Biomedical subjects

John W Dolan

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PubMed2004

Column selectivity in reversed-phase liquid chromatography. V. Higher metal content (type-A) alkyl-silica columns.

Retention measurements involving 16 test solutes have been carried out for 38 type-A alkyl-silica columns and three bonded-zirconia columns. These measurements have been analyzed in terms of a model previously developed for type-B columns, so as to yield values of five column selectivity parameters (H, S*, A, B, C) for each type-A column. Overall differences in selectivity between type-A and -B columns can be related to the average values of H, S*, etc. for each column type. Compared to type-B columns, type-A columns provide generally stronger retention for carboxylic acids, while solutes that are more hydrophobic or less bulky are more retained on type-B columns. Hydrogen-bond acceptors (e.g. aliphatic amides) and cations (e.g. protonated bases) are strongly retained on type-A versus type-B columns. Compared to type-B columns, bonded-zirconia columns show much increased retention of cations and reduced retention of hydrogen-bond acceptors. Because of relatively large differences in the selectivity of bonded-zirconia, type-A, and type-B columns, it will prove difficult to find columns of different type (e.g. a type-A and a type-B column) which have equivalent selectivity. Type-A columns also tend to be more different from each other (in terms of selectivity) than is the case for type-B columns. As a result, the replacement of a given type-A column by an "equivalent" type-A column also appears unlikely, except for samples that do not contain ionized compounds.

Chromatography, Liquid↗

PubMed2003

Column selectivity in reversed-phase liquid chromatography. IV. Type-B alkyl-silica columns.

Columns for reversed-phase HPLC (RP-LC) can be characterized by five, retention-related parameters: H (hydrophobicity), S (steric selectivity), A (hydrogen-bond acidity), B (hydrogen-bond basicity), and C (cation-exchange behavior). In the present study, values of the latter parameters have been measured for 92 type-B (low metals content)alkyl-silica columns and compared to column properties such as ligand length,ligand concentration, pore diameter, and the presence or absence of end-capping. With the exception of five columns of unusual design, retention factors, k, for 16 representative test compounds were correlated with values of H, S, etc., within an average +/- 1.2% (1 standard deviation, SD), suggesting that all significant solute-column interactions are recognized by these five column parameters. A single-valued function F(s) is proposed to measure differences in selectivity for any two RP-LC columns whose values of H, S, etc., are known. This allows the easy selection of columns whose selectivity is desired to be either similar to or different from a starting column, for application in either routine analysis or method development.

Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid↗

PubMed2003

Measurement of paclitaxel in biological matrices: high-throughput liquid chromatographic-tandem mass spectrometric quantification of paclitaxel and metabolites in human and dog plasma.

A GLP-validated, sensitive and specific LC-MS-MS method for the quantification of paclitaxel and its 6-alpha- and 3'-p-hydroxy metabolites is presented. A 0.400 ml plasma aliquot is spiked with a (13)C(6)-labeled paclitaxel internal standard and extracted with 1 ml methyl-tert.-butyl ether. The ether is evaporated and the residue is reconstituted in 130 microl of 30% aqueous acetonitrile (ACN) containing 0.1% trifluoroacetic acid. Isocratic HPLC analysis is performed by injecting 50 microl of the reconstituted material onto a 50x2.1 mm C(18) column with an ACN-water-acetic acid (50:50:0.1) mobile phase at 200 microl/min flow. Detection is by positive ion electrospray followed by multiple reaction monitoring of the following transitions: paclitaxel (854>509 u), 6-alpha-hydroxy paclitaxel (870>525 u), 3'-p-hydroxy paclitaxel (870>509 u) and internal standard (860>509 u). Quantification is by peak area ratio against the 13C(6) internal standard. The method range is 0.117-117 nM (0.1-100 ng/ml) for paclitaxel and both metabolites using a 0.400 ml human or dog plasma sample. Analysis time per sample is less than 5 min.

Animals↗

PubMed2002

Temperature selectivity in reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography.

Column temperature plays two important roles in reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC): control of retention (k) and control of selectivity (a). While changes in retention as a function of temperature are ubiquitous, selectivity changes for any given solute pair are more pronounced for ionized samples and samples with more polar substituents. With many samples, column temperature can be selected in a manner that optimizes resolution. The selectivity effects observed for temperature changes in RP-HPLC generally are complementary to those observed for mobile phase strength changes, so it is often possible to improve resolution by simultaneous optimization of temperature and mobile phase percent organic or gradient steepness. Computer simulation is a powerful tool for such optimization experiments. This paper reviews the influence of temperature on chromatographic selectivity for RP-HPLC.

Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid↗