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US 5,192,406 AGranted
Deactivated capillary columns for use in capillary electrophoresis
AssigneeSupelco, Inc.
InventorCole L. Woolley
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Abstract
The walls of fused-silica capillary columns used for capillary zone electrophoresis and micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography may be deactivated with polysiloxanes, polysilazanes and other silicone polymers to permit more effective separations without eliminating electro-osmotic flow within the columns.
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A method of performing capillary zone electrophoresis separations and micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography separations which comprises the steps, performed in the order in which they appear, of
- (a) introducing a buffered solution of analytes into a small-bore, glass or fused-silica capillary column having a bore diameter smaller than about 100 .mu.m;
- having its inner surface covalently bonded to a polymer having a silicon backbone selected from the group consisting of polymeric silyl hydrides, polymeric siloxanes, polymeric cyclic siloxanes, polymeric silazanes and silicone polymers;
- and having its bore filled with a buffer solution,
- (b) establishing a high-voltage differential from one end of the column to the other,
- (c) allowing the analytes to separate within the column and migrate from the column in the buffer solution as it exits the column by electro-osmotic flow, and
- (d) detecting the analytes in the buffer solution at or near the end of the column.
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