Adsorption of aqueous organic mixtures on a chiral stationary phase with bound antibiotic eremomycin.

The adsorption of two typical hydro-organic mobile phases, with methanol and acetonitrile as the organic component, on an antibiotic based chiral stationary phase (CSP) Nautilus-E was studied by the minor perturbation method. In both cases, the excess adsorption of water was positive over a wide range of concentrations from 0 to ∼75 or 90 mol% for MeOH or MeCN containing mobile phases, respectively. Such hydrophilic properties of the CSP were attributed to multiple polar functional groups of the chiral ligand and to the residual silanol groups of the silica support.

Effect of competing binding modes on retention in chromatography and capillary electrophoresis. A theoretical consideration.

A mathematical formalism has been developed to describe equilibrium in a system involving a single selector and a selectand molecule capable of binding to this selector by different modes. The generalization of this model to a multiselector system has also been considered. Applications of the developed equations in chromatography and CE are discussed.