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Kai Zhang1, Chaoyan Lou1, Yan Zhu1
1Department of Chemistry, Xixi Campus, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310028, China.
Abstract:
The covalent modification of polymeric particles has been a challenge due to their chemical inertness. Herein we describe a facile and neat method via thiol-ene reaction to immobilize cysteamine/cysteine onto allylmethacrylate-divinylbenzene (AMA-DVB) and ethylvinylbenzene-divinylbenzene (EVB-DVB). The introduced functionalities were verified by elementary analysis and scanning electron microscope coupled with energy dispersive spectroscopy. This modification enabled the further grafting of hyperbranched condensation polymers (HBCPs), which converted the particles into anion exchangers. The anion exchangers demonstrated good separation with carbonate/bicarbonate eluents and hydroxide eluents for suppressed anion exchange chromatography. In the case of a 3-layered anion exchanger, simultaneous separation of nine model anions was achieved by isocratic elution in 17 min with efficiencies up to 16,100 plates m-1. High stability and dependable durability was exhibited in long-term tests.
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