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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 72, Issue 14, Pages 3038-3042Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ac0000978
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Despite the impressive separation efficiency afforded by capillary electrochromatography (CEC), the detection of UV-absorbing compounds following separation in capillary dimensions remains limited by the short path length (5-75 mu m) through the column. Moreover, analytes that are poor chromophores present an additional challenge with respect to sensitive detection in CEC. This paper illustrates a new photochemical reaction detection scheme for CEC that takes advantage of the catalytic nature of type II photooxidation reactions. The sensitive detection scheme is selective toward molecules capable of photosensitizing the formation of singlet molecular oxygen (O-1(2)). Following separation by CEC, UV-absorbing analytes promote groundstate O-3(2) to an excited state (O-1(2)) which reacts rapidly with tert-butyl-3,4, 5-trimethylpyrrolecarboxylate, which is added to the running buffer. Detection is based on the loss of pyrrole. The reaction is catalytic in nature since one analyte molecule may absorb light many times, producing large amounts of O-1(2). The detection limit for 9-acetylanthracene, following separation by CEC, is similar to 6 x 10(-9) M (S/N = 3). Optimization of the factors effecting the S/N for four model compounds is discussed.
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