Volume 22, Issue 6 pp. 549-552
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Ionic liquids as mobile phase additives for separation of nucleotides in high-performance liquid chromatography

Wen-Zhu Zhang

Wen-Zhu Zhang

Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China

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Li-Jun He

Li-Jun He

Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China

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Xia Liu

Xia Liu

Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China

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Sheng-Xiang Jiang

Corresponding Author

Sheng-Xiang Jiang

Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China

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First published: 26 August 2010
Citations: 28

Abstract

Ionic liquids are a type of salts that are liquid at low temperature (<100 °C). Because of their some special properties, they have been widely used as new “green solvents” for many chemical reactions and liquid-liquid extraction in the past several years. In this paper, a new method for the separation of nucleotides is developed and the essential feature of the method is that 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium salts are used as mobile phase additives, resulting in a baseline separation of nucleotides without need of gradient elution and need of organic solvent addition as currently used in RP-HPLC. This study shows the potential application of ionic liquids as mobile phase additives in reversed-phase liquid chromatography.

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