Véronique Piette

Enantiomeric separation of N-protected amino acids by non-aqueous capillary electrophoresis using quinine or tert-butyl carbamoylated quinine as chiral additive.

A capillary electrophoretic (CE) method for the enantioseparation of N-protected chiral amino acids was developed using quinine and tert-butyl carbamoylated quinine as chiral selectors added to nonaqueous electrolyte solutions (NACE). A series of various N-derivatized amino acids were tested as chiral selectands, and in order to optimize the CE enantioseparation of these compounds, different parameters were investigated: the nature of the organic solvent, the combination of different solvents, the nature and the concentration of the background electrolyte, the selector concentration, the capillary temperature, and the applied voltage. The influence of these factors on the separation of the analyte enantiomers and the electroosmotic flow was studied. Generally, with tert-butyl carbamoylated quinine as chiral selector, better enantioseparations were achieved than with unmodified quinine. Optimum experimental conditions were found with a buffer made of 12. 5 mM ammonia, 100 mM octanoic acid, and 10 mM tert-butyl carbamoylated quinine in an ethanol-methanol mixture (60:40 v/v). Under these conditions, DNB-Leu enantiomers could be separated with a selectivity factor (alpha) of 1.572 and a resolution (Rs) of 64.3; a plate number (N) of 127,000 and an asymmetry factor (As) of 0.93 were obtained for the first migrating enantiomer.

High‐performance liquid chromatographic enantioseparation of N‐protected α‐amino acids using nonporous silica modified by a quinine carbamate as chiral stationary phase

In this study, tert-butyl carbamoylated quinine as chiral selector was immobilized on nonporous silica (NPS) 1.5 μm particles developed by MICRA, and this new chiral stationary phase (CSP) was packed into a 3.3 cm column (4.6 mm ID). A series of various N-protected α-amino acids was chosen as chiral selectands, including 3.5-dinitrobenzyloxycarbonyl amino acids (DNZ-AAs). In order to optimize the chromatographic conditions with this novel CSP and to apply it to the resolution of acidic analytes the following parameters have been varied and studied: pH of the mobile phase, buffer concentration, and percentage of methanol or acetonitrile in the mobile phase. DryLabR software was applied to optimize enantioseparation by simulating chromatographic functions of experimental conditions for isocratic and/or gradient runs. Thus, we were able to resolve a set of test compounds within several minutes, whereby our attention was particularly drawn to the resolution of DNZ-AA derivatives. Chirality 9:157–161, 1997.

Non-aqueous capillary electrophoretic enantioseparation of N-derivatized amino acids using cinchona alkaloids and derivatives as chiral counter-ions.

A non-aqueous capillary electrophoretic method developed with quinine and tert.-butyl carbamoylated quinine as chiral selectors for the enantioseparation of N-protected amino acids was applied to the investigation of other quinine derivatives as chiral additives. The optimum composition of the background electrolyte was found to be 12.5 mM ammonia, 100 mM octanoic acid and 10 mM chiral selector in an ethanol-methanol (60:40, v/v) mixture. Under these conditions, a series of chiral acids, as various benzoyl, 3,5-dinitrobenzoyl and 3,5-dinitrobenzyloxycarbonyl amino acid derivatives were investigated with regards to selectand-selector relationships and enantioselectivity employing quinine, quinidine, cinchonine, cinchonidine, tert.-butyl carbamoylated quinine, tert.-butyl carbamoylated quinidine, dinitrophenyl carbamoylated quinine and cyclohexyl carbamoylated quinine as chiral selector.

Enantiomer separation of N-protected amino acids by non-aqueous capillary electrophoresis and high-performance liquid chromatography with tert.-butyl carbamoylated quinine in either the background electrolyte or the stationary phase

A non-aqueous CE method was developed for evaluating the chiral discrimination potential of cinchona alkaloids and different kinds of carbamoylated derivatives of quinine and quinidine type chiral selectors towards acidic analytes, in particular a series of various Bz (benzoyl), DNB (3,5-dinitrobenzoyl) and DNZ (3,5-dinitrobenzyloxycarbonyl) amino acid derivatives. In this study, the enantioselectivity values obtained in non-aqueous CE with tert.-butyl carbamoylated quinine as chiral additive have been compared with the values found for the same series of selectands in HPLC using the same selector immobilized onto silica as chiral stationary phase. Similarly to the background electrolyte used in CE an ethanol-methanol mixture (60:40, v/v) containing 100 mM octanoic acid and 12.5 mM ammonia has been selected as HPLC mobile phase. Under these conditions, a good correlation (r = 0.954) between the enantioselectivities observed with the two techniques has been obtained. Thus the non-aqueous CE method can be applied as a screening tool for the rapid evaluation of the chiral discrimination potential of a large set of newly developed chiral selectors derived from quinine and related alkaloids.

Enantioseparation of anionic analytes by non-aqueous capillary electrophoresis using quinine and quinidine derivatives as chiral counter-ions

A non-aqueous capillary electrophoretic method developed for the enantioseparation of N-protected amino acids has been applied to the investigation of five new quinine and quinidine derivatives as chiral selectors: 1-adamantyl carbamoylated quinine, 3,4-dichlorophenyl carbamoylated quinidine, allyl carbamoylated dihydroquinine, allyl carbamoylated dihydroquinidine and 1-methyl quininium iodide. The composition of the background electrolyte was 12.5 mM ammonia, 100 mM octanoic acid in an ethanol-methanol (60:40 v/v) mixture containing a 10 mM concentration of the chiral selector. Under these conditions, the enantioseparation of a series of various benzoyl, 3,5-dinitrobenzoyl and 3,5-dinitrobenzyloxycarbonyl amino acid derivatives was studied with respect to selectand-selector relationship and enantioselectivity.

Enantiomeric separation of N-protected amino acids by non-aqueous capillary electrophoresis with dimeric forms of quinine and quinidine derivatives serving as chiral selectors.

A non-aqueous capillary electrophoretic method with quinine and tert.-butyl carbamoylated quinine as chiral selectors was developed previously for the enantioseparation of N-protected amino acids. This system was here applied as a screening tool for a fast evaluation of the chiral discrimination potential of six new dimeric forms of carbamoylated quinine and quinidine derivatives as chiral additives: 1,3-phenylene-bis(carbamoylated quinine), 1,6-hexamethylene-bis(carbamoylated quinine), 1,6-hexamethylene-bis(carbamoylated quinidine), trans-1,4-cyclohexylene-bis(carbamoylated quinine), trans-1,4-cyclohexylene-bis(carbamoylated-11-dodecylthio-dihydroquinine) and trans-1,4-cyclohexylene-bis(carbamoylated-11-dodecylsulfinyl-dihydroquinine). A series of 24 chiral acids, as various benzoyl, 3,5-dinitrobenzoyl (DNB) and 3,5-dinitrobenzyloxycarbonyl amino acid derivatives were investigated with regards to enantioselectivity employing these different dimeric chiral selectors. The composition of the background electrolyte was 12.5 mM ammonia, 100 mM octanoic acid, and 10 mM chiral selector in an ethanol-methanol (60:40, v/v) mixture and the enantioseparations were performed at 15 degrees C and in the reversed polarity mode at -25 kV. With these dimeric chiral selectors, higher enantioselectivity values, compared to those obtained with monomeric derivatives, were usually achieved, especially with the dimers containing dodecyl substituents. For example, an alpha value of 4 and a resolution value of 78 were obtained for DNB-phenylalanine, using trans-1,4-cyclohexylene-bis(carbamoylated-11-dodecylthio-dihydroquinine) as selector.

Evaluation of enantioselective nonaqueous ion‐pair capillary electrophoresis as screening assay in the development of new ion exchange type chiral stationary phases

This study evaluates how enantioselectivity values for the separation of chiral N-derivatized amino acids achieved in non-aqueous ion-pair CE with cinchona alkaloid derived chiral counter-ions are related quantitatively to those obtained in enantioselective anion-exchange chromatography with the same selectors immobilized on silica supports. Three different setups of CE experiments, viz. a conventional total filling technique (TFT), a countercurrent technique (CCT), and a partial filling technique (PFT), were investigated and were tested in terms of the goodness of fit of correlations between apparent electrophoretic and chromatographic a values. Both selectands and selectors have been varied. Correlation coefficients higher than 0.95 are commonly obtained with all three CE techniques, yet even better fits are found for TFT-CE and CCT-CE. The common premise for the good correlations is the equal molecular recognition mechanism in ion-pair and ion-exchange modes, both involving ionic interactions as driving force for selectand-selector association, and the fact that separation selectivity in both techniques is primarily determined by the difference of the binding constants of (R) and (S) enantiomers with the chiral selector, i.e. the intrinsic or thermodynamic enantioselectivity. Factors related to the separation technique, which also influence apparent enantioselectivity and possibly contribute to a deterioration of the fit, are discussed. The good correlations prove that enantioselective ion-pair CE may be used as screening method in the development and optimization of ion-exchange type chiral stationary phases.

Enantiomeric separation of amino acid derivatives by non-aqueous capillary electrophoresis using quinine and related compounds as chiral additives

V. Piette,* M. Fillet, W. Lindner and J. Crommen Laboratory of Drug Analysis, Institute of Public Health Ð Louis Pasteur, Rue J. Wytsman 14, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium Department of Analytical Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Institute of Pharmacy, University of LieÁ ge, CHU, B36, B-4000 LieÁ ge 1, Belgium Institute of Analytical Chemistry, University of Vienna, WaÈ hringerstrasse 38, A-1090 Vienna, Austria