Micelle chromatography, applications

Micelle chromatography, applications of 207-209 determination of anions 208 cations 208 organic compounds 207... 

Berthod et al. [325] employed countercurrent chromatography with diethyl-hexyl phosphoric acid (DEHPA) reverse micelles in heptane as a stationary phase to extract metaUic cations such as Fa +, Ce, Pr, and Nd + (lanthanide series). This technique was suggested for the application of ion filtering and concentration or for deionization of aqueous phases. Ashrafizadeh et al. [326] re-... 

Many pharmaceutical preparations contain multiple components with a wide array of physico-chemical properties. Although CZE is a very effective means of separation for ionic species, an additional selectivity factor is required to discriminate neutral analytes in CE. Terabe first introduced the concept of micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography (MEKC) in which ionic surfactants were included in the running buffer at a concentration above the critical micelle concentration (CMC) [17], Micelles, which have hydrophobic interiors and anionic exteriors, serve as a pseudostation-ary phase, which is pumped electrophoretically. Separations are based on the differential association of analytes with the micelle. Interactions between the analyte and micelles may be due to any one or a combination of the following electrostatic interactions, hydrogen bonding, and/or hydro-phobic interactions. The applicability of MEKC is limited in some cases to small molecules and peptides due to the physical size of macromolecules... 

Enormous advances and growth in the use of ordered media (that is, surfactant normal and reversed micelles, surfactant vesicles, and cyclodextrins) have occurred in the past decade, particularly in their chromatographic applications. New techniques developed in this field include micellar liquid chromatography, micellar-enhanced ultrafiltration, micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography, and extraction of bioproducts with reversed micelles techniques previously developed include cyclodextrins as stationary and mobile-phase components in chromatography. The symposium upon which this book was based was the first major symposium devoted to this topic and was organized to present the current state of the art in this rapidly expanding field. 

Since micellar electrokinetic chromatography (MEKC) was hrst introduced in 1984, it has become one of major separation modes in capillary electrophoresis (CE), especially owing to its applicability to the separation of neutral compounds as well as charged ones. Chiral separation is one of the major objectives of CE, as well as MEKC, and a number of successful reports on enantiomer separations by CE and MEKC has been published. In chiral separations by MEKC, the following two modes are normally employed (a) MEKC using chiral micelles and (b) cyclodextrin (CD)-modilied MEKC (CD-MEKC ... 

The formation of reverse micelles and water-ln-oll (w/o) mlcroemulslons In liquid hydrocarbons using the surfactant sodium bis(2-ethylhexyl) sulfosucclnate (AOT) has been widely studied (2m3). In nonpolar liquid solvents, these molecular aggregates generally consist of 3- to 20-nanometer-dlameter, roughly spherical shells of surfactant molecules surrounding a polar core, which Is typically an aqueous solution. This combination of hydrophilic, hydrophobic, and Interfaclal environments In one solvent has created potential applications In separations (4.5), chromatography ( ), and catalytic reactions (2). 

Spreadsheet Summary In the final exercise in Chapter 15 of Applications of Microsoft Excel in Analytical Chemistry, xnict] a.r electroki-netic capillary chromatography is used to determine the critical micelle concentration (CMC) of a surfactant. An equation is developed to relate the retention factor to the CMC. Measured retention times are then used to determine the CMC from a regression analysis. 

Polymeric micelles form stable pseudostationary phases with a critical micelle concentration of virtually zero (aggregation number of 1), and are tolerant of high organic solvent concentrations in the electrolyte solution. Mass transfer kinetics are slow compared with conventional surfactant micelles, and peak distortion from mass overloading is a problem for some polymer compositions. Preliminary studies indicate that polymeric surfactants are effective pseudostationary phases in micellar electrokinetic chromatography, but only a limited number of practical applications have been demonstrated, and uptake has been slow. 

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