Journal of chromatography. A 2015-02-27

Efficiency of short, small-diameter columns for reversed-phase liquid chromatography under practical operating conditions.

Yan Ma, Alexander W Chassy, Shota Miyazaki, Masanori Motokawa, Kei Morisato, Hideyuki Uzu, Masayoshi Ohira, Masahiro Furuno, Kazuki Nakanishi, Hiroyoshi Minakuchi, Khaled Mriziq, Tivadar Farkas, Oliver Fiehn, Nobuo Tanaka

Index: J. Chromatogr. A. 1383 , 47-57, (2015)

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Abstract

Prototype small-size (1.0mm I.D., 5cm long) columns for reversed-phase HPLC were evaluated in relation to instrument requirements. The performance of three types of columns, monolithic silica and particulate silica (2μm, totally porous and 2.6μm, core-shell particles) was studied in the presence of considerable or minimal extra-column effects, while the detector contribution to band broadening was minimized by employing a small size UV-detector cell (6- or 90nL). A micro-LC instrument having small system volume (<1μL) provided extra-column band variance of only 0.01-0.02μL(2). The three columns generated about 8500 theoretical plates for solutes with retention factor, k>1-3 (depending on the column), in acetonitrile/water mobile phase (65/35=vol/vol) at 0.05mL/min, with the instrument specified above. The column efficiency was lower by up to 30% than that observed with a 2.1mm I.D. commercial column. The small-size columns also provided 8000-8500 theoretical plates for well retained solutes with a commercial ultrahigh-pressure liquid chromatography (UHPLC) instrument when extra-column contributions were minimized. While a significant extra-column effect was observed for early eluting solutes (k<2-4, depending on column) with methanol/water (20/80=vol/vol) as weak-wash solvent, the use of methanol/water=50/50 as wash solvent affected the column efficiency for most analytes. The results suggest that the band compression effect by the weak-wash solvent associated with partial-loop injection may provide a practical means to reducing the extra-column effect for small-size columns, while the use of an instrument with minimum extra-column effect is highly desirable. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


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