title: Quantitative and qualitative precision improvements by effective mobility-scale data transformation in capillary electrophoresis analysis.
abstract: By transforming the time-based x-axis of electropherograms in capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) into the corresponding effective mobility-scale, we propose a simple and robust data representation for a better qualitative and quantitative capillary electrophoresis (CE) analysis. The time scale of the raw electrophoretic data (detection signal versus time) is transformed into an effective electrophoretic mobility scale (mu eff-scale) with account of the electroosmotic flow (EOF) peak or of an internal standard of known effective mobility. With the new scaling (detection signals versus effective mobility), the obtained electropherograms are more representative of the velocity-based electrophoretic separation and the comparison of complete electropherograms is directly possible. This is of importance when tracking peaks in real samples where alteration in EOF stability can occur or when comparing electrophoretic runs from different experimental setups (independence in column length and voltage). Beside the qualitative possibilities, a quantitative improvement is achieved in the mu eff-scale with significant better peak area reproducibility and equal to more precision in quantitative analysis than with the primary time-scale integration.
authors.affiliation: GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute for Ecological Chemistry, Schulstrasse 10, D-85356 Freising-Attaching, Germany. schmitt-kopplin@gsf.de
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schmitt-Kopplin
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Garmash
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Kudryavtsev
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Menzinger
authors.forename: I V
authors.initials: IV
authors.lastname: Perminova
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hertkorn
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Freitag
authors.forename: V S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Petrosyan
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kettrup
mesh_terms: D015085:2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic Acid / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D015084:2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D008456:2-Methyl-4-chlorophenoxyacetic Acid / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D019075:Electrophoresis, Capillary / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D010226:Parabens / Q000302:isolation & purification; D011786:Quality Control; D014641:Vanillic Acid / Q000302:isolation & purification
chemical_list: D010226:Parabens; D015084:2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid; C008340:mecoprop; D015085:2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic Acid; C009264:fenoprop; D008456:2-Methyl-4-chlorophenoxyacetic Acid; D014641:Vanillic Acid; C010571:dichlorprop; C038193:4-hydroxybenzoic acid