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The multi-scale challenges of biomass fast pyrolysis and bio-oil upgrading: Review of the state of art and future research directions

Ion mobility spectrometry is an analytical technique known for more than 100 years, which entails separating ions in the gas phase based on their size, shape, and charge. While ion mobility spectrometry alone can be useful for some applications (mostly security analysis for detecting certain classes of narcotics and explosives), it becomes even more powerful in combination with mass spectrometry and high-performance liquid chromatography. Indeed, the limited resolving power of ion mobility spectrometry alone can be tackled when combining this analytical strategy with mass spectrometry or liquid chromatography with mass spectrometry. Over the last few years, the hyphenation of ion mobility spectrometry to mass spectrometry or liquid chromatography with mass spectrometry has attracted more and more interest, with significant progresses in both technical advances and pioneering applications. This review describes the theoretical background, available technologies, and future capabilities of these techniques. It also highlights a wide range of applications, from small molecules (natural products, metabolites, glycans, lipids) to large biomolecules (proteins, protein complexes, biopharmaceuticals, oligonucleotides).

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Adding a new separation dimension to MS and LC–MS: What is the utility of ion mobility spectrometry?

Fractionation and extraction of bio-oil for production of greener fuel and value-added chemicals: Recent advances and future prospects

Online comprehensive two-dimensional liquid chromatography (online LCxLC) presents high peak capacity compared with one-dimensional liquid chromatography, and reasonable operation time compared with an offline or stop-flow mode. Among various combinations, coupling of two reversed-phase (RPxRP) columns generates a high peak capacity product rate. Its wide applicability made RPxRP a promising technique in separation of complex samples. This review discusses the practical considerations in development and application of an RPxRP system, including systematic investigation of column stationary phase chemistry, column combinations, mobile phase system, interface, gradient types, and achieving fast analysis in LCxLC. In addition, many efforts are given to methods that increase the fraction coverage because this is the main obstacle caused by the correlated separation mechanism in RPxRP.

Practical considerations in comprehensive two-dimensional liquid chromatography systems (LCxLC) with reversed-phases in both dimensions

Sub-second liquid chromatography in very short packed beds is demonstrated as a broad proof of concept for chiral, achiral, and HILIC separations of biologically important molecules. Superficially porous particles (SPP, 2.7 μm) of different surface chemistries, namely, teicoplanin, cyclofructan, silica, and quinine, were packed in 0.5-cm-long columns for separating different classes of compounds. Several issues must be addressed to obtain the maximum performance of 0.5 cm columns with reduced plate heights of 2.6 to 3.0. Modified UHPLC hardware can be used to obtain sub-second separations provided extra-column dispersion is minimized and sufficient data acquisition rates are used. Further, hardware improvements will be needed to take full advantage of faster separations. The utility of power transform, which is already employed in certain chromatography detectors, is shown to be advantageous for sub-second chromatography. This approach could prove to be beneficial in fast screening and two-dimensional liq...

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.analchem.6b02260

David Angot

Papers

Development of on-line comprehensive two-dimensional liquid chromatography method for the separation of biomass compounds