High Performance Liquid Chromatography Separations Using Columns Packed with Spherical ODS Particles. III. Effect of Column Dimensions on the Resolution of a Complex Mixture

Abstract

Separations on short columns, (3 and 5 cm, packed with 3 μ ODS spherical materials) and somewhat larger ones (10 cm and 20 cm columns having 2.1 mm and 4.6 mm diameters packed with 5 μ ODS spherical materials) were compared using Aroclor 1254. With simple mixtures, the results showed that short columns can give separations comparable with those on longer columns when the percentage of the organic modifier in the mobile phase is adjusted. This was not so with more complex mixture. The results also showed that columns which have a comparable volume do not produce comparable separation. The longer column, 200 mm × 2.1 mm gave better resolution than the shorter 50 mm × 4 mm column. Also a shorter column, (100 mm × 4.6 mm), which had double the volume of a longer column. (200 mm × 2.1 mm), gave better resolution of the Aroclor 1254 test solution.