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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 111, Issue 34, Pages 10208-10216Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp071721o
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Fully atomistic simulations are used to characterize the molecular dynamics (MD) of acridine orange (3,6-dimethylaminoacridine) at a chromatographic interface. Multiple 1 ns MD simulations were performed for acridine orange at the interface between three different acetonitrile/water mixtures (0/100, 20/80, and 50/50) with C-8 and C-18 alkyl chains. The diffusion coefficient, D, of acridine orange in pure solvent was found to be 4 times smaller at the water/C-18 interface (D = 0.022 x 10(-4) cm(2)/s) than in bulk water (D = 0.087 x 10(-4) cm(2)/s), in qualitative agreement with experiment. Rotational reorientation times were 20 and 700 ps, which also agree favorably with the measured time scales of 130 and 740 ps. Contrary to experiment, the simulations found that for increasing surface coverage, the diffusion coefficient for acridine decreased. Detailed analysis of the solvent structure showed that the transport properties of acridine were primarily governed by the solvent distribution above the functionalized surface. The solvent structure, in turn, was largely determined by the surface consisting of the silica layer, the alkyl chains, and their functionalization.
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