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Chang C, Jin X, Bai H, Zhang F, Chen L. Molecular Dynamics Simulation for the Acidic Compounds Retention Mechanism Study on Octyl-Quaternary Ammonium Mixed-Mode Stationary Phase. J Chromatogr Sci 2024:bmae036. [PMID: 38803160 DOI: 10.1093/chromsci/bmae036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2023] [Revised: 03/17/2024] [Indexed: 05/29/2024]
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With the widespread application of mixed-mode chromatography in separation analysis, it is becoming increasingly important to study its retention mechanism. The retention behavior of acidic compounds on mixed-mode octyl-quaternary ammonium (Sil-C8-QA) columns was investigated by computer simulation. Firstly, the benzoic acid homologues were used as the analytes, and the simulation model was constructed by the Materials Studio. Geometric optimization, annealing and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation of these complexes resulted in optimized conformations. The binding energy, mean square displacement (MSD) and torsion angle distribution generated by MD simulation were then analyzed. The results showed that the more negative binding energy, the greater the MSD and the narrower the torsion angle distribution, indicating that the stationary phase behaves with stronger interaction and retention. The retention behavior of five acidic drugs on the Sil-C8-QA column was then successfully explained by simulation. Acidic drugs are more retentive on the mixed-mode column due to the more substantial interaction brought by the reversed-phase/ion-exchange mixed-mode mechanism compared to other single-mode columns. This simulation method is expected to provide ideas for studying the separation mechanism and predicting the retention behavior of more complex samples.
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- Chaoqun Chang
- Pharmaceutical Analysis Department, School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin 300072, China
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- Pharmaceutical Analysis Department, School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin 300072, China
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- Pharmaceutical Analysis Department, School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin 300072, China
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- Pharmaceutical Analysis Department, School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin 300072, China
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- Pharmaceutical Analysis Department, School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin 300072, China
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Dallocchio R, Dessì A, Sechi B, Peluso P. Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Amylose- and Cellulose-Based Selectors and Related Enantioseparations in Liquid Phase Chromatography. Molecules 2023; 28:7419. [PMID: 37959839 PMCID: PMC10647714 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28217419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2023] [Revised: 10/27/2023] [Accepted: 10/30/2023] [Indexed: 11/15/2023] Open
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In the last few decades, theoretical and technical advancements in computer facilities and computational techniques have made molecular modeling a useful tool in liquid-phase enantioseparation science for exploring enantioselective recognition mechanisms underlying enantioseparations and for identifying selector-analyte noncovalent interactions that contribute to binding and recognition. Because of the dynamic nature of the chromatographic process, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are particularly versatile in the visualization of the three-dimensional structure of analytes and selectors and in the unravelling of mechanisms at molecular levels. In this context, MD was also used to explore enantioseparation processes promoted by amylose and cellulose-based selectors, the most popular chiral selectors for liquid-phase enantioselective chromatography. This review presents a systematic analysis of the literature published in this field, with the aim of providing the reader with a comprehensive picture about the state of the art and what is still missing for modeling cellulose benzoates and the phenylcarbamates of amylose and cellulose and related enantioseparations with MD. Furthermore, advancements and outlooks, as well as drawbacks and pitfalls still affecting the applicability of MD in this field, are also discussed. The importance of integrating theoretical and experimental approaches is highlighted as an essential strategy for profiling mechanisms and noncovalent interaction patterns.
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- Unit of Enantioselective Chromatography and Molecular Recognition, Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry ICB, Secondary Branch of Sassari, CNR, Traversa La Crucca 3, Regione Baldinca, Li Punti, 07100 Sassari, Italy; (R.D.); (A.D.); (B.S.)
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De Gauquier P, Peeters J, Vanommeslaeghe K, Vander Heyden Y, Mangelings D. Modelling the enantiorecognition of structurally diverse pharmaceuticals on O-substituted polysaccharide-based stationary phases. Talanta 2023; 259:124497. [PMID: 37030098 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2023.124497] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2023] [Revised: 03/22/2023] [Accepted: 03/27/2023] [Indexed: 03/31/2023]
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This study aims to develop models to predict the retention, separation and elution sequence of the enantiomers of structurally diverse pharmaceuticals. More specifically, Quantitative Structure Retention Relationships (QSRR) models are built that describe the relationship between molecular descriptors and retention. Eighteen structurally diverse chiral mixtures, each consisting of a pair of enantiomers, were analyzed on two polysaccharide chiral stationary phases, Chiralcel OD-RH (cellulose tris(3,5-dimethylphenylcarbamate)) and Lux amylose-2 (amylose tris(5-chloro-2-methylphenylcarbamate)), applying either a basic or an acidic mobile phase, and their retention factor and elution sequence were determined. Both achiral and, in-house defined, chiral descriptors were used as descriptive variables to build the models. Linear regression techniques, i.e. stepwise multiple linear regression (sMLR) and partial least squares (PLS) regression, were applied to model the retention or separation as a function of the descriptors. In a first step, models were built with only achiral descriptors to model the global retention of both enantiomers of a chiral molecule. Subsequently, models were built with only chiral descriptors to predict the enantioseparation and elution sequence, and finally, models were considered with both descriptor types to predict the retention, the separation and the elution sequence of the enantiomers. The global retention was predicted well by the sMLR models with only achiral descriptors. The models with only chiral descriptors were not found suitable to predict the enantioseparation and elution sequence. Finally, the models containing both chiral and achiral descriptors allowed predicting the retention well, but their ability to predict the elution sequence and separation of the enantiomers differed widely for the chromatographic systems considered.
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Peluso P, Chankvetadze B. Recognition in the Domain of Molecular Chirality: From Noncovalent Interactions to Separation of Enantiomers. Chem Rev 2022; 122:13235-13400. [PMID: 35917234 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 28.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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It is not a coincidence that both chirality and noncovalent interactions are ubiquitous in nature and synthetic molecular systems. Noncovalent interactivity between chiral molecules underlies enantioselective recognition as a fundamental phenomenon regulating life and human activities. Thus, noncovalent interactions represent the narrative thread of a fascinating story which goes across several disciplines of medical, chemical, physical, biological, and other natural sciences. This review has been conceived with the awareness that a modern attitude toward molecular chirality and its consequences needs to be founded on multidisciplinary approaches to disclose the molecular basis of essential enantioselective phenomena in the domain of chemical, physical, and life sciences. With the primary aim of discussing this topic in an integrated way, a comprehensive pool of rational and systematic multidisciplinary information is provided, which concerns the fundamentals of chirality, a description of noncovalent interactions, and their implications in enantioselective processes occurring in different contexts. A specific focus is devoted to enantioselection in chromatography and electromigration techniques because of their unique feature as "multistep" processes. A second motivation for writing this review is to make a clear statement about the state of the art, the tools we have at our disposal, and what is still missing to fully understand the mechanisms underlying enantioselective recognition.
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- Paola Peluso
- Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare ICB, CNR, Sede secondaria di Sassari, Traversa La Crucca 3, Regione Baldinca, Li Punti, I-07100 Sassari, Italy
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- Institute of Physical and Analytical Chemistry, School of Exact and Natural Sciences, Tbilisi State University, Chavchavadze Avenue 3, 0179 Tbilisi, Georgia
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Maia PP, Nascimento CA, Silva CF, Nascimento Jr. CS. Chiral separation study of atenolol and carvedilol β-blocker drugs by DFT calculations. COMPUT THEOR CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2022.113741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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De Gauquier P, Vanommeslaeghe K, Heyden YV, Mangelings D. Modelling approaches for chiral chromatography on polysaccharide-based and macrocyclic antibiotic chiral selectors: A review. Anal Chim Acta 2022; 1198:338861. [DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2021.338861] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2021] [Revised: 07/12/2021] [Accepted: 07/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Automated chiral method screening - Evaluation of generated chromatographic data sets to further optimize screening efficiency. J Chromatogr A 2021; 1644:462094. [PMID: 33823386 DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2021.462094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2021] [Revised: 03/17/2021] [Accepted: 03/19/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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We set up an automated screening process to routinely test 10 chiral supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) methods - five columns combined with two co-solvents - as part of a chiral separation lab workflow. Proprietary software tools enabled automated method screening of racemates, parallel evaluation of the resulting chromatograms for enantiomer separation and report generation. This process is largely automated and resulted in an efficient and reliable lab process with a minimum requirement for human intervention. Screenings were conducted on a test set of 756 racemates that were selected with focus on structural variation and on 2667 proprietary samples from lab routines. Statistical analysis revealed that up to 92% of the tested racemic mixtures could be successfully separated with at least one of the tested conditions of the screening. Process efficiency was further increased by identification of optimal method screening sequence, re-definition of the optimal column set and project-specific adaptations considering reduced structural variation of the analytes. This study illustrates the usefulness of consistent chromatographic data sets to accelerate and facilitate the identification of chiral methods to separate enantiomers by automated processing and statistical analysis.
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Jameson CJ, Wang X, Murad S. Molecular dynamics simulations of enantiomeric separations as an interfacial process in
HPLC. AIChE J 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/aic.17143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Cynthia J. Jameson
- Department of Chemistry University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago Illinois USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago Illinois USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago Illinois USA
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Noncovalent interactions in high-performance liquid chromatography enantioseparations on polysaccharide-based chiral selectors. J Chromatogr A 2020; 1623:461202. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2020.461202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2020] [Revised: 05/02/2020] [Accepted: 05/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Computational studies in enantioselective liquid chromatography: Forty years of evolution in docking- and molecular dynamics-based simulations. Trends Analyt Chem 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.trac.2019.115703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Silva CF, Guimarães L, Borges KB, Nascimento CS. Development and validation of an experimental and theoretical method for the chiral discrimination of dinotefuran. Chirality 2019; 32:53-63. [DOI: 10.1002/chir.23136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2019] [Accepted: 09/09/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- Camilla Fonseca Silva
- Departamento de Ciências Naturais (DCNAT)Universidade Federal de São João Del‐Rei (UFSJ) São João Del Rei MG Brazil
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- Departamento de Ciências Naturais (DCNAT)Universidade Federal de São João Del‐Rei (UFSJ) São João Del Rei MG Brazil
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- Departamento de Ciências Naturais (DCNAT)Universidade Federal de São João Del‐Rei (UFSJ) São João Del Rei MG Brazil
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- Departamento de Ciências Naturais (DCNAT)Universidade Federal de São João Del‐Rei (UFSJ) São João Del Rei MG Brazil
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Scriba GK. Chiral recognition in separation sciences. Part I: Polysaccharide and cyclodextrin selectors. Trends Analyt Chem 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.trac.2019.115639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Fu LL, Wang XC, Fu KQ, Xi JB, Chen W, Tang S, Bai ZW. Dependence of enantioseparation performance on structure of chiral selectors derived from N-cycloalkylcarbonyl chitosan. REACT FUNCT POLYM 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.reactfunctpolym.2019.04.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Wang X, House DW, Oroskar PA, Oroskar A, Oroskar A, Jameson CJ, Murad S. Molecular dynamics simulations of the chiral recognition mechanism for a polysaccharide chiral stationary phase in enantiomeric chromatographic separations. Mol Phys 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2019.1647360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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- Xiaoyu Wang
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA
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Peluso P, Dessì A, Dallocchio R, Mamane V, Cossu S. Recent studies of docking and molecular dynamics simulation for liquid-phase enantioseparations. Electrophoresis 2019; 40:1881-1896. [PMID: 30710444 DOI: 10.1002/elps.201800493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2018] [Revised: 01/25/2019] [Accepted: 01/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Liquid-phase enantioseparations have been fruitfully applied in several fields of science. Various applications along with technical and theoretical advancements contributed to increase significantly the knowledge in this area. Nowadays, chromatographic techniques, in particular HPLC on chiral stationary phase, are considered as mature technologies. In the last thirty years, CE has been also recognized as one of the most versatile technique for analytical scale separation of enantiomers. Despite the huge number of papers published in these fields, understanding mechanistic details of the stereoselective interaction between selector and selectand is still an open issue, in particular for high-molecular weight chiral selectors like polysaccharide derivatives. With the ever growing improvement of computer facilities, hardware and software, computational techniques have become a basic tool in enantioseparation science. In this field, molecular docking and dynamics simulations proved to be extremely adaptable to model and visualize at molecular level the spatial proximity of interacting molecules in order to predict retention, selectivity, enantiomer elution order, and profile noncovalent interaction patterns underlying the recognition process. On this basis, topics and trends in using docking and molecular dynamics as theoretical complement of experimental LC and CE chiral separations are described herein. The basic concepts of these computational strategies and seminal studies performed over time are presented, with a specific focus on literature published between 2015 and November 2018. A systematic compilation of all published literature has not been attempted.
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- Paola Peluso
- Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare ICB CNR - Sede Secondaria di Sassari, Sassari, Sardegna, Italy
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- Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare ICB CNR - Sede Secondaria di Sassari, Sassari, Sardegna, Italy
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- Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare ICB CNR - Sede Secondaria di Sassari, Sassari, Sardegna, Italy
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- Institut de Chimie de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, Alsace, France
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Molecolari e Nanosistemi DSMN, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Mestre Venezia, Veneto, Italy
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Stereospecific recognition of chiral molecules plays an important role in nature as the basis of the interaction of chiral bioactive compounds with the chiral target structures. In separation sciences such as chromatographic and capillary electromigration techniques, interactions between chiral analytes and chiral selectors, i.e., the formation of transient diastereomeric complexes in thermodynamic equilibria, are the basis for chiral separations. Due to the large structural variety of chiral selectors, different structural features contribute to the overall chiral recognition process. This introductory chapter briefly summarizes the present understanding of the structural enantioselective recognition processes for various types of chiral selectors.
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- Gerhard K E Scriba
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Jena, Jena, Germany.
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Dallocchio R, Dessì A, Solinas M, Arras A, Cossu S, Aubert E, Mamane V, Peluso P. Halogen bond in high-performance liquid chromatography enantioseparations: Description, features and modelling. J Chromatogr A 2018; 1563:71-81. [PMID: 29871805 DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2018.05.061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2018] [Revised: 05/24/2018] [Accepted: 05/27/2018] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Halogen bond (XB)-driven enantioseparations involve halogen-centred regions of electronic charge depletion (σ-hole) as electrophilic recognition sites. The knowledge in this field is still in its infancy. Indeed, although the influence of halogens on enantioseparation have been often considered, only recently the function of electrophilic halogens (Cl, Br, I) as enantioseparations 'drivers' has been demonstrated by our groups. Further to these studies, in this paper we focus on some unexplored issues. First, as XB-driven chiral recognition mechanisms are at an early stage of comprehension, a theoretical investigation based on a series of 32 molecular dynamic (MD) simulations was performed by using polyhalogenated 4,4'-bipyridines and polysaccharide-based polymers as ligands and receptors, respectively. Enantiomer elution orders (EEOs) were derived from calculations and the theoretical model accounted for some analyte- and chiral stationary phase (CSP)-dependent experimental EEO inversions. Then, the function of halogen-centred σ-holes in competitive systems, presenting also hydrogen bond (HB) centres as recognition sites, was considered. In this regard, Pirkle's enantioseparations of halogenated compounds performed on Whelk-O1 were theoretically re-examined and electrostatic potentials (EPs) associated with both σ-holes on halogens and HB centres were computed and compared. Then, the enantioseparation of halogenated 2-nitro-1-arylethanols was performed on cellulose tris(3,5-dimethylphenylcarbamate) (CDMPC) and the influence of halogen substituents on the chromatographic results was evaluated by correlating theoretical and experimental data.
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- Roberto Dallocchio
- Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare ICB, CNR, Sede secondaria di Sassari, Traversa La Crucca 3, Regione Baldinca, I-07100 Li Punti, Sassari, Italy
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- Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare ICB, CNR, Sede secondaria di Sassari, Traversa La Crucca 3, Regione Baldinca, I-07100 Li Punti, Sassari, Italy
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- Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare ICB, CNR, Sede secondaria di Sassari, Traversa La Crucca 3, Regione Baldinca, I-07100 Li Punti, Sassari, Italy
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- Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare ICB, CNR, Sede secondaria di Sassari, Traversa La Crucca 3, Regione Baldinca, I-07100 Li Punti, Sassari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Molecolari e Nanosistemi DSMN, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Via Torino 155, I-30172 Mestre Venezia, Italy
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- Cristallographie, Résonance Magnétique et Modélisations (CRM2), UMR CNRS 7036, Université de Lorraine, Bd des Aiguillettes, 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France
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- Institut de Chimie de Strasbourg, UMR CNRS 7177, Equipe LASYROC, 1 rue Blaise Pascal, 67008 Strasbourg Cedex, France.
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- Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare ICB, CNR, Sede secondaria di Sassari, Traversa La Crucca 3, Regione Baldinca, I-07100 Li Punti, Sassari, Italy.
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