Chiral compounds analysis pollutants

As in the case of chromatography, a chiral selector is also required in CE for enantiomeric resolution. Generally, suitable chiral compounds are used in the background electrolyte (BGE) as additives and hence are called chiral selectors or chiral BGE additives. There are only a few publications available that deal with the chiral resolution on a capillary coated with the chiral selector in CE. The analysis of the chiral pollutants discussed in this chapter is restricted only to using chiral selectors in the BGE. The most commonly used chiral BGE additives are cyclo-dextrins, macrocyclic glycopeptide antibiotics, proteins, crown ethers, ligand exchangers, and alkaloids.A list of these chiral BGE additives is presented in Table 1. 

Capillary electrophoresis has been used for the analysis of chiral pollutants, e.g., pesticides, polynuclear-aromatic hydrocarbons, amines, carbonyl compounds, surfactants, dyes, and other toxic compounds. Moreover, CE has also been utilized to separate the structural isomers of various... 

Chiral analysis of trace pollutants in complex environmental samples has typically required laborious and time-consuming fractionation steps before instrumental determination of the target analytes [57]. Heart-cut multidimensional gas chromatography represents a valuable alternative to these approaches that efficiently contributes to reduce sample manipulation. However, it can also be rather tedious because only a limited number of target compounds can be transferred to the second column in a single run (Chapter 1). 

CE has been used for the analysis of chiral pollutants, e.g., pesticides, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, amines, carbonyl compounds, surfactants, dyes, and other toxic compounds. Moreover, CE has also been utilized to separate the structural isomers of various toxic pollutants such as phenols, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, and so on. Sarac, Chankvetadze, and Blaschke " resolved the enantiomers of 2-hydrazino-2-methyl-3-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)propanoic acid using CD as the BGE additive. The CDs used were native, neutral, and ionic in nature with phosphate buffer as BGE. Welseloh, Wolf, and Konig investigated the CE method for the separation of biphenyls, using a phosphate buffer as BGE with CD as the chiral additive. Miura et al., used CE for the chiral resolution of seven phenoxy acid herbicides using methylated CDs as the BGE additives. Furthermore, the same group resolved 2-(4-chlorophenoxy) propionic acid (MCPP), 2-(2,4-dichlorophenoxy) propionic acid (DCPP), (2,4-dichlorophenoxy) acetic acid (2,4-D), 2-(4-chlorophenoxy) propionic acid (2,4-CPPA), [(2,4,5-... 

UV detection is used in most chiral analysis by HPLC and other liquid chromatographic modalities. However, some other detectors, such as conductivity, fluorescent and refractive index types, are also used. The choice of detector depends on the properties of the racemic compound to be resolved [41, 144]. Chiroptical detectors, which are based on the principle of polarimetry [145] or circular dichroism [146, 147], are also available. The enantiomer (+)- or (—)-notation is determined by these detectors. Some organochlorine pesticides are not UV-sensitive, and hence they are difficult to detect in liquid chromatography. The detection of these types of pollutant can be achieved by using a mass spectrometry (MS) detector, and therefore LC-MS instruments are now being put on the market for routine use [148, 149]. 

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