Chromatography Flashcards
• is an analytical technique commonly used for separating a mixture of chemical substances into its individual components, so that the individual components can be thoroughly analyzed
Chromatography
Basic Components of Chromatography (8)
Mobile phase/ carrier
Stationary phase/ adsorbent
Colume
Eluate
Eluent
Elution
Analyte
Retention time or factor
• Gas or liquid
• Solvent moving through the column
• Carries the sample
• Mobile phase or carrier
– holds the stationary phase
Column
– separated components
Eluate
• Fluid or substance that enters the column and moves the analyte
Eluent
• Solid or liquid
• Where the mobile phase flows
Stationary phase or adsorbent
• The process of washing out a compound through a column using a suitable solvent
Elution
• Mixture whose individual components have to be separated and analyzed
• Analyte
• The time it takes for a compound or analyte to elute
• Retention time or factor
Chromatographic techniques may be classified according to their mobile phase:
• Gas chromatography
• Liquid chromatography
• is useful for compounds that are naturally volatile or can be easily converted into a volatile form
Gas Chromatography
• separating compounds based primarily on their volatility
Gas Chromatography
Two types:
• Gas-Liquid Chromatography:
• Gas-Solid Chromatography:
: based on partition
: based on adsorption
• Gas-Liquid Chromatography
• Gas-Solid Chromatography
• Packed columns or Capillary columns
• Glass or stainless steel (packed) or thin-fused silica (capillary)
• Packed columns are filled with inert particles such as diatomaceous earth or porous polymer or glass beads coated with a nonvolatile
liquid (stationary) phase • liquid stationary phase must be nonvolatile at the temperatures used, must be thermally stable, and must not react chemically with the solutes to be separated
Columns
Gas Chromatography
TWO DETECTORS:
• Thermal conductivity
• Flame ionization detector
• contain wires (filaments) that change electrical resistance with change in temperature
• Thermal conductivity
• more sensitive than TC detectors
• small hydrogen flame and collector electrode
• As the sample burns, ions form and move to the charged collector
Flame ionization detector
• Uses lower temperatures for separation achieving better separation of thermolabile compounds
• Easier to recover a sample compared to GC
• The mobile phase can be removed, and the sample can be processed further or reanalyzed under different conditions.
Liquid Chromatography
Liquid Chromatography
Types of separation technique:
• Adsorption
• Partition
• Steric exclusion
• Affinity
• Ion-Exchange
liquid–solid chromatography
ADSORPTION
competition between the sample and the mobile phase for the adsorptive sites on the solid stationary phase
ADSORPTION
stationary phase can be acidic polar (e.g., silica gel), basic polar (e.g., alumina), or nonpolar (e.g., charcoal)
ADSORPTION
Disadvantage:
strong retention of many compounds by the supports, making them difficult to elute from the column.
ADSORPTION
Liquid-liquid Chromatography
PARTITION