On-column titration and investigation of metal complex formation for aminopolycarboxylate functionalised monoliths using scanning contactless conductivity detectionстатья
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Аннотация:The application of scanning capacitively coupled contactless conductivity detection
(SC4D) for the determination of pH dependant behaviour of two aminopolycarboxylates
immobilised onto the surface of a monolithic capillary column is described.
The use of SC4D to visualise changes in conductivity of the discrete zones of functional
groups within monolithic capillary columns allows for the effects of immobilisation
on the physicochemical properties of zones to be compared to that of the
functional group in solution. The perturbation of the pKa values of the functional
groups can be attributed to the change in chemical environment experienced by
the functional group through the presence of local hydrogen bonding and surface
induced effects. These bonds, both between adjacent functional groups and with
the monolithic polymethacrylate scaffold, result in a modification of the electron
density on the functional group and therefore a change in pKa. Changes in the pKa
of N-(2-acetamido)iminodiacetic acid (ADA) from 2.48 to 5.2 for one of the acidic protons,
with little change in the pKa of the amine group, were observed, which correlates
to similar changes in aggregated systems of aminopolycarboxylates. Similar
results were obtained for the iminodiacetic acid (IDA) once immobilised onto the
surface of the monolith. Furthermore, the ability to measure changes in the charge
of such discrete zones of functional groups allows for the visualisation of complexation
events occurring directly on-column, where such complexes result in a change
in charge of the functional group. This potentially useful technique is illustrated
within for the formation of aminopolycarboxylate complexes with a selection of
metal ions.