Ow. Lau et Cs. Mok, INDIRECT CONDUCTIMETRIC DETECTION OF AMINO-ACIDS AFTER LIQUID-CHROMATOGRAPHIC SEPARATION, Analytica chimica acta, 300(1-3), 1995, pp. 183-191
A liquid chromatographic method using indirect conductimetric detectio
n is proposed for the determination of low levels of organic compounds
, which does not require any special functional characteristics of the
analyte. The signal detected is proportional to the molar concentrati
on of the analyte and independent of its nature. The detector response
is linearly dependent on analyte concentrations over at least three o
rders of magnitude. The basis of the detection is to create a conducti
ng background, which will decrease on elution of the organic compounds
. The theory of the method is discussed, with special reference to the
quantitative displacement of the conducting species of the mobile pha
se from the column by the analyte on sample injection. The proposed me
thod has been applied to study the chromatographic behaviour of twenty
-one amino acids, where a 5-mu m Econosil CN column was used as the st
ationary phase with a mixture of water-acetonitrile-tetrahydrofuran (7
0:20:3) containing 1 mM perchloric acid or trichloroacetic acid as the
mobile phase. The proposed method allows as little as 10 ng of each a
mino acid to be determined.