Brush-type phase

The most popular bonded phases are, without doubt, the reverse phases which consist solely of aliphatic hydrocarbon chains bonded to the silica. Reverse phases interact dispersively with solvent and solute molecules and, as a consequence, are employed with very polar solvents or aqueous solvent mixtures such as methanol/water and acetonitrile/water mixtures. The most commonly used reverse phase appears to be the brush type phase with aliphatic chains having four, eight or eighteen carbon atom chains attached. These types of reverse phase have been termed C4, C8 and Cl8 phases respectively. The C8... 

New brush-type phases (donor-acceptor interactions) are appearing all the time. " Examples are stationary phases comprising quinine derivatives and trichloro-dicyanophenyl-L-a-amino acids as chiral selectors. Quinine carbamates, which are suitable for the separation of acidic molecules through an ionic interaction with the basic quinine group, are also commonly used but in general they are classified with the anion-exchange type of chiral selectors (see further) because of their interaction mechanism, even though r-donor, r-acceptor properties occur. (Some separations on Pirkle-type CSPs are shown in Table 2.)... 

Brush type phases always include dipole and hydrogen bonding interactions. 

The most successful and broadly applied chiral stationary phases comprise the cellu-lose-and amylose-based phases developed by Okamoto (Chiracel and Chiralpak) (39), brush-type phases developed by Pirkle (40),... 

Mechanistic considerations (e.g., the extensive work published on brush-type phases) or the practitioner s experience might help to select a chiral stationary phase (CSP) for initial work. Scouting for the best CSP/mobile phase combination can be automated by using automated solvent and column switching. More than 100 different CSPs have been reported in the literature to date. Stationary phases for chiral pSFC have been prepared from the chiral pool by modifying small molecules, like amino acids or alkaloids, by the deriva-tization of polymers such as carbohydrates, or by bonding of macrocycles. Also, synthetic selectors such as the brush-type ( Pirkle ) phases, helical poly(meth) acrylates, polysiloxanes and polysiloxane copolymers, and chiral selectors physically coated onto graphite surfaces have been used as stationary phases. 

With chromatographic production processes the elution order of the enantiomers is of importance. In SMB processes the raffinate enantiomer can often be obtained with better economics as it is recovered at higher purities and concentrations. If the CSP offers the possibility of choosing one of the two optically active forms of the selector, the adsorbent on which the desired enantiomer elutes first should be chosen. This option can be used especially with the brush-type phases with monomolec-ular chiral selectors. Even if the CSP is not available in both forms, the elution order should be checked carefully as the elution order might be reversed on two very similar adsorbents or with two similar mobile phase combinations. Okamoto (1991) and Dingenen (1994) have shown that by changing only from 1-propanol to 2-propanol, respectively with 1-butanol, the elution order on a cellulose-based CSP might reverse. 

Indicates chiral carbons. The chirality of the phases is not specified here some of the brush-type phases are available in both enantiomeric forms. The chirality is given for cellulose, amylose, cyclodextrin, vancomycin, and the proteins. 

Fig. 8. From left to right schematic representation of pure and coated polysaccharide phases, brush-type phase, protein phase.

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