Received 29/9/2011 Accepted 23/12/2011 (005487) 1 Department of Food Science, Faculty of Food Engineering, University of Campinas – UNICAMP, 13083-862, Campinas, SP, Brazil, e-mail: [email protected] 2 Water and Soil Department, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, University of Campinas – UNICAMP, Cidade universitária Zeferino Vaz, Barão Geraldo, CEP 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil *Corres...

The research presented in this thesis involves the application of chiral cationic and anionic surfactants for simultaneous enantioseparation of structurally similar compounds in capillary electrophoresis (CE) and CE coupled to mass spectrometry (CE-MS). The first chapter briefly introduces the fundamentals of CE and CE-MS, emphasizing the micellar electrokinetic chromatography (MEKC) and MEKC-M...

This paper presents a rapid and reliable micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography (MEKC) method to separate major prostaglandins and thromboxane B2. The running buffer was modified with sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS). The effects of the SDS concentration on the migration behavior of analytes was also examined. Moreover, the influences of electrolyte concentration and capillary temperature...

Pharmaceutical preparations usually contain preservatives and sweeteners. When parabens are used as preservatives and a polyol as a sweetener, a transesterification reaction may happen, yielding the transester polyol-paraben. The products formed in the transesterification reaction of methylparaben and sorbitol were analyzed by micellar electrokinetic chromatography and by HPLC. Up to six positi...

Micellar electrokinetic chromatography (MEKC) was used for the separation and determination of two iridoid glycosides, aucubin and catalpol, in several Plantago species growing in Croatia: P. altissima L., P. argentea Chaix, P. coronopus L., P. holosteum Scop. (subsp. depauperata, subsp. holosteum and subsp. scopulorum), P. lagopus L., P. lanceolata L., and P. maritima L. Hot water extraction (...

This review article addresses the developments and applications of capillary electromigration methods coupled on-line with mass spectrometry for chiral analysis. The multiple enantiomeric applications of this hyphenated technology are covered including chiral analysis of drugs, food compounds, pesticides, natural metabolites, etc., in different matrices such as plasma, urine, medicines, foods, ...

This review article addresses the different chiral capillary electrophoretic methods used to study and characterize foods and beverages through the enantiomeric separation of different food compounds such as amino acids, pesticides, polyphenols, etc. This work intends to provide an updated overview on the main applications of such enantioselective procedures together with their main advantages ...

The electrophoretic separation of electrically neutral benzodiazepines (BZDs) can be achieved by micellar electrokinetic chromatograpy (MEKC). The cyclodextrin (CD)-modified micellar electrokinetic chromatography separation of eight of the most frequently used BZD was obtained within 15 minutes at + 25 kV on a 64.5 cm x 50 μm I.D. silica capillary at 25C, using a 25 mM sodium tetraborate-50 mM ...