Effect of temperature on acid-base equilibria in separation techniques. A review.
Studies on the theoretical principles of acid-base equilibria are reviewed and the influence of temperature on secondary chemical equilibria within the context of separation techniques, in water and also in aqueous-organic solvent mixtures, is discussed. In order to define the relationships between the retention in liquid chromatography or the migration velocity in capillary electrophoresis and temperature, the main properties of acid-base equilibria have to be taken into account for both, the analytes and the conjugate pairs chosen to control the solution pH. The focus of this review is based on liquid-liquid extraction (LLE), liquid chromatography (LC) and capillary electrophoresis (CE), with emphasis on the use of temperature as a useful variable to modify selectivity on a predictable basis. Simpliﬁed models were evaluated to achieve practical optimizations involving pH and temperature (in LLE and CE) as well as solvent composition in reversed-phase LC.
Laboratorio de Investigación y Desarrollo de Métodos Analíticos (LIDMA), y División Química Analítica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 47 y 115 (1900) La Plata, Argentina.
Leonardo G
LG
Gagliardi
Laboratorio de Investigación y Desarrollo de Métodos Analíticos (LIDMA), y División Química Analítica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 47 y 115 (1900) La Plata, Argentina.
Marcos
M
Tascon
Laboratorio de Investigación y Desarrollo de Métodos Analíticos (LIDMA), y División Química Analítica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 47 y 115 (1900) La Plata, Argentina. Electronic address: castells@isis.unlp.edu.ar.
Cecilia B
CB
Castells
Acid–base equilibria; Buffer properties; Selectivity; Separation techniques; Temperature