Separation of multicomponent mixtures of 2,4-dinitrophenyl labelled amino acids and their enantiomers by capillary zone electrophoresis.
The use of capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) for the separation of a group of 33 2,4-dinitrophenyl labeled amino acids (DNP-AA), including DNP-AA racemates, DNP-L-AA enantiomers and achiral DNP-AAs, was investigated. Alpha-, beta- and gamma-cyclodextrins (CDs) and their derivatives (hydroxypropyl derivatives of alpha-, beta- and gamma-CDs, polymeric beta-CD and 6A-methylamino-beta-cyclodextrin (MA-beta-CD)) served as complexing agents and chiral selectors in this investigation. Although native alpha- and gamma-CDs and their derivatives influenced the effective mobilities of the studied DNP-AAs in different ways, they generally failed to resolve enantiomers of the individual DNP-AAs. On the other hand, beta-CD and all of its derivatives were found to be effective in this respect. Of these, the best results were achieved with a positively charged MA-beta-CD and this chiral selector resolved enantiomers of ten DNP-AA racemates available for this study. However, a complete resolution of these enantiomers in one CZE run required that the effect of the chiral selector be complemented by complexing effects of polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) or gamma-CD. Complexing and chiral recognition capabilities of MA-beta-CD combined with complexing effects of gamma-CD and PVP provided separating conditions suitable for the CZE separations of multicomponent mixtures of DNP-AAs with preserved resolutions of the enantiomers. For example, a mixture consisting of 43 DNP-AA constituents was resolved using an MA-beta-CD/gamma-CD combination with three peak overlaps.
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Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
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Fanali
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D000596:Amino Acids / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D003505:Cyclodextrins; D004136:Dinitrobenzenes; D019075:Electrophoresis, Capillary / Q000379:methods; D047391:alpha-Cyclodextrins; D047392:beta-Cyclodextrins; D047408:gamma-Cyclodextrins
D000596:Amino Acids; D003505:Cyclodextrins; D004136:Dinitrobenzenes; D047391:alpha-Cyclodextrins; D047392:beta-Cyclodextrins; D047408:gamma-Cyclodextrins; C031215:betadex; C023792:gamma-cyclodextrin; C032613:alpha-cyclodextrin