UNIFAC model as a heuristic guide for estimating retention in chromatography

Jung Hag Park, Jung Eun Lee, Myung Duk Jang, Jian Jun Li, Peter W. Carr

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

8 Scopus citations

Abstract

The usefulness of the UNIFAC activity coefficient estimation method for understanding the magnitude of solute-solvent interactions in gas and liquid chromatography has been investigated. To demonstrate the power of UNIFAC it was used to investigate the origin of the Martin equation, to explore the methylene group selectivity and relative retention in reversed-phase liquid-liquid partition chromatography, to examine solute- solvent interactions in eluents in normal-phase liquid chromatography and to examine mixed stationary phase effects in gas-liquid chromatography. Although not accurate enough to be useful for quantitative predictions of retention, UNIFAC is fairly useful in explaining a wide variety of issues of general importance in chromatography such as the prediction of the order of elution of polar versus non-polar solutes and the relative strengths of solvents in all types of chromatography.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1-9
Number of pages9
JournalJournal of Chromatography A
Volume586
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 8 1991

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Work at the University of Minnesota was sup-portedi n part by a grantf rom theN ational Science Foundation.

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'UNIFAC model as a heuristic guide for estimating retention in chromatography'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this