Gel permeation chromatography size exclusion

II. AMERICAN POLYMER GEL-PERMEATION/SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY (GPC/SEC) COLUMN REPACKING... 

In Fl-FFF, the channel is created by placing a mylar spacer with the channel cut out between two porous frits. A membrane hlter of a specihc molecular weight cutoff is placed on one of the frits and acts as the accumulation wall to permit flow, without loss of particles. The applied force is then a perpendicular flow of the carrier solution across the porous frits. Fl-FFF is a versatile technique capable of separating macromolecules as small as roughly 1000 Da, in which case it is comparable to gel permeation (size exclusion) chromatography. However, Fl-FFF can also be applied to the separation of colloidal particles. In this case the hydrodynamic diameter of the colloidal particle is related to the retention volume, V by the equation... 

Profile The company was founded in 1976 to develop techniques and instrumentation for the characterization of polymer systems, and to develop high-technology polymer products for chromatography, and for diagnostic and pharmaceutical applications. The company operates from offices in the USA, UK, and Europe. Primary products are in the specialized areas for gel permeation/size exclusion chromatography (GPC/SEC) including columns, standards, advanced high temperature systems and detectors, and GPC/SEC software. 

Modern liquid chromatography can be carried out in any of the classical modes, e.g., liquid-solid adsorption chromatography, liquid-liquid partition chromatography, reversed-phase chromatography, ion-exchange chromatography, and gel-permeation (size exclusion) chromatography. 

H NMR spectra were recorded on Briiker ACP 400 or DPX 400 spectrometers using deuterated solvents obtained from CEA or Aldrich. Polymerization kinetics, followed by NMR, were recorded using the Briiker built-in kinetics software. Molecular mass analyses were carried out by gel permeation (size exclusion) chromatography on a Polymer Laboratories system. THF was the eluent at 1.0 mL min with a PL-gel 5 jim (50 X 7.5 mm) guard column, two PL-gel 5 pm (300 x 7.5 mm) mixed-C columns with a refractive index detector. Samples were compared against narrow standards of poly(methyl methacrylate), A/p = 200 to 1.577 x 10 g mol , obtained from Polymer Laboratories, except for methyl methacrylate dimer, trimer, and tetramer which were prepared by catalytic chain transfer polymerization at the University of Warwick. 

The most widely used method for determining molecular weight distribution for fiber forming polymers is gel permeation (size exclusion) chromatography (GPC or SEC). Other commonly used methods in this case are end group analysis, osmometry, and viscometry. These methods are also introduced below. 

Molecular exclusion chromatography, also known as gel filtration, size exclusion chromatography, gel permeation chromatography, or simply gel chromatography, is another separation method based on differences in molecular size. 

In this section we discuss the choice of a chromatographic system on the basis of, firstly, the type of stationary phase and, secondly, the composition of the eluent. A division in subsections is made from the kinds of stationary phases available, bearing in mind that the more specialized phases for ion-exchange, gel permeation (size exclusion), and bioaffinity chromatography are treated in separate chapters (4.5 to... 

The refractive index detector is fairly simple to use and is sometimes employed in the preliminary scanning of samples. It is frequently used as the detector in gel permeation or exclusion chromatography. This detector is particularly valuable in the size separation of polymers where, providing the polymer has more than ten monomer units, the refractive index is directly proportional to the concentration of polymer and practically independent of the molecular weight. In a LC laboratory that has to handle large numbers of different samples, it is desirable to... 

Two classes of micron-sized stationary phases have been encountered in this section silica particles and cross-linked polymer resin beads. Both materials are porous, with pore sizes ranging from approximately 50 to 4000 A for silica particles and from 50 to 1,000,000 A for divinylbenzene cross-linked polystyrene resins. In size-exclusion chromatography, also called molecular-exclusion or gel-permeation chromatography, separation is based on the solute s ability to enter into the pores of the column packing. Smaller solutes spend proportionally more time within the pores and, consequently, take longer to elute from the column. 

The evolution of media covering aqueous and nonaqueous systems on the one hand and analytical as well as microscale and macroscale preparative applications on the other hand has resulted in an arbitrarily nomenclature within the field. Thus the current practice is to refer to the separation principle based on solute size as size exclusion chromatography (SEC) whereas the application in aqueous systems is traditionally referred to as gel filtration (GF) and the application in nonaqueous systems is designated gel-permeation... 

CONTRIBUTIONS FROM USERS OF SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY AND GEL-PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY... 

This chapter makes no distinction between gel-permeation chromatography (GPC) and size exclusion chromatography (SEC). We make mention of specific analysis conditions wherever possible. We have attempted to include a variety of conditions but by no means should this chapter be considered a comprehensive review of conditions for analyzing polyacrylates. We have drawn extensively from our own experience in selecting examples. 

It is basically a fractionation process that depends not only on molecular size, but also on chemical composition, stereo-configuration, branching, and crosslinking. For multicomponent systems, fractionation with different ion polymolecularity, chemical heterogeneity and sequence length distribution, solubility or elution fractionation is of primary importance. Therefore, gel permeation chromatography or size exclusion chromatography is used as an important tool for the characterization of PBAs. 

Gel permeation chromatography (GPC) or size exclusion chromatography (SEC) has been routinely used to estimate die molecular weight of die polymers. The molecular weight measured by GPC is relative to a polymer standard, typically polystyrene GPC is dius a relative method rather than an absolute one. For those polymers whose structure is very different from polystyrene, GPC molecular weight values could significantly differ from the real ones. In those cases, GPC values should only be regarded as a reference. 

When the full distribution is needed, it is measured by size-exclusion chromatography (also called gel permeation chromatography). This is a solution technique that requires dissolution of the polymer in a reasonable solvent such as tetrahydrofuran or tetrachlorlobenzene. For polymers that require exotic solvents or solution temperatures above about 150°C, a simple measurement of solution viscosity can be a useful surrogate for the actual molecular weight. The viscosity of the pure polymer (i.e., a polymer melt viscosity) can also be used. Such simplified techniques are often satisfactory for routine quality control, particularly for condensation polymers such as PET that vary in average molecular weight but usually have a polydispersity of 2. 

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