Abstract
A phenomenological approach is presented to describe the migration of cationic solutes in micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography (MECC). The migration behavior of an organic base is complicated by the presence of an acid-base equilibrium, the ion-pairing formation between the conjugated acid of the base and the monomer surfactants, and the interactions of both the base and its conjugated acid with the micellar pseudophase. An equation was derived that allows the calculation of the migration factor of a cationic solute in MECC with anionic micelles. Two limiting cases were considered: first the cationic solute completely associates with the anionic surfactant (ion-pair formation constant, KIP, approaches infinity), and therefore there is no free charged species in the solution; second, the KIP = 0 and the free conjugated acid, BH+ migrates in the aqueous bulk solvent at its own electrophoretic velocity. An estimate for the ion-pair formation constant between cationic solutes and free surfactant can be obtained by using the model.
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