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- Liquid chromatography (LC) has been criticized for using toxic solvents, leading to the exploration of "greener" methods like supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) and enhanced fluidity liquid chromatography (EFLC) for complex analyses.
- The study modifies the Analytical Method Greenness Score (AMGS) to factor in the cycle time of instruments, challenging the perception that SFC and EFLC are always the most environmentally friendly options.
- By applying this modified metric to the separation of tobacco alkaloid enantiomers, the researchers demonstrated that retention patterns vary significantly, helping analytical chemists better assess the environmental impact of their methods.
Article Abstract
Background: In the past three decades, liquid chromatography (LC) has been recognized as a significant environmental, health, and safety burden due to its heavy reliance on toxic organic solvents. Various chromatographic modes are in vogue today for complex analyses, such as sub/supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) and enhanced fluidity liquid chromatography (EFLC). These modes are often advertised as "universally green" compared to the traditional allliquid reversed (RPLC) and normal phases (NPLC). Quantitative greenness evaluations must be done to validate or invalidate this assumption and allow separation scientists to make educated choices when deciding on what mode to use.
Results: In this work, we modify the Analytical Method Greenness Score (AMGS) to include the cycle time of the instrument, and with the help of the first-order optimality condition (by setting the AMGS gradient = 0), we show that SFC and EFLC are not always the greenest option as they are often thought to be. Most of the greenness metrics have ignored the cycle time of instruments, yet this key component changes the entire AMGS response to flow rate. The complex case of separating tobacco alkaloid enantiomers (nicotine, nornicotine, anabasine, and anatabine) was selected as an illustrative example for comparing and contrasting separation modes using the modified greenness metric. These enantiomers have been selected due to their notorious difficulty in separation over the past 30 years. Using this family of molecules, four unique retention patterns were observed covering a wide variety of retention phenomena seen in small molecule enantioseparations.
Significance: The modified AMGS metric will assist practicing analytical chemists in assessing the environmental impact of their separation methods from a single run in a given chromatographic mode. The proposed methodology identifies the minimum AMGS score corresponding to the greenest separation for routine chemical analysis.
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