Polysaccharide-based Chiral Stationary Phases Research Articles

Enantioseparation of aldols by high-performance liquid chromatography on polysaccharide-based chiral stationary phases that bear chlorinated substituents.

Two families of aldols, obtained from the condensation of aromatic aldehydes with cyclohexanone or acetone (ten examples in each group), were analyzed by high-performance liquid chromatography in normal phase elution mode on three polysaccharide-based chiral stationary phases of the Lux series, namely, Lux Cellulose-2, Lux Cellulose-4 and Lux Amylose-2, which share the common feature of chlorinated substituents in the chiral selectors. Following simple optimization steps, the enantioseparation of all aldols derived from cyclohexanone was achieved and the highest values of separation factor (α, 1.32 < α < 2.20) and resolution (Rs , 4.5 < Rs <17.2) were observed on Lux Cellulose-2, with the only exception of the 4-nitro-substituted derivative that was better resolved on Lux Cellulose-4. On the contrary, Lux Amylose-2 was the best choice for aldols derived from acetone and only specific analytes in this group were resolved on the cellulose-based supports. A variable-temperature study of selected compounds allowed us to determine thermodynamic parameters of the enantioseparation process, which was enthalpy-controlled in all the cases except one.

Erratum to: Chiral Separation of 4-Iminoflavan Derivatives on Several Polysaccharide-Based Chiral Stationary Phases by HPLC

The HPLC enantiomeric separation of seven 4-iminoflavans was successfully accomplished in the normal phase mode using six polysaccharide-based chiral stationary phases namely, Chiralcel®OD-H, Chiralcel®OD, Chiralcel®OJ, Chiralpak®AD, Chiralpak®IA and Chiralpak®IB under normal and polar organic phase modes. The resolution depended on nature and concentration of alcoholic modifier. The results demonstrate clearly that the chromatographic system based on the coated and immobilized type Chiralpak®IB and Chiralcel®OD-H CSPs provide a powerful analytical tool for enantiomeric separation of all the 4-iminoflavans used in this study.

Synthesis of chitosan 3,6-diphenylcarbamate-2-urea derivatives and their applications as chiral stationary phases for high-performance liquid chromatography

Fourteen chitosan 3,6-diphenylcarbamate-2-urea derivatives were synthesized using well-deacetylated chitosan and the corresponding phenyl isocyanates. After coating them on silica gel, their chiral recognition abilities were evaluated as the chiral stationary phases (CSPs) for high-performance liquid chromatography. These coated-type CSPs exhibited different chiral recognitions depending on the position, nature, and number of the substituents introduced on the phenyl group, and the introduction of either an electron-withdrawing or an electron-donating substituent improved the chiral recognition of the CSPs. Among the CSPs, the 2-substituted CSPs showed low chiral recognition abilities, while those with 3,5-dimethyl and 3,5-dichloro substituents showed relatively higher chiral recognition abilities, which enabled the baseline separation of some racemates. The CSPs could be used with some eluents containing chloroform, which cannot be used for other polysaccharide-based CSPs. Some racemates were more efficiently resolved with these nonstandard eluents. The correlation between the chiral recognition ability and the chemical shifts of the N-H protons in the 1H NMR spectra of the chitosan derivatives or the N-H frequencies in the IR spectra of the carbamate moieties was discussed.

High‐performance liquid chromatography enantioseparation of polyhalogenated 4,4′‐bipyridines on polysaccharide‐based chiral stationary phases under multimodal elution

An investigation on the high-performance liquid chromatography enantioseparation of 12 polyhalogenated 4,4'-bipyridines on polysaccharide-based chiral stationary phases is described. The overall study was directed toward the generation of efficient separations in order to obtain pure atropisomers that will serve as ligands for building homochiral metal organic frameworks. Four coated columns--namely, Lux Cellulose-1, Lux Cellulose-2, Lux Cellulose-4, and Lux Amylose-2--and two immobilized columns--namely, Chiralpak IC and IA--were used under normal, polar organic, and reversed-phase elution modes. Moreover, Chiralcel OJ was considered under normal-phase and polar organic conditions. The effect of the chiral selector and mobile phase composition on the enantioseparation, the enantiomer elution order and the beneficial effect of nonstandard solvents were studied. The effect of water in the mobile phase on the enantioselectivity and retention was investigated and retention profiles typical of hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography were observed. Interesting phenomena of solvent-induced enantiomer elution order reversal occurred under normal-phase mode. All the considered 4,4'-bipyridines were enantioseparated at the multimilligram level.

Enantiomeric separation of new cathinone derivatives designer drugs by capillary electrochromatography using a chiral stationary phase, based on amylose tris(5-chloro-2-methylphenylcarbamate).

In this study, a chiral CEC method for the enantiomeric separation of ten cathinone derivatives, by means of a polysaccharide-based chiral stationary phase, has been developed. Capillary columns of 100 μm id packed with amylose tris(5-chloro-2-methylphenylcarbamate) coated on silica, also called Sepapak 3 or Lux Amylose-2, were used to achieve the enantioseparation of the studied designer drugs. Enantioresolution, chromatographic retention, and separation efficiency were evaluated in dependence of mobile-phase composition in terms of the content of the organic modifier, nature, and pH buffer. To obtain a sensitivity improvement, a field-amplified sample injection was evaluated optimizing the sample solvent composition and injection time. The LODs and LOQs values were in the range 25-100 and 50-150 ng/mL, respectively, for all the racemic compounds. Good results in terms of resolution (Rs ), separation efficiency (N/m), and short analysis times were obtained using a mixture of ACN/methanol/sodium acetate pH 9 (89/10/1, v/v/v). Applying a voltage of 10 kV and a temperature of 20°C, the analyzed cathinone derivatives were separated in their enantiomers in less than 10 min. A study, concerning the method precision, in terms of intra- and interday repeatability and column-to-column reproducibility was carried out in accordance with the analytical procedures for method validation. Intra- and interday repeatability provided RSD values in the ranges 1.1-1.7, 1.3-2.3% for retention time and 1.3-2.6, 2.1-3.4% for peak area, respectively.

Novel stereoselective high-performance liquid chromatographic method for simultaneous determination of guaifenesin and ketorolac enantiomers in human plasma.

A novel method was developed for the simultaneous determination of guaifenesin (GUA) and ketorolac tromethamine (KET) enantiomers in plasma samples. Since GUA probably increases the absorption of coadministered drugs (e.g., KET), it would be extremely important to monitor KET plasma levels for the purpose of dose adjustment with a subsequent decrease in the side effects. Enantiomeric resolution was achieved on a polysaccharide-based chiral stationary phase, amylose-2, as a chiral selector under the normal phase (NP) mode and using ornidazole (ORN) as internal standard. This innovative method has the advantage of the ease and reliability of sample preparation for plasma samples. Sample clean-up was based on simply using methanol for protein precipitation followed by direct extraction of drug residues using ethanol. Both GUA and KET enantiomers were separated using an isocratic mobile phase composed of hexane/isopropanol/trifluoroacetic acid, 85:15:0.05 v/v/v. Peak area ratios were linear over the range 0.05-20 µg/mL for the four enantiomers S (+) GUA, R (-) GUA, R (+) KET, and S (-) KET. The method was fully validated according to the International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) guidelines in terms of system suitability, specificity, accuracy, precision, robustness, and solution stability. Finally, this procedure was innovative to apply the rationale of developing a chiral high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) procedure for the simultaneous quantitative analysis of drug isomers in clinical samples.

Chiral Separation of 4-Iminoflavan Derivatives on Several Polysaccharide-Based Chiral Stationary Phases by HPLC

Chiral Separation of 4-Iminoflavan Derivatives on Several Polysaccharide-Based Chiral Stationary Phases by HPLC

Enantioselective potential of chiral stationary phases based on immobilized polysaccharides in reversed phase mode

Derivatized polysaccharide-based columns have high enantiodiscrimination potential mainly in normal phase separation mode. In this work chiral recognition ability of four immobilized polysaccharide-derived chiral stationary phases was evaluated under reversed phase conditions. A set of 30 chiral compounds, particularly drugs possessing various functional groups was used for testing. Baseline enantioseparation was achieved for 17 of them. In general, amylose-based chiral stationary phases showed higher enantioselectivity than the cellulose-based ones, mainly for acidic and bifunctional compounds. The influence of the type and pH of the aqueous mobile phase constituents as well as the role of the organic modifier on the enantioselective separation ability of the stationary phases were also investigated and compared. Complementary separations were obtained on the amylose- and cellulose-based columns. The immobilized polysaccharide-based chiral stationary phases were shown to be useful tool for the enantioseparation of a broad spectrum of chiral analytes in reversed phase separation mode.

High-performance liquid chromatographic enantioseparation of 3,5-disubstituted hydantoins analogs and temperature-induced reversals of elution orders on a polysaccharide-based chiral stationary phase

Enantioseparations were achieved for eleven 3,5-disubstituted hydantoins in HPLC under the normal phase mode using Chiralpak IA. The effects of polar alcoholic modifier and column temperature on retention and enantioseparation were determined. Importantly, we found two kinds of enantiomer elution order (EEO) reversals, which include solvent-induced EEO reversal for compound 9 and temperature-induced EEO reversals for compound 3 and compound 6. The phenomena of these EEO reversals were described for the first time in present work, which is helpful to elucidate the chiral separation mechanism of these hydantoins.

Insights into the impact of shape and electronic properties on the enantioseparation of polyhalogenated 4,4′-bipyridines on polysaccharide-type selectors. Evidence of stereoselective halogen bonding interactions

Starting from the high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) enantioseparation data collected by using twelve polyhalogenated 2,2′-dichloro-3-substituted-5,5′-dihalo-4,4′-bipyridines as test probes on seven polysaccharide-based chiral stationary phases (CSPs) under multimodal elution, the impact of substitution pattern, shape and electronic properties of the molecules on the separation behaviour was investigated through the evaluation of the chromatographic parameters (k, α, Rs) and molecular properties determined by means of quantum chemistry calculations. The computational/chromatographic screening furnished relevant structure-chromatographic behaviour relationships and some molecular interactions involved in the chiral discrimination process could be identified. In particular, a halogen bonding interaction (I.O) could reasonably explain the high enantioseparation (α=1.80, Rs=8.2) observed for the 2,2′-dichloro-3,5′-diiodo-5-bromo-4,4′-bipyridine on Lux Cellulose-1. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report supporting the involvement of a stereoselective halogen bonding interaction in polysaccharide-based CSPs. Moreover, having at disposal a sufficient set of data, the unknown absolute configurations of the eluted enantiomers of 3-methyl-, 3-thiomethyl- and 3-diphenylphosphinoyl-2,2′-dichloro-5,5′-dibromo-4,4′-bipyridines could be deduced by chromatographic correlation with the enantiomer elution order (EEO) of the related compounds of known absolute configuration.

Enantioresolution of Chiral Derivatives of Xanthones on Different Types of Liquid Chromatography Stationary Phases: A Comparative Study

Since the development of chiral stationary phases (CSPs), liquid chromatography has emerged as one of the most useful methods for analyses and preparation of enantiomerically pure bioactive compounds. However, the key for success of enantioseparation lies in the first place in the choice of a suitable CSP having enantioselectivity for the target enantiomers. Thus, this work describes a comparative study of resolution of seven chiral derivatives of xanthones (CDXs) on nine CSPs of different nature (four macrocyclic antibiotics, two Pirkle-type and three polysaccharide-based), under multimodal elution conditions. The polysaccharide-based CSPs have proved to be most suitable to separate this group of compounds, since all the CDXs were enantioseparated with excellent enantioselectivity and resolution. Six of the seven CDXs were separated on macrocyclic antibiotic-based CSPs, however with low enantioresolution. The Pirkle-type CSPs exhibited specificity on chiral discrimination behavior, presenting very high enantioselectivity for CDXs with aromatic group linked to the chiral moiety. This comparative study provides valuable information in the field of enantioresolution, and constitutes a useful background for subsequent studies of this important class of compounds. Keywords: Amylose tris-3, 5-dimethylphenylcarbamate, amylose tris-3, 5-dimethoxyphenylcarbamate, cellulose tris-3, 5- dimethylphenylcarbamate, chiral derivatives of xanthones, chiral stationary phases, chirality, chirobiotic R, chirobiotic T, chirobiotic TAG, chirobiotic V, enantiomerically pure, enantioresolution, enantioselectivity, liquid chromatography, Lphenylglycine, macrocyclic antibiotic, multimodal elution, Pirkle-type stationary phases, polysaccharide-based stationary phases, (S, S)-Whelk-O1.

Direct separation of the enantiomers of oxaliplatin on a cellulose-based chiral stationary phase in hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography mode

(R,R)-oxaliplatin is an anticancer enantiopure active pharmaceutical ingredient. Little attention has been devoted to the analysis of its enantiomeric composition. The enantioselective HPLC method reported in the current Pharmacopoeias shows clear disadvantages with regard to the low resolution and long elution times. In this work, it has been proven the applicability of a last generation polysaccharide-based chiral stationary phase (CSP), i.e. the Chiralpak IC-3, in the enantioseparation of oxaliplatin. Experimental results demonstrated the benefits arising from the development of enantioselective hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC) based strategies. A baseline separation with resolution factor of 5.8 was achieved using a 100mm×4.6mm I.D. IC-3 column set at the temperature of 40°C and a mobile phase consisting of acetonitrile–water 100:5 mixture. At a flow rate of 1mLmin−1 the separation was completed within 8min. The optimized method was proven to be sensitive with LOD and LOQ of the enantiomeric impurity of 0.07 and 0.21μgmL−1, respectively.

Direct chromatographic enantioresolution of fully constrained β-amino acids: exploring the use of high-molecular weight chiral selectors

To the best of our knowledge enantioselective chromatographic protocols on β-amino acids with polysaccharide-based chiral stationary phases (CSPs) have not yet appeared in the literature. Therefore, the primary objective of this work was the development of chromatographic methods based on the use of an amylose derivative CSP (Lux Amylose-2), enabling the direct normal-phase (NP) enantioresolution of four fully constrained β-amino acids. Also, the results obtained with the glycopeptide-type Chirobiotic T column employed in the usual polar-ionic (PI) mode of elution are compared with those achieved with the polysaccharide-based phase. The Lux Amylose-2 column, in combination with alkyl sulfonic acid containing NP eluent systems, prevailed over the Chirobiotic T one, when used under the PI mode of elution, and hence can be considered as the elective choice for the enantioseparation of this class of rigid β-amino acids. Moreover, the extraordinarily high α (up to 4.60) and R S (up to 10.60) values provided by the polysaccharidic polymer, especially when used with camphor sulfonic acid containing eluent systems, make it also suitable for preparative-scale enantioisolations.

Mass transfer mechanism in chiral reversed phase liquid chromatography

The mechanism of mass transfer in chiral chromatography was investigated using an experimental protocol already applied in RPLC and HILIC chromatography. The different contributions to the reduced height equivalent to a theoretical plate (HETP) include the longitudinal diffusion HETP term, the solid–liquid mass transfer resistance HETP term, the short-range eddy dispersion HETP term, and the long-range eddy dispersion HETP term. Their accurate measurement permits the determination of the adsorption rate constant kads of trans-stilbene enantiomers on a column packed with Lux 5μm Cellulose-1 particles. The experimental results demonstrate that the number of adsorption–desorption steps per unit time of chiral compounds on polysaccharide-based chiral stationary phases is four orders of magnitude smaller than that of achiral compounds.

Chiral separability of boron cluster species studied by screening approaches utilizing polysaccharide‐based chiral stationary phases

In this study, the screening steps of chiral separation strategies with polysaccharide-based chiral stationary phases were applied on boron cluster compounds in normal-phase liquid chromatography (NPLC) and polar organic solvents chromatography (POSC). Since the screening steps were initially developed to analyze organic compounds, their applicability for boron clusters was investigated. Overall, the screening steps in NPLC were applicable for the separation of zwitterions, while for anions mostly no elution was observed. A hypothesis for the latter behavior is precipitation of anions in the nonpolar mobile phases. Ten out of 11 compounds could be partially or baseline separated on the NPLC screening systems. In POSC, all zwitterions were separated on at least one of the screening systems, with an overall lower retention as in NPLC. Anions were detected but not separated in the majority of the experiments. Also their retention on the chiral stationary phases was very limited. This study showed that the chiral discrimination potential of chemically modified polysaccharides is meaningful for chiral separations of structurally chiral boron cluster species, but needs further systematic research, in which recognition mechanisms should be further explored. In addition, some unusual peaks also indicated that conditions with a high separation efficiency must first be searched for some of the tested systems.

RESOLUTION OF RACEMIC γ-SUBSTITUTED BUTENOLIDE DERIVATIVES USING A POLYSACCHARIDE TYPE STATIONARY PHASE BY HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY

The enantioseparation by immobilized polysaccharide-based chiral stationary phases has pronounced advantages due to its enhanced efficiency and universal solvent resistance. The newly synthesized γ-substituted butenolide derivatives, which showed good inhibitory activity against wide range of fungi, were successfully resolved on cellulose tris(3,5-dichlorophenylcarbamate) chiral stationary phase (Chiralpak IC) by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The effects of mobile phase composition and column temperature were studied. The good resolution was achieved using a mobile phase composition of hexane and ethanol. Under optimal conditions, the resolutions of enantiomers of five compounds were 1.96, 1.66, 1.93, 1.72, and 2.03, respectively. For the butenolides derivatives, π–π interaction contributes to the retention rather than selectivity, resolution was dramatically changed corresponding to variation of ethanol content in the mobile phase. This suggests that the dominant chiral recognition is from hydrogen bonding interactions. With regard to the structure of the analytes, bulky R1 substituents and electron deficiency R2 substituents appear to favor stereoselective interaction.

Pharmaceutical-enantiomers resolution using immobilized polysaccharide-based chiral stationary phases in supercritical fluid chromatography

Since their introduction on the market the applicability of immobilized polysaccharide-based chiral stationary phases in high-performance liquid chromatography has been thoroughly investigated. These immobilized phases have the benefit to be applicable with a wide range of modifiers, potentially extending the application range of the polysaccharide-based stationary phases. Because an increasing number of stationary phases are being introduced in the field of chiral chromatography it is important to evaluate their enantioselectivity in different techniques in order to get an idea about their applicability. In this study, three immobilized chiral polysaccharide-based stationary phases (Chiralpak IA, IB, and IC) are evaluated in supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) with a test set of pharmaceutical racemates. This is done in a three-fold manner: their performance is evaluated (1) using traditional modifiers, (2) using mixtures of atypical modifiers, and (3) the results were compared to those on coated stationary phases with an equivalent chiral selector. To get a visual overview of the enantioselective patterns of the different chromatographic systems (mobile and stationary phase combinations), a Principal Component Analysis is performed, which allows determining the (dis)similarity between individual systems. To assess the complementarity cumulative success rates are determined. The immobilized chiral stationary phases prove to yield high cumulative success rates.

Preparation of a new immobilized cellulose-based chiral stationary phase and its enantioseparation behaviors

The immobilized polysaccharide-based chiral stationary phase has attracted considerable attention over the past decades due to its high chemical stability, good solvent resistance, great enantioseparation ability, etc. In this study, a new immobilized cellulose chiral stationary phase (denoted as ImCel) was prepared through the Staudinger reaction of 6-azido-6-deoxy-cellulose-3,5-dichlorophenylcarbamate and aminopropyl silica gel. The enantioseparation performance of the ImCel for 20 pairs of chiral analytes and the effect of non-standard solvents have been investigated by high performance liquid chromatography. Baseline separations of 17 pairs of enantiomers were achieved on the ImCel. The separation ability of the ImCel in the normal mode was much better than in reversed mode. In addition, the ImCel showed good chemical stability in the non-standard mobile phase due to the covalent bonds between the cellulose chiral selectors and silica support. Moreover, it exhibited complementarity with another immobilized-cellulose chiral stationary phase containing 3, 5-dimethylphenylcarbamate groups for the separation of a series of 9-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl (fmoc) -derived amino acids. The reversal of enantiomer elution order induced by the difference of the substituents in chiral stationary phase was observed under the same chromatographic conditions. In brief, a new immobilized cellulose chiral stationary phase with high stability and good separation performance was developed in this work.

High resolution magic angle spinning NMR as a tool for unveiling the molecular enantiorecognition of omeprazole by amylose-based chiral phase

Polysaccharide-based chiral stationary phases (CSP) demonstrate great versatility and higher chiral selectivity for a variety of chiral compounds in multimodal elution modes (normal, reverse and polar organic). The main role of CSP phenyl carbamate based derivatives as chiral selectors is the formation of diastereoisomeric complexes by means of π-π interaction, dipole-dipole, hydrogen bonding and/or inclusion complex mechanisms. Nevertheless, the mechanism behind their enantioselectivity requires clarification. High resolution magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((1)H HR/MAS NMR) has provided key information on the recognition process at the binding sites of the CSP surface. Herein we report the results obtained using omeprazole as a probe for these investigations.

Three versus five micrometer chlorinated polysaccharide‐based packings in chiral capillary electrochromatography: performance evaluation

In this study, a test set of 44 nonacidic compounds was analyzed on four 3 µm chlorinated polysaccharide-based chiral stationary phases with cellulose tris (3-chloro-4-methylphenylcarbamate) (Lux Cellulose-2®; LC2), amylose tris (5-chloro-2-methylphenylcarbamate) (Lux Amylose-2®, LA2), cellulose tris (4-chloro-3-methylphenylcarbamate) (Lux Cellulose-4®; LC4) and cellulose tris (3,5-dichlorophenylcarbamate) (Sepapak-5®, Sp5) as selectors. The analysis times, retention factors, efficiencies and enantioselectivities were compared with the results obtained on their 5 µm analogs. All 3 µm packings, except for LA2, individually separated more compounds than their 5 µm analogs. When the cumulative success rates on the 3 and 5 µm packings were considered, it was observed that they were similar for both particle sizes; the combination of three or four 5 µm columns separated one compound more from the considered test set than that of the same number of 3 µm columns. Furthermore, it was observed that the 3 and 5 µm packings showed some complementarity. Only four compounds were not separated on any of the columns, while the use of only either the 3 or 5 µm columns resulted in 10 and nine not-separated compounds, respectively. The analyses on 5 µm LC2 and Sp5 were faster than on their 3 µm analogs. For LC4 the 3 µm packing showed the shortest analysis times and diverse analysis times for both particle sizes were obtained on LA2. Furthermore, three out of four 3 µm packings, that is, LC2, LC4, and Sp5, were found to be more efficient than their 5 µm analogs.