Investigation into the GC separation of enantiomers on a trifluoroacetylated cyclodextrin. I. Effect of analyte structure on stereoselectivity for alcohols

More than 30 enantiomeric alcohols have been analyzed, without prior derivatization, by gas chromatography using a fused silica capillary column coated with octakis(3-O-trifluoro-acetyl-2,6-di-O-n-pentyl)-γ-cyclodextrin. Most were analyzed over a range of isothermal temperatures from 35 to 70°C. Enantiomeric separations were observed for most of the analytes, even at temperatures as low as 35°C. The stereoselectivity of the stationary phase was found to depend on the length of the longest carbon chain attached to the stereogenic centre in 2- and 3-hydroxy alkanes, the relative positions of the methyl and hydroxyl substituents in methylsubstituted alcohols, and the effects of multiple bonds in the analyte molecule. Thermodynamic data calculated from the results suggest that the enantiomers of all the analytes are resolved by a similar process. Retention and thermodynamic data are presented and possible mechanisms discussed.     

Chiral recognition in the resolution of enantiomers by GLC

Summary Chiral recognition of many enantiomeric solutes by a chiral amide stationary phase is based mainly on hydrogen bonding. A chiral-recognition-factor CHI is proposed, given by the difference of the enthalpy change in the enantiomer discrimination, standardized with respect to the specific interaction of the solutes with the diamide core of the stationary phase. The r?le of the entropy part is also discussed. By extrapolation of the retention behaviour to elevated temperature, peak inversion of enantiomers is predicted. Presented at the 15th International Symposium on Chromatography, Nürnberg, October 1984     

Direct enantiomer resolution of primary,secondary, and tertiary alcohols by gas chromatography on Chirasil-Val

Summary Many enantiomeric pairs of alcohols (primary, secondary or tertiary) are resolved directly on persilylated glass capillary columns, coated with the chiral stationary phase L- or D-Chirasil-Val. Dependent on the chemical structure of the substrate, considerable resolution factors can be obtained, even with simple aliphatic alcohols. Thus, one strong attraction may be sufficient to produce significant chiral recognition. Enantiomeric purities of these alcohols can be determined with high accuracy and great ease.     

Monitoring of optical isomers of chiral alcohols and derivatives by chiral gas chromatography. Effect of derivatization on the enantio-differentiation

Summary Gas chromatographic chiral separation of several chiral 2-and 3-alkanols and diols was studied both in their free hydroxyl and in their trimethylsilyl ether forms. First, the derivatization procedure was verified through the identification of the trimethylsilyl ethers formed on the basis of their mass spectra and optimized to obtain quantitative reaction. The optimized procedure was applied to the trimethylsilylation of racemic mixtures of various hydroxyl compounds. The silylation was found to be highly effective in the improvement of the separation of the individual enantiomers. The major advantages of the derivatization process can be summarized as: (i) excellent baseline separation of the enantiomers of the silyl ethers was achieved in contrast to the parent OH-containing compounds, (ii) the sensitivity of detection highly increased, (iii) the separations do not show any significant concentration dependence and finally (iv) the analysis time needed decreased significantly. Presented at: Balaton Symposium on High-Performance Separation Methods, Siófok, Hungary, September 3–5, 1997     

Gas chromatography with UV-vis molecular absorption spectrometry detection: Increasing sensitivity of the determination of alcohols and phenols by derivatization

Summary A method is proposed for the determination of alcohols and phenols based on their derivatization to benzoates and gas chromatography-gas phase molecular absorption spectrometry. All parameters affecting the derivatization reaction, such as the solvent, basic medium, benzoyl chloride and stirring time, were optimized. Chromatographic and instrumental conditions were also studied. Finally, a calibration study was performed and the results were compared to that obtained by the direct determination of the compounds.     

A new gas chromatographic stationary phase: Polysiloxane with β-cyclodextrin side chain for the separation of chiral and positional isomers

Summary A new stationary phase [bikis(2,6-di-O-pentyl-3-O-hex-6-enyl)-pentakis(2,6-di-O-pentyl-3-O-methyl)-β-CD-polysiloxane] was synthesized and successfully applied in GC for the separation of chiral and achiral isomers. It possesses high column efficiency and exhibits excellent separation ability for disubstituted benzenes. Some typical enantiomers and optical isomers are well separated. The separation behavior of this new phase is characterized and discussed.     

Enantiomer separation of side-chain fluorinated alkylbenzenes by capillary gas chromatography on cyclodextrin phases

Summary The separation of racemic side-chain fluorinated alkylbenzenes and bromofluorinated analogues by capillary gas chromatography using permethylated , and -cyclodextrins dissolved in polysiloxanes of different polarity as stationary phases is described. The influence of the achiral polysiloxane matrices on the separation of enantiomers is discussed in the light of the results obtained with the different phases. For a part of the tested compounds thermodynamic data are determined which describe the interaction of enantiomers with the stationary phase. The mechanism of separation is discussed on this basis and by comparison with data for structurally similar compounds.     

Cyclodextrin derivatives for the GC separation of racemic mixtures of volatile compounds. Part VI: The influence of the diluting phase on the enantioselectivity of 2,6-Di-O-methyl-3-O-pentyl-β-cyclodextrin

As a continuation of previous studies on the use of cyclodextrin derivatives (CD) for the separation of volatile compounds by capillary GC, the influence of diluting phases other than OV-1701 or OV-1701-OH has been investigated. 2,6-Di-O-methyl-3-O-pentyl-β-cyclodextrin (2,6-DiMe-3-Pe-β-CD) was taken as the reference CD derivative, because of the large number of volatile racemates it is able to separate; OV-1701 or OV-1701-OH was chosen as the reference diluting phase. The performance of a column coated with a 0.15 μm film of 10 % 2,6-DiMe-3-Pe-β-CD in OV-1701 was compared with that of analogous columns coated with films of the same thickness containing the same percentage of the CD derivative diluted with stationary phases of different polarity, i.e. PS-086, PS-347.5, and OV-225. Resolution values and separation factors of thirty racemates were used to evaluate the effect of different diluting phases on column performance.     

Preparation of a new crown ether-based chiral stationary phase containing thioester linkage for the liquid chromatographic separation of enantiomers

A new chiral stationary phase (CSP) containing thioester linkages was prepared by bonding (+)-(18-crown-6)-2,3,11,12-tetracarboxylic acid to mercaptopropylsilica gel. The chiral recognition ability of the new CSP was found to be greater than that of the previously reported CSP containing amide linkages in the resolution of the various α-amino acids that were tested, except for that of Met, Ser and Thr. In the resolution of racemic amines and amino alcohols, the new CSP was always better than the one containing amide linkages in terms of the separation factors (α) and the resolutions (R_S). Given the identical elution orders on the two CSPs, it was concluded that the chiral recognition mechanism is not affected by the change of the linkage type. In addition, the new CSP was found to be quite stable under the acidic mobile phase conditions that were utilized, indicating that the thioester linkage is useful as a tethering group.     

Separation of the enantiomers of pyrethroic acids and their esters by high-performance liquid chromatography on a polysaccharide-derived chiral stationary phase

Summary The liquid-chromatographic separation of the enantiomers of pyrethroic acids and their esters has been investigated on a polysaccharide-derived chiral stationary phase (CSP), Chiralpak AS. Good separation of the enantiomers of underivatized pyrethroic acids was achieved on the column, and the enantiomers of pyrethroic acid methyl and ethyl ester derivatives were also resolved.     

Enantiomeric separation of amino alcohols by gas chromatography on a chiral stationary phase; influence of the perfluoroacylating reagent on the separation

Racemic amino alcohols have been separated as perfluoroacylated derivatives by gas chromatography using either improved Chirasil-Val or heptakis(2,6-di-O-methyl-3-O-pentyl)-β-cyclodextrin as stationary phase. Using Chirasil-Val all the amino alcohols investigated were separated to baseline (α values between 1.03 and 1.08) whereas only a few amino alcohols were resolved on the modified cyclodextrin column. The enantioselectivity obtained on the latter phase was, however, significantly higher. The separations were performed as trifluoroacetyl, pentafluoropropionyl, and heptafluorobutyryl derivatives and the chiral discrimination observed for the different derivatives was significantly different for both stationary phases. In oder to obtain a better understanding of the separation mechanism, the Gibbs-Helmholtz parameters Δ_(R,S)ΔH° and Δ_(R,S)ΔS° were determined. The most extraordinary result was obtained for the trifluoroacetyl derivative of allo-threoninol. In addition to the order of elution of the enantiomers being the opposite of that for the other compounds, the separation seems to be entropy controlled (the sign Δ_(R,S)ΔH° is positive), i.e. the separation improved at higher temperatures.     

The effects of pH and alcoholic organic modifiers on the direct separation of some acidic,basic and neutral compounds on a commercially available ovomucoid column

Summary The effects of alcoholic modifiers and pH on the chromatographic properties of an immobilized ovomucoid chiral stationary phase have been investigated using acidic, basic and neutral solutes. A series of primary, secondary and tertiary alcohols and pH's ranging from 3.5 to 6.0 were used in this study. The results indicate that both the shape and the hydrophobicity of the alcoholic modifier affect retention (k') and enantioselectivity (). In general, an increase in the hydrophobicity of the modifier results in a decrease in k's and 's. However, this is not the case whent-butanol is the modifier, suggesting that the size of the alkyl moiety attached to the carbinol carbon also contributes to the chromatographic results. The pH studies indicated that Coulombic interactions play a role in the retention of the acidic and basic solutes. The results also suggest that in addition to ethanol and 1-propanol,t-butanol should be considered during optimization and that maximum efficiencies may be obtained at pH 5.0.     

Liquid chromatographic separation of the enantiomers of beta-amino acids on a ligand exchange chiral stationary phase

A liquid chromatographic ligand exchange chiral stationary phase (CSP) derived from (S)-leucinol was applied in the separation of the enantiomers of 12 beta-amino acids. The resolution was quite successful especially for the enantiomers of beta-amino acids containing aromatic functional group in the side chain. The chromatographic resolution behaviors were dependent on the organic modifier and Cu(II) concentration in aqueous mobile phase and the column temperature.     

HPLC separation of the enantiomers of racemic benzergoline derivatives on a chiral binaphthalene covalently bonded to silica gel

A novel chiral stationary phase (CSP) derived from the atropisomeric enantiomer S-3,3′-dicarboxy-2,2′-dihydroxy-1,1′-binaphthyl (S-DDBN) has been synthesized and its use for the separation of enantiomers demonstrated. The chiral selector is covalently bonded to amino-functionalized silica gel, thus enabling the use of alcohols as mobile phases. Good chiral discrimination was obtained for the pharmacologically interesting class of benzergoline derivatives which act as selective dopamine D₁ receptor agonists. This paper reports the successful separtion of fifteen structurally related benzergoline racemates with separation factors up to 3.5. The influence of small differences in molecular structure on chiral discrimination was examined.     

Determination of chromatographic separation parameters of tryptophan enantiomers on a Chirosil-SCA chiral stationary phase by using the inverse method based on the initial guesses estimated from elution by characteristic point method

An effective chiral stationary phase (CSP) for enantioseparation of amino acids was established previously by bonding (18-crown-6)-2, 3, 11, 12-tetracarboxylic acid to silica gel. This CSP has recently been commercialized under the name of Chirosil-SCA. As a first step for developing a Chirosil-SCA simulated moving bed chromatographic process for separation of tryptophan enantiomers, the adsorption isotherm and mass-transfer parameters of each tryptophan enantiomer on the Chirosil-SCA CSP were determined in this study while using only water as a mobile phase. For this task, inverse method (IM) was applied on the basis of the initial guesses estimated from elution by characteristic point (ECP) method, which was found to be more advantageous in the aspects of both accuracy and computational efficiency than the case of utilizing individually only IM or ECP method. The results revealed that the adsorption behavior of each tryptophan enantiomer on the Chirosil-SCA could be well described by the Langmuir-Freundlich isotherm. The model predictions based on the determined parameter values were in close agreement with the experimental chromatograms from a series of single-component or mixture pulse tests that were performed under various feed concentrations and flow rates. It was also found that the Langmuir-Freundlich isotherm parameters of each enantiomer were largely affected by temperature. Such a marked dependence of the parameters on temperature was investigated quantitatively. The results of such an investigation indicated that as the temperature decreases, the adsorption affinities of both enantiomers become higher and the heterogeneity of the Chirosil-SCA becomes more pronounced.     

Stereoisomeric flavor compounds. Part LXV: Preparative resolution of the enantiomers of chiral dihydrofuranones by recycling chromatography

Preparative resolution of the enantiomers of several chiral dihydrofuranones, known to be important flavor compounds, has been achieved by combining the use of bonded β-cyclo-dextrin as chiral stationary phase with closed-loop recycling chromatography. The purity of the separated enantiomers has been determined by chirospecific capillary GC analysis, using heptakis(2,3-di-O-methyl-6-TBDMS)-β-cyclodextrin as the chiral stationary phase.