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M J Ruiz-Angel1, J R Torres-Lapasió, M C García-Alvarez-Coque
1Departament de Química Analítica, Universitat de València, c/Dr. Moliner 50, 46100, Burjassot, Spain.
Abstract:
The reversed-phase liquid chromatographic (RPLC) behavior (retention, elution strength, selectivity, efficiency, and peak asymmetry) for a group of basic drugs (beta-blockers), with mobile phases containing the anionic surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and acetonitrile, revealed different separation environments, depending on the concentrations of both modifiers: hydro-organic, submicellar at low surfactant concentration and high concentration of organic solvent, micellar, and submicellar at high concentration of both surfactant and organic solvent. In the surfactant-mediated modes, the anionic surfactant layer adsorbed on the stationary phase interacts strongly with the positively charged basic drugs increasing the retention and masks the silanol groups that are the origin of the poor efficiencies and tailing peaks in hydro-organic RPLC with conventional columns. Also, the strong attraction between the cationic solutes and anionic SDS micelles or monomers in the mobile phase enhances the solubility and allows a direct transfer mechanism of the cationic solutes from micelles to the modified stationary phase, which has been extensively described for highly hydrophobic solutes.
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