4138 Shahab A. Shamsi Rashid Iqbal Cevdet Akbay Department of Chemistry, Center of Biotechnology and Drug Design Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA Electrophoresis 2005, 26, 4138–4152 Glycine-based polymeric surfactants with varied polar head group: II. Chemical selectivity in micellar electrokinetic chromatography using linear solvation energy relationships A series of four acyl and four alkenoxy glycinates (i.e., mono-, di-, tri-, and tetraderivatives of polysodium N-undecenoyl glycinate (poly-SUGs) as well as polysodium N-undecenoxy carbonyl glycinates (poly-SUCGs)) were compared for simultaneous separation of nonhydrogen bonding (NHB), hydrogen-bond acceptor (HBA), and hydrogen-bond donor (HBD) solutes. An increase in the number of glycine units in the polar head group of polymeric surfactant decreases both the retention and the migration window of all solutes with some changes in separation selectivity. The poly(sodium N-undecenoxy carbonyl-glycinate) (poly-SUCG1) with one glycine unit was the least polar surfactant and has the lowest phase ratio, but this monoglycinate surfactant provided the best simultaneous separation of 10NHBs and 8-HBAs. On the other hand, 9-HBDs were well separated using any of the six mono-, di-, and triglycinate surfactants compared to the two tetraglycinates. Linear solvation energy relationships (LSERs) and separation of the geometrical isomers studies were also performed to further envisage the selectivity differences. From LSER studies, the phase ratio and hydrogen-bond-donating strength of the poly-SUG series of surfactant were found to increase with an increase in the size of the head group, but no clear trends were observed for poly-SUCG surfactants. The cohesiveness for all poly-SUG and poly-SUCG was positive, but the values were generally lower (with exception of the poly(sodium N-undecenoyl glycyl-glycyl-glycinate)) at a higher number of glycine units. Finally, the poly(sodium N-undecenoyl glycinate) and poly-SUCG1 were found to be the two best polymeric surfactants as they provided relatively higher shape selectivity for separation of two of the three sets of geometrical isomers. Keywords: Hydrogen-bond acceptor benzene derivatives / Hydrogen-bond donor benzene derivatives / Isomer selectivity / Nonhydrogen bonding benzene derivatives / Polysodium Nundecenoxy carbonyl glycinates DOI 10.1002/elps.200500363 Correspondence: Professor Shahab A. Shamsi, Department of Chemistry, Center of Biotechnology and Drug Design Georgia State University, P.O. Box 4098, Atlanta, GA 30302-4098, USA E-mail: [email protected] Fax: 11-404-651-1416 Abbreviations: HBA, hydrogen-bond acceptor; HBD, hydrogenbond donor; LSER, linear solvation energy relationship; NHB, nonhydrogen bonding; poly-SUCG1, poly(sodium N-undecenoxy carbonyl-glycinate); poly-SUCG2, poly(sodium N-undecenoxy carbonyl glycyl-glycinate); poly-SUCG3, poly(sodium Nundecenoxy carbonyl-glycyl-glycyl-glycinate); poly-SUCG4, poly(sodium N-undecenoxy carbonyl-glycyl-glycyl-glycyl-glycinate); poly-SUG1, poly(sodium N-undecenoyl glycinate); polySUG2, poly(sodium N-undecenoyl glycyl-glycinate); poly-SUG3, poly(sodium N-undecenoyl glycyl-glycyl-glycinate); poly-SUG4, poly(sodium N-undecenoyl glycyl-glycyl-glycyl-glycinate) 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim 1 Introduction In recent years, the linear solvation energy relationship (LSER) model has been applied for the characterization of retention and selectivity differences between different pseudostationary phases in MEKC [1–7]. This model, which was initially developed by Kamlet et al. [8, 9], describes solvation effects on physicochemical processes. More recently, Platts and Abraham [10] showed improved accuracy of some of the solute descriptors with new symbols and modified the LSER model which can be written as log K’ = C 1 vV 1 eE 1 sS 1 aA 1 bB (1) Glycine-based polymeric surfactants with varied polar head group In Eq. (1), known solute descriptors, V, E, S, A, and B, are correlated to the logarithmic retention factor (log k0 ). V and E are measures of a solute’s characteristic volume and the excess molar refraction, respectively. The solute polarity and polarizability are represented by the S term. The A and B terms represent the solute hydrogen-bond-donating and the solute hydrogen-bond-accepting abilities, respectively. The system coefficients (C, v, e, s, a, and b) refer to differences in the two bulk phases, i.e. the aqueous and the pseudostationary phases, between which the solute is transferring. The constant C represents the intercept and includes information about the phase ratio of the system. The v term is a measure of the relative ease of cavity formation or hydrophobicity of the pseudostationary phase for the solute. The coefficient e verifies the difference in ability of the pseudostationary phase and the separation buffer to interact with solute n- or p-electrons while the s coefficient measures the polarizibility difference between the pseudostationary phase and the separation buffer. The coefficients a and b are the hydrogen-bondaccepting and hydrogen-bond-donating strengths of the pseudostationary phase, respectively. Therefore, various polymeric surfactants can be compared in MEKC systems employing the same aqueous buffer. Over the past ten years, several groups have utilized LSER to characterize a variety of conventional micelles with varied polar head groups [11–22] and chain lengths [23–26]. In contrast, only a small number of reports comparing polymeric surfactants with different hydrocarbon chain lengths [1, 6, 27, 28] and polar head groups [29, 30] have been published. Palmer’s group [27] reported the use of siloxane polymers as well as copolymers of 2-acrylmido-2-methyl-1-propane sulfonic acid and methacrylates with chain lengths of C8-C18 [6] to investigate selectivity differences. Although no substantial differences in chemical selectivity were observed using either class of polymers, alkyl-modified siloxane polymers were found to be more cohesive and less polar and have high degrees of dipolarity/polarizibility as compared to SDS. In a related LSER study, the same research group also compared the allyl glycidyl ether N-methyl taurine siloxane polymer to sulfite-modified siloxane [7]. They noted that the use of later polymer with a shorter linker arm (between the siloxane backbone and the ionic head group) as well as the absence of tertiary amine group on the polar head results in a significant change in chemical selectivity. Recently, in a series of two publications, our research group investigated four polymeric sodium alkenyl sulfate surfactants with chain lengths of C8-C11 [1, 28]. The LSER studies suggested that an increase in the hydrocarbon chain length of these polymeric surfactants decreases the polar nature and effectiveness of acid strength, but increases the polarizibility. 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim 4139 To the best of our knowledge, only few reports comparing polymeric surfactants with different anionic polar head group have been published [29, 30]. Fujimato [29] observed higher separation efficiency with significantly different elution pattern of several benzene derivatives when polysodium 11-acrylamidoundecanoate poly(Na 11-AAU) was compared to SDS micelles or poly(sodium 10-undecylenate) in MEKC. The comparison on solvation properties of the three aforementioned micellar systems suggested that strong dipole-dipole and dipole-induced-dipole properties of poly(Na 11-AAU) result in unique selectivity for several polar solutes. Leonard and Khaledi [30] compared the solvation properties of the triblock copolymer (poly(methyl methacrylate-ethyl acrylate-methacrylic acid), Elvacite 2669), SDS, and a mixed surfactant system of SDS and Elvacite 2669. They observed significant selectivity differences for nonhydrogen bonding (NHB) and hydrogen-bond acceptor (HBA) solutes when Elvacite 2669 and SDS are used as individual or mixed systems. In addition, the mixed SDS-Elvacite 2669 pseudophase was found to be less cohesive and weaker hydrogen-bond donor (HBD) than the Elvacite 2669 or SDS alone. The present study is a continuation of Part I in which the synthesis, characterization, and application of monomeric and polymeric forms of sodium N-undecenoyl glycinates (SUGs) and sodium N-undecenoxy carbonyl glycinates (SUCGs) surfactants in MEKC were evaluated. In this second part, the effect of polar head for the simultaneous separation of 10-NHBs, 8-HBAs, and 9-HBDs solutes using all eight polymeric surfactants was first compared. Next, LSER was applied to further evaluate the effect of hydrophilic head group on retention behavior and selectivity of 27-benzene derivatives. Since the selectivity differences between benzene derivatives were not very large in magnitude using the tetraglycinate derivatives of poly(sodium N-undecenoyl glycyl-glycyl-glycyl-glycinate) (poly-SUG4) and poly(sodium N-undecenoxy carbonyl-glycyl-glycyl-glycyl-glycinate) (poly-SUCG4), no LSER analysis was performed using these two polymeric surfactants. Finally, the six mono-, di-, and triglycinates of poly-SUG and poly-SUCG series were compared for the separation of geometrical isomers of phenylimidazoles, nitrotoluenes, and methoxy-phenethylamines. 2 Materials and methods 2.1 Instrumentation Same as described in Part I [31]. 2.2 Materials The geometrical isomers of phenylimidazoles (1-phenylimidazole, 2-phenylimidazole, 4-phenylimidazole), nitrotoluenes (2-nitrotoluene, 4-nitrotoluene, 3-nitrotoluene), and CE and CEC Electrophoresis 2005, 26, 4138–4152 4140 S. A. Shamsi et al. methoxyphenethylamines (4-methoxyphenethylamines, 3methoxyphenethylamines, 2-methoxy-phenethylamines) were obtained from Aldrich (Milwaukee, WI, USA). Other chemicals are essentially the same as in Part I [31]. 2.3 Preparation of micellar buffer solutions and solute solution These are the same as described in Part I [31]. 2.4 CE procedure The procedure is the same as described in Part I of this series [31]. 2.5 Calculations The retention factors, k0 , of the test solutes were calculated as previously reported [1, 28]. The system coefficients (v, e, s, a, and b) described in Eq. (1) were determined by multiple linear regression using SAS software (SAS Institute, Cary, NC, USA). Electrophoresis 2005, 26, 4138–4152 3 Results and discussion 3.1 Effects of the head group on MEKC separation of NHB, HBA, and HBD solutes Figures 1 and 2 demonstrate the simultaneous separation of 10-NHB solutes (solutes 1–10, Table 1) in MEKC using poly-SUG and poly-SUCG surfactants as pseudostationary phases, respectively. A steady decrease in retention times of NHB solutes was observed with an increase in the number of glycine molecules in polar head group of both poly-SUG and poly-SUCG surfactants. Thus, it appears that decrease in elution window and migration time is due to two important reasons: (i) increase in chromatographic polarity of the polymeric surfactant and (ii) increase in zeta potential at the capillary surface. These observations are consistent with the data in Part I of this series [31], which shows that the use of more polar triglycinates (e.g., poly(sodium N-undecenoyl glycyl-glycyl-glycinate) (poly-SUG3) and poly(sodium N-undecenoxy carbonyl-glycyl-glycyl-glycinate) (poly-SUCG3)), as pseudostationary phase in MEKC, results in lower k0 for all 27 benzene derivatives than the less polar monoglycinates (e.g., poly(sodium N-undecenoyl glycinate) Figure 1. Comparison of (a) poly-SUG1, (b) poly-SUG2, (c) poly-SUG3, and (d) poly-SUG4 for the separation of NHB benzene derivatives. Conditions: 17.4 mM at equivalent monomer concentration (EMC) (mM) of each surfactant, 20 mM NaH2PO4/Na2HPO4, pH 7.0. Pressure injection: 20 mbar, 4 s; 130 kV applied voltage; UV detection at 200 nm; 257C. Peak identifications are the same as those listed in Table 1. 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Electrophoresis 2005, 26, 4138–4152 Glycine-based polymeric surfactants with varied polar head group 4141 Figure 2. Comparison of (a) poly-SUCG1, (b) poly-SUCG2, (c) poly-SUCG3, and (d) polySUCG4 for the separation of NHB benzene derivatives. Other conditions are the same as those given in Fig. 1. Inset in (d) represents the expanded electrokinetic chromatogram of the first ten solutes in poly-SUCG4 surfactant. Peak identifications are the same as those listed in Table 1. (poly-SUG1) and poly(sodium N-undecenoxy carbonylglycinate) (poly-SUCG1)). In general, the elution order of NHB solutes remained unchanged irrespective of the type of head group except that the elution order of propylbenzene (solute 8) and naphthalene (solute 9) was reversed. Using both poly-SUCG1 and poly(sodium N-undecenoxy carbonyl glycyl-glycinate) (poly-SUCG2), naphthalene was retained longer than propylbenzene. However, the elution order of these two solutes reverses when poly-SUCG3 and poly-SUCG4 were used as pseudostationary phases. These observed elution order reversals are most likely a result of poly-SUCG3 and polySUCG4 being more polar phases than poly-SUCG1 or polySUCG2. However, it was interesting to note that such reversal was not observed in poly-SUG series of surfactants. Significant fronting was observed with respect to the most hydrophobic NHB analyte (e.g., biphenyl) using most of the polymeric surfactants. This suggests that poor solvation capacity and polydispersity of the polymeric surfactants are likely contributors to the peak asymmetry, especially for more hydrophobic compounds. Several trends in differences in resolution and separation selectivity for certain NHB pairs were observed. First, the Rs of all NHB solute pairs (with the exception of CTOL/ 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim IBZ; for abbreviations see Table 1) are at least two to three times higher for mono-, di-, or triglycinates of poly-SUCG surfactants (Fig. 2) as compared to poly-SUG surfactants (Fig. 1). This is consistent with the larger elution range (tmc/to) observed with the former class of polymeric surfactant (Table 2, row 4 vs. row 9, Part I). For tetraglycinates (poly-SUG4 and poly-SUCG4) very poor Rs values were obtained (data not shown). This is probably because of smallest electrophoretic mobility (Table 2, column 9, Part I) and lowest phase ratio (due to smallest V values, Table 1, column 6) of tetraglycinates (compared to mon-, di-, or triglycinates), which in turn decreases the elution window (Table 2, Part I). Second, the four (TOL/ CBZ, CBZ/EBZ, EBZ/BrBZ, and IBZ/PBZ) out of nine pairs of NHB solutes were better resolved with polySUCG3 compared to poly-SUCG1 or poly-SUCG2, mainly due to higher selectivity. For example, the selectivity values for these four pairs were 2.47, 1.60, 1.47, and 1.43 using poly-SUCG3 versus 1.63/1.58, 1.34/1.19, 1.13/1.16, and 1.32/1.10 obtained with poly-SUG1/poly(sodium Nundecenoyl glycyl-glycinate) (poly-SUG2). Third, a comparison between various pairs of NHB solutes shows that the most hydrophobic pair (e.g., NAP/BP, peak 9/10 in Figs. 1, 2) provided the highest Rs and a values. Interestingly, for this most hydrophobic pair of solutes, the poly- 4142 S. A. Shamsi et al. Electrophoresis 2005, 26, 4138–4152 Table 1. Test solutes and their solvation parameters No. Solutes Solvation parameters V E S A B NHB (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) Benzene (BZ) Toluene (TOL) Chlorobenzene (CBZ) Ethylbenzene (EBZ) Bromobenzene (BrBZ) 4-Chlorotoluene (CTOL) Iodobenzene (IBZ) Propylbenzene (PBZ) Naphthalene (NAP) Biphenyl (BP) 0.716 0.857 0.839 0.998 0.891 0.980 0.975 1.139 1.085 1.324 0.610 0.601 0.718 0.613 0.882 0.705 1.188 0.604 1.360 1.360 0.52 0.52 0.65 0.51 0.73 0.67 0.83 0.50 0.92 0.99 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.14 0.14 0.07 0.15 0.09 0.07 0.12 0.15 0.20 0.22 HBAs (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) Phenethyl alcohol (PEA) Acetophenone (AP) Nitrobenzene (NBZ) Methyl benzoate (MBZT) 4-Nitrotoluene (NTOL) 4-Chloroacetophenone (CAP) Ethyl benzoate (EBZT) 4-Chloroanisole (CAN) 1.057 1.014 0.891 1.073 1.032 1.136 1.214 1.038 0.784 0.818 0.871 0.733 0.870 0.955 0.689 0.838 0.83 1.01 1.11 0.85 1.11 1.09 0.85 0.86 0.30 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.66 0.48 0.28 0.46 0.28 0.44 0.46 0.24 HBA (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) Benzyl alcohol (BA) Phenol (P) 4-Fluorophenol (FP) 3-Methylphenol (MP) 4-Chloroaniline (CANL) 3,5-Dimethylphenol (DMP) 4-Ethylphenol (EP) 3-Chlorophenol (CP) 3-Bromophenol (BP) 0.916 0.775 0.793 0.916 0.939 1.057 1.057 0.898 0.950 0.803 0.805 0.670 0.822 1.060 0.820 0.800 0.909 1.080 0.87 0.89 0.97 0.88 1.13 0.84 0.90 1.06 1.17 0.33 0.60 0.63 0.57 0.30 0.57 0.55 0.69 0.67 0.56 0.30 0.23 0.34 0.31 0.36 0.36 0.15 0.20 Table 2. Head group effects of poly-SUG surfactants on the migration behavior of benzene derivatives in MEKC (n = 27) Surfactant systems System constants Statistics C E E S a b R2 a) SEb) Poly-SUG1 22.566 (60.091)c) 2.393 (60.102) 0.608 (60.078) 20.295 (60.085) 0.298 (60.047) 21.899 (60.088) 0.986 0.055 Poly-SUG2 22.296 (60.085) 2.067 (60.095) 0.482 (60.073) 20.268d) (60.079) 0.230 (60.044) 21.845 (60.082) 0.984 0.051 Poly-SUG3 22.000 (60.124) 1.707 (60.140) 0.648 (60.108) 20.479d) (60.116) 0.293 (60.064) 21.612 (60.120) 0.961 0.075 a) b) c) d) Correlation coefficient of the linear regression Standard error of the calculated log k0 values SD for each coefficient Values are not statistically significant at the 95% confidence level. 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Electrophoresis 2005, 26, 4138–4152 Glycine-based polymeric surfactants with varied polar head group meric surfactant (i.e., poly-SUCG1) with the lowest aggregation number and highest partial specific volume (within its own series) provided the highest resolution (Rs = 45.2) and highest selectivity (a = 19.96). In addition, separation between 4-chlorotoluene (solute 6) and iodobenzene (solute 7) was dramatically dropped when switching from poly-SUCG1 (Fig. 2a) to poly-SUCG3 (Fig. 2c), and then slightly increased when poly-SUCG4 was used. Nevertheless, a comparison of poly-SUG surfactants (Fig. 1) versus poly-SUCG (Fig. 2) clearly shows that the use of former class of polymeric surfactant always resulted not only in shorter migration time, but also in narrow elution range than the latter. Thus, it appeared that the presence of extra carbon atom in the aliphatic tail of poly-SUCG series renders this class of surfactant more hydrophobic resulting in longer migration times. Overall, the mono-, di-, and triglycinate of poly-SUCG and polySUCG class of surfactants showed satisfactory separation of NHB solutes. In contrast, using either poly-SUG4 (Fig. 1d) or poly-SUCG4 (Fig. 2d), the same NHB solutes eluted very close with lower Rs and a as well as narrow elution windows of only 4 and 7 min, respectively. Electropherograms in Figs. 3 and 4 show the separation of 8-HBA solutes using four poly-SUG and four polySUCG surfactant systems, respectively. The HBA solutes showed similar elution pattern in all eight surfactant sys- 4143 tems. Similar to NHB analytes, an increase in size of the head group of either poly-SUG or poly-SUCG provided faster separation of HBAs. The Rs of various HBA pairs under investigation were affected differently with changes in the polar head group. Similar to NHB solutes, HBAs consistently provided significantly higher Rs using alkenoxy compared to acyl polymeric surfactants. For example, Rs values were at least two- to threefold higher with poly-SUCG than with poly-SUG surfactants (data not shown). Furthermore, it can be seen from Fig. 3a that poly-SUG1 could not resolve acetophenone (solute 12) and nitrobenzene (solute 13), whereas the same pair was successfully resolved with poly-SUCG1 (Fig. 4a) as well as with other polymeric surfactants. Similarly, 4-chloroacetophenone (solute 16) and ethyl benzoate (solute 17) pair was very well resolved using poly-SUCG1 (Fig. 4a), almost baseline resolved using poly-SUG1 (Fig. 3a) and poly-SUCG3 (Fig. 4c), partially resolved with poly-SUCG4, (Fig. 4d), but was unresolved using any of the remaining polymeric surfactants. Overall, poly-SUCG1 appears to be the best polymeric surfactant since it provided the highest Rs (mainly due to higher selectivity and large elution range) toward most of the of HBA solutes. Although this particular surfactant has the same number of carbon atoms in the hydrophobic tail (e.g., SUCG2 and SUCG3), the smaller and less sterically hindered polar head group allows easy access to H-bonding interactions. Figure 3. Comparison of (a) poly-SUG1, (b) poly-SUG2, (c) poly-SUG3, and (d) poly-SUG4 for the separation of HBA benzene derivatives. Other conditions are the same as those given in Fig. 1. Peak identifications are the same as those listed in Table 1. 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim 4144 S. A. Shamsi et al. Electrophoresis 2005, 26, 4138–4152 Figure 4. Comparison of (a) poly-SUCG1, (b) poly-SUCG2, (c) poly-SUCG3, and (d) polySUCG4 for the separation of HBA benzene derivatives. Other conditions are the same as those given in Fig. 1. Peak identifications are the same as those listed in Table 1. The simultaneous separation of 9-HBDs is illustrated in Fig. 5 (poly-SUG surfactants) and Fig. 6 (poly-SUCG surfactants). It is clear that almost all the mono-, di-, and triglycinate polymeric surfactants (Figs. 5a–c, 6a–c) are good HBAs, showing simultaneous baseline or near baseline separation of HBD solutes. Since all of these six polymeric surfactants possess multiple HBA functionality, favorable separation selectivities of HBD solutes are not too surprising. Similar to the trends observed for NHB and HBA solutes, the use of poly-SUCG surfactants as pseudostationary phases always provided longer retention times for HBD solutes than the corresponding poly-SUG surfactants (at equivalent number of glycine units). Again, the separation selectivities were not as remarkable for 9HBDs using poly-SUG4 (Fig. 5d) or poly-SUCG4 (Fig. 6d). Therefore, these two polymeric surfactants were not included in LSER analysis, which is discussed below. 3.2 LSER analysis A total of 27 benzene derivatives used in this study and their descriptor values are listed in Table 1. Based on their hydrogen-bond abilities, the solutes in Table 1 can be characterized as NHB (solutes 1–10), HBAs (solutes 11– 18), and HBDs (solutes 19–27). 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim 3.2.1 Normalized residuals as a function of solute number The retention behavior of all 27 test solutes in polymeric SUG and SUCG surfactants was examined, and the system constants were calculated by multiple linear regression. The statistical validity of LSER was evaluated through the correlation coefficient (R2) and the standard error of the estimate (SE). Relatively lower SE values were observed with poly-SUG surfactant systems (Table 2) relative to poly-SUCG surfactants (Table 3) due to a few outlying solutes. Figures 7a–f show the outliers in all six pseudostationary phases. The following approach was followed to determine outlier solutes. First, residual values of log k0 (experimental log k0 minus calculated log k0 ) were calculated. Then, normalized residuals (i.e. residual divided by the SD of the residual) were computed. Finally, the normalized residual values of log k0 were plotted against the solute number. When the normalized residuals were zero or nearly zero, the best fit between experimental log k0 and calculated log k0 values was obtained. However, normalized residuals in a range of 12 to 22 are reasonable for statistically sound correlations. Note that biphenyl (solute 10) is an outlier in all three poly-SUCG surfactants (Figs. 7d–f), whereas benzyl alcohol (solute 19) and benzene (solute 1) are the main Electrophoresis 2005, 26, 4138–4152 Glycine-based polymeric surfactants with varied polar head group 4145 Figure 5. Comparison of (a) polySUG1, (b) poly-SUG2, (c) polySUG3, and (d) poly-SUG4 for the separation of HBD benzene derivatives. Other conditions are the same as those given in Fig. 1. Peak identifications are the same as those listed in Table 1. Figure 6. Comparison of (a) poly-SUCG1, (b) poly-SUCG2, (c) poly-SUCG3, and (d) polySUCG4 for the separation of HBD benzene derivatives. Other conditions are the same as those given in Fig. 1. Peak identifications are the same as those listed in Table 1. 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim 4146 S. A. Shamsi et al. Electrophoresis 2005, 26, 4138–4152 Figure 7. Normalized residuals from (a) poly-SUG1, (b) polySUG2, (c) poly-SUG3, (d) polySUCG1, (e) poly-SUCG2, and (f) poly-SUCG3 surfactant system. Other conditions are the same as those given in Fig. 1. outliers in poly-SUG3 (Fig. 7c) and poly-SUCG3 (Fig. 7f), respectively. These data indicate that the number and type of outliers may vary depending on the polymeric surfactant used. 3.2.2 Effect of the polar head group on phase ratio The LSER constants and the statistics for all the pseudostationary phases using solvation parameter model (Eq. 1) are listed in Tables 2 and 3. As mentioned previously, the constant C represents the intercept and reflects differences in phase ratio. The regression constant C is large and negative for all the surfactant systems studied. The phase ratio increases with an increase in the number of hydrogen bonding sites in the head group of poly-SUG surfactants (e.g., Cpoly-SUG3 . Cpoly-SUG2 . Cpoly-SUG1). This trend differs with the partial specific volume results reported in Part I [31]. For example, for poly-SUG series of surfactants the chromatographic phase ratio (b) calculated from the proposed equation [1] follows the order: (bpolySUG1 = 0.0038, bpolySUG2 = 0.0037, bpolySUG3 = 0.0037, 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim bpolySUG4 = 0.0031), which seems essentially constant and is slightly lower for poly-SUG4. In contrast, the polymeric SUCG surfactants do not show the same trend of b seen in polymeric SUG surfactants. For the poly-SUCG series, the b values follow the order: (bpolySUCG1 = 0.0033, bpolySUCG2 = 0.0031, bpolySUCG3 = 0.0020, bpolySUCG4 = 0.0014). Comparison of b and C values indicates that poly-SUCG1 provided essentially the same b value as poly-SUCG2, but the C values for these two polymers are significantly different (Table 3, column 2). However, the same two polymeric surfactants have higher b values compared to polySUCG3 and poly-SUCG4. Thus, the trend in b values for only poly-SUCG2 and poly-SUCG3 was found to be consistent with the C values. 3.2.3 Effect of the polar head group on cohesiveness and dispersion interactions The vV term indicates the free energy change due to hydrophobic interactions. Larger coefficient v values indicate smaller cohesive energy of the pseudostationary phase. In other words, less energy is required to form a Electrophoresis 2005, 26, 4138–4152 Glycine-based polymeric surfactants with varied polar head group 4147 Table 3. Head group effects of poly-SUCG surfactants on the migration behavior of benzene derivatives in MEKC (n = 27) Surfactant systems System constants Statistics C v e s a b R2 a) SEb) Poly-SUCG1 23.154 (60.209)c) 3.277 (60.235) 0.884 (60.182) 20.442 (60.196) 0.222 (60.108) 22.349 (60.203) 0.959 0.126 Poly-SUCG2 22.220 (60.112) 2.085 (60.126) 0.219 (60.098) 20.085d) (60.105) 0.233 (60.058) 21.757 (60.109) 0.967 0.068 Poly-SUCG3 22.904 (60.235) 3.024 (60.264) 0.492 (60.204) 20.099d) (60.220) 0.140 (60.122) 22.564 (60.228) 0.941 0.142 a) b) c) d) Correlation coefficient of the linear regression Standard error of the calculated log k0 values SD for each coefficient Values are not statistically significant at the 95% confidence level. cavity on the pseudostationary phase to accommodate the solutes. Positive sign of the coefficient v indicates that solutes prefer to transfer from more cohesive (i.e. more polar) aqueous phase to less cohesive (i.e. more nonpolar) pseudostationary phases. For interpretation purposes, it is also important to understand that cohesiveness is a measure of the free energy (that includes both enthalpy and entropy contribution) of cavity formation with respect to water. The value of coefficient v decreases with an increase in the number of glycine in the head group of the polymeric SUG surfactants (Table 2). For example, poly-SUG3 micelles with three glycines on its head group are more compact and less organic-like (smaller coefficient v) as compared to polySUG1 and poly-SUG2 micelles. On the other hand, polySUG1 shows more organic character and requires less energy to create a cavity for a solute. It is noticeable from Tables 2, 3 that poly-SUCG1 has the highest v value (3.277) among all six surfactant systems; thus, it is the least polar surfactant system. Poly-SUCG3 (v = 3.024) is slightly more polar than poly-SUCG1 but less polar than poly-SUCG2. Thus, the six surfactant systems can be ordered according to their v coefficient as: vpoly-SUCG1 . vpoly-SUCG3 . vpoly-SUG1 . vpoly-SUG2 < vpoly-SUCG2 . vpoly-SUG3. Although there are exceptions (e.g. poly-SUCG3), the values are generally lower at a higher number of glycine units in the polar head group. This would indicate that as the number of hydrogen bonding group is increased cohesiveness increases. Poly-SUCG1 and poly-SUG3 show greatest and smallest hydrophobic interactions with the solutes, respectively. Thus, hydrophobic NHB solutes have strongest affinity for poly-SUCG1 (Fig. 1a) than the remaining polymeric surfactants. Furthermore, cavity formation in polySUCG1 micelles requires relatively smaller energy. 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Hence, partitioning of solutes will be more favorable in the poly-SUCG1 phase than with the aqueous buffer phase. 3.2.4 Effect of polar head group on dipolarity and polarizability As described earlier, coefficient e represents the ability of micellar phase and aqueous phase to interact with solutes n- or p-electrons. The data in Tables 2 and 3 show that all the polymeric poly-SUG and poly-SUCG surfactants have positive e coefficient values. Hence, compared with aqueous buffer system, these surfactant systems can easily become polarized through interacting with solutes’ n- and p-electrons. Due to its relatively highest positive e coefficient value (e = 0.884), poly-SUCG1 micellar phase shows the strongest interaction with neighboring solute n- and p-electrons and hence becomes polarized most easily (Table 3). In contrast, poly-SUCG2 has the least polarizability among all surfactant systems (e = 0.219). Thus, the polymeric surfactant systems used in this study can be ordered according to their polarizability strength: epoly-SUCG1 . epoly-SUG3 . epoly-SUG1 . epoly-SUCG3 < epoly-SUG2 . epoly-SUCG2. Except poly-SUCG2 and poly-SUCG3, all pseudostationary phases have statistically significant negative coefficient s values (Tables 2, 3). Thus, all pseudostationary phases are less polar than the aqueous phase, except the two aforementioned polymeric surfactants whose s coefficients are statistically insignificant at the 95% confidence level, and thus their dipolarity is similar to that of aqueous phase. In addition, less negative s coefficients of the two pseudostationary phases (poly-SUG1 and poly-SUG2) show that they are relatively more polar 4148 S. A. Shamsi et al. Electrophoresis 2005, 26, 4138–4152 compared to other polymeric surfactants. Consequently, these two polymeric surfactants should interact more with polar compounds. Based on coefficient s values reported in Tables 2 and 3, polarity of the surfactants can be ordered as: spoly-SUG2 < spoly-SUG1 . spoly-SUCG1 . spoly-SUG3. The polarity of the glycinate polymers arises from the carbonyl functionality on the head group. Moreover, the carbamates surfactants (e.g., poly SUCG1) are less polar than amide surfactants (e.g., poly-SUG1), and this lower polarity resulted in longer retention with the former polymeric surfactant. ment for the solutes. The strength of the hydrogen-bonddonating ability of polymeric SUG surfactants decreases with a decrease in the number of glycine unit on the head group of the surfactants. Therefore, poly-SUG3 has the strongest whereas poly-SUG1 has the weakest interactions with HBA solutes. Unlike polymeric SUG surfactants, no clear trend of hydrogen-bond-donating ability in polymeric SUCG was observed. 3.2.5 Effect of the polar head group on hydrogen bonding Three sets of isomers (i.e., phenylimidazole, nitrotoluene, and methoxyphenethylamine derivatives) were used to examine the shape selectivity (ashape) of six polymeric surfactant systems. All the pseudostationary phases used in this study showed significant selectivity differences toward the geometrical isomers. Figure 8 illustrates the separation of three phenylimidazole isomers using the three poly-SUG (a–c) and three poly-SUG (d–f) surfactant systems. The elution order of phenylimidazole isomers employing all six polymeric surfactants was essentially the same: 1-phenylimidazole , 2-phenylimidazole , 4phenylimidazole. A closer look at the chemical structures of phenylimidazole isomers (Fig. 8, insets) reveals that one hydrogen-bonding site of 1-phenylimidazole is hindered by the bulky five-membered ring, thus eliminating hydrogen bonding with the surfactant systems. Hence, 1-phenylimidazole elutes in a much shorter time as compared to the remaining two isomers. All the remaining polymeric surfactants (except poly-SUCG1) provided Rs and ashape of the three geometrical isomers. As the number of glycine units in poly-SUG surfactants increases the Rs and ashape values between the solute pairs 1–2 and 2–3 decrease (Figs. 8a–c, inset tables). However, as seen in Fig. 8d, monoglycinate of SUCG (i.e., poly-SUCG1) surfactant could not separate the last two phenylimidazole isomers. In contrast, poly-SUG2 and poly-SUG3 surfactants successfully resolved all three phenylimidazole isomers in a relatively shorter time. Moreover, a quick comparison of poly-SUCG2 versus poly-SUCG3 reveals that for the first pair (1-phenylimidazole/2-phenylimidazole) the Rs and ashape decrease, whereas for the second pair (2-phenyl imidazole/4-phenyl imidazole) the Rs and ashape increase (Figs. 8e and f, inset tables). However, the efficiency is always better for all three isomers with the latter polymeric surfactant. A positive coefficient a obtained for all six polymeric surfactants (Tables 2, 3) indicates that the hydrogen-bondaccepting strength (i.e., basicity) of these pseudostationary phases is greater than that of aqueous phase. However, the coefficient a value for one polymeric surfactant (i.e., poly-SUCG3) is statistically insignificant. In other words, the hydrogen-bond-accepting strength of this pseudostationary phase is not much different from hydrogen-bond-accepting strength of the aqueous phase. In general, the poly-SUCG surfactants are expected to have more basic character than the polySUG surfactant due to the presence of oxygen atom adjacent to the carbonyl group at the N-terminal end, which offers extra HBA site for the solutes. However, the data in Tables 2 and 3 do not support this assumption. This is probably due to the fact that this extra oxygen atom in poly-SUCG surfactants is involved in intramolecular hydrogen bonding between surfactant monomers rather than hydrogen bonding with the solutes. The coefficient b is related to the difference in hydrogenbond-donating ability (i.e., acidity) of the pseudostationary phase and that of aqueous phase. The negative sign of coefficient b indicates that all pseudostationary phases are less acidic than the aqueous phase. This is not surprising since the surfactant has fewer protons to donate as compared to water molecules in aqueous solution. The pseudostationary phases with larger (or less negative) b values provide stronger HBD sites for solute interaction. All the polymeric SUG and SUCG surfactants have hydrogen-bond-donating sites in their head group. Based on the coefficient b values listed in Tables 2 and 3, the relative hydrogen-bond-donating strength of the polymeric SUG and SUCG surfactants can be ordered as bpoly-SUG3 . bpoly-SUCG2 . bpoly-SUG2 . bpoly-SUG1 . bpoly-SUCG1 . bpoly-SUCG3. Thus, the poly-SUCG1 and poly-SUCG3 with the largest negative b coefficients provide the weakest, while the poly-SUG3 and poly-SUCG2 provide the strongest proton-donating micellar environ- 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim 3.3 Effect of the head group on isomer selectivity In Fig. 9 is shown the MEKC separation of three nitrotoluene isomers using both poly-SUG (a–c) and poly-SUCG (d–f) surfactant systems. The poly-SUG1 and poly-SUCG1 provided resolution of all three geometrical isomers with elution order as follows: o-(2-nitrotoluene) , p-(4nitrotoluene) , m-(3-nitrotoluene). However, only two Electrophoresis 2005, 26, 4138–4152 Glycine-based polymeric surfactants with varied polar head group 4149 Figure 8. Head group effects on the elution order, resolution (Rs), and shape selectivity (ashape) of (1) 1-phenylimidazole, (2) 2phenylimidazole, (3) 4-phenylimidazole isomers using (a) polySUG1, (b) poly-SUG2, (c) polySUG3, (d) poly-SUCG1, (e) polySUCG2, and (f) poly-SUCG3. Other separation conditions are the same as those given in Fig. 9. Figure 9. Head group effects on the elution order, resolution (Rs), and shape selectivity (ashape) of (1) 2-nitrotoluene, (2) 4-nitrotoluene, (3) 3-nitrotoluene using (a) poly-SUG1, (b) poly-SUG2, (c) poly-SUG3, (d) poly-SUCG1, (e) poly-SUCG2, and (f) poly-SUCG3. Other separation conditions are the same as those given in Fig. 1. 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim 4150 S. A. Shamsi et al. isomers were resolved with the remaining four polymeric surfactants. It is interesting to note that the polymeric surfactants (e.g., poly-SUG1 and poly-SUCG1) with less hydrogen bonding sites and more negative b values provided highest shape selectivity. In contrast, previous work showed that increasing the number of hydrogen-bonding sites on the polar head group of polymeric surfactant improves chiral separations [32]. This is despite the fact that no significant differences in migration times of geometrical isomers were observed when poly-SUG1 was compared to poly-SUG2 and poly-SUG3. A further comparison of the three poly-SUG surfactants (Figs. 9a–c) versus the three poly-SUCG (Figs. 9d–f) clearly shows that the increase in migration times using the latter class of polymeric surfactants did not improve the ashape of nitrotoluene isomers. Although the differences in Rs were obtained for nitrotoluene isomers using the six polymeric surfactants, no change in the elution order was observed and remained to be o , p , m. Finally, the MEKC separation of three methoxyphenethylamine isomers (containing both HBD and HBA sites) is shown in Figs. 10a–f. Unlike the separation of nitrotoluene isomers it is interesting to note that elution times of methoxyphenethylamine isomers were Electrophoresis 2005, 26, 4138–4152 almost half when poly-SUG1 and poly-SUCG1 were replaced by poly-SUG2 and poly-SUCG2, respectively. In contrast, only slight increase in elution time of the same three isomers was observed when poly-SUCG2 was replaced by poly-SUCG3. Interestingly, poly-SUG3 provided longer elution times as compared to polySUG2 or poly-SUG1. Similar to the separation of nitrotoluene isomers, both poly-SUG1 and poly-SUCG1 provided better separation selectivity of all three isomers with the following elution order: 4-methoxyphenethylamine , 3-methoxyphenethylamine , 2-methoxy-phenethylamine. The elution order of the isomers can be attributed to both intramolecular H-bonding (between NH2 functional group and O atom) as well as intermolecular H-bonding between isomers and polar head group of the surfactants. For example, in 2-methoxyphenethylamine intramolecular and intermolecular hydrogen bondings are stronger than in 4-methoxyphenethylamine. Hence, the former isomer is retained longer than the latter in all six polymeric surfactant systems. However, due to the basic nature of these compounds severe peak tailings were observed. Again, the remaining four di- and triglycinate polymeric surfactants provided only partial or no Rs of the last two isomers of methoxyphenethylamine. Figure 10. Head group effects on the elution order, resolution (Rs), and shape selectivity (ashape) of (1) 4-methoxyphenethylamine, (2) 3-methoxyphenethylamine, (3) 2-methoxyphenethylamine isomers using (a) poly-SUG1, (b) poly-SUG2, (c) poly-SUG3, (d) poly-SUCG1, (e) poly-SUCG2, and (f) polySUCG3. Other separation conditions are the same as those given in Fig. 1. 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Electrophoresis 2005, 26, 4138–4152 Glycine-based polymeric surfactants with varied polar head group 4 Concluding remarks Simultaneous separations of 10-NHB, 8-HBA, and 9-HBD solutes were compared in MEKC using four poly-SUG and four poly-SUCGs. Each polymeric surfactant contains a C11 hydrophobic tail along with a head group of mono-, di-, tri-, or tetraglycinate. It was seen (Figs. 1–6) that decrease in analysis time for 27-benzene derivatives (i.e., 10-NHB, 8-HBA, and 9-HBD solutes) was due to an increase in the size as well as polarity of the head group of poly-SUG and poly-SUCG surfactants. Overall, simultaneous separation of NHB and HBA solutes was best achieved with poly-SUCG1, whereas HBD solutes provided equally good Rs using any of the six mono-, di-, and triglycinates of poly-SUG and poly-SUCG surfactants. In contrast, poly-SUG4 and poly-SUCG4 showed very fast separation, but poor selectivity for all three classes of solutes. The retention behavior of the 27-benzene derivatives was also compared for three poly-SUG and three poly-SUCG surfactants using the LSER model. The normalized residuals as a function of solute number for outlier study showed that the number and type of outliers might vary depending on the polymeric surfactant used. For polySUG surfactants, the phase ratio increases (C) with an increase in the size of polar head group, whereas the poly-SUCG surfactants do not show any such trend. The coefficient v value shows that cohesiveness increases with an increase in the size of head group of poly-SUG surfactants. For poly-SUG series, poly-SUG1 and polySUG3 provided the least and the most polar environment, respectively. Although poly-SUCG1 provided the highest v value and was consequently the least polar surfactant, no significant and clear trend was seen for poly-SUCG series of surfactants. The poly-SUCG1 and poly-SUG3 are more easily polarized (e) upon interacting with the solutes n- and/or p-electrons. In addition, poly-SUG1 and polySUG2 have the highest polar character as compared to the remaining surfactant systems. It should be noted that the amide surfactants (e.g., poly-SUG1) are more polar than carbamates (e.g., poly-SUCG1). This is because the carbonyl carbon is a part of the hydrophobic tail in the former polymeric surfactant, while there is an extra carbon atom in the hydrophobic tail of the latter surfactant. The more positive sign of coefficient a indicates that the aqueous buffer phase is less basic compared to the polymeric SUG and SUCG phases. However, the smaller absolute values for the a coefficient for all poly-SUCG apparently reflect that the hydrogen-bond-accepting characteristics of these micellar phases are not much different from those in the bulk aqueous phase, and thereby has an insignificant influence on solute partitioning. In general, poly-SUG1 and poly-SUCG2 are the 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim 4151 strongest HBA phases, while poly-SUG2 and poly-SUCG3 are the weakest HBA phases. The hydrogen-bonddonating ability of micellar phase has a greater impact on MEKC retention and selectivity, as well as solute-micelle interaction. The negative and large coefficient b for all polymeric surfactants indicates that these pseudostationary phases are less acidic than the aqueous buffer solution. The polymeric surfactant with the least negative b coefficient is the strongest proton-donating phase. Based on the coefficient b values listed in Tables 2 and 3, poly-SUCG1 and poly-SUCG3 provided the weakest while poly-SUG3 and poly-SUCG2 provided the strongest hydrogen-bond-donating environment for the solutes. The use of polymeric surfactants in MEKC provided unique separation capabilities for shape selectivity of geometrical isomers. Major selectivity differences were observed when poly-SUG and poly-SUCG surfactants were utilized for MEKC separation of phenylimidazole, nitrotoluene, and methoxyphenethylamine isomers. Surprisingly, most of the polymeric surfactants (except polySUCG1) provided baseline separation of phenylimidazole isomers. 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