Abstract
The retention mechanisms of phenylthiohydantoin (PTH)-amino acids in reversed-phase ion-pair liquid chromatography were quantitatively analyzed in silico. The most significant interaction for the retention was the Lewis acid-base interaction between an aromatic ring of a PTH-amino acid and a hydroxyl-group hydrogen of tetra-alkyl ammonium hydroxide. Solvent effects, addition of molecular interaction (MI) energy values between an analyte and solvent molecules, significantly improved the relationship between the MI energy values, calculated using a molecular mechanics program, and logk values, measured via chromatography. The correlation coefficient between the calculated MI energy values and the logk values was 0.98 (n = 19).
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