Aqueous size exclusion chromatography applied to polymer analysis: experimental conditions and molecular weight calibration curves.

Aqueous mode size exclusion chromatography (SEC) was employed for the analysis and construction of molecular weight (MW) calibration curves of three water-soluble polymers, namely, polyethylene glycol, polyethylene oxide, and polyacrylic acid sodium salt. Several calibration curves were obtained, varying chromatographic conditions such as columns arrangement, ionic strength, temperature and pH, in addition trends in polymeric chromatographic behavior were examined. The variation in SEC distribution coefficients at different temperatures was found to be below 10 %, indicating that the studied polymers follow an ideal SEC mechanism under the tested conditions.

Comprehensive two-dimensional liquid chromatographic method (Chiral × Achiral) for the simultaneous resolution of pesticides.

This work demonstrates the potential of two-dimensional liquid chromatography (2D-LC) to increase the resolution capacity of multiple pesticides in a single analysis of samples that contain both chiral and achiral compounds. The setup is based on the combination of a chiral column in the first dimension and an achiral column in the second dimension using the on-line full comprehensive mode (LC × LC). This method was optimized for the separation of 24 pesticides (17 chiral and 7 achiral).

Study of enantioseparation of β-blockers using amylose tris(3-chloro-5-methylphenylcarbamate) as chiral stationary phase under polar-organic, reversed-phase and hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography conditions.

In this study, we describe the experimental variables influencing enantioseparation of twelve β-blockers when analyzed under polar-organic, reversed-phase and hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography conditions on a column with immobilized amylose tris(3-chloro-5-methylphenylcarbamate) as chiral stationary phase. Regarding polar-organic mode, two component mobile phases consisting of methanol, ethanol or acetonitrile with the addition of basic additives such as diethylamine, triethylamine, mono-ethanolamine, ethylendiamine or trifluoroacetic acid/diethylamine mixture were evaluated. Studies of retention at different temperatures were also performed.

Chiral separation of several pesticides on an immobilized amylose tris(3-chloro-5-methylphenylcarbamate) column under polar-organic conditions. Influence of mobile phase and temperature on enantioselectivity.

In this work, the use of different solvents and temperatures was explored, aiming to evaluate their influence on the enantioseparation of pesticides by HPLC in polar-organic conditions, employing a column containing immobilized amylose tris(3-chloro-5-methylphenyl-carbamate). The chiral separation of seventeen different pesticides widely used as herbicides, fungicides, insecticides and precursors were studied. The mobile phases included methanol, ethanol, iso-propanol, n-propanol and acetonitrile; either pure or containing additives such as diethylamine, trifluoroacetic acid, formic acid, acetic acid or mixtures thereof.

Chiral separation of aryloxyphenoxy-propionate herbicides in a permethyl-β-cyclodextrin based column. Influence of temperature and mobile phase composition on enantioselectivity.

We used a permethyl-β-cyclodextrin chiral stationary phase under reversed-phase conditions for the chiral separation of four aryloxyphenoxy-propionate herbicides (fenoxaprop-p-ethyl, quizalofop-p-ethyl and tefuryl, and haloxyfop-p-methyl) with mixtures of methanol, ethanol, 2-propanol, n-propanol, tert-butanol, or acetonitrile and water as mobile phases and investigated the influence of mobile phase composition and column temperature (from 0 to 50°C) on the separation. The retention factors (k) and selectivity factors (α) of all the herbicides investigated decreased with increasing temperature. The lnα versus 1/T and lnk versus 1/T plots for the enantiomers of the chiral pesticides were linear within the range of 0-50°C with all alcohol/water mixtures constituting the mobile phase, but the lnk versus 1/T plots were nonlinear for all the enantiomers chromatographed in acetonitrile/water mixtures.

Scope of partial least-squares regression applied to the enantiomeric composition determination of ketoprofen from strongly overlapped chromatographic profiles.

Valuable quantitative information could be obtained from strongly overlapped chromatographic profiles of two enantiomers by using proper chemometric methods. Complete separation profiles where the peaks are fully resolved are difficult to achieve in chiral separation methods, and this becomes a particularly severe problem in case that the analyst needs to measure the chiral purity, i.e.

Development of an ionic-liquid-based dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction method for the determination of antichagasic drugs in human breast milk: Optimization by central composite design.

Chagas disease constitutes a major public health problem in Latin America. Human breast milk is a biological sample of great importance for the analysis of therapeutic drugs, as unwanted exposure through breast milk could result in pharmacological effects in the nursing infant. Thus, the goal of breast milk drug analysis is to inquire to which extent a neonate may be exposed to a drug during lactation.

Partition coefficients of organic compounds between water and imidazolium-, pyridinium-, and phosphonium-based ionic liquids.

The partition coefficients, P IL/w, of several compounds, some of them of biological and pharmacological interest, between water and room-temperature ionic liquids based on the imidazolium, pyridinium, and phosphonium cations, namely 1-octyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate, N-octylpyridinium tetrafluorophosphate, trihexyl(tetradecyl)phosphonium chloride, trihexyl(tetradecyl)phosphonium bromide, trihexyl(tetradecyl)phosphonium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide, and trihexyl(tetradecyl)phosphonium dicyanamide, were accurately measured. In this way, we extended our database of partition coefficients in room-temperature ionic liquids previously reported. We employed the solvation parameter model with different probe molecules (the training set) to elucidate the chemical interactions involved in the partition process and discussed the most relevant differences among the three types of ionic liquids.

Analysis of non-polar heterocyclic aromatic amines in beefburguers by using microwave-assisted extraction and dispersive liquid-ionic liquid microextraction.

A new sample preparation procedure to determine six heterocyclic aromatic amines (3-Amino-1,4-dimethyl-5H-pirido[4,3-b]indole, 3-Amino-1-methyl-5H-pirido[4,3-b]indole, 2-amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo-[4,5-b]pyridine, 2-amino-9H-pyrido-[2,3-b] indole, 2-amino-3-methyl-9H-pyrido-[2,3-b] indole and 2-Amino-1,6-dimethylimidazo [4,5-b]-pyridine) in cooked beefburguers by using a combination of microwave-assisted solvent extraction and dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction with an ionic liquid generated in situ was used. The optimized microwave extraction procedure consisted of a clean-up step with n-heptane and a subsequent dissolution step in basic media to desorb the analytes from the matrix. Next, an aqueous solution of the ionic liquid 1-octyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluorborate and sodium hexafluorphosphate was added and a water-insoluble 1-octyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorphosphate was formed within the matrix sample.

A simple and efficient HPLC method for benznidazole dosage in human breast milk.

Background: Due to migration, Chagas disease is a significant public health problem in Latin America, and in other nonendemic regions. The 2 drugs currently available for the treatment, nifurtimox and benznidazole (BNZ), are associated with a high risk of toxicity in therapeutic doses. Excretion of drug into human breast milk is a potential source of unwanted exposure and pharmacologic effects in the nursing infant.

Development of a chiral stationary phase based on cinchonidine. Comparison with a quinine-based chiral column.

A chiral anion-exchanger stationary phase based on cinchonidine (CD) was developed. Two columns were packed with and without endcapping (EC) treatment (CD-chiral stationary phase[CD-CSP(EC)] and [CD-CSP], respectively) and studied for their ability to separate N-2,4-dinitrophenyl α-amino acids (DNP-amino acids) enantiomers over a temperature range of 10-40 °C with a hydro-organic buffer mobile phase. The more hydrophobic, endcapped stationary phase showed significantly larger retentive capacity than the non-endcapped one.

Effect of temperature and solvent composition on acid dissociation equilibria, I: Sequenced (s)(s)pKa determination of compounds commonly used as buffers in high performance liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectroscopy detection.

A new automated and rapid potentiometric method for determining the effect of organic-solvent composition on pK(a) has been developed. It is based on the measurements of pH values of buffer solutions of variable solvent compositions using a combined glass electrode. Additions of small volumes of one precisely thermostated solution into another, both containing exactly the same analytical concentrations of the buffer components, can produce continuous changes in the solvent composition.

Synthesis and evaluation of a chiral stationary phase based on quinine: enantioresolution of dinitrophenyl derivatives of α-amino acids.

The natural alkaloid quinine (QN) was immobilized on porous silica particles, and part of the material was subsequently endcapped with n-hexyl hydrocarbon chains. Two synthetic strategies for silanization of the support were first compared. These columns were thoroughly evaluated in order to study the influence of endcapping in the enantiorecognition features.

Predicting the partitioning of biological compounds between room-temperature ionic liquids and water by means of the solvation-parameter model.

The partition coefficients, P(IL/w), for different probe molecules as well as for compounds of biological interest between the room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate, [BMIM][PF(6)], 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate, [HMIM][PF(6)], 1-octyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate, [OMIM][BF(4)] and water were accurately measured. [BMIM][PF(6)] and [OMIM][BF(4)] were synthesized by adapting a procedure from the literature to a simpler, single-vessel and faster methodology, with a much lesser consumption of organic solvent. We employed the solvation-parameter model to elucidate the general chemical interactions involved in RTIL/water partitioning.

Conformational and structural determination of F(2)NC(O)F and F(2)NC(O)NCO. A joint experimental and theoretical study.

The vibrational properties of two difluoroaminocarbonyl species were analyzed by recording the FTIR spectra of the vapor for difluoroaminocarbonyl fluoride, F(2)NC(O)F, and difluoroaminocarbonyl isocyanate, F(2)NC(O)NCO. Moreover, the Raman spectrum of liquid F(2)NC(O)NCO was obtained. Vibrational assignments were made on the basis of a normal coordinate analysis and the evaluation of the band contours appearing in the FTIR spectrum of the vapor.