Purification Applications
From LEAP
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General Description
The purpose of preparative-scale liquid chromatography is the isolation of materials conforming to a specified purity in the amounts that depend on the intended use of the product. Possible uses include the isolation of materials for structural elucidation, for biological or sensory evaluation (Eg:DMPKA), for organic synthesis or commercial applications. The scale of the operation includes laboratory, pilot plant and process-scale system. Process-scale separations will not be treated specifically in this section, since they represent a specialized area of chemical manufacturing and economic forecasting that the analytical chemist is infrequently exposed to.
Most chemist are familiar with the gravity feed glass column systems containing coarse adsorbent packings that are the main stay of laboratory practice. These low cost and easy to prepare and operate columns have many virtues. Not among them, however, are high resolution, short separation times and easy automation. When any of these factors are considered crucial then more sophisticated systems are required based on smaller particle sorbents with a narrow particle size distribution, that in turn are operated at above atmospheric pressure in the optimum mobile phase velocity range. These goals are best achieved using medium pressure and high pressure liquid chromatography.
The technique is difficult to perform manually due to the demands for precise timing and reproducing exactly the same experimental conditions. Automation solves both of these challenges. LEAP has developed a robotic solution to the sample Prep and introduction to the LCMS. It consists of a Twin PAL workstation configured as shown below. There are two cooled zones on the workstation: A cooled stack at 1oC for the samples and labeled reactants and a cooled chromatography module which contains the injection valve, the column selection valves and the columns themselves. These are maintained also at around 1degree C. The automation process is controlled using LEAP Shell software.
Significant Markets
- Pharmaceutical - Drug Discovery,
