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Determination of ethylene oxide oligomer distributions in alcohol ethoxylates by HPLC using a rotating disc‐flame ionization detector
Author(s) -
McClure J. D.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of the american oil chemists' society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1558-9331
pISSN - 0003-021X
DOI - 10.1007/bf02541021
Subject(s) - solvent , chemistry , ethylene oxide , acetone , oligomer , chromatography , high performance liquid chromatography , methanol , flame ionization detector , elution , alcohol , analytical chemistry (journal) , gas chromatography , organic chemistry , copolymer , polymer
A high performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method has been developed for the quantitative determination of ethylene oxide (EO) oligomer distributions (% wt) in acetylated alcohol ethoxylates, R(OCH 2 CH 2 ) n OH, from n=0, 1 to n=30 using a rotating disc‐flame ionization detector. Both single carbon number and mixed carbon number alcohol‐based (NEODOL® ethoxylates) samples have been analyzed by gradient elution with 2 different solvent systems on a Waters μ‐Porasil column. With both solvent systems, 95% hexane is the initial solvent but with one system, 100% acetone is the final solvent and with the other, 10% methanol/90% acetone is used. The latter solvent elutes the higher ethoxylates from n=21 to n=30 quantitatively from the μ‐Porasil column which the 100% acetone solvent fails to do. The 100% acetone solvent separates n=2 and n=3 from n=0,1 which the methanol‐containing solvent does not do. Response factors for n=3 and n=8 have been experimentally determined and the response factors for the other EO units have been calculated from these 2 results. The corrected EO oligomer distributions for both NEODOL® 25‐9 and NEODOL® 23‐6.5 determined by HPLC are in good agreement with those determined earlier by circular thin layer chromatography (up to n=16 can be determined by this method). The average EO numbers determined by the HPLC method and by a wet chemical (phthalic anhydride) method are in excellent agreement for the above 2 samples and a sample of NEODOL® 23‐7.5. The results are discussed in terms of Snyder's theory for gradient elution in HPLC using the gradient steepness parameter.

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