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Determination of the Gas-phase Acidities of Oligopeptides
Published on: June 24, 2013
Selectivity of alkylamide bonded-phases with respect to organic acids under reversed-phase conditions
1American Cyanamid Company, Agricultural Products Research Division, Princeton, NJ 08543-0400, USA.
Abstract:
It was shown previously by Czajkowska et al. [J. Chromatogr. A, 691 (1995) 217] that alkylamide phases are better for separating pyridinecarboxylic acids than conventional alkyl packings. They allow separation of these compounds from hydrophobic substances over a wide range of mobile phase compositions. In the current work the retention data for pyridinedicarboxylic acids were measured on monomeric and polymeric alkylamide phases at 35 degrees C by using the acetonitrile-water eluent and utilized to calculate the nonspecific (methylene) and specific (carboxylic and amine) selectivities. Subsequently, the selectivity data were plotted against the pH of the mobile phase. It was shown that while the methylene selectivity does not change much at the pH range from 2 to 5, the specific selectivities studied depend strongly on the pH of the mobile phase. The magnitude of this dependence is determined by the type of the bonded phase and silica support as well as the length of the terminal alkyl groups.
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