Abstract
Recent advancements in particle design are common in reversed-phase liquid chromatography (RPLC), but in chiral separations their use is still sporadic in commercially available chiral stationary phases (CSPs). Due to reported lower mass transfer resistance, they might be a promising opportunity to increase efficiency and reduce time of analysis since the relatively higher mass transfer resistance term of CSPs caused by slow adsorption-desorption kinetics is the most performance-limiting factor in enantioselective chromatography. This study was dedicated to the evaluation of new support materials for tert-butylcarbamoylquinine (tBuCQN) based CSP to provide highly efficient and fast enantioseparations. As the main focus of this study, the chiral selector tBuCQN was immobilized on sub-2 μm fully porous particles (FPPs) and 2.7 μm superficially porous particles (SPPs) and their column performance in enantioseparation was evaluated in comparison to 5 μm FPPs by van Deemter and Knox analyses as well as kinetic plots using racemic Fmoc-Phe. Both new particle types outperformed the 5 μm FPP benchmark in terms of speed and efficiency, with wider pore materials (160 or 200 Å) being advantageous (over 90 or 120 Å). Basically decisive for the performance gain was the 10-times smaller mass transfer resistance. Furthermore, 2.7 μm 160 Å SPPs outperformed their fully porous sub-2 μm 120 Å counterpart (HminR = 4.64 μm vs. HminR = 8.94 μm) due to various parameters affording reduced plate height h of 1.7. Caused by the inaccessible core, separations were about 2-times faster. Packing of 2.7 μm core-shell particles provided a very homogeneous column bed, and, owing to its higher permeability, the column backpressure was much lower. It enables packing of longer columns providing theoretically separation efficiencies of up to 106 plates per m (as indicated by kinetic plots) and versatile use without the necessity of UHPLC systems. Investigating the effect of particle size reduction (FPPs: 5 μm, 3 μm, 1.7 μm; SPPs: 2.7 μm, 2 μm) and wider pores (FPPs: 120 Å, 200 Å; SPPs: 90 Å, 160 Å), a significantly reduced mass transfer resistance was the driving force for performance gain. Individual contributions of peak dispersion were deconvoluted for 5 μm FPP CSP and confirmed that slow adsorption-desorption kinetics is the most significant contribution to peak broadening in this chromatographic system.
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