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Published on: October 24, 2011
A highly ordered chiral inorganic mesoporous material used as stationary phase for high-resolution gas
Yan-Xia Li1, Shi-Guo Fu1, Jun-Hui Zhang1
1Department of Chemistry, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650500, PR China.
Abstract:
A highly ordered chiral mesoporous silica-coated capillary column has been used for high-resolution gas chromatographic separations. The column has excellent selectivity, not only for the separation of isomers, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, linear alkanes, long chain alkanes, Grob's test mixture and aromatic hydrocarbons, but also for the resolution of different classes of chiral compounds. Additionally, the column exhibits high column efficiency, excellent temperature resistance, and analysis times are short. This is the first report of a highly ordered chiral inorganic mesoporous silica used in separation science.
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