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Chiral separation of aryloxyphenoxy‐propionate herbicides in a permethyl‐β‐cyclodextrin based column. Influence of temperature and mobile phase composition on enantioselectivity
Author(s) -
Lubomirsky Ester,
Padró Juan M.,
Di Loreto Héctor,
Castells Cecilia B.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
electrophoresis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.666
H-Index - 158
eISSN - 1522-2683
pISSN - 0173-0835
DOI - 10.1002/elps.201600528
Subject(s) - chemistry , enantiomer , acetonitrile , cyclodextrin , phase (matter) , propionate , methanol , chromatography , selectivity , analytical chemistry (journal) , organic chemistry , catalysis
We used a permethyl‐ β ‐cyclodextrin chiral stationary phase under reversed‐phase conditions for the chiral separation of four aryloxyphenoxy‐propionate herbicides (fenoxaprop‐ p ‐ethyl, quizalofop‐ p ‐ethyl and tefuryl, and haloxyfop‐ p ‐methyl) with mixtures of methanol, ethanol, 2‐propanol, n‐ propanol, tert ‐butanol, or acetonitrile and water as mobile phases and investigated the influence of mobile phase composition and column temperature (from 0 to 50°C) on the separation. The retention factors ( k ) and selectivity factors ( α ) of all the herbicides investigated decreased with increasing temperature. The ln α versus 1/T and ln k versus 1/T plots for the enantiomers of the chiral pesticides were linear within the range of 0–50°C with all alcohol/water mixtures constituting the mobile phase, but the ln k versus 1/T plots were nonlinear for all the enantiomers chromatographed in acetonitrile/water mixtures. The thermodynamic parameters based on linear van't Hoff plots were calculated. The influence of temperature and mobile phase composition on the enantioseparation of the solutes has rarely been considered simultaneously. The temperature and the solvents used in the mobile phase, however, were found to have a profound effect on the enantioseparation of these herbicides.