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Comparative HPLC enantioseparation of ferrocenylalcohols on two cellulose-based chiral stationary phases
Angela Patti1, Sonia Pedotti, Claudia Sanfilippo
1Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare del CNR, Via del Santuario 110, I-95028 Valverde, Catania, Italy. angela.patti@icb.cnr.it
Abstract:
The direct HPLC enantiomeric separation of several ferrocenylalcohols on the commercially available Chiralcel OD and Chiralcel OJ columns has been evaluated in normal-phase mode. Almost all the compounds were resolved on one or both chiral stationary phases (CSPs) with separation factor (alpha) ranging from 1.06 to 2.88 while the resolution (R(s)) varied from 0.63 to 12.70 In the separation of the alpha-ferrocenylalcohols 1a-e and the phenyl analogues 2a-e, which were all resolved except 1c, a similar trend in the retention behavior for the two series of alcohols was evidenced and the selectivity was roughly complementary on the two investigated CSP. For three ferrocenylacohols, chosen as model compounds, the influence of the mobile phase composition and temperature on the enantioseparation were investigated and additional information on the chiral recognition mechanism were deduced from the chromatographic behavior of their acetylderivatives.
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