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Reduced sample recovery in liquid chromatography at critical adsorption point of high molar mass polystyrene

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Low sample recovery may represent an important drawback in liquid chromatography at the critical adsorption point (LC-CAP) if the critical eluent is not carefully fitted to the system. So far, this problem was often overlooked and only few experimental examples can be found in literature. We showed that in the case of polystyrene (PS) in a tetrahydrofuran (THF)/n-hexane critical mixed eluent, PS with molar masses higher than 100 kg mol−1 were not eluted from a tandem of two columns packed by bare silica gels with 30 nm and 100 nm pore size, respectively. The polymer trapped within the columns was well recovered after injection of a small volume of pure THF as demonstrated using 2D chromatography. We studied PS conformations by means of small angle neutron scattering and found that the THF/n-hexane critical eluent is in fact a theta solvent for PS. By replacing it by a CH2Cl2/n-hexane critical mixture, which is a good solvent for PS, the limits of reduced sample recovery was displaced towards far higher molar masses. Thus, thermodynamic quality of eluent – theta or good solvent – plays an important role on the phenomenon of sample recovery

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hal-00392660 , version 1 (08-06-2009)

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Emmanuel Beaudoin, Arnaud Favier, Carole Galindo, Alain Lapp, Christelle Petit, et al.. Reduced sample recovery in liquid chromatography at critical adsorption point of high molar mass polystyrene. European Polymer Journal, 2008, 44 (2), pp.514-522. ⟨hal-00392660⟩
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