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A comprehensive two-dimensional capillary supercritical fluid chromatography method was developed. The interface consisted of a ten-port valve, a capillary trap and two fused silica restrictors. The primary column was operated in stop-flow mode: the flow in the primary column was stopped during the separation of the second dimension. The pressure of the system was controlled with a single pump. The pressure program was synchronized with the sampling: the pressure was only ramped up during the sampling time, when the primary column effluent was transferred from the first dimension to the trap, and was maintained constant during the second-dimension separation. All of the operations were automated using in-house software. The separation characteristics of the present system can be readily regulated by changing the size of the restrictors and/or the programmed pressure rate. The use of synchronized pressure programming allowed the sampling duration and/or the second-dimension separation time (and therefore, the total analysis time) to be changed without affecting the separation pattern. Widely different selectivities were attained depending on the combination of the three columns with different polarities (such as the nonpolar DB-1, the medium-polarity DB-17 and the polar DB-WAX columns) used. The present system afforded improved separation and identification capabilities for analytes in complex mixtures.
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Hirata, Y., Ozaki, F. Comprehensive two-dimensional capillary supercritical fluid chromatography in stop-flow mode with synchronized pressure programming. Anal Bioanal Chem 384, 1479–1484 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-006-0349-x
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