title: Highly sensitive chiral analysis in capillary electrophoresis with large-volume sample stacking with an electroosmotic flow pump.
abstract: To improve the sensitivity in chiral analysis by capillary electrophoresis without loss of optical resolution, application of large-volume sample stacking with an electroosmotic flow pump (LVSEP) was investigated. Effects of the addition of cyclodextrin (CD) into a running solution on the LVSEP preconcentration was theoretically studied, where the preconcentration efficiency and effective separation length would be slightly increased if the effective electrophoretic velocity (v(ep,eff,BGS)) of the analytes was decreased by interacting with CD. In LVSEP-CD-modified capillary zone electrophoresis (CDCZE) and LVSEP-CD electrokinetic chromatography with reduced v(ep,eff,BGS), up to 1000-fold sensitivity increases were achieved with almost no loss of resolution. In LVSEP-CD-modified micellar electrokinetic chromatography of amino acids with increased v(ep,eff,BGS), a 1300-fold sensitivity increase was achieved without much loss of resolution, indicating the versatile applicability of LVSEP to many separation modes. An enantio-excess (EE) assay was also carried out in LVSEP-CDCZE, resulting in successful analyses of up to 99.6% EE. Finally, we analyzed ibuprofen in urine by desalting with a C₁₈ solid-phase extraction column. As a typical result, 250ppb ibuprofen was well concentrated and optically resolved with 84.0-86.6% recovery in LVSEP-CDCZE, indicating the applicability of LVSEP to real samples containing a large amount of unnecessary background salts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Material Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan. t.kawai@kt2.ecs.kyoto-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Takayuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kawai
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Koino
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sueyoshi
authors.forename: Fumihiko
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kitagawa
authors.forename: Koji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Otsuka
mesh_terms: D000040:Abscisic Acid / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry; D000596:Amino Acids / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry; D053841:Electroosmosis / Q000295:instrumentation*; D019075:Electrophoresis, Capillary / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007052:Ibuprofen / Q000737:chemistry / Q000652:urine; D057230:Limit of Detection; D008297:Male; D008956:Models, Chemical; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013237:Stereoisomerism; D014859:Warfarin / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry; D047392:beta-Cyclodextrins / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D047392:beta-Cyclodextrins; D014859:Warfarin; D000040:Abscisic Acid; D007052:Ibuprofen