Octadecyl-trimethoxysilane

To date, the vast majority of work deals with hydrophilic GNRs functionalized by electrostatic attraction of CTAB molecules, anionic polyelectrolytes, or covalent binding of hydrophilic thiols. Hydrophobic GNRs are mainly produced by depositing octadecyl-trimethoxysilane as a coating agent onto the nanorod surface either in the presence [178, 179] or absence of a silica shell [180]. 

Several different analytical and ultra-micropreparative CEC approaches have been described for such peptide separations. For example, open tubular (OT-CEC) methods have been used 290-294 with etched fused silicas to increase the surface area with diols or octadecyl chains then bonded to the surface.1 With such OT-CEC systems, the peptide-ligand interactions of, for example, angiotensin I-III increased with increasing hydrophobicity of the bonded phase on the capillary wall. Porous layer open tubular (PLOT) capillaries coated with anionic polymers 295 or poly(aspartic acid) 296 have also been employed 297 to separate basic peptides on the inner wall of fused silica capillaries of 20 pm i.d. When the same eluent conditions were employed, superior performance was observed for these PLOT capillaries compared to the corresponding capillary zone electrophoresis (HP-CZE) separation. Peptide mixtures can be analyzed 298-300 with OT-CEC systems based on octyl-bonded fused silica capillaries that have been coated with (3-aminopropyl)trimethoxysilane (APS), as well as with pressurized CEC (pCEC) packed with particles of similar surface chemistry, to decrease the electrostatic interactions between the solute and the surface, coupled to a mass spectrometer (MS). In the pressurized flow version of electrochromatography, a pLC pump is also employed (Figure 26) to facilitate liquid flow, reduce bubble formation, and to fine-tune the selectivity of the separation of the peptide mixture. 

In this entry, several kinds of comb-shaped polymers with highly ordered side chains have been introduced as attractive organic phases for RP-HPLC. Poly(octadecyl acrylate), ODA , is one of the simplest comb-shaped polymers, and its grafting for introduction onto silica surface is done by a one-step telomerization with 3-mercaptopropyl trimethoxysilane followed by immobilization with the terminal trimethoxysilyl group grafting-to method). The chromatographic results are summarized as follows ... 

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