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Optimising mobile phase composition, its flow-rate and column temperature in HPLC using taboo search.

Y C Guillaume¹, E Peyrin

¹UFR des Sciences Médicales et Pharmaceutiques, Laboratoire de Chimie Analytique, Place Saint Jacques, F-25030 Besançon Cedex, France.

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Area of Science:

Analytical Chemistry
Chemometrics
Chromatography

Background:

Optimizing chromatographic separations is crucial for analyzing complex mixtures.
Reversed-phase liquid chromatography (RPLC) is a widely used separation technique.
Chemometrics offers powerful tools for method development and optimization in chromatography.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and validate a chemometric methodology for optimizing RPLC separations.
To investigate the influence of column temperature, mobile phase composition, and flow rate on separation.
To apply a novel algorithm based on Glover's taboo search (TS) for chromatographic response function (CRF) optimization.

Main Methods:

Utilized a chemometric approach involving fifteen experiments to build a mathematical model.
Developed a novel chromatographic response function (CRF) to quantify separation efficiency.
Employed Glover's taboo search (TS) algorithm for optimizing the CRF, comparing it with pure random search (PRS) and simplex search (SS).

Main Results:

Identified optimal separation conditions: flow rate of 0.9 ml/min, water fraction of 0.64 in ACN-water mobile phase, and column temperature of 10°C.
Demonstrated that the TS algorithm effectively avoids local minima, yielding a near-optimal solution.
Calculations confirmed the superiority of TS over PRS and SS in achieving efficient separation.

Conclusions:

The proposed chemometric methodology and TS algorithm provide an efficient and robust approach for RPLC optimization.
The method is generally applicable, easy to implement, derivative-free, and suitable for complex optimization problems.
This study highlights the potential of advanced chemometric techniques in enhancing chromatographic separation performance.