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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-2
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-6-24
pubmed:abstractText
By essence, all kinds of chromatographic methods use the partitioning of solutes between a stationary and a mobile phase to separate them. Not surprisingly, separation methods are useful to determine accurately the liquid-liquid distribution constants, commonly called partition coefficient. After briefly recalling the thermodynamics of the partitioning of solutes between two liquid phases, the review lists the different methods of measurement in which chromatography is involved. The shake-flask method is described. The ease of the HPLC method is pointed out with its drawback: the correlation is very sensitive to congeneric effect. Microemulsion electrokinetic capillary electrophoresis has become a fast and reliable method commonly used in industry. Counter-current chromatography (CCC) is a liquid chromatography method that uses a liquid stationary phase. Since the CCC solute retention volumes are only depending on their partition coefficients, it is the method of choice for partition coefficient determination with any liquid system. It is shown that Ko/w, the octanol-water partition coefficients, are obtained by CCC within the -1 < log Ko/w < 4 range, without any correlation or standardization using octanol as the stationary phase. Examples of applications of the knowledge of liquid-liquid partition coefficient in the vast world of solvent extraction and hydrophobicity estimation are presented.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0021-9673
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
28
pubmed:volume
1037
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3-14
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-1-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Determination of liquid-liquid partition coefficients by separation methods.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratoire des Sciences Analytiques, CNRS, Université de Lyon 1, Bat CPE-308, 43 Boulevard du 11 November 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France. alain.berthod@univ-lyon1.fr
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't