Dual-gradient capillary electrochromatography by varying the mobile phase composition and applied voltage.

Dual-gradient capillary electrochromatography (DG-CEC) was developed to provide superior performance with regard to the separation of ionized analytes; in this method, both the eluent composition and the applied voltage are varied during the separation procedure. As for the gradient in the eluent composition, a shift in the pH is employed to control not only the electrophoretic mobility, but also the retention factor of the analytes. The dual-gradient method was shown to be effective in increasing the resolution and reducing the chromatographic period of ionized analytes. Fourteen kinds of o-phthalaldehyde labeled amino acids were separated within 8 min using DG-CEC with multistage enlargement in the applied voltage. The separation efficiency increased particularly for highly retained amino acids in the dual-gradient, as compared to those in the ordinary single-gradient for the eluent.     

Theoretical calculations of magnetic properties of the α-, β-, γ- and δ-phases of p-NPNN

Hybrid density functional theory (HDFT) calculations have been carried out for clusters of p-NPNN extracted from the experimental crystal structures of the α-, β-, γ- and δ-phases in order to investigate the weak magnetic interactions between the organic radicals theoretically. From the systematic HDFT calculations for β- and γ-phase p-NPNN clusters, it was found that the magnetic long-range ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic orderings would be presented in the β- and γ-phase p-NPNN crystals, respectively.