Cavity inclusion, based

Chemical Sensing Based on Cavity Inclusion Sensing Based on Interactions with Nonpolar Moieties of Guests... 

Macaudiere et al. first reported the enantiomeric separation of racemic phosphine oxides and amides on native cyclodextrin-based CSPs under subcritical conditions [53]. The separations obtained were indicative of inclusion complexation. When the CO,-methanol eluent used in SFC was replaced with hexane-ethanol in LC, reduced selectivity was observed. The authors proposed that the smaller size of the CO, molecule made it less likely than hexane to compete with the analyte for the cyclodextrin cavity. 

In relation to separation of nucleotides, Hoffman61 found that adenine nucleotides interacted most strongly with cycloheptaamylose, presumably by inclusion of the base within the cavity of cyclodextrin. When epichlorohydrin-cross-linked cycloheptaamylose gel was used as a stationary phase for nucleic acid chromatography, adenine-containing compounds were retarded most strongly. 

In common with similar approaches that relate solvent accessible surface to cavity free energy90-93, the simple SMI model required careful parameterization, and assumed that atoms interacted with solvent in a manner independent of their immediate molecular environment and their hybridization76. In more recent implementations of the SMx approach, ak parameters are selected for particular atoms based on properties determined from the SCF wavefunction that is evaluated during calculation of the solute and solvent polarization energies27. On the other hand, the inclusion of more parameters in the solvation model requires access to substantial amounts of experimental data for the solvation free energies of molecules in the training set94 95. 

Further examples of cavitand-type structures include hw-cyclo-triveratrylene derivatives such as (257) (Gabard Collet, 1981 Canceill, Lacombe Collet, 1986) and the bowl-shaped hosts represented by (258) - the base of the bowl is formed by the four methyl groups. Once again, the shape of these molecules is maintained by conformational constraints. Cavitand (258) is able to accommodate simple solvent molecules such as dichloromethane and chloroform. Moreover, its cavity is large enough to form inclusion complexes with up to four molecules of water (Moran, Karbach Cram, 1982). 

A chiral selector can also be dissolved in the IL solvent and be subsequently coated on the capillary wall [38]. In this approach, the achiral [C4CiIm]Cl was used to dissolve permethylated p-cyclodextrin (p-PM) and dimethylated P-cyclodextrin (p-DM). The chromatographic separations obtained from these two columns were compared to two commercially available CSPs based on p-PM and p-DM dissolved in polydimethylsiloxane. From a set of 64 chiral molecules separafed by fhe commercial p-PM column, only 21 of the molecules were enantioresolved by the IL-based p-PM column. Likewise, from a collecfion of 80 analytes separated by the p-DM column, only 16 analytes could be separated on the IL-based p-DM column. The authors also noted a considerable enhancement in the separation efficiency of fhe IL-based CSPs. This resulf, coupled to fhe loss of enantioselecfivify for mosf separations, suggests that the imidazolium cation may occupy the cavity of the cyclodextrin preventing the analyte-cyclodextrin inclusion complex-ation that is crucial for chiral recognition. The ability for ILs to form inclusion complexes wifh cyclodextrin molecules has been recently studied by Tran and coworkers using near-infrared spectromefry [39]. 

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