Application of reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography for the separation of deuterium and hydrogen analogs of aromatic hydrocarbons

✍ Scribed by R. Baweja

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 284 KB
• Volume: 192
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-2670
• DOI: 10.1016/s0003-2670(00)85722-0

✦ Synopsis

Substitution of hydrogen by deuterium in aromatic hydrocarbons can alter various properties significantly. Benzene, toluene, naphthalene, anthracene, phenanthrene, biphenyl and durene are separated from their deuterium analogs by reversed-phase (C,,) liquid chromatography with acetonitrilelwater mobile phases and ultraviolet detection. Deuterium compounds always elute before the hydrogen analog, possible explanations are given. Theelution pattern and retention times of anthracene and phenanthrene were unchanged when D,O replaced H,O as the mobile phase component.