Chromatographic properties plate number

A chromatographic property of interest is the separation between spots (solutes). The most simple definition is resolution R= z ( - - z 2 H2 (J2 (5 ) with a, the bandwidth of the developed spot. Assuming ai=cj2 and using zJo= NRf [2] N is the plate number) the formula becomes ... 

The particle size of a packing affects two major chromatographic properties the column pressure drop and the column performance in terms of plate number. For simplicity ... 

It is important to remember that a theoretical plate is an artificial construct and that no such plates exist in a chromatographic column. In fact, the number of theoretical plates depends on both the properties of the column and the solute. As a result, the number of theoretical plates for a column is not fixed and may vary from solute to solute. 

Naturally, several other possibilities can be used to increase the number of dimensions. Between the first and second developments, or sample, the characteristics of the chromatographic plate or the properties of the sample can also be modified. Although interfacing of on-line OPLC with one- or two-dimensional TLC is not particularly difficult, it is not yet widely practiced. It must be concluded that full exploitation of the versatility of MD-PC is at an early state of development as a consequence several significant changes in practice might be expected in the next few years (10). 

The checkers found that a fraction, b.p. 45-71° (18 mm.), had the following spectral properties infrared (carbon tetrachloride) no absorption in the 3300-1600 cm.-1 region attributable to OH, C=0, or C=C vibrations proton magnetic resonance (chloroform-d) <5, multiplicity, number of protons, assignment 3.1-4.2 (multiplet, 4, CH—Cl, CH—O, and C//2—O), 1.0-2.5 (multiplet, 7, GH3 and 2 x C//2)-Thin layer chromatographic analysis of this fraction on silica gel plates using chloroform as eluent indicated the presence of a major component (the cis- and fraus-isomers), Rf = 0.60, and a minor unidentified component, Rf = 0.14. 

Solute equilibrium between the mobile and stationary phases is never achieved in the chromatographic column except possibly (as Giddings points out) at the maximum of a peak (1). As stated before, to circumvent this non equilibrium condition and allow a simple mathematical treatment of the chromatographic process, Martin and Synge (2) borrowed the plate concept from distillation theory and considered the column consisted of a series of theoretical plates in which equilibrium could be assumed to occur. In fact each plate represented a dwell time for the solute to achieve equilibrium at that point in the column and the process of distribution could be considered as incremental. It has been shown that employing this concept an equation for the elution curve can be easily obtained and, from that basic equation, others can be developed that describe the various properties of a chromatogram. Such equations will permit the calculation of efficiency, the calculation of the number of theoretical plates required to achieve a specific separation and among many applications, elucidate the function of the heat of absorption detector. 

Efficiency of the chromatographic system can be determined from the number of theoretical plates per meter. Although this term primarily describes the property and resolution efficiency of a column, other extra column variables, such as the... 

E. Extracolumn Band Broadening or Variance To maximize the effective number of theoretical plates, the contribution of the entire chromatographic system to band broadening (system variance, o-2ys) must be minimized. The system variance may be broken down into contributions from the column variance, a 01, as described above, and extracolumn diffusion and mixing processes, cr2x. As with the case of the column variance, extracolumn variance is an additive property and may be broken down into the major components ... 

Plate Theory elution equation equation that gives the concentration of a given analyte in the last plate of the column (adjacent to the detector) as a function of the initial concentration in the first plate before elution has begun, the total mobile phase volume required for analyte elution, the number of theoretical plates N, and basic physico-chemical properties of the system (the partition coefficient) see Equation [3.11] as the Plate Theory description of a chromatographic peak like that in Figure 3.2. 

The peak dispersion in chromatography is generally characterized by the theoretical plate height (H) and the number of theoretical plates (N). The treatment of the mass transfer processes and the distribution equilibrium between the mobile and stationary phase in a column lead to equations that link the theoretical plate height as the crucial column performance parameter to the properties of the chromatographic systems, such as the linear velocity of the mobile phase, the viscosity, the diflusion coefficient of analyte, the retention coefficient of analyte, column porosity, etc. 

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