Application of the restricted-access precolumn packing material alkyl-diolsilica in a column-switching system for the determination of ketoprofen enantiomers in horse plasma
Wrg. Baeyens et al., Application of the restricted-access precolumn packing material alkyl-diolsilica in a column-switching system for the determination of ketoprofen enantiomers in horse plasma, J CHROMAT A, 871(1-2), 2000, pp. 153-161
The group of LiChrospher ADS (alkyl-diol silica) sorbents that make part of
a unique family of restricted-access materials, have been developed as spe
cial packings for precolumns used in the LC-integrated sample processing of
biofluids. The advantage of these sorbents lies in the direct injection of
untreated biological fluids, that is without sample clean-up, the eliminat
ion of the protein matrix with a quantitative recovery together with an on-
column enrichment. The present method is based on previous work applying UV
detection at 260 nm for ketoprofen determinations. Plasma samples introduc
ed to the ADS precolumn using a 0.1 M phosphate buffer, pH 7.0. After washi
ng with the buffer the ADS column was backflushed with the mobile phase 0.0
1 M phosphate buffer-6% (v/v) 2-propanol-5 mM octanoic acid at a pH of 5.5,
thus transporting the analytes to the chiral-HSA (human serum albumin) (10
0X4.0 mm) column where the separation of the ketoprofen enantiomers was ach
ieved with a resolution factor of 1.4. The developed column-switching metho
d was fully applicable to plasma injections. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V.
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