Nitrogen HPLC separation

Purification of the conjugates may be done by reverse phase HPLC separation. Dry the reaction solution under a nitrogen stream and reconstitute in a minimum volume of acetonitrile/water (1 1, v/v). Apply the sample to a 5 pm Cig-silica HPLC column (250 X 4.6 mm, Nucleosil). Elute with a gradient of water to acetonitrile at a flow rate of 1 ml/minute over a time course of 30 minutes. Free BNAH and BNAH-glycan derivatives can be monitored by absorbance at 275 nm. The conjugate peak also will be positive for carbohydrate by reaction with orcinol, which can be detected by spray after spotting a small eluted sample on a TLC plate. 

The use of surface-enhanced resonance Raman spectroscopy (SERRS) as an identification tool in TLC and HPLC has been investigated in detail. The chemical structures and common names of anionic dyes employed as model compounds are depicted in Fig. 3.88. RP-HPLC separations were performed in an ODS column (100 X 3 mm i.d. particla size 5 pm). The flow rate was 0.7 ml/min and dyes were detected at 500 nm. A heated nitrogen flow (200°C, 3 bar) was employed for spraying the effluent and for evaporating the solvent. Silica and alumina TLC plates were applied as deposition substrates they were moved at a speed of 2 mm/min. Solvents A and B were ammonium acetate-acetic acid buffer (pH = 4.7) containing 25 mM tributylammonium nitrate (TBAN03) and methanol, respectively. The baseline separation of anionic dyes is illustrated in Fig. 3.89. It was established that the limits of identification of the deposited dyes were 10 - 20 ng corresponding to the injected concentrations of 5 - 10 /ig/ml. It was further stated that the combined HPLC-(TLC)-SERRS technique makes possible the safe identification of anionic dyes [150],... 

Gradient RP-HPLC separation with 0.1% formic acid and methanol as mobile phase components (0.25 mL/min) combined either with ESI-time-of-flight [23] MS detection or with chemiluminescence nitrogen detection (CLND) was used to identify and, respectively, quantify illicit drugs in seized material without primary reference standards [24], The method exploits the accurate mass measurement provided by TOE MS, enabling the unequivocal identification of molecular formula of the unknown analyte, and the CNLD equimolar response to nitrogen. 

Figure 5. Fluorescence spectra in a nitrogen matrix at 15 K (excited by a mercury-xenon lamp) at two excitation wavelengths of the fifth fraction from the HPLC separation of Synthoil. Compounds BaA, benz[a]anthracene C, chrysene P, pyrene U. unknown...

Following HPLC separation, samples are analyzed by a mass spectrometer with an ESI source such as an LCQ, LTQ, (ThermoFinnigan, San Jose, CA), or Q-TOF Ultima mass spectrometer (Micromass, Beverly, MA). Samples are analyzed in the positive or negative ion mode. The capillary temperature used for the LCQ and LTQ, the desolvation temperature used on the Q-TOF, the nitrogen gas flow rate, spray and cone voltages are adjusted to give maximum sensitivity for the parent compound. 

More recently, several reports have appeared which describe the preparation of HPLC columns which contain CD chemically bonded to silica gel [15-18]. Of these, there are presently two types. The first consists of CD bonded to the silica via amide or amine bonds [15,16] while the second contains no nitrogen linkages [17,18]. This review article summarizes our chromatographic work to date with the latter type of CD bonded phases. In particular, we demonstrate the successful HPLC separation of enantiomers, epimers, cis-trans and other structural isomers as well as important classes of routine compounds by use of a P- or y-CD bonded phase. The obtained chromatographic separations are compared to those obtained on the more conventional normal or reversed phase packings. Additionally, the effect of changes of the pertinent chromatographic variables (such as flow rate, temperature, and solvent composition of the mobile phase) upon the separations are described. Lastly, a brief prospectus on the future of CD bonded phases in HPLC is presented. 

An excellent example of PLC applications in the indirect coupling version is provided by the works of Miwa et al. [12]. These researchers separated eight phospholipid standards and platelet phospholipids from the other lipids on a silica gel plate. The mobile phase was composed of methylacetate-propanol-chloro-form-methanol-0.2% (w/v) potassium chloride (25 30 20 10 10, v/v). After detection with iodine vapor (Figure 9.2), each phospholipid class was scraped off and extracted with 5 ml of methanol. The solvent was removed under a stream of nitrogen, and the fatty acids of each phospholipid class were analyzed (as their hydrazides) by HPLC. The aim of this study was to establish a standardized... 

In order to reduce the time-consuming open-column chromatographic processes, conventional methods of hydrocarbon-group-type separation have been replaced by MPLC and HPLC. Flash column chromatography is a technique less commonly applied than open-column version, but several applications have been described [2,24—27]. The common technique version is to use a silica-gel-filled column for example, 230 to 400 mesh 20 X 1 cm column size with a back pressure of 1.5 X 10 Pa of an ambient gas such as nitrogen. Solvents are similar to the ones apphed in the case of open-column chromatography fractionations. 

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