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Simple etching of the capillary end served to decouple the electrophoretic current from that of amperometric detection, permitting quantitation of attomole levels of catecholamines from brain microdialyzates.24 A postcolumn reactor using bromine generated electrochemically in situ has been used in the detection of peptide thiols, such as glutathione and cysteine, separated by capillary electrophoresis.25... 

Miniaturized columns have provided a decisive advantage in speed. Uracil, phenol, and benzyl alcohol were separated in 20 seconds by CEC in an 18 mm column with a propyl reversed phase.29 A19 cm electrophoretic channel was etched into a glass wafer, filled with a y-cyclodextrin buffer, and used to resolve chiral amino acids from a meteorite in 4 minutes.30 A 6 cm channel equipped with a syringe pump to automate sample derivatization was used to separate amino acids modified with fluorescein isothiocyanate.31 Nanovials have been used to perform tryptic digests on the 15 nL scale for subsequent separation on capillary Electrophoresis.32 A microcolumn has also been used to generate fractions representing time-points of digestion from a 40 pL sample.33 A disposable nanoelectrospray emitter has been... 

FIGURE 15.4 Computer record of a two-dimensional capillary electrophoresis analysis of a protein homogenate prepared from ahiopsy obtained from the fundus of a Barrett s esophagus patient. The data were generated hy performing 1 s transfers between capillaries and a 9 s second-dimension separation. The first-dimension separation employed the same buffer as the CSE separation in Fig. 15.1 and the second-dimension separation employed the same buffer as the MECC separation in Fig. 15.1. 

Valproic acid has been determined in human serum using capillary electrophoresis and indirect laser induced fluorescence detection [26], The extract is injected at 75 mbar for 0.05 min onto a capillary column (74.4 cm x 50 pm i.d., effective length 56.2 cm). The optimized buffer 2.5 mM borate/phosphate of pH 8.4 with 6 pL fluorescein to generate the background signal. Separation was carried out at 30 kV and indirect fluorescence detection was achieved at 488/529 nm. A linear calibration was found in the range 4.5 144 pg/mL (0 = 0.9947) and detection and quantitation limits were 0.9 and 3.0 pg/mL. Polonski et al. [27] described a capillary isotache-phoresis method for sodium valproate in blood. The sample was injected into a column of an EKI 02 instrument for separation. The instrument incorporated a conductimetric detector. The mobile phase was 0.01 M histidine containing 0.1% methylhydroxycellulose at pH 5.5. The detection limit was 2 pg/mL. 

Capillary electrochromatography-mass spectrometry (CE-MS), 4 641 Capillary electrodes, 14 27 Capillary electrophoresis (CE), 4 602-603, 631-633 6 385 9 751-752 antibody based columns with, 6 402 chiral additives, 6 77-79 applications, 4 641 basic principles, 4 606-609 detectors, 4 634-635 for DNA analysis, 4 636-637 flow profiles generated, 4 608 instrumentation, 4 633 as microfluidic assay technique,... 

This is a more recently developed technique which is a hybrid between HPLC and capillary electrophoresis. The capillary is packed with HPLC media and the mobile phases are aqueous buffers. A voltage is applied to generate an electroendosmotic flow and the analytes separate by interaction with the stationary phase and electrophoretic forces no pump being required as for HPLC. Improved separation efficiencies have been reported. 

Methods development starts with a relatively high number of techniques to characterize and test samples. The number of protocols is often reduced once the critical parameters and the methods that identify them have been defined. The analyst must evaluate the initial techniques with respect to their purposes. If the goal is to generate research data, the practicality of the method and its limitations are not of primary concern if the goal is to use the technique as part of a test procedure, it has to be evaluated in terms of its potential to meet full validation. Critical procedures (e.g., release testing) that cannot be validated will bring a project to an expensive halt. For these reasons, this chapter provides basic principles as well as limitations of capillary electrophoresis (CE) as applied to the analysis of real biopharmaceutical molecules. 

Development of batch process in 1987, coupled with fluorescent dideoxy-terminator labeling on target DNA, has allowed determination of fluorescence-tagged DNA sequences, separated on high-resolution slab-gels and more recently separated by capillary electrophoresis. Both separation methods are capable of sequencing up to 700 bases for each reaction. The automated DNA sequencer can simultaneously process up to 100 samples at a time within 3 hours and generate data for 100 unique DNA sequences with about 600-700 bases each. 

E. Turiel and A. Martin-Esteban, Molecularly Imprinted Polymers Toward Highly Selective Stationary Phases in Liquid Chromatography and Capillary Electrophoresis, Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 2004,378, 1876 K. Haupt, Molecularly Imprinted Polymers The Next Generation, Anal. Chem. 2003, 75, 376A. 

EC detection methods have often been considered incompatible with electrophoresis because the combination of high voltages applied for electrophoretic separation and sensitive electrodes is seen as a conflict. However, traditional capillary electrophoresis takes advantage of many of them and with appropriate designs of the detector cell the separation voltage does not interfere with the EC measurement. On the other hand, there are several reports in which this interference is taken as a benefit for generating new detection approaches (see Sections 34.1.3.1 and 34.1.3.2) [52-54],... 

Electrodriven separations, such as capillary electrophoresis (CE) and capillary electrochromatography (CEC), are based on the different electrophoretic mobilities in an electric field of the molecules to be separated. They provide a higher separation efficiency then conventional HPLC since the electrophoretic flow (EOF) has a plug-flow profile. Whereas the mobile phase in CE is driven only by the electro-osmotic flow, it is generated in CEC by a combination of EOF and pressure. CEC has a high sample capacity which favours its hyphenation with NMR. 

Leland and Powell also studied ECL obtained from reaction of [(bpy)3Ru]3+ with trialkylamines [47], Since the mechanism involves an electron transfer from the amine to Ru3+, there exists an inverse relationship between the first ionization potential of the amine and ECL intensity. The relative intensity of [(bpy)3Ru]2+ ECL was found to be ordered tertiary > secondary > primary. Quaternary ammonium ions and aromatic amines do not produce ECL with Ru(II) diimine complexes. Brune and Bobbitt subsequently reported the detection of amino acids by [(bpy)3Ru]2+ ECL [28,29], Employing capillary electrophoresis for separation, the presence of various amino acids can be detected directly by reaction with [(bpy)3Ru]3+ generated in situ with up to femtomo-lar sensitivity and with a selectivity for proline and leucine over other amino acids. The formation of an amine radical cation intermediate is characteristic of proposed mechanisms of both aliphatic amines and amino acids. 

Magnuson, M.L., Creed, J.T. and Brockhoffl C.A. (1997) Speciation of arsenic compounds in drinking water by capillary electrophoresis with hydrodynamically modified electro-osmotic flow detected through hydride generation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry with a membrane gas-liquid separator./. Anal. At. Spectrom., 12, 689-695. 

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