Desenvolvimento e avaliação de sistema envolvendo interface de análise por injeção em fluxo com eletroforese capilar / Design and evaluation of an automatic system for flow injection analysis capillary electrophoresis with contactless conductivity

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2002

RESUMO

The synergistic combination of flow injection analysis with capillary electrophoresis, FIA-CE, is a new and rapidly evolving field, comprising juxtaposition of equipments (at-line FIA-CE) and true interfacing or hyphenation (in-line or on-line FIA-CE). Typically, FIA circuits assembled in the laboratory are interfaced to commercial electrophoresis equipments provided with UV-Vis detection and operated under electrokinetic sample injection (or better, transfer from the FIA circuit), that is simpler to implement than hydrodynamic transfer. A new FIA-CE system that combines contactless conductivity detection, CCD, with hydrodynamic and electrokinetic sample transfer was designed and constructed in the laboratory from low cost parts, besides a high voltage supply, a peristaltic pump and a PC. In the FIA circuit, a solenoid actuated multi-channel pinch-valve injector was downsized from a previous prototype. The oscillometric CCD was formerly developed by other components of the group. The interface consists of a hypodermic needle, connected to the FIA circuit and serving as grounded electrode, trespassed by the capillary. Four different electrolytes can be switched by the PC and three levels of pressure can be applied to the vial with the HV electrode and the tip of the capillary near the detector (opposite to the FIA-CE interface): a) strong aspiration, during fast cleansing procedure; b) slightly sub-ambient pressure (adjusted with a simple pressurestat) for synchronized sample transfer at the interface; and c) ambient pressure, during data acquisition of the electropherogram. The system runs under control of flexible, open-code software, accepting usual FIA procedures. Evaluations showed, besides convenience of use, higher analytical frequency, similar detection limits and better repeatability of peak positions and areas in comparison with manually operated CE.

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análise por injeção em fluxo flow injection analysis interface. eletroforese capilar fia-ce capillary electrophoresis interface

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