EP0309489A1 - Fused-silica microbore packed chromatography column with chemically modified column wall - Google Patents
Fused-silica microbore packed chromatography column with chemically modified column wallInfo
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- EP0309489A1 EP0309489A1 EP87907262A EP87907262A EP0309489A1 EP 0309489 A1 EP0309489 A1 EP 0309489A1 EP 87907262 A EP87907262 A EP 87907262A EP 87907262 A EP87907262 A EP 87907262A EP 0309489 A1 EP0309489 A1 EP 0309489A1
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- VYPSYNLAJGMNEJ-UHFFFAOYSA-N Silicium dioxide Chemical compound O=[Si]=O VYPSYNLAJGMNEJ-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 title claims abstract description 30
- 239000005350 fused silica glass Substances 0.000 title claims abstract description 24
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- -1 octadecylsiloxane Chemical class 0.000 claims description 10
- 238000001179 sorption measurement Methods 0.000 claims description 7
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- 230000014759 maintenance of location Effects 0.000 claims description 6
- 229920001223 polyethylene glycol Polymers 0.000 claims description 5
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- 239000002202 Polyethylene glycol Substances 0.000 claims description 3
- 239000004205 dimethyl polysiloxane Substances 0.000 claims description 3
- 235000013870 dimethyl polysiloxane Nutrition 0.000 claims description 3
- 229920000435 poly(dimethylsiloxane) Polymers 0.000 claims description 3
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- 125000005375 organosiloxane group Chemical group 0.000 claims 2
- 239000000126 substance Substances 0.000 abstract description 7
- 239000011325 microbead Substances 0.000 abstract 1
- MWPLVEDNUUSJAV-UHFFFAOYSA-N anthracene Chemical compound C1=CC=CC2=CC3=CC=CC=C3C=C21 MWPLVEDNUUSJAV-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 10
- UHOVQNZJYSORNB-UHFFFAOYSA-N Benzene Chemical compound C1=CC=CC=C1 UHOVQNZJYSORNB-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 9
- YXFVVABEGXRONW-UHFFFAOYSA-N Toluene Chemical compound CC1=CC=CC=C1 YXFVVABEGXRONW-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 9
- 230000004048 modification Effects 0.000 description 6
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- PQPVPZTVJLXQAS-UHFFFAOYSA-N hydroxy-methyl-phenylsilicon Chemical compound C[Si](O)C1=CC=CC=C1 PQPVPZTVJLXQAS-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 3
- 239000000377 silicon dioxide Substances 0.000 description 3
- 239000004698 Polyethylene Substances 0.000 description 2
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- VYZAMTAEIAYCRO-UHFFFAOYSA-N Chromium Chemical compound [Cr] VYZAMTAEIAYCRO-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 1
- 229910020175 SiOH Inorganic materials 0.000 description 1
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- SCPYDCQAZCOKTP-UHFFFAOYSA-N silanol Chemical compound [SiH3]O SCPYDCQAZCOKTP-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 1
- 125000005372 silanol group Chemical group 0.000 description 1
- 229910001220 stainless steel Inorganic materials 0.000 description 1
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Classifications
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- G01N30/00—Investigating or analysing materials by separation into components using adsorption, absorption or similar phenomena or using ion-exchange, e.g. chromatography or field flow fractionation
- G01N30/02—Column chromatography
- G01N30/60—Construction of the column
- G01N30/6052—Construction of the column body
- G01N30/6073—Construction of the column body in open tubular form
- G01N30/6078—Capillaries
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
- B01D—SEPARATION
- B01D15/00—Separating processes involving the treatment of liquids with solid sorbents; Apparatus therefor
- B01D15/08—Selective adsorption, e.g. chromatography
- B01D15/10—Selective adsorption, e.g. chromatography characterised by constructional or operational features
- B01D15/20—Selective adsorption, e.g. chromatography characterised by constructional or operational features relating to the conditioning of the sorbent material
- B01D15/206—Packing or coating
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
- B01D—SEPARATION
- B01D15/00—Separating processes involving the treatment of liquids with solid sorbents; Apparatus therefor
- B01D15/08—Selective adsorption, e.g. chromatography
- B01D15/10—Selective adsorption, e.g. chromatography characterised by constructional or operational features
- B01D15/22—Selective adsorption, e.g. chromatography characterised by constructional or operational features relating to the construction of the column
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- G—PHYSICS
- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01N—INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
- G01N30/00—Investigating or analysing materials by separation into components using adsorption, absorption or similar phenomena or using ion-exchange, e.g. chromatography or field flow fractionation
- G01N30/02—Column chromatography
- G01N30/50—Conditioning of the sorbent material or stationary liquid
- G01N30/52—Physical parameters
Definitions
- Microbore chromatography columns i.e., columns having an inner diameter of approximately .6 mm or less, are becoming an increasing important tool in modern liquid chromatography.
- Fused-silica is the preferred material for fabricating such columns because its properties offer many advantages over available alternative materials.
- Fused-silica is flexible, strong, able to withstand high pressure, optically transparent, and has very good chemical inertness.
- columns made of fused-silica have very smooth inner walls which minimizes wall effects.
- stainless steel tubing also commonly used in chromatography, has relatively rough surfaces which exacerbate wall effects.
- Fused-silica microbore columns may be packed, as shown for example in the inventor's prior U.S. Pat. No. 4,483,773, or left open, as shown, for example, in the articles "Open Tubular Column LC: Theory and Practice,” vol.20, pp. 241 et seq., Journ. of Chrom. Science (1982), by the inventor; and "Contemporary Capillary Column Technology for Chromatography,” May-June 1986 Chromatography Forum, pp. 38 et seq., by Jones, et al. As described in these articles and in the referenced patent, both types of columns, i.e., packed and open, may be used in either gas or liquid chromatography.
- the stationary phase provides the partition medium for separating sample components and should be selected from a variety of substances according to the intended use of the column.
- Fused silica is chemically similar to the silica substrates used in traditional LC packings and, accordingly, similar stationary phase materials may be used.
- the stationary phase layer will typically have a thickness of between .1 to 5 ⁇ m . The methods for surface deactivation and chemical bonding of stationary phase materials are well known in the art and will not be further described.
- fused-silica columns have very smooth inner walls which tends to minimize wall effects.
- fused-silica columns it has traditionally been thought that the column walls played no significant role in the operation of the column. Accordingly, in the past, no effort has been made to deactivate or chemically modify the column wall of a packed fused-silica microbore column.
- the present invention comprises a packed fused-silica microbore column with a deactivated and/or chemically modified column wall.
- the chemical modification of the column wall can be used to modify and improve the performance of the column in a variety of ways.
- the stationary phase bonded to the column wall may be different than the stationary phase bonded to the packing material. When this is done column performance may be greatly enhanced for reasons which are not fully understood as yet.
- Figure 1 is a cross-sectional view of a portion of a microbore packed column in accordance with the present invention.
- Figure 2 is a chromatogram obtained using a packed microbore column having a stationary phase bonded to the inner wall in accordance with the present invention.
- FIG. 1 a portion of a fused-silica microbore column (10) of the present invention is shown in cross-section.
- the column comprises a fused-silica microbore tube (15).
- microbore is used to denote that the tube has an inner diameter less than approximately .6 mm.
- Column length may vary considerably depending on the application and needs of the chromatographer. Lengths ranging from 10 cm to 200 cm are typical. The manner of construction of such fused-silica microbore tubes is well known in the art and will not be described further.
- a stationary phase (20) is chemically bonded to the inner wall of the fused-silica tube (15).
- the inner wall Prior to bonding of the stationary phase (20), the inner wall should, preferably, be deactivated using methods well known to those skilled in the art of making open tubular fused-silica columns.
- a stationary phase such as methylphenylsiloxane, dimethylpolysiloxane, polyethylene glycol, dimethyldiphenylpolysiloxane, octadecylsiloxane, octylsiloxane, aminopropylsiloxane, propylsiloxane, cyanopropylsiloxane, cation or anion exchanger siloxanes, liquid crystals, etc., may be selected according to the specific application need. Methods of bonding the selected stationary phase are well known to those skilled in the art of making open tubular fused-silica columns.
- the resulting stationary phase layer (20) may range in thickness from .1 to 5 ⁇ m. However, as noted below, a relatively thin layer (in the 0.1-1.0 range may be preferred.
- the column is filled with packing material (25) comprising microparticulate silica.
- packing material comprising microparticulate silica.
- a selected stationary phase (not shown) is bonded to the micro-particulate silica prior to packing.
- the packing should preferably consist of substantially uniform particles having a diameter in the range of 1 to 200 ⁇ m. The method of packing a microbore fused-silica column is described in the inventor's U.S. Pat. No. 4,483,773.
- the stationary phase selected for the packing material be the same as the stationary phase (20) bonded to the column wall. Indeed, there may be distinct advantages to selecting a stationary phase for the wall that is different than the stationary phase of the packing material. It appears experimentally that, by selecting appropriate surface modification chemicals one can minimize surface adsorption sites and modify physicochemical interaction between solute molecules and the active sites on the column wall, adding one more parameter for control of chromatographic processes.
- the scope of chemical modification of the surface of the inner wall may include, for example:
- Table 1 shows the chromatographic characteristics of relative retention between toluene and benzene and total plate count for anthracene for a four different columns. Three of the columns were prepared according to the present invention and compared to a untreated fused-silica column of the prior art. Relative retention, ⁇ , between toluene and benzene increases for the chemically modified columns ( ⁇ 1.52) compared to the untreated column ( ⁇ 1.41). This increase in relative retention suggests a significant intermolecular interaction between solute molecules and the stationary phase on the column wall.
- the plate count for the untreated column is 71,000 plates/m for anthracene. After a 5% phenylmethylsiloxane modification of the column wall, the plate count is reduced to 39,000 for a 0.25 ⁇ m film and to 23,000 for a 1.0 ⁇ m film.
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Abstract
Colonne en silice fondue à microbilles (10) destinée à être utilisée en chromatographie des liquides, dans laquelle la paroi a été chimiquement modifiée. Le traitement chimique de la paroi de la colonne sert à modifier et à améliorer les performances de la colonne (10). Dans un mode de réalisation, une phase stationnaire (20), différente de la phase stationnaire liée au matérieau de remplissage (25), est liée à la paroi de la colonne. Pour des raisons qui ne sont encore pas totalement comprises, les performances de la colonne peuvent être considérablement améliorées.Column of fused silica with microbeads (10) intended for use in liquid chromatography, in which the wall has been chemically modified. The chemical treatment of the column wall is used to modify and improve the performance of the column (10). In one embodiment, a stationary phase (20), different from the stationary phase linked to the filling material (25), is linked to the wall of the column. For reasons which are not yet fully understood, the performance of the column can be considerably improved.
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Applications Claiming Priority (2)
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| US3827887A | 1987-04-15 | 1987-04-15 | |
| US38278 | 1987-04-15 |
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| EP0309489A1 true EP0309489A1 (en) | 1989-04-05 |
| EP0309489A4 EP0309489A4 (en) | 1989-09-11 |
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| WO (1) | WO1988007886A1 (en) |
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