Guo, Y.; Bhalodia, N.; Fattal, B.; Serris, I. Evaluating the Adsorbed Water Layer on Polar Stationary Phases for Hydrophilic Interaction Chromatography (HILIC). Separations2019, 6, 19.
Guo, Y.; Bhalodia, N.; Fattal, B.; Serris, I. Evaluating the Adsorbed Water Layer on Polar Stationary Phases for Hydrophilic Interaction Chromatography (HILIC). Separations 2019, 6, 19.
Guo, Y.; Bhalodia, N.; Fattal, B.; Serris, I. Evaluating the Adsorbed Water Layer on Polar Stationary Phases for Hydrophilic Interaction Chromatography (HILIC). Separations2019, 6, 19.
Guo, Y.; Bhalodia, N.; Fattal, B.; Serris, I. Evaluating the Adsorbed Water Layer on Polar Stationary Phases for Hydrophilic Interaction Chromatography (HILIC). Separations 2019, 6, 19.
Abstract
The water-rich liquid layer immobilized on the surface of the polar stationary phases is critical to the retention of polar compounds in hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC). Although the presence of the adsorbed water layer has been investigated and confirmed by multiple techniques, there is a lack of quantitative measure that can be easily determined and linked to chromatographic parameters. This study proposes a simple measure termed volume ratio (the ratio of the adsorbed water layer volume and the mobile phase volume) that provides a relative, but quantitative information on the adsorbed water layer and may be linked to the phase ratio. The volume ratio can be easily determined using toluene elution volume. The volume ratio values are measured in 25 polar stationary phases in various mobile phase conditions. In addition to the acetonitrile content in the mobile phase, ammonium acetate concentration in the mobile phase and column temperature also have significant influences on the volume ratio and the adsorbed water layer.
Keywords
volume ratio; adsorbed water layer; stationary phase; salt concentration; column temperature
Subject
Chemistry and Materials Science, Analytical Chemistry
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