Abstract
Optimizing separation of ionizable compounds in order to find robust conditions has become an important part of method development in liquid chromatography. This work is an attempt to explain the observed variations of retention of acid and basic compounds with the organic modifier content in the mobile phase, according to various factors: the type of modifier, the type of buffer, the temperature and of course the type of solute. This is done by considering the variation of the so-called chromatographic p K a which refers to the pH measured in the aqueous medium and is determined from retention data. A procedure is described that accurately relates, from nine experiments, retention to solvent composition and pH. The limits of such a procedure are evaluated and two examples of optimized separations of basic compounds are given.
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