A new chiral liquid-chromatographic method was developed for the enantiomeric separation of ofloxacin with a fluorescence detector. The enantiomers of ofloxacin were baseline resolved on a Chiralcel OD-H (250 mm x 4.6 mm, 5 microm) column using a mobile-phase system containing hexane-ethanol-methanol-acetic acid-diethylamine (70/20/10/0.45/0.05, v/v/v/v/v). The presence of diethylamine in the m...

A high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the determination of amphotericin B concentrations in human serum without bilirubin interference was developed and compared with a microbiological assay. The high-performance liquid chromatographic assay utilized a reversed-phase trimethyl silica column, simple sample preparation, and visible detection. Reproducibility studies yielded coeffic...

Blood cultures from 196 patients with suspected bacteraemia or septicaemia were analysed by automated head-space gas chromatography, using a 25 m fused silica capillary column, when turbidity indicated growth. Gas chromatography correctly identified 105 cultures as positive and 71 correctly as negative. No false-positive results were obtained. Of the 20 false-negative chromatographic results, S...

The detailed glycan structural analysis of glycoprotein is amenable to glycopeptide enrichment. Here, we develop a simple, effective and economical approach to enrich glycopeptides from proteolytically digested peptide mixtures by chromatographic column packed with graphite carbon and activated charcoal (G/A-column). Glycopeptide from ovalbumin was efficiently enriched by homemade G/A-column us...

A C18 column packed with core-shell particles was used for the chromatographic separation of sulphonamides in feed and meat by a conventional high performance liquid chromatography system coupled with a diode array detector. Two analytical methods, already used in our laboratory, have been modified without any changes in the extraction and clean-up steps and in the liquid chromatography instrum...

Compounds with primary amino groups react with o-phthalaldehyde in solution to yield highly fluorescent products. This reaction is now in wide use for detecting amino acids and amines in liquid-chromatography effluents. We report here a method for using o-phthalaldehyde to detect primary amines in the effluent of a gas-liquid-chromatographic column. The effluent gas, nominally 20 mL/min, is del...

Column and thin-layer chromatographic systems employing silver nitrate-impregnated adsorbents are described for the separation of sterol acetates which differ in the number of double bonds in the steroid nucleus or side chain.