title: Theoretical opportunities and actual limitations of pH gradient HPLC.
abstract: In a series of reports published recently by our laboratory comprehensive theory and experimental conditions were established for reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP HPLC) employing the programmed pH gradient of mobile phase. A procedure was developed providing, rapidly and conveniently, the acidity (pK(a)) of weak acids and bases and their lipophilicity (hydrophobicity) log k(w). The basis of the double-gradient RP HPLC, employing simultaneous gradients of organic modifier content and mobile phase pH, was also elaborated. The fundamentals of the approach are presented briefly and systematically and its advantages and limitations are discussed. It is demonstrated that the newly introduced pH gradient method increases the analytical versatility of RP HPLC and our understanding of its physicochemical basis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacodynamics, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gen. J. Hallera 107, 80-416 Gdańsk, Poland. roman.kaliszan@amg.gda.pl
authors.forename: Roman
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kaliszan
authors.forename: Pawel
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wiczling
mesh_terms: D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000379:methods; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D057927:Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013997:Time Factors