Two methods, high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and micellar electrokinetic chromatography (MEKC), for analysis of multicomponent lipopeptide antibiotic iturin A are described. After conducting a series of optimizations, the HPLC separation of iturin A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, and A8 isomers were achieved by a NPS RP-C18 column with an isocratic elution of acetonitrile/10 mM ammonium ac...

A microwave-assisted fluorescence labeling method for use in CE-LIF (capillary electrophoresis-laser induced fluorescence) is described. Six amphetamine-like designer drugs, namely, o-, m-, p-chloro- and o-, m-, p-fluoro-amphetamine derivatives, were synthesized and used as model compounds. FITC (fluorescein isothiocyanate isomer I) and a blue-laser were used as the fluorescent labeling reagent...

The separation and on-line concentrations of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), iso-lysergic acid diethylamide (iso-LSD) and lysergic acid N,N-methylpropylamide (LAMPA) in human urine were investigated by capillary electrophoresis-fluorescence spectroscopy using sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) as an anionic surfactant. A number of parameters such as buffer pH, SDS concentration, Brij-30 concentrati...

short timeframe, and rapid approaches are needed to assess log Pow values of these compounds (2,4,7). Several separation-based approaches for indirectly determining log Pow values in a rapid fashion have been reported, including reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) (2,3,8–11), thin-layer chromatography (12,13), micellar electrokinetic chromatography (MEKC) (7,14–16), and...

Although acute intoxication has become rare, arsenic (As) is still a dangerous pollution agent for industrial workers and people living in the vicinity of emission sources. In humans, only inorganic As is toxic; organic forms present in large amounts in the environment are nontoxic. It is therefore important to be able to differentiate one group from the other using appropriate speciation metho...

Since the turn of the twentieth century, it has been recognized that many drugs, agrochemicals, food additives and fragrances are chiral compounds and their chirality may considerably affect their bioactive behavior [1, 2]. The demand has been increasing for new analytical methods with high selectivity and efficiency. Chiral separation has become an attractive and important field in the separat...

Using complementary physical-chemical methods including turbidimetry, quasielastic light scattering, gel filtration, and phase analysis, we examined the interactions between dilute concentrations of the common bile salt, taurochenodeoxycholate (TCDC), and uni- and multilamellar vesicles (MLVs) composed of defined molecular species of lecithin (L) and varying contents of cholesterol (Ch). Dissol...