Enantioseparation of tryptophan and its unnatural derivatives by nano-LC on CSP-teicoplanin silica based

This work deals with the potentiality of nano liquid chromatography (Nano-LC) for the chiral separation of racemic mixture of tryptophan and some selected derivatives by using 100 mu m i.d. fused silica capillary packed with teicoplanin bonded to 5 mu m diol silica stationary phase. The experiments were carried out by using a cheap and laboratory-assembled nano-LC-UV system. Elution was done in an isocratic mode using a polar organic mobile phase. In order to find the optimum chiral separation of the studied enantiomers, some chromatographic experimental parameters were systematically studied and optimized. Among them, mobile phase composition, namely organic modifier type and concentration, buffer type and pH and aqueous content and sample solvent dilution on retention time, retention factor and enantioresolution factor were studied. Baseline enantioresolution and good peak shape was achieved utilizing the mobile phase containing 40 mM ammonium formate at pH pH 2.5 in ACN/water/acetone (60:30:10, v/v/v) at 520 nL/min in less than 8 min analysis time.