title: Enantiomeric separation of chiral peptide nucleic acid monomers by capillary electrophoresis with charged cyclodextrins.
abstract: Direct chiral separation of chiral peptide nucleic acid (PNA) monomers has been achieved for the first time by capillary electrophoresis (CE) with charged cyclodextrins as chiral selectors added to the electrophoretic buffer. Selectively modified 6-deoxy-6-N-histamino-beta-cyclodextrin and sulfobutyl ether-beta-CD were successfully used as chiral selectors for the enantiomeric separation of chiral monomers based on different aminoethylamino acids bearing thymine or adenine as nucleobases. Chiral separations were obtained at low selector concentrations (1-3 mM) with good enantioselectivity and resolution factors. Separations were optimized as a function of pH in order to exploit the effect of the electrostatic interactions between the oppositely charged selector and selectand. The method has been applied to the analysis of the enantiomeric excess of chiral monomers used for the solid phase synthesis of chiral PNA oligomers. CE chiral analysis showed that a very high enantiomeric purity was generally achieved in the synthesis of all monomers, except for histidine and aspartic acid based monomers in which ca. 10% of the "wrong" enantiomer was always present.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Chimica Organica e Industriale, Università di Parma, Parco Area della Scienze 17/A, I-43100 Parma, Italy.
authors.forename: Gianni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Galaverna
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sforza
authors.forename: Tullia
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tedeschi
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Corradini
authors.forename: Arnaldo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dossena
authors.forename: Rosangela
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Marchelli
mesh_terms: D003505:Cyclodextrins / Q000737:chemistry*; D019075:Electrophoresis, Capillary / Q000379:methods*; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D020135:Peptide Nucleic Acids / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D055672:Static Electricity; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: D003505:Cyclodextrins; D020135:Peptide Nucleic Acids