Chiral selectors enantioseparation

An alternative model has been proposed in which the chiral mobile-phase additive is thought to modify the conventional, achiral stationary phase in situ thus, dynamically generating a chiral stationary phase. In this case, the enantioseparation is governed by the differences in the association between the enantiomers and the chiral selector in the stationary phase. 

Avery recent study [128] deals with the comparison of two commercially available vancomycin-based CSPs with different surface coverage of the chiral selector in the enantioseparation of P-blockers and profens, by RP and POM separation modes. Higher retention and better resolution were obtained on the CSP with higher coverage of vancomycin in both the separation modes. However, in the case of pro fens, higher retention was not always accompanied by an improvement of the enantioselectivity in the RP mode. An accurate study of the influence of the mobile phase composition was also performed in both the separation modes. 

The [ -adrenoreceptors antagonists (also called [)-blockers) comprise a group of chiral drugs that are mostly used in the treatment of cardiovascular disorders such as hypertension, cardiac arrhythmia, or ischemic heart disease. Teicoplanin is the chiral selector most exploited for the enantioseparation of this class of compounds, followed by vancomycin. Several P-blockers have been analyzed, particularly in the... 

Tesafova, E., Bosdkovd, Z., and Zuskova, L, Enantioseparation of selected iV-tert-butyloxycarbonyl amino acids in high-performance liquid chromatography and capillary electrophoresis with a teicoplanin chiral selector. J. Chromatogr. A, 879, 147, 2000. 

Schmid, M.G. et al., Enantioseparation of dipeptides and tripeptides by micro-HPLC comparing teicoplanin and teicoplanin aglycone as chiral selectors, J. Bio-chem. Biophys. Methods, 61, 1,2004. 

Bergholdt et al. [27] used a short-end injection method combined with S- -CD as chiral selector to obtain fast enantioseparation of ormeloxifene and 15 of its analogs. 

More than 100 CSPs are commercially available nowadays, which should make the separation of any pair of enantiomers feasible. However, the enantiorecognition mechanisms involved in the chiral recognition between the analytes and the CSPs are complex and therefore the selection of the appropriate CSPs, depending on the structure of the analyte, is a difficult task. A common approach to develop a new enantioseparation is the stepwise trial-and-error approach based on detailed consideration of the enantiorecognition mechanisms between the chiral selector and the analyte, or on the analyst s experience, or on the consultation of literature or databases. However, this approach is time-consuming and often unsuccessful owing to the fact that achieving enantioresolution is often purely empirical... 

From the method development and robustness point of view, the temperature is a parameter that controls equilibria such as pK and enantiomer—chiral selector complexation, or induces structural changes in, e.g., proteins.For chiral separations, generally a lower temperature results in better enantioseparation, but even the opposite has been observed. Sometimes a raise in temperature does not so much affect the enantiomeric separation, but increases the resolution between an enantiomer and a matrix component. ... 

Armstrong, D. W., and Nair, U. B. (1997). Capillary electrophoretic enantioseparations using macrocyclic antibiotics as chiral selectors. Electrophoresis 18, 2331—2342. 

Cyclodextrins have significantly contributed to the development of enantioseparations in CE, where they represent the most widely used chiral selectors. On the other hand, due to its inherently high separation efficiency and diverse technical advantages, CE has contributed enormously to the better understanding of affinity interactions between CDs and chiral analytes. The following text summarizes the recent developments in this field (3-60). 

Capillary electrophoresis has been applied for the enantioselective determination of the binding constants of chiral drugs with cyclodextrins for basically the following two reasons (1) optimization of chiral selector concentration and (2) understanding the fine mechanisms of enantioseparations in CE. The first group of studies have been published mainly on the early stage of chiral CE development, whereas the second goal is followed in the most recent studies, mainly by Rizzi and Kremser (10,13) and Scriba et al. 

The existence of the aforementioned difference between the mobilities of transient diastereomeric complexes of the enantiomers with the chiral selector may have some important consequences in chiral CE. For instance, the enantioseparation can, in principle, be possible even in those cases when the binding constants of both enantiomers to a given chiral selector are the same. On the other hand, this may allow, in certain cases, observation of the reversal of the enantiomer migration order, depending on the concentration of the chiral selector (17). 

Baumy et al. (27) determined the binding constants for two 3,4-dihydro-2//-l-benzopyran derivatives of /3-CD. These binding constants were then used to calculate the optimal concentration of chiral selector for the enantioseparation of the two compounds. The calculation of the optimal concentration of the chiral selector was performed according to Eq. (18). Good agreement was found between the calculated and experimentally observed optimum concentrations for the two compounds. 

Engelhardt (61). Even more interesting can be the enantioseparation with equal binding constants of both enantiomers with the chiral selector but different mobility of the transient diastereomeric complexes. This is conceptually possible in chiral CE, in contrast to chromatographic techniques with immobilized chiral selectors (3,4). 

A Amini, U Paulsen-Sorman. Enantioseparation of local anaesthetic drugs by capillary zone electrophoresis with cyclodextrins as chiral selectors using a partial-filling technique. Electrophoresis 18 1019-1025, 1997. 

Since one or more of the interactions in these systems might originate from the stationary phase, only a two- or a one-point interaction between the solute and the selector is necessary for mechanisms (2) and (3) to occur [50]. However, some of the CMPAs used in HPLC [37,40,51,52] have also been used as chiral selectors in CE [53-56], which indicates that at least one of the separation mechanisms between the selector and enantiomers is selective complex formation in the mobile phase in these cases, since there is no stationary phase present in CE. A recent example by Yuan et al. [57] is presented in Eigure 17.1. The authors introduced the use of (R)-A,A,A-trimethyl-2-aminobutanol-bis(trifluoromethane-sulfon)imidate as the chiral selector for enantioseparation in HPLC, CE, and GC. This chiral liquid serves simultaneously as a chiral selector and a co-solvent. 

As discussed earlier, the concepts of chiral chromatography can be divided into two groups, the indirect and the direct mode. The indirect technique is based on the formation of covalently bonded diastereomers using an optically pure chiral derivatizing agent (CDA) and reacting it with the pair of enantiomers of the chiral analyte. The method of direct enantioseparation relies on the formation of reversible quasi diastereomeric transient molecule associates between the chiral selector, e.g., i /t)-SO, and the enantiomers of the chiral selectands, [R,S)-SAs [(Ry SA + (S)-SA] (Scheme 1). 

In addition to the classification of liquid chromatographic enantioseparation methods by technical description, these methods could further be classified according to the chemical structure of the diverse CSPs. The chiral selector moiety varies from large molecules, based on natural or synthetic polymers in which the chirality may be based on chiral subunits (monomers) or intrinsically on the total structure (e.g., helicity or chiral cavity), to low molecular weight molecules which are irreversibly and/or covalently bound to a rigid hard matrix, most often silica gel. 

In contrast to the various CSPs mentioned so far, but still based on covalently or at least very strongly adsorbed chiral selectors (from macromolecules to small molecules) to, usually, a silica surface, the principle of dynamically coating an achiral premodified silica to CSPs via chiral mobile phase additives (CMPA) has successfully been adapted for enantioseparation. The so-called reverse phase LC systems have predominantly been used, however, ion-pairing methods using nonaqueous mobile phases are also possible. 

Lammerhofer and Lindner [90] explained the chiral resolution of N-derivatized amino acids by CEC. The authors explained the formation of the transient diastereomeric ion-pairs between negatively charged analyte enantiomers and a positively charged chiral selector by multiple intermolecular interactions which might be differentially adsorbed to the ODS stationary phase. Furthermore, they claimed that the enantioseparation was achieved because of different observed mobilities of the analyte enantiomers originating from different ion-pair formation rates of the enantiomers and/or differential adsorption of the diastereoisomeric ion-pairs to the ODS stationary phase [90]. 

Olsson and Blomberg [141] enantioseparated omeprazole and its metabolite 5-hydroxyomeprazole using open tubular capillary electrochromatography with immobilized avidin as chiral selector. The separation was performed with open tubular capillary electrochromatography. The protein avidin was used as the chiral selector. Avidin was immobilized by a Schiffs base type of reaction where the protein was via glutral-dehyde covalently bonded to the amino-modified wall of a fused-silica capillary, 50 /an i.d. Both racemates were baseline resolved. Resolution... 

The first electrically driven enantioseparations involved the addition of a chiral selector to the mobile phase in CE. This selector is usually a complexing agent and acts as a pseudo-stationary phase. The separation is accomplished by the difference in the distibution equilibria between the pseudo-stationary phase and the enantiomers [134], The most common additives incorporated into these CE experiments were cyclodextrins and cyclodextrin derivatives [135-138], However, these experiments required the replacement of the chiral selector after each electrophoretic run. 

Figure 35 CEC enantioseparations of 2-(benzylsulfinyl)benzamide in capillaries packed with derivitized with differing amounts of the polysaccharide derivative cellulose tris(3,5-dichlorophenylcarbamate). The stationary phase contained (a) 4.8%, (b) 1.0%, and (c) 0.5% (w/w) of the chiral selector. (Reprinted from Ref. 1 56, with permission.)...

Synergistic effects in terms of efficiency of CE enantioseparation have been observed when a second (not necessarily chiral) selector is added in the same buffer system. It has been demonstrated that a combination of 18-crown-6 and )-cyclodextrin can achieve or enhance enantioselective separations of nonpolar amines, which are rarely observed with cyclodextrins alone <1997JCH(781)129, 1997JCH(695)157>. The formation of a ternary sandwich complex (dual complex) is postulated to be responsible for such a beneficial effect. 

Enantioseparation is an important goal for separation scientists. The most common strategy to achieve enantioselectivity is to perform the separation on a chiral column using a chiral selector immobilized onto the chromatographic stationary phase. The two enantiomers are selectively retained based on their different adsorption... 

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