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Published on: May 16, 2014
trans-(1R,2R)-Diaminocyclohexane-functionalized mesoporous organosilica spheres as chiral stationary phase
Guiru Zhu1, Dongmei Jiang, Qihua Yang
1State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, China.
Abstract:
The bifunctionalized mesoporous organosilica spheres with trans-(1R,2R)-diaminocyclohexane (DACH) in the pore were synthesized and their application as chiral stationary phase in high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) was demonstrated. Bifunctionalized mesoporous organosilica spheres with narrow particle size distribution of 5-7 microm were prepared by the co-condensation of N-[3-(triethoxysilyl)propyl]-trans-(1R,2R)-diaminocyclohexane (M(propyl)) with 1,2-bis(trimethoxysilyl)ethane (BTME) in basic medium using octadecyltrimethylammonium chloride (C(18)TACl) as structural directing agent and ethanol as co-solvent. The morphologies of the bifunctionalized mesoporous organosilicas were sensitive to the molar fraction of M(propyl). At higher M(propyl)/BTME molar ratio, the bifunctionalized organosilica spheres with ordered mesoporous structure can be formed in a wide range of synthetic conditions. When the molar percent of M(propyl)/(M(propyl)+BTME) is less than 20, the formation of spheres could be hardly observed. The structural order of the materials mainly depends on the base concentration and M(propyl)/BTME molar ratio in the initial sol mixture. A column packed with the bifunctionalized mesoporous organosilica spheres exhibits higher selectivity and resolution for racemic amino acids than that packed with DACH-SiO(2) prepared by conventional post-synthesis grafting method.
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