Reverse phase nonaqueous

Most small organic molecules are soluble in mixed organic-aqueous solvents and can be easily analyzed using RPLC. However, there are some polar compounds which are not soluble in typical RPLC solvent systems or are unstable in an aqueous mobile phase system. These compounds can be analyzed on an RPLC column with a nonaqueous solvent system. This technique is called "nonaqueous reversed phase chromatography" (NARP).20-21 The NARP technique is primarily used for the separation of lipophilic compounds having low to medium polarity and a molecular weight larger than... 

Fnhanced-fluidity liquid reversed-phase chromatography has numerous applications including the separation of nonpolar and polar compounds. For example, EFLC and nonaqueous reversed-phase HPLC are the common means of achieving effective separations of high molecular weight homologous compounds. 

Temperature variation was more influential on methylene selectivity for the mixtures with high percentages of acetonitrile, while the reverse was true for methanol/C02 mixtures. Like in nonaqueous reversed-phase HPLC, a temperature increase lowered the methylene selectivity. The main conclusion from this work is that acetonitrile/C02 mixtures would be preferred over methanol/C02 mixtures as a flrst attempt to separate homologs. 

In contrast to the various CSPs mentioned so far, but still based on covalently or at least very strongly adsorbed chiral selectors (from macromolecules to small molecules) to, usually, a silica surface, the principle of dynamically coating an achiral premodified silica to CSPs via chiral mobile phase additives (CMPA) has successfully been adapted for enantioseparation. The so-called reverse phase LC systems have predominantly been used, however, ion-pairing methods using nonaqueous mobile phases are also possible. 

Most HPLC is based on the use of so-called normal-phase columns (useful for class separations), reverse-phase columns (useful for homolog separations), and polar columns (used in either the normal- or reverse-phase mode). Since reverse-phase HPLC columns are generally easier to work with, almost all authors use high-performance reverse-phase liquid chromatography with octade-cyl chemically bonded silica as the stationary phase and nonaqueous solvents as mobile phases (so-called NARP, or nonaqueous reverse-phase chromatography). 

Earlier work in the HPLC analysis of TGs used a differential refractometer as the detector a number of papers have detailed isocratic systems combined with refractive index (RI) detectors, often with acetonitrile/acetone mobile phases. Although aqueous mobile phases were generally used with alkyl-bonded phase columns, due to the lipophilicity of TGs, water could not be used in the mobile phase for this particular application therefore the mobile phases generally employed consisted of mixtures of acetone and acetonitrile and occasionally tetrahydrofuran, methylene chloride, or hexane (the conspicuous absence of water in the mobile phase prompted the term nonaqueous reverse phase, or NARP, to describe these systems). 

A nonaqueous reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (NARP-HPLC) with refractive index (RI) detection was described and used for palm olein and its fractions obtained at 12.5°C for 12-24 h by Swe et al. (101). The objective of their research was to find the optimum separation for analysis of palm olein triglycerides by NARP-HPLC, and to find a correction factor to be used in calculating CN and fatty acid composition (FAC). The NARP-HPLC method used to determine the triglyceride composition was modified from the method of Dong DiCesare (88). Palm olein was melted completely at 70°C in an oven for 30 min prior to crystal-... 

FW Quackenbush, RL Smallidge. Nonaqueous reverse phase liquid chromatographic system for separation and quantitation of provitamins A. J Assoc Off Anal Chem 69 767-772, 1986. 

WO Landen Jr, RR Eitenmiller. Application of gel permeation chromatography and nonaqueous reverse phase chromatography to high pressure liquid chromatographic determination of retinyl palmitate and /3-carotene in oil and margarine. J Assoc Off Anal Chem 62 283-289, 1979. 

HJCF Nelis, AP De Leenheer. Isocratic nonaqueous reversed-phase liquid chromatography of carotenoids. Anal Chem 55 270-275, 1983. 

Aqueous samples or aqueous extracts of nonaqueous samples analyzed by HPLC on a C-18 reverse phase column analyte detected by UV at 195 nm mobile phase, water, flow rate 2 mL/min pressure 38 atm. 

Since these ligates are bonded to the surface of the silica and will not wash off, it is no longer necessary to choose a mobile phase with a polarity opposite to that of the bonded phase. That is to say, a reverse phase support like ODS could be used with a relatively nonpolar organic mobile phase, thus establishing a system that does not fit into either category— reverse phase or normal phase. Some workers have given such a system the name nonaqueous reverse phase, or NARP. 

Unlike the more popular reversed-phase chromatographic mode, normal-phase chromatography employs polar stationary phases, and retention is modulated mainly with nonpolar eluents. The stationary phase is either (a) an inorganic adsorbent like silica or alumina or (b) a polar bonded phase containing cyano, diol, or amino functional groups on a silica support. Tlie mobile phase is usually a nonaqueous mixture of organic solvents. As the polarity of the mobile phase decreases, retention in normal-phase chromatography... 

The main complication with using aqueous pKa values in chromatography lies in the profoundly nonaqueous nature of most reversed-phase systems today. The presence of organic mobile-phase modifiers affects both the pKa of the analyte and the effective pH of the buffer (see Chapter 4). 

The mode of separation in the HPLC depends on the selection of the stationary and mobile phases. In HPLC of lipids, normal- and reversed-phase modes are primarily used, with the reverse phase being more common than the normal phase. Separation in the re-versed-phase mode is mainly by partition chromatography, whereas separation in the normal phase mode is primarily by adsorption chromatography. Normal-phase HPLC is used for the separation of the lipids into classes of Upids [1,F]. Reversed-phase HPLC (RP-HPLC), on the other hand, is mainly used to separate each lipid class into individual species [2,B1]. For example, several triglycerides were separated from each other via nonaqueous reversed-phase HPLC, involving an octadecyl (ODS) column and a nonpolar (non-aqueous) mobile phase. RP-HPLC alone can be used to separate the fat molecules into classes and species [2,B1]. 

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