Reversed-phase HPLC column packings

Table 2. Reversed-phase HPLC column packing materials.

Porous zirconia particles coated with polybutadiene make a reversed-phase HPLC column packing that offers both excellent pressure stability and chemical inertness throughout the entire pH range. Because of the complex surface chemistry of zirconia, mobile phase additives such as phosphate or fluoride are added to facilitate the separa-... 

C-18 reverse phase HPLC column, e g., 25 cm x 4.6 mm stainless steel packed with 5 pm Beckman Ultrasphere, or 15 cm x 2.9 mm stainless steel packed with 4 pm Nova Pac C18, or 25 cm x 4.6 mm stainless steel packed with 5 pm Supelco LC-1 or equivalent. 

The basic pH of TEAB buffers used with reversed-phase HPLC columns often leads to degradation of column material. We have used Zorbax columns, which contain fully silylated packing material and have a much longer lifetime in TEAB. Although the resolution of these columns seems to be less, most separations are relatively easy and column lifetime is of more importance. 

Reverse-phase HPLC can be used for the separation of peptides and proteins. Smaller peptides (less than 50 amino acid residues) may be satisfactorily separated on octadecylsilane (C-18) bonded phases whereas for adequate recovery of larger molecules, tetrylsilane (C-4) or octylsilane (C-8) is recommended. Porous column packing with gel permeation and reverse phase properties is usually required for proteins with relative molecular masses greater than 50 000. 

Two analytical methods for priority pollutants specified by the USEPA (38) use HPLC separation and fluorescence or electrochemical detection. Method 605, 40 CFR Part 136, determines benzidine and 3,3-dichlorobenzidine by amperometric detection at +0.80 V, versus a silver/silver chloride reference electrode, at a glassy carbon electrode. Separation is achieved with a 1 1 (v/v) mixture of acetonitrile and a pH 4.7 acetate buffer (1 M) under isocratic conditions on an ethyl-bonded reversed-phase column. Lower limits of detection are reported to be 0.05 /xg/L for benzidine and 0.1 /xg/L for 3,3-dichlorobenzidine. Method 610, 40 CFR Part 136, determines 16 PAHs by either GC or HPLC. The HPLC method is required when all 16 PAHs need to be individually determined. The GC method, which uses a packed column, cannot adequately individually resolve all 16 PAHs. The method specifies gradient elution of the PAHs from a reversed-phase analytical column and fluorescence detection with an excitation wavelength of 280 nm and an emission wavelength of 389 nm for all but three PAHs naphthalene, acenaphthylene, and acenaphthene. As a result of weak fluorescence, these three PAHs are detected with greater sensitivity by UV-absorption detection at 254 nm. Thus, the method requires that fluores-... 

HPLC and Isolation of Mutagenic Fractions. Analytical and semipreparative reverse-phase HPLC separations were performed by using a water-to-acetonitrile linear gradient (J2). Separations were carried out on a Hewlett Packard Model 10084 B equipped with an automatic sampling device, a solvent programmer, a variable absorbance detector, and an automatically steered fraction collector. The instrument was fitted with a 3.9-mm X 30-cm prepacked analytical column of 10-/zm silica particles bonded with octadecylsilane (Bondapack-Cis) for analytical scale. For semipreparative scale separations, the HPLC was fitted with a 7.8-mm X 30-cm prepacked column packed with 10-/xm silica particles bonded with octadecylsilane. Samples for HPLC were injected at volumes of 20 /xL (flow rate 1 mL/min) and 80 /zL (flow rate 4 mL/min), and the absorption was measured at 254 nm. Fractions... 

A rapid, sensitive, reversed-phase HPLC method for the separation of BHA isomers was described by Berridge et al. (117). Using a column packed with Hypersil ODS of 3-/nn particle size and with a mobile phase consisting of an acetonitrile-water mixture, it was possible to detect less than 0.5 ng of the isomers injected. The procedure is reliable and robust and compared to another HPLC method, claimed to have a more stable, longer-lasting column requiring only occasional maintenance (117). 

Sultana et al. [88] developed a reversed-phase HPLC method for the simultaneous determination of omeprazole in Risek capsules. Omeprazole and the internal standard, diazepam, were separated by Shim-pack CLC-ODS (0.4 x 25 cm, 5 m) column. The mobile phase was methanol-water (80 20), pumped isocratically at ambient temperature. Analysis was run at a flow-rate of 1 ml/min at a detection wavelength of 302 nm. The method was specific and sensitive with a detection limit of 3.5 ng/ml at a signal-to-noise ratio of 4 1. The limit of quantification was set at 6.25 ng/ml. The calibration curve was linear over a concentration range of 6.25—1280 ng/ml. Precision and accuracy, demonstrated by within-day, between-day assay, and interoperator assays were lower than 10%. 

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