Understanding and Development of New Materials for High Performance Liquid Chromatography and Electrophoresis

我的研究小组在分析分离方面很活跃。高效液相色谱法（HPLC）在化学、生物化学和工业实验室中无处不在。近年来，在高效液相色谱、核壳相、亲水性相互作用色谱等领域出现了许多创新。我的小组采取的方法是发展对方法论的基本物理化学理解。然后，我们利用这种理解来增强和授权分析方法。****在这个广泛的规划目标中，这个DG提案的短期目标是开发和研究用于亲水性相互作用液相色谱，正相液相色谱和毛细管电泳的新型极性表面，并对多孔石墨碳引入极性修饰以减弱其强反相吸附。****多孔石墨碳由于其化学稳定性和独特的选择性，是一种有吸引力的高效液相色谱相。在我们过去成功的基础上，我们将使用重氮化学将酰胺、儿茶酚、糖和聚氧乙烯等极性官能团引入碳表面。这种极性修饰将增强高效液相色谱分离的多种模式。在普遍存在的反相液相色谱中，我们的极性修饰将减弱限制碳高效液相色谱颗粒使用的过度保留和峰尾。亲水相互作用液相色谱是一种快速发展的高效液相色谱模式，但仅限于pH为2-8。我们还将研究使用pi-pi吸附策略对多孔碳高效液相色谱颗粒的快速改性，这种策略在碳纳米材料的改性中很流行。用非离子表面活性剂对碳进行改性的初步结果表明，该改性方法在一定范围的溶剂下都是稳定的。***开发用于毛细管电泳的极性亲水性涂层将补充我们对极性色谱相的研究，并提供多种分析分离方法的培训机会。****上述工作将与液相色谱中极性相互作用性质的基础研究交织在一起。我们研究了：非传统溶剂对亲水相互作用液相色谱的影响；温度对保留和选择性的影响；正相色谱中极性相互作用的定位

My research group is active in analytical separations. High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is ubiquitous in chemistry, biochemistry, and industrial labs. Recent years have seen many innovations in the field of HPLC - ultrahigh performance LC, core-shell phases, and hydrophilic interaction chromatography to name but a few.***The approach my group takes is to develop a fundamental physico-chemical understanding of the methodology. We then use that understanding to enhance and empower the analytical methods.****Within this broad programmatic objective, the short term objective of this DG proposal is to develop and investigate novel polar surfaces for hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography, normal phase liquid chromatography, and capillary electrophoresis, and to introduce polar modification to porous graphitic carbon to attenuate its strong reversed phase adsorption.****Porous graphitic carbon is an attractive phase for HPLC due to its chemical stability and unique selectivity. Building on our past success, we will introduce polar functionalities including amide, catechol, saccharide and poly(oxyethylene) to the carbon surface using diazonium chemistry. This polar modification will enhance multiple modes of HPLC separation. In the ubiquitous reversed-phase liquid chromatography, our polar modifications will attenuate the excessive retention and peak tailing that limits the use of carbon HPLC particles. Hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography is a rapidly growing mode of HPLC, but one that is restricted to pH 2-8 and We will also investigate the facile modification of porous carbon HPLC particles using pi-pi adsorptive strategies that are popular for modification of carbon nanomaterials. Preliminary results with non-ionic surfactants on carbon indicate that the modification is robust under a range of solvents.***Development of polar hydrophilic coatings for capillary electrophoresis will complement our studies of polar chromatographic phases, and provide training opportunities in a diversity of analytical separation methodologies.****The above work will be interwoven with fundamental studies of the nature of polar interactions in liquid chromatography. We investigate the impact of: non-traditional solvents on hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography; temperature on retention and selectivity; and localization of polar interactions in normal phase chromatography.**