High-performance liquid chromatography utility

Sato, T. Separation of enantiomers and isomers of amino compounds by capillary electrophoresis and high-performance liquid chromatography utilizing crown ethers, J. Chromatogr. A, 1997,... 

The most common approaches to sulfonylurea determinations involve high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The earliest reported methods utilized normal-phase liquid chromatography (LC) with photoconductivity detection this type of detector demonstrated undesirably long equilibration times and is no longer... 

Liu, C. L. and Verma, S. S., Direct coupling of ionic high performance liquid chromatography with electrospray ionization mass spectrometry utilizing a microdialysis junction interface, ]. Chromatogr. A, 835, 93, 1999. 

Consider one small molecule, phenylalanine. It is an essential amino acid in our diet and is important in protein synthesis (a component of protein), as well as a precursor to tyrosine and neurotransmitters. Phenylalanine is one of several amino acids that are measured in a variety of clinical methods, which include immunoassay, fluorometry, high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC see Section 4.1.2) and most recently MS/MS (see Chapter 3). Historically, screening labs utilized immunoassays or fluorimetric analysis. Diagnostic metabolic labs used the amino acid analyzer, which was a form of HPLC. Most recently, the tandem mass spectrometer has been used extensively in screening labs to analyze amino acids or in diagnostic labs as a universal detector for GC and LC techniques. Why did MS/MS replace older technological systems The answer to this question lies in the power of mass spectrometer. 

In the next section, the term "complex polymers" is defined, the effects of polymer complexity on conventional SEC analysis are examined, and attempts to analyze ccanplex polymers by utilizing SEC detector technology are summarized. High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) attempts to accomplish the task are then described. This is followed by a summary of the theoretical development of OC, experimental results of OC analysis, complications which emerged, and finally a summary of the status of OC in light of recent developments. (1) and (2) provide reviews of OC. 

The separation nf the poly saccharide components utilizes their different solubilities, polar groups, extents of branching, molecular weights, and molecular flexibilities and may he accomplished batebwisc or with easily automated column techniques such as column ur high performance liquid chromatography. These pmcedures have been summarized in several reviews. 

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