Gas chromatography silica packings with chemically bonded complexes of Cu(II) and Cr(III)

Recent advances in gas chromatography for solid and liquid stationary phases containing metal ions

This review is devoted to the application of metal complexes as column packings and liquid stationary phases in gas chromatography. Particular attention is paid to the stationary phases with nitrogen-containing functional groups (e.g., amine and ketoimine) and beta-diketonates on the modified silica surface. The review also concerns the results of the research on metallomesogenes and chiral stationary phases. The factors influencing the retention mechanism in complexation gas chromatography are discussed. Practical application of the metal chelate-containing chromatographic packings for analytical separation of organic substances is considered.

Palladium(II) chelate of tetradentate Schiff base as mixed stationary phase for gas chromatography

Bis(acetylacetone)ethylenediiminepalladium(II) (PdAA2en) was examined as a mixed stationary phase with OV-1 on Chromosorb G/NAW 60-80 mesh size for the GC separation of aromatic hydrocarbons, heteroaromatics, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, esters, and nitro compounds. Forty-two compounds were examined and the GC results were compared with those obtained with 3% OV-1 on Chromosorb G/NAW 60-80 mesh size under similar operating conditions. Improved resolution, peak asymmetry, theoretical plate numbers, and Kovats indices were obtained on the mixed stationary phase of 3% OV-1 + 5% PdAA2en compared to 3% OV-1 column. The stability constant (Km), enthalpies (deltaH), entropies (deltaS), and Gibbs free energies (deltaG) of the GC elution on the column (2 m x 3 mm id) packed with 3% OV-1 + 5% PdAA2en on Chromosorb G/NAW 60-80 mesh size have been calculated. Donor-acceptor complexation in the gas phase is indicated by negative values of enthalpy (-deltaH) within 5.81 to 10.89 kcal/mol and Gibbs free energy (-deltaG) from 1.34 to 4.08 kcal/mol. The retention time transformations on both the phases were calculated and the ratios obtained from the stationary phases 3% OV-1 and 3% OV-1 + 5% PdAA2en were plotted on the x-axis and the y-axis, respectively, and the coefficients of determination for alkanes, aromatic and heteroaromatics, ketones, and alcohols were observed to lie within 0.5253 to 0.9742, indicative of some different kinds of interaction of the two stationary phases with the solutes.

Investigation of 4-(nitrophenylamino)pent-3-en-2-ones and 4-(nitrobenzylamino)pent-3-en-2-ones by electron ionization mass spectrometry. Observation of characteristic ortho effects

The compounds 4-(phenylamino)pent-3-en-2-ones (1-3) and 4-(benzylamino)pent-3-en-2-ones (4-6) substituted with a nitro group on the aromatic ring were studied by electron ionisation mass spectrometry (EIMS). It was deduced that the compounds 1-3 are converted into the tautomeric 4-(arylimino)pentan-2-one during the EI process. Mass spectrometric decompositions of ortho-substituted derivatives (1 and 4) were found to be different from those observed for meta- and para-isomers. The fragmentation pathways are discussed on the basis of data from linked B/E and B(2)/E scans, mass-analysed ion kinetic energy (MIKE) spectra, accurate mass measurements and isotope labelling.