Abstract:
The efficient extraction, seperation and identification of essential bioactive compounds is one of the biggest challenges in the field of life sciences. To meet these demands, tailored stationary phases for selective extraction and separation purposes have to be developed.
One approach is the chemical modification of silica with long alkyl chains, alicyclic or aromatic ligands. Therefore the preparation of silica employing the sol-gel process was investigated. Uniform spherical silica particles of different diameters were synthesized by hydrolysis of tetraethyl ortho-silicate in the presence of water and ammonia solution in an alcoholic medium. Additionally, the preparation of ordered mesoporous hybrid materials containing long alkyl chains was carried out by neutral amine templating route in water with ethanol as a co-solvent. Another approach is the synthesis of coated inorganic phases with divinylbenzene as well as of hybrid materials by immobilizing polyalkylvinylethers on methacrylate and vinyl bonded silica. Stationary phases for reversed phase HPLC can also be prepared by depositing a poly(methyloctylsiloxane) layer onto the pore surface of silica support particles. Furthermore, the sorption of polysiloxanes into titanized and zirconized silica followed by gamma-irradiation or heat treatment was investigated.
Molecularly imprinted polymers were characterized by NMR spectroscopy. The MIPS´s were imprinted with 9-ethyladenine.
An extensive structural characterization of new phases is performed by the use of 13C as well as 29Si solid-state NMR spectroscopy, which reveals valuable information on variety and quantity of the surface species.