Liquid chromatography-evaporative

McNabb TJ, Cremesti AE, Brown PR, Fischl AA. High-performance liquid chromatography/evaporative light-scattering detector techniques for neutral, polar, and acidic lipid classes a review of methods and detector models. Sem Food Anal 1999 4 53-70. 

Sarri, A.K., Megoulas, N.C., and Koupparis, M.A. Development of a novel liquid chromatography evaporative light scattering detection method for bacitracins and applications to quality control of pharmaceuticals. Anal. Chim. Acta 2006, 573,... 

Gas chromatography retention mechanisms can be summarized in Figure 4.17 like that of liquid chromatography. The difference between gas and liquid chromatography is the desorption mechanisms. Desorption is evaporation in gas chromatography, and solvation in liquid chromatography. Evaporation is directly related to the analyte properties, and solvation depends on solvent properties that we cannot quantitatively obtain. Further study is therefore required to determine quantitative solvation mechanisms. 

For mixture.s the picture is different. Unless the mixture is to be examined by MS/MS methods, usually it will be necessary to separate it into its individual components. This separation is most often done by gas or liquid chromatography. In the latter, small quantities of emerging mixture components dissolved in elution solvent would be laborious to deal with if each component had to be first isolated by evaporation of solvent before its introduction into the mass spectrometer. In such circumstances, the direct introduction, removal of solvent, and ionization provided by electrospray is a boon and puts LC/MS on a level with GC/MS for mixture analysis. Further, GC is normally concerned with volatile, relatively low-molecular-weight compounds and is of little or no use for the many polar, water soluble, high-molecular-mass substances such as the peptides, proteins, carbohydrates, nucleotides, and similar substances found in biological systems. LC/MS with an electrospray interface is frequently used in biochemical research and medical analysis. 

Although simple solutions can be examined by these techniques, for a single substance dissolved in a solvent, straightforward evaporation of the solvent outside the mass spectrometer with separate insertion of the sample is usually sufficient. For mixtures, the picture is quite different. Unless the mixture is to be examined by MS/MS methods, it will be necessary to separate it into its individual components. This separation is most often done by gas or liquid chromatography (GC or LC). 

A flow of liquid, for example from high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), is treated in such a way that most of the solvent evaporates to leave solute molecules that pass into an ionization region (ion source). 

Solution Polymers. Acryflc solution polymers are usually characterized by their composition, solids content, viscosity, molecular weight, glass-transition temperature, and solvent. The compositions of acryflc polymers are most readily determined by physicochemical methods such as spectroscopy, pyrolytic gas—liquid chromatography, and refractive index measurements (97,158). The solids content of acryflc polymers is determined by dilution followed by solvent evaporation to constant weight. Viscosities are most conveniently determined with a Brookfield viscometer, molecular weight by intrinsic viscosity (158), and glass-transition temperature by calorimetry. 

Coupled liquid chromatography-gas chromatography is an excellent on-line method for sample enrichment and sample clean-up. Recently, many authors have reviewed in some detail the various LC-GC transfer methods that are now available (1, 43-52). For the analysis of normal phase eluents, the main transfer technique used is, without doubt, concurrent eluent evaporation employing a loop-type interface. The main disadvantage of this technique is co-evaporation of the solute with the solvent. 

The need for a more definitive identification of HPLC eluates than that provided by retention times alone has been discussed previously, as have the incompatibilities between the operating characteristics of liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry. The combination of the two techniques was originally achieved by the physical isolation of fractions as they eluted from an HPLC column, followed by the removal of the mobile phase, usually by evaporation, and transfer of the analyte(s) into the mass spectrometer by using an appropriate probe. 

Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Infrared evaporator LC eluate... 

Crop material is homogenized with acetonitrile-water (9 1, v/v). The crop extract is centrifuged and an aliquot is rotary evaporated to a small volume. The sample is subjected to a Cig solid-phase extraction (SPE) cleanup procedure. The concentrated eluate is subjected to liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) analysis. 

Plant materials are homogenized with methanol. Hexythiazox residue is extracted with hexane and then transferred to acetonitirile by liquid-liquid partitioning. The acetonitirile is removed by rotary evaporation and the sample is cleaned up using Florisil PR column chromatography. The concentrated eluate is subjected to high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis. 

Milbemectin consists of two active ingredients, M.A3 and M.A4. Milbemectin is extracted from plant materials and soils with methanol-water (7 3, v/v). After centrifugation, the extracts obtained are diluted to volume with the extraction solvent in a volumetric flask. Aliquots of the extracts are transferred on to a previously conditioned Cl8 solid-phase extraction (SPE) column. Milbemectin is eluted with methanol after washing the column with aqueous methanol. The eluate is evaporated to dryness and the residual milbemectin is converted to fluorescent anhydride derivatives after treatment with trifluoroacetic anhydride in 0.5 M triethylamine in benzene solution. The anhydride derivatives of M.A3 and M.A4 possess fluorescent sensitivity. The derivatized samples are dissolved in methanol and injected into a high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) system equipped with a fluorescence detector for quantitative determination. 

Charlesworth, J. M., Evaporative analyzer as a mass detector for liquid chromatography, Anal. Chem., 50, 1414, 1978. 

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