Application trends

Reaction monitoring is an important use for HPLC, both in the laboratory and in production. I have followed reactions in a 50-mL stirred, round bottom flask and in a stirred 6,000-gallon reactor. The HPLC becomes your window-on-the-reactor. It lets you analyze starting materials (QA or quality assurance), reaction intermediates, by-products, and final product (QC or quality control). 

What can we get out of all this that will help us the next time we run into a new separation  

mobile phase and column we saw that most of the small molecule separations could be made on a C18 column in An/buffer water, with the exception of charged molecules and carbohydrates, which are too water soluble. We saw a range of polarity from fat-soluble vitamins, steroids, triglycerides, chlorinated pesticides eluting in 60-80% An/water, to carbamate, phosphate pesticides, anticonvulsants, antidepressants at 40-50% An/water, to nucleosides, nucleotides, aspirin, and water-soluble vitamins at 5-10% An/water. If you know something about the compound s structure or its solubility, you have a good clue as to what mobile phase can be used for its separation. 

It may not sound like much help, but with these as guides, and a little intelligent thought, you should be able to separate most of the compounds you will encounter. The rest are research projects and, therefore, publishable, so they are not a complete loss. 

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