Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1207229 Journal of Chromatography A 2008 8 Pages PDF
Abstract

A novel two-dimensional reversed-phase liquid chromatography/hydrophilic interaction chromatography (2D-RPLC/HILIC) system is developed with the introduction of the click β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) stationary phase. The offline system shows excellent abilities for the separation of polar and medium-polarity components in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). It facilitates us not only to separate components that cannot be resolved by uni-dimensional chromatography, but also to achieve much more efficient detection of components with low abundance. The orthogonality of this new system is excellent. A simple geometric approach is developed to characterize the practical orthogonality of 2D-LC in the analysis of complex unknown samples. The mathematical characterization results are in good accordance with the experimental findings, and both demonstrate that the proposed 2D-RPLC/HILIC system is a powerful tool for the separation of polar and medium-polarity complex samples. This system may have a great potential for the separation of peptides and metabolomic compounds with similar polarity.

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