Chromatography Flashcards
Who initially designed chromatography, and for what purpose?
M. Tswett (botanist); separate pigments in plants using column made of calcium carbonate
origin of the term ‘chromatography’
greek;
chroma = color graphein = to write
the 2 phases in chromatography:
mobile phase
stationary phase
What is the mobile phase? What does it do?
fluid that passes through/over the stationary phase
(liquid, gas, or supercritical fluid)
elutes out the various components in the sample (also called the ‘eluent’)
What is the stationary phase? What does it do?
column or surface - gel, solid, (or liquid distributed, bound, or immobilized on solid)
immobile (fixed) phase that interacts with compounds passing through (pushed by mobile phase)
What is the definition of chromatography?
separation based on difference in rate (speed) that components migrate through stationary phase (pushed by mobiled phase)
What is ‘elution?’
process of separating components of mixture using appropriate solvents
When a sample is passed through a chromatography column, the ____ chemicals will pass through fastest, while ____ chemicals move slowly
unretained
retained (greater affinity for column)
The results (output) diagram of chromatography is called a _____. Different compounds are shown as ______
chromatogram
different peaks
What is tR?
retention time (time between injection and max peak of analyte)
The larger the tR, the greater the ______
affinity for the column (retention)
What is u?
linear velocity of mobile phase (or non retained analyte)
The linear velocities of retained analytes ‘B’ and ‘C’ would be expressed as:
vB
vC
What does ‘L’ represent?
length of column
What is tM?
dead/void time
time needed for mobile phase to pass through
L divided by tM =
u (linear velocity of mobile phase)
What is k’B?
retention factor
time the sample component stays in stationary phase vs time it resides in mobile phase
(indicates how much longer it is held back by stationary phase vs travelling straight through with mobile phase)
How to calculate k’B: (2)
ratio of amounts in 2 phases (stationary/mobile)
(tR(B) - tM)/tM
different types of interaction between the stationary phase and compounds (4)
adsorption
partitioning (affinity based)
ion exchange (charge based)
sieving (size based)
For ____ and ____ interactions, the stationary phase is immobilized on an inert base
ion exchange
partitioning
sieving interactions will have greater retention for (larger/smaller) particles
smaller (caught up inside sorbent )
types of liquid chromatography: (5)
liquid solid (adsorption) liquid liquid (partitioning) ion exchange size exclusion (sieving) affinity (partitioning)
types of gas chromatography techniques: (2)
gas liquid (partitioning) gas solid (adsorption)