Columns Crown ether

Appllca.tlons. The first widely appHcable Ic separation of enantiomeric metallocene compounds was demonstrated on P-CD bonded-phase columns. Thirteen enantiomeric derivatives of ferrocene, mthenocene, and osmocene were resolved (7). Retention data for several of these compounds are listed in Table 2, and Figure 2a shows the Ic separation of three metallocene enantiomeric pairs. P-Cyclodextrin bonded phases were used to resolve several racemic and diastereomeric 2,2-binaphthyldiyl crown ethers (9). These compounds do not contain a chiral carbon but stiU exist as enantiomers because of the staggered position of adjacent naphthyl rings, and a high degree of chiral recognition was attained for most of these compounds (9). 

Lehn 242 243) has described a solid phase model of a K+ channel based on the crown ether 37. The crystal structure of this inclusion complex reveals stacking of the crown ethers into vertical columns, empirical formula [2 37,2 K, 3 H20]2+, linked by water and potassium ions. The counter ions, empirical formula [K, 3 Br, 4 H20]2, comprise a polymeric chain running parallel to the columns. 

Phthalocyanines provided with crown ethers and chiral alkyl side chains (64) have also been reported to self-assemble in nonpolar solvents.77 These molecules form helical columns as could be deduced from the presence of a Cotton effect upon aggregation. To investigate the expression of chirality at the mesoscopic level, sergeants-and-soldiers experiments75 were performed. Chiral phthalocyanine molecules 64 were used as the sergeants and achiral... 

HPLC, using a Crownpack CR column containing an 18-crown-6-type chiral crown ether, served to separate and resolve the enantiomers of 5,6-dihydroxy-2-aminotetraline (132a) and 6,7-dihydroxy-2-aminotetraline (132b) at pH 2.0 LOQ for enantiomeric impurities was <0.1%308. 

The most frequently used CSPs for biological applications in the reversed-phase mode are based on macrocyclic antibiotics, proteins, or oligosaccharides, but some of the applications utilize phases based on polysaccharides, low-molecular-weight selectors, crown ethers, or columns based on immunoaffinity techniques (Table 17.5). 

A number of macrocycles containing only one phosphorus atom have been prepared, and they are usually referred to as phosphorus-containing crown ethers rather than as P macrocycles. The 18-crown, or [18]anePOs, was prepared by van Zon (equation 28).82 This cyclic phosphine is stable in air, even in solution (cf. Ph3P). However, when the non-macrocyclic substituent is Bul the phosphorus is oxidized in solution by air in the presence of alumina. This unwelcome discovery was made by van Zon when purifying the material by chromatography on an alumina column. 

Bromination.2 This bromine-crown ether complex, like dioxane-bromine (5, 58), can brominate alkenes, but the stereoselectivity is greater than that with free bromine and is less sensitive to solvent effects. Thus, bromination of trans-ifi-methylstyrene with DBC Br2 occurs exclusively by anti-addition and bromination of dr-/J-methylstyrene occurs by anti-addition to the extent of 95-100%. The bromine complex of polydibenzo-18-crown-63 is a particularly useful reagent because it can be packed as a slurry in a chromatography column. The alkene is then placed on the column and eluted with CC14. 

Zeng used a silica monolith modified with the liquid crystalline crown ether 29 as a column material in capillary electrochromatography (Scheme 17) [50]. Polycyclic aromatic compounds, benzenediols, pesticides, and steroids were successfully separated on the column. Introduction of the liquid crystalline crown ether led to a significant improve of the electrochromatographic performance. 

In contrast, CSPs have achieved great repute in the chiral separation of enantiomers by chromatography and, today, are the tools of the choice of almost all analytical, biochemical, pharmaceutical, and pharmacological institutions and industries. The most important and useful CSPs are available in the form of open and tubular columns. However, some chiral capillaries and thin layer plates are also available for use in capillary electrophoresis and thin-layer chromatography. The chiral columns and capillaries are packed with several chiral selectors such as polysaccharides, cyclodextrins, antibiotics, Pirkle type, ligand exchangers, and crown ethers. 

The CSPs based on chiral crown ethers were prepared by immobilizing them on some suitable solid supports. Blasius et al. [33-35] synthesized a variety of achiral crown ethers based on ion exchangers by condensation, substitution, and polymerization reactions and were used in achiral liquid chromatography. Later, crown ethers were adsorbed on silica gel and were used to separate cations and anions [36-39]. Shinbo et al. [40] adsorbed hydrophobic CCE on silica gel and the developed CSP was used for the chiral resolution of amino acids. Kimura et al. [41-43] immobilized poly- and bis-CCEs on silica gel. Later, Iwachido et al. [44] allowed benzo-15-crown-5, benzo-18-crown-6 and benzo-21-crown-7 CCEs to react on silica gel. Of course, these types of CCE-based phases were used in liquid chromatography, but the column efficiency was very poor due to the limited choice of mobile phases. Therefore, an improvement in immobilization was realized and new methods of immobilization were developed. In this direction, CCEs were immobilized to silica gel by covalent bonds. 

The prevailing extraction-chromatographic method for 90Sr separation entails the use of Sr-Resin.116"119 This material is prepared by impregnating a porous polymer with a 1-octanol solution of the crown ether 4,4 (5 )-bis(t-butylcyclohexano)-18-crown-6 (DtBuCH18C6). This material will extract and retain Sr from 2-8 M HN03 solutions, while most of the matrix constituents are not retained and are removed with a column wash. The separated Sr is released by elution with water or weak nitric acid. The extraction equilibrium is shown in Equation 9.2, where the bar above a species indicates that it is immobilized on the resin.4... 

Although the majority of reports of macrocycles in analytical chromatography have involved ligand association with the stationary phase, their use as mobile phase constituents has also been investigated. Lamb and Drake [11] showed that addition of water-soluble crown ethers to the mobile phase altered the retention of alkali metal cations on an underivatized reversed phase column. Nakagawa et al. [63-66] also used crown ether-containing mobile phases in the separation of protonated amines, amino acids and peptides, and [1-lactam antibiotics. 

Several papers have reported use of a weak acid/crown ether eluent in ion-exclusion/cation exchange chromatography with conductimetric detection on a weakly acidic cation-exchange column to effect the simultaneous determination of both cations and anions. Resolution was significantly improved when 18-crown-6 was present in the eluent. Detector response was positive for anions and negative for cations. [76-80] A sample chromatogram is shown in Figure 9. 

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