title: Synthesis and characterization of novel internal surface reversed-phase silica supports for high-performance liquid chromatography.
abstract: An original synthetic method was developed for the preparation of a family of six novel deactivated restricted-access materials (RAMs), belonging to the group of the internal surface reversed-phase (ISRP) supports. The supports (ISRP-RAM phases A-F) have an alkyl-chain (14 methylenes) with two embedded ureido groups bound only to the internal surfaces of the porous silica, and polyvinyl alcoholic groups (PVA, 100,000-->22,000 molecular weight) chemically bound to the external surfaces. The average pore diameters of the prepared ISRP-RAM supports, calculated by inverse size-exclusion chromatography, ranged between 49 A and 88 A, and were able to exclude macromolecules heavier than about 24000 Da (such as serum proteins) from the pores. The novel supports were designed for the determination of a semi-synthetic anticancer drug of the camptothecin family in human plasma, but they represent universal ISRP-RAM supports not limited to such class of compounds.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Studi di Chimica e Tecnologia delle Sostanze Biologicamente Attive, Università La Sapienza, P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy. francesco.gasparrini@uniroma1.it
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gasparrini
authors.forename: Alessia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ciogli
authors.forename: Ilaria
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: D'Acquarica
authors.forename: Domenico
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Misiti
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Badaloni
authors.forename: Fabrizio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Giorgi
authors.forename: Aristide
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vigevani
mesh_terms: D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012822:Silicon Dioxide / Q000737:chemistry*; D013499:Surface Properties
chemical_list: D012822:Silicon Dioxide