Influence of the pressure on the properties of chromatographic columns III. Retention volume of thiourea, hold-up volume, and compressibility of the C18-bonded layer
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK)
- ORNL
The influence of the average column pressure (ACP) on the elution volume of thiourea was measured on two RPLC columns, packed with Resolve-C{sub 18} (surface coverage 2.45 {micro} mol/m{sup 2}) and Symmetry-C{sub 18} (surface coverage 3.18 {micro} mol/m{sup 2}), and it was compared to that measured under the same conditions on an underivatized silica (Resolve). Five different methanol-water mixtures (20, 40, 60, 80 and 100% methanol, v/v) were used. Once corrected for the compressibility of the mobile phase, the data show that the elution volume of thiourea increases between 3 and 7% on the C{sub 18}-bonded columns when the ACP increases from 50 to 350 bar, depending on the methanol content of the eluent. No such increase is observed on the underivatized Resolve silica column. This increase is too large to be ascribed to the compressibility of the stationary phase (silica + C{sub 18} bonded chains) which accounts for less than 5% of the variation of the retention factor. It is shown that the reason for this effect is of thermodynamic origin, the difference between the partial molar volume of the solute in the stationary and the mobile phase, {Delta}V, controlling the retention volume of thiourea. While {Delta}V is nearly constant for all mobile phase compositions on Resolve silica (with {approx_equal} -4 mL/mol), on RPLC phases, it significantly increases with increasing methanol content, particularly above 60% methanol. It varies between -5 mL/mol and -17 mL/mol on Resolve-C{sub 18} and between -9 mL/mol and -25 mL/mol on Symmetry-C{sub 18}. The difference in surface coverage between these two RP-HPLC stationary phases increases the values of {Delta}V by about 5 mL/mol.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 989579
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Chromatography A, Vol. 1075, Issue 2005; ISSN 0021-9673
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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