Chemiluminescence detection detectors

Supercritical fluid chromatography (SEC) was first reported in 1962, and applications of the technique rapidly increased following the introduction of commercially available instrumentation in the early 1980s due to the ability to determine thermally labile compounds using detection systems more commonly employed with GC. However, few applications of SEC have been published with regard to the determination of triazines. Recently, a chemiluminescence nitrogen detector was used with packed-column SEC and a methanol-modified CO2 mobile phase for the determination of atrazine, simazine, and propazine. Pressure and mobile phase gradients were used to demonstrate the efficacy of fhe fechnique. 

CLMD = chemiluminescence detection ECD = electron capture detector FID = flame ionization detector GC = gas chromatography HSD = halogen-spedfic detector ITD = ion trap detector MS = mass spectrometry NR = not reported sec = second... 

EM Fujinari, JD Manes. Nitrogen-specific detection of peptides in liquid chromatography with chemiluminescent nitrogen detector. J Chromatogr A 676 113-120, 1994. 

The choice of the proper stationary and mobile phases for the foregoing purpose would depend on several factors, such as the nature (polarity, stability in mobile phase) of the NOC analyzed and the availability/compatibility of the detector used. For example, if only a TEA is available as a detector, the use of an ion-exchange or a reversed-phase system is ruled out, because both require aqueous mobile phase for proper operation. Moisture in the mobile phase causes freeze-up of the cold traps in the TEA and also results in noisy response due to interference during chemiluminescence detection. Similarly, if one is using, as the detector the newly developed Hi-catalyzed denitrosation-TEA (62) or the photolytic cleavage-TEA (58), a reversed-phase system using aqueous mobile phase would be the method of choice. These detectors, however, have not been demonstrated to work in the normal-phase system. The use of an electrochemical detector will also be incompatible with an organic solvent as the mobile phase. 

Fujinary E, Manes JD, Bizanek R, Peptide content determination of crude synthetic peptides by reversed-phase liquid chromatography and nitrogen-specific detection with a chemiluminescent nitrogen detector, J. Chromatogr A, 743 85-89, 1996. 

Any sulfur-selective detector may be used e.g., electrolytic conductivity, flame photometric, or sulfur chemiluminescence. The detector must be capable of detecting less than 0.1 ppm v/v of carbonyl sulfide with a signal-to-noise ratio of 10 1. 

Chemiluminescence detection in capillary electrophoresis (CE) has attracted much attention as a promising way to offer excellent analytical selectivity and sensitivity. Several reagents, such as luminol, acridinium, peroxyoxalate, and tris(2,29-bipyridine)ruthenium(II) complex have been utilized. Since chemiluminescence detection is approximately 102—106 times more sensitive than spectrophotometric and fluorometric detections, its combination with isoelectric focusing may result in a highly sensitive analytical tool for amphoteric compounds, e.g., proteins and peptides. A detector using luminol-H202 chemiluminescence has been characterized in a very simple and inexpensive setup, but only pressure-driven mobilization of the zones was effective. [68],... 

A recent approach is the use of combustion followed by chemiluminescent detection of nitric oxide produced in the combustion (Drushell, 1977). The senior author s experience is that response of this detector apparently is dependent on the composition of the sample, and that therefore the instrument must be standardized with materials very similar to the unknown (Schuchardt, 1980). 

Gas chromatography with either sulfur chemiluminescence detection or atomic emission detection has been used for sulfur-selective detection. Selective sulfur and nitrogen gas chromatographic detectors, exemplified by the flame photometric detector (FPD) and the nitrogen-phosphorus detector (NPD), have been available for many years. However, these detectors have limited selectivity for the element over carbon, exhibit nonuniform response, and have other problems that limit their usefulness. 

Before considering detector characteristics and some recent developments in chemiluminescence detection, it should be noted that analytical applications of chemiluminescence involve two types of chemiluminescent response. In the first type, the chemiluminescent molecule is used as a detection label and is, therefore, present in limiting concentration relative to the reagents used to initiate the chemiluminescent reaction. The chemical reaction will therefore be pseudo first order. The slowest process in the sequence of events leading to light emission is the reaction itself, e.g., hydrolysis, bond-breaking, and rearrangements. From Eq. 

SPTD short-path thermal desorption unit CLND chemiluminescent nitrogen detector CL peroxyoxalate chemiluminescence detection CELL continuous liquid-liquid extraction. 

Thi,s chemiluminescent nitrogen detector for HPLC was first described in (23). The detection mechanism for nitrogen determination is shown below ... 

Looking for potential undetected peaks (non-chromophoric degradant) by alternative separations and/or detection such as MS [39], infrared spectroscopy [49], refractive index, chemiluminescence nitrogen detector, TLC (with U or acid/charring visualization), CAD, or ELSD... 

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