for the calculation of partition equilibria in the case when metal ions are extracted from an aqueous phase into an immiscible organic solvent containing a chelating reagent. Given the extraction constants and the initial concentrations, titration curves are constructed which show the extraction percentage of each ion in the presence of the others. The program is applied to hypothetical situations both in activation analysis and isotope dilution analysis.     

Vapor-liquid and liquid-liquid equilibria of water, 2-methoxyethanol and cyclohexanone: Experiment and correlation

Vapor-liquid equilibria and liquid-liquid equilibria of a ternary mixture consisting of water, 2-methoxyethanol and cyclohexanone and in addition of all binary subsystems were studied experimentally at several temperatures. A ternary corrective term in the expression for the Gibbs free energy based on the NRTL model improves simultaneous representation of binary and ternary phase equilibria.     

浆态床反应器中相含率及粒径分布的研究

以空气－水－石英砂体系为对象，研究了费托合成浆态床反应器中表观气速、平均淤浆浓度、床层轴向位置等因素对气含率、固体浓度轴向分布和粒径分布的影响，并通过实验得出了气含率与操作变量之间的关联式。     

Homogeneous liquid-liquid extraction by pH dependent phase separation with a fluorocarbon ionic surfactant and its application to the preconcentration of porphyrin compounds

Aqueous perfluorooctanoate (PFOA^–) solution of water-miscible organic solvent (SOLV), such as dioxane and acetone, was separated into two immiscible phases reversibly by charge neutralization of PFOA^– ion with proton (H⁺) (pK_a value of HPFOA was 1.01, atI = 0.1, 20 °C). The transparent heavier phase, in which HPFOA was concentrated quantitatively, consisted of three components in the molar ratio of HPFOASOLVH₂O = 14.06.6 for acetone system, and 10.471.9 for dioxane system, respectively. This separation provides a new homogeneous liquid-liquid extraction method, which can be successfully applied to the ultra-high preconcentration of water-soluble porphyrin compounds: 10⁴-fold concentration was achieved within 20 min.     

Design and evaluation of a new phase separator for liquid-liquid extraction in flow systems

A modified phase separator incorporating a supported teflon membrane is described. The separator has very high phase-separation efficiency even under extreme conditions of phase-volume ratio and total flow rate. The use of appropriate support is shown to give much better endurance to the membrane. Even pressures high enough to make water penetrate the membrane did not cause any damage, which makes the system much easier to handle. The long-term stability of the separator was found to be good and very little of the aqueous phase penetrated the membrane.     

Effect of confinement on the liquid-liquid phase transition of supercooled water

We report on an observation of the phase transition between two liquid phases of supercooled confined water in simulations. The temperature of the liquid-liquid transition of water at zero pressure slightly decreases due to confinement in the hydrophobic pore. The hydrophilic confinement affects this temperature in the opposite direction and shifts the critical point of the liquid-liquid transition to a higher pressure. As a result, in a strongly hydrophilic pore the liquid-liquid phase transition becomes continuous at zero pressure, indicating the shift of its critical point from negative to a positive pressure. These findings indicate that experimental studies of water confined in the pores of various hydrophobicity/hydrophilicity may clarify the location of the liquid-liquid critical point of bulk water.     

Design and application of a new phase separator for flow injection liquid-liquid extraction

A new versatile phase separator for flow injection solvent extraction has been designed and its analytical performance investigated. Manifolds for various instrumentation and the corresponding operating procedures have been established. Experimental results show that the newly designed phase separator possesses several advantages over the existing ones, such as long term stability, robustness, sufficient phase separation and integral in situ collection of the solvent extracts at different phase flow rate ratios. The detection limits for cobalt, gold, iodide, iron, lead, nickel, nitrate and tungsten were 1.4, 0.45, 70, 1.9, 160, 0.9, 137 and 23 ng ml⁻¹, and the relative standard deviations 2.5, 1.3, 2.2, 2.9, 4.8, 3.6, 1.4 and 3.3%, respectively.     

Solid phase extraction for the speciation and preconcentration of inorganic selenium in water samples: A review

Selenium is an essential element for the normal cellular function of living organisms. However, selenium is toxic at concentrations of only three to five times higher than the essential concentration. The inorganic forms (mainly selenite and selenate) present in environmental water generally exhibit higher toxicity (up to 40 times) than organic forms. Therefore, the determination of low levels of different inorganic selenium species in water is an analytical challenge. Solid-phase extraction has been used as a separation and/or preconcentration technique prior to the determination of selenium species due to the need for accurate measurements for Se species in water at extremely low levels. The present paper provides a critical review of the published methods for inorganic selenium speciation in water samples using solid phase extraction as a preconcentration procedure. On the basis of more than 75 references, the different speciation strategies used for this task have been highlighted and classified. The solid-phase extraction sorbents and the performance and analytical characteristics of the developed methods for Se speciation are also discussed.     

Enantioanalysis of bisoprolol in human plasma with a macrocyclic antibiotic HPLC chiral column using fluorescence detection and solid phase extraction

A sensitive, enantioselective, high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method was developed and validated to determine S-(-)- and R-(+)-bisoprolol in human plasma. Baseline resolution was achieved using the teicoplanin macrocyclic antibiotic chiral stationary phase (CSP) known as Chirobiotic T with a polar ionic mobile phase (PIM) consisting of methanol-glacial acetic acid-triethylamine (100 : 0.02 : 0.025, v/v/v) at a flow rate of 1.5 ml/min and fluorescence detection set at 275 nm for excitation and 305 nm for emission. All analyses with S-(-)-atenolol as the internal standard were conducted at ambient temperature. The assay involved the use of a solid-phase extraction procedure for human plasma samples prior to HPLC analysis. The C18 cartridge gave good recovery rates for both enantiomers without any interference. The method was validated over the range of 20-200 ng/ml for each enantiomer concentration. Recovery rates for S-(-)- and R-(+)-bisoprolol enantiomers were in the range of 95-102%. The method proved to be precise (within-run precision expressed as % RSD ranged from 1.0-6.2% and between-run precision ranged from 0.9-6.7%) and accurate (within-run accuracies expressed as percentage error ranged from 0.2-4.8% and between-run accuracies ranged from 0.3-1.7%). The limit of quantitation and limit of detection for each enantiomer in human plasma were 20 and 5 ng/ml, respectively.     

Retention study of inorganic and organic selenium compounds on a silica-based reversed phase column with mixed ion-pairing reagents

Summary Separation of seven inorganic and organic selenium compounds, namely selenic acid [Se(VI)], selenous acid [Se(IV)], trimethylselenonium iodide (TMSe⁺), selenocystine (SeCys), selenomethionine (SeMet), selenoethionine (Seet), and selenocystamine (SeCM), has been performed on a LiChrosorb C 18 column by using mixed ion-pair reagents; 1-butanesulfonic acid and tetramethylammonium hydroxide. Flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) was used as an element-specific detector. The retention behaviors of selenium compounds in terms of several chromatographic parameters, such as pH of the mobile phase, the concentrations of ion-pair reagents, and the content of organic modifier (methanol) were investigated. It was found that the separation of both inorganic and organic selenium compounds can be achieved within 12 min with a mobile phase of 10 mM 1-butanesulfonic acid −4 mM tetramethylammonium hydroxide −4 mM malonic acid −0.05% methanol adjusted to pH 4.5 at a flow rate of 1.0 mL min⁻¹. The results obtained in this study showed that the use of mixed ion-pair reagents is very useful to improve the separation of selenium compounds. The applicability of this technique for the speciation of selenium compounds in real samples was demonstrated by the determination of selenium compounds in a selenium nutritional supplement. The results were found to be in good agreement with those obtained by ion-exchange HPLC-ICP-MS.     

Determination of thiophanate-methyl and its metabolites at trace level in spiked natural water using the supported liquid membrane extraction and the microporous membrane liquid-liquid extraction techniques combined on-line with high-performance liquid chromatography

On-line supported liquid membrane (SLM) extraction and microporous membrane liquid-liquid extraction (MMLLE) techniques for sample preparation of natural water samples have been developed for the determination of thiophanate-methyl (TM), carbendazim (MBC) and 2-aminobenzimidazole (2-AB) using reversed-phase HPLC. The combination of SLM extraction and MMLLE offers extraction conditions that makes it possible to determine a wide variety of compounds, i.e., permanently charged, ionisable and non-polar at sub ppb level. The detection limits obtained after extraction are about 0.1 microg/l for MBC and 2-AB using SLM, and 0.5 x Lg/l for TM using MMLLE and the precision is better than 5% for both systems. Typical enrichment rates are 0.6 and 2.7 times/min using SLM and MMLLE, respectively.