Abstract
Normal-phase HPLC was used to separate the useful phospholipids phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), phosphatidylinositol (PI), and phosphatidylcholine (PC) from soybean lecithin. The mobile phase used in this experiment consisted of hexane, isopropanol, and methanol. The step-gradient mode was applied because the three components could not be separated by isocratic mode. To find the optimum separation conditions, the concentration profiles of effluents from a column were simulated by the retention factor and the plate theory in the step-gradient mode. The retention factor was correlated by the equation In k' = A + BF + CF2 + DG + EG2, where the constants A, B, C, D, and E were experimentally determined. F and G are the volume fractions of isopropanol and methanol, respectively. From the calculated results, PE was separated with hexane/isopropanol/methanol (90/5/5 vol%) in the isocratic mode, while PI and PC were resolved in the operating conditions of 15 minutes of gradient time and a second mobile phase of hexane/isopropanol/methanol (50/20/30 vol%) in the step-gradient mode. The agreement between the calculated concentration profile and the experimental data was fairly good, so the methodology developed in this work can be used to obtain useful separation conditions for stepwise elution.
Original language | English |
---|---|
Pages (from-to) | 271-286 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Separation Science and Technology |
Volume | 35 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2000 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:K.H.R. gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (Grant KOSEF 975-1100-001-2). This work was performed in the High-Purity Separation Laboratory of Inha University, Inchon, South Korea.
Keywords
- HPLC
- Phospholipids
- Plate theory
- Separation
- Step-gradient