Supercritical-Fluid Chromatography On-Chip with Two-Photon-Excited-Fluorescence Detection for High-Speed Chiral Separations

Anal Chem. 2019 May 7;91(9):6134-6140. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b00726. Epub 2019 Apr 23.

Abstract

Herein, we present the first example of microchip-based supercritical-fluid chromatography (SFC). A microfluidic-glass-chip platform with pressure and temperature control for fast and efficient on-column injection is described. This enabled fast and efficient separation of chiral and achiral compounds within seconds and also employed two-photon-excitated-fluorescence detection. Peak shapes were highly regular and symmetric even for linear flow rates over the packed microchip column in a range of up to 20 mm·s-1.