title: Effect of pendant chain lengths and backbone functionalities on the chemical selectivity of sulfonated amphiphilic copolymers as pseudo-stationary phases in electrokinetic chromatography.
abstract: Amphiphilic copolymers of AMPS (2-acrylamido-2-methyl-1-propanesulfonic acid) and hydrophobic monomers with various chemical structures were synthesized, characterized and used as novel electrokinetic chromatography polymeric pseudo-stationary phases, showing significant chemical selectivity differences from that of the conventional monomeric pseudo-stationary phase, sodium lauryl sulphate. Copolymers of AMPS and methacrylates with different pendant chain lengths (C8, C12 and C18) were investigated and no significant difference in chemical selectivity was observed among them. However, the spacer bonding chemistry was shown to contribute to significant chemical selectivity difference, e.g. poly(AMPS-lauryl methacrylate) showed different chemical selectivity from poly(AMPS-lauryl methacrylamide). Linear solvation energy relationship analysis of 20 solutes by eight different polymeric pseudo-stationary phases was employed to investigate the solute molecule structural contributions to the retention. Hydrogen-bonding properties (described by system constants b and a) of poly(AMPS-alkyl methacrylamide) were found stronger than those of poly(AMPS-alkyl methacrylate).
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro 87801, USA.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Peterson
authors.forename: C P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Palmer
mesh_terms: D020374:Chromatography, Micellar Electrokinetic Capillary / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity
chemical_list: D011108:Polymers