scholarly journals Liquid Chromatographic Enantioseparations Utilizing Chiral Stationary Phases Based on Crown Ethers and Cyclofructans

Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (15) ◽  
pp. 4648
Author(s):  
Róbert Berkecz ◽  
Gábor Németi ◽  
Antal Péter ◽  
István Ilisz
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Chromatography ◽  
Crown Ethers ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Stationary Phases ◽  
Chiral Stationary Phases ◽  
Food Samples ◽  
Chiral Compounds ◽  
Amine Compounds ◽  
Liquid Chromatographic

Natural compounds can exist in different forms, where molecules possessing chirality play an essential role in living organisms. Currently, one of the most important tasks of modern analytical chemistry is the enantioseparation of chiral compounds, in particular, the enantiomers of compounds having biological and/or pharmaceutical activity. Whether the task is to analyze environmental or food samples or to develop an assay for drug control, well-reproducible, highly sensitive, stereoselective, and robust methods are required. High-performance liquid chromatography best meets these conditions. Nevertheless, in many cases, gas chromatography, supercritical fluid chromatography, or capillary electrophoresis can also offer a suitable solution. Amino acids, proteins, cyclodextrins, derivatized polysaccharides, macrocyclic glycopeptides, and ion exchangers can serve as efficient selectors in liquid chromatography, and they are quite frequently applied and reviewed. Crown ethers and cyclofructans possessing similar structural characteristics and selectivity in the enantiodiscrimination of different amine compounds are discussed less frequently. This review collects information on enantioseparations achieved recently with the use of chiral stationary phases based on crown ethers or cyclofructans, focusing on liquid chromatographic applications.

scholarly journals The Separation of Cannabinoids on Sub-2 µm Immobilized Polysaccharide Chiral Stationary Phases

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
pp. 1250
Author(s):  
Takafumi Onishi ◽  
Weston J. Umstead
Keyword(s):  
High Performance Liquid Chromatography ◽  
Liquid Chromatography ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Stationary Phases ◽  
Chiral Stationary Phases ◽  
Reversed Phase ◽  
Normal Phase ◽  
Elution Order ◽  
Testing Methods ◽  
Structural Isomers

The increased use and applicability of Cannabis and Cannabis-derived products has skyrocketed over the last 5 years. With more and more governing bodies moving toward medical and recreational legalization, the need for robust and reliable analytical testing methods is also growing. While many stationary phases and methods have been developed for this sort of analysis, chiral stationary phases (CSPs) are unique in this area; not only can they serve their traditional chiral separation role, but they can also be used to perform achiral separations. Given that mixtures of cannabinoids routinely contain enantiomers, diastereomers, and structural isomers, this offers an advantage over the strictly achiral-only analyses. This work presents the separation of a 10-cannabinoid mixture on several polysaccharide-based sub-2 µm CSPs with both normal-phase and reversed-phase ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) conditions. Along with the separation of the mixture, appropriate single-peak identification was performed to determine the elution order and reported where applicable.

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