Ion-pair reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography for trace metal preconcentration followed by ion-interaction chromatography

Ion-interaction chromatography of Plasmocorinth B (a disulphonated azo dye) complexes of Co(III), Cu(II), Fe(III), Ga(III), In(III), Ni(II), V(V) and Zr(IV) was studied. The behaviour of two different reversed-phase C₁₈ columns (5 and 10 μm) was compared and an on-line enrichment procedure was developed following the optimization of eluent (pH, ligand concentration, ionic strength and organic modifier). The described technique, applied to the analysis of metal ions at μg/1 levels in natural waters, gave satisfactory precision and accuracy in comparison with inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopic results.     

Models of retention of adamantylamidrazones in reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography

Rules governing the chromatographic behavior of some amidrazones of the adamantane series were studied under the conditions of reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography. The characteristics of the retention of sorbates in elution by aqueous-acetonitrile phases with various compositions were calculated. Correlations between the structure and physicochemical characteristics of sorbate molecules and their retention were studied.     

Faster analysis by reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography

Summary Many analysts are not taking full advantage of the high speed possibilities of modern LC. Some analytical procedures reported in the literature, and many in regular use in control laboratories, could be achieved in less time without loss in precision. Some factors which affect retention times are discussed and the advantages and disadvantages of employing shorter column lengths and finer packing materials in reversed-phase HPLC are examined. The effect on efficiency of increased flow rates with 10,5 and 3 m ODS materials is shown. The ability to couple shorter column lengths without loss of efficiency is also demonstrated. This allows a minimum length to be selected that gives adequate resolution. Examples of high speed separations are shown and limitations in state of the art HPLC equipment and chromatographic data systems are discussed briefly.Presented at the 14th International Symposium on Chromatography London, September, 1982     

Indirect detection in reversed-phase liquid chromatography: Ion-pair retention models for cations on polystyrene polymers

Summary The distribution equilibria of cationic compounds in reversed-phase chromatographic systems (ion-pair chromatography) have been studied on the basis of their effect on a detectable mobile phase component. The solid phase was a polystyrene-divinylbenzene copolymer and the detectable component, a quaternary ammonium ion, 1-methylpyridine. The solutes were mono- and divalent amines and quaternary ammonium ions. The cations can be retained by ion-pair adsorption and ion exchange. Expressions for the ion-pair retention of the solutes and the mobile phase cation (system peak) have been developed assuming Langmuir distribution of ion pairs to a solid phase with one kind of binding site. The validity of the expressions has been tested by evaluation of ion-pair distribution constants using non-linear curve fitting techniques. Good agreement for the constants of common ion pairs was obtained from different kinds of capacity ratio expressions. Ion exchange retention can appear beside ion-pair retention, and it has been observed in the pH range 1.6–6.1. The effect depends not only on cations in the mobile phase, but also on the nature of the buffering systems.     

Prediction of peptide retention time in reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography.

Peptide retention in reversed-phase chromatography depends mainly on the amino acid composition of peptides and can therefore be predicted by summing the relative hydrophobic contributions of each constitutive amino acid residue. The prediction is correct for small peptides but overestimates the retention times of peptides larger than 10-15 residues. A new prediction model is proposed in which the contribution to peptide retention of each amino acid residue is not a constant but a decreasing function of peptide length. From the retention times of 104 peptides, the parameters of decreasing functions were estimated by a non-linear multiple regression analysis. The contribution to peptide retention of charged, polar and non-polar residues appears to be differently affected by peptide length. The secondary structure of most peptides during reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography could be responsible for this. The high correlation between the predicted and observed retention times of peptides which were not used to establish the model indicates a good predictive accuracy of the new model.     

Porphyrin analysis by reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography: biomedical applications

Reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography has considerable advantages in porphyrin analysis since many of the extraction and esterification steps required for normal-phase high-performance liquid chromatography can be eliminated. This technique is of increasing importance for the diagnosis of porphyrias and in other clinical and experimental studies of porphyrins.     

Purification of crude DNA oligonucleotides by solid-phase extraction and reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography

Purification of target oligodeoxyribonucleotides from failure sequence by-products of synthesis is often required for polymerase chain reaction primers, DNA sequencing and other oligonucleotide applications. We have developed purification protocols based on a reversed-phase mechanism ("trityl on" purification) using a 96-well Oasis HLB extraction plate. The Oasis HLB sorbent combines excellent pH stability with a high loading capacity allowing for single-step purification of 0.2 microM scale synthesis. After sample loading and washing, the oligonucleotide trityl group is cleaved on the plate with 2% trifluoroacetic acid. Target DNA is eluted with acetonitrile-0.36 mM triethylamine acetate, pH 11.3 (10:90, v/v). Typical yield of purified product is 60-95%. Final purity, measured by capillary gel electrophoresis, was found to be 90% or greater. Alternatively, highly pure oligonucleotides can be obtained by a RP-HPLC "trityl off" method using an XTerra C18 column. The use of volatile triethylamine acetate buffer as an ion-pair for RP-HPLC eliminates the need for further desalting.     

Indirect detection in reversed-phase liquid chromatography: Ion-pair retention models for ionic compounds on μ Bondapak phenyl

Summary Retention models for ionic compounds in reversed-phase ion-pair chromatographic systems have been developed on the basis of the capacity ratios of solutes and ionic mobile phase components using indirect detection. The binding to the adsorbent, μBondapak Phenyl, has been expressed by ion-pair distribution constants and tested in the retention models by non-linear regression. All the ionic compounds followed adsorption models of the Langmuir type comprising two kinds of binding sites with widely different adsorption capacities and binding constants. The results indicate certain differences between the two sites regarding the binding of cationic and anionic components, respectively.     

New practical algorithm for modelling retention times in gradient reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography

Computer models have been widely used to predict the chromatographic behaviour of liquid chromatography systems. With the introduction of mass spectrometric detection and the use of lower mobile phase flow rates with conventional LC equipment, the influence of the dwell volume on the shape of the gradient curve becomes an issue in predicting the retention times. A new straight forward algorithm is proposed for the modelling of retention times in reversed-phase LC, taking the effect of the dwell volume on the gradient shape into account. The results show that the dwell volume has a large effect at lower flow rates and on the retention times of the analytes eluting at the end of fast gradient curves. The proposed model is able to make reliable predictions and can be helpful in LC-MS method development.     

Ion-pair reversed-phase and low-molecular-weight aqueous gel permeation high-performance liquid chromatography methods for the determination of amoxicillin oligomers

Summary Polymeric substances formed from concentrated sodium amoxicillin in an aqueous solution have been separated using two high-performance liquid chromatographic methods. We used a C₁₈ reversed-phase column with tetrabutylammonium chloride as an ion-pairing agent with an acetonitrile gradient and a TSKgel G2500PWxl column with water as the solvent for gel permeation chromatography. The separated materials, ranging in size from the monomer to the tetramer, have been characterized by functional-group chemical analysis, while the identification of the piperazine-2,5-dione was done using a pure standard. A greater number of peaks which were also better defined were obtained using the ion-pair reversed-phase method, and open and closed beta-lactam ring polymer forms could be distinguished. Using the gel permeation method, only a few monomer, piperazine-2,5-dione, dimer, trimer and combined amoxicillin trimer and tetramer peaks were obtained with water, although those obtained were quite well defined. The data on the time-course of formation of the oligomers and the amoxicillin degradation product were virtually identical by both methods. In some countries, particularly the UK, the name of the compound is amoxycillin.     

Effects of amine modifiers on retention and peak shape in reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography

A systematic evaluation of the effects of 15 different amine modifiers on the retention and peak symmetry of three solutes, a primary, a secondary, and a tertiary amine, is presented. Using automated experimentation, mobile phase combinations for each modifier over a pH range of 2.5 to 8 were investigated. The effect of changing the sodium ion concentration of the mobile phase was also examined. The importance of hydrophobic, ion exchange, and hydrogen bonding interactions as mechanisms for retention and peak symmetry of positively charged solutes is discussed.     

Study on the retention behaviour of platinum metal complexes in reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography

The separation and determination of Os(IV), Ir(IV), Pt(II), Ru(III), Co(II) and Ni(II) complexes with 2-(6-methyl-2-benzo-thiazolylazo)-5-diethylaminophenol (MBTAE) was studied on RP-HPLC. The effects of methanol concentration, pH-value of the mobile phase, column temperature (T), total flow rate and foreign ions on the retention behaviour have been investigated in detail. It has been shown that the logarithm of the capacity factor (ln k) is in linear relation to the methanol concentration of the mobile phase and the reciprocal of the column temperature (T). The six complexes can be separated within 30 min in a methanol-buffer system.     

Molecular species analysis of phosphatidylcholine by reversed-phase ion-pair high-performance liquid chromatography

The retention behavior of molecular species of phosphatidylcholine (PC) is studied by reversed-phase (RP) ion-pair high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Mobile phases contain tetraalkyl ammonium phosphates (TAAPs) in methano-acetonitrile-water. The stationary phase is alkyl-bonded silica. Competitive interactions of TAAPs, analyte solutes, and an RP-HPLC column result in reduced retention of PC molecular species. PC molecular species are eluted at longer retention times with a larger size of TAAP in the mobile phase, and an increase in the TAAP concentration invariably causes a decrease in PC molecular species retention times. There is a linear correlation between the logarithmic retention factors (k) of PC molecular species and the total number of carbon atoms of TAAP, and the logarithm of k values of PC molecular species can be approximated as a linear function of the logarithm of the counter-ion concentration. There is found to be no distinct dependence between k values of PC molecular species and the mobile phase pH.     

Context-dependent effects on the hydrophilicity/hydrophobicity of side-chains during reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography: Implications for prediction of peptide retention behaviour

The present study set out to investigate whether observed relative hydrophilicity/hydrophobicity values of positively charged side-chains (with Lys and Arg as representative side-chains) or hydrophobic side-chains (with Ile as the representative side-chain) were context-dependent, i.e., did such measured values vary depending on characteristics of the peptides within which such side-chains are substituted (overall peptide hydrophobicity, number of positive charges) and/or properties of the mobile phase (anionic counterions of varying hydrophobicity and concentration)? Reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) was applied to two series of four synthetic peptide analogues (+1, +2, +3 and +4 net charge), the only difference between the two peptide series being the substitution of one hydrophobic Ile residue for a Gly residue, in the presence of anionic ion-pairing reagents of varying hydrophobicity (HCOOH approximately H3PO4 < TFA < PFPA < HFBA) and concentration (2-50 mM). RP-HPLC of these peptide series revealed that the relative hydrophilicity of Lys and Arg side-chains in the peptides increased with peptide hydrophobicity. In addition the relative hydrophobicity of Ile decreased dramatically with an increase in the number of positive charges in the peptide, this hydrophobicity decrease being of greater magnitude as the hydrophobicity of the anionic ion-pairing reagent increased. These results have significant implications in the prediction of peptide retention times for proteomic applications.     

Influence of hydrolysis, purification, and calibration method on furosine determination using Ion-pair reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography

The influence of HCI concentration (6M, 8M, and 10M) and the ratio of sample protein to acid (1 or 5 mg of protein per mL of acid) on furosine formation during sample hydrolysis is studied. The conditions that maximize furosine formation are 10M HCI in the ratio of 1 mg of protein to 1 mL of acid. Purification of the hydrolysate by solid-phase extraction is also considered by examining the effect of hydrolysate volume and volume of 3M HCI used to elute the furosine. Furosine quantitation is carried out using the standard additions and external standard methods. The results indicate that there is no interference by the sample matrix and that external calibration is adequate.