Robust naphthyl methacrylate monolithic column for high performance liquid chromatography of a wide range of solutes

Jonnada, M; El Rassi, Z

HERO ID

4275041

Reference Type

Journal Article

Year

2015

Language

English

PMID

26228852

HERO ID 4275041
In Press No
Year 2015
Title Robust naphthyl methacrylate monolithic column for high performance liquid chromatography of a wide range of solutes
Authors Jonnada, M; El Rassi, Z
Journal Journal of Chromatography A
Volume 1409
Page Numbers 166-172
Abstract An organic monolithic column based on the co-polymerization of 2-naphthyl methacrylate (NAPM) as the functional monomer and trimethylolpropane trimethacrylate (TRIM) as the crosslinker was introduced for high performance reversed-phase liquid chromatography (RPC). The co-polymerization was performed in situ in a stainless steel column of 4.6mm i.d. in the presence of a ternary porogen consisting of 1-dodecanol and cyclohexanol. This monolithic column (referred to as naphthyl methacrylate monolithic column or NMM column) showed high mechanical stability at relatively high mobile phase flow velocity indicating that the column has excellent hydrodynamic characteristics. To characterize the NMM column, different probe molecules including alkyl benzenes, and aniline, benzene, toluene and phenol derivatives were chromatographed on the column and the results in terms of k, selectivity and plate counts were compared to those obtained on an octadecyl silica (ODS) column in order to assess the presence of π-π and hydrophobic interactions on the NMM column under otherwise the same elution conditions. The NMM column offered additional π-π interactions with aromatic molecules in addition to hydrophobic interactions under RPC elution conditions. Run-to-run and column-to-column reproducibility of solute k values were evaluated, and percent relative standard deviation of <1% and ∼2-3.5%, respectively, were obtained. Six standard proteins were readily separated on the NMM column using shallow (30min at 1.0mL/min), steep (10min at 1.0mL/min) and ultra steep (1min at 3.0mL/min) linear gradient elution at increasing ACN concentration in the mobile phase using a 10cm×4.6mm i.d. column in case of shallow and steep linear gradients and a 3cm×4.6mm i.d. column for ultra steep linear gradient.
Doi 10.1016/j.chroma.2015.07.069
Pmid 26228852
Wosid WOS:000359882600019
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Language Text English
Keyword Aromatic compounds; Naphthyl monolithic column; Proteins; π–π interactions; article; aniline; benzene; copolymerization; high performance liquid chromatography; hydrodynamics; hydrophobic bonding; plate count; solutes; stainless steel; statistical analysis; toluene