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1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION AND SPECIFICATIONS OF
INSTRUMENT
1.1 General
Description
JASCO has developed the model CD-1595 chiral detector dedicated to HPLC.
It is an innovative detector that offers higher sensitivity for chiral compounds
with more information than a conventional optical rotation (OR) detector.
Chiral separation is now one of the most important application areas in HPLC.
There is increasing demand for chiral chromatography in various fields, such
as drug analysis, drug discovery, biochemical analysis, natural product
analysis, organic synthesis, etc. Recent advances in chiral column
technology are boosting the use of chiral chromatography in more and more
laboratories. Advances in chiral detection technology, however, have not yet
met these demands in terms of sensitivity and selectivity. The new CD-1595
detector is expected to meet the requirements.
OR detectors have exclusively been used for detection of chiral compounds,
though it is known that a detector based on circular dichroism may offer better
sensitivity. Therefore, a lot of efforts have been made to utilize a regular CD
spectropolarimeter, which is rather big and expensive, as an HPLC detector.
After extensive R&D work, JASCO has successfully developed a compact CD
detector dedicated to HPLC that offers simultaneous detection of CD and UV
absorption, and even CD and UV spectral measurements by stop-flow
scanning.
Most biologically active compounds are chiral. It is well known that chiral
isomers often cause totally different biological effects, e.g., one offers
therapeutic effect but the other has unwanted one such as teratogenic activity.
Most naturally occurring medicines contain only one type of the isomers.
However, when such a compound is artificially synthesized, both isomers are,
in general, equally produced. Therefore, each isomer must be examined for
its biological activity. In such investigation, a conventional CD
spectropolarimeter has been effectively used. In order to analyze samples
with the CD spectropolarimeter, chiral separation needs to be performed and
each isomer must be fractionated. The new CD-1595 detector offers on-line
monitoring of CD signals during chiral separation and gives indication which
peak components should be collected. In addition, the simultaneous CD and
UV monitoring by the detector allows to determine optical purity of unresolved
peaks of chiral compounds. This facilitates researchers to speed up their
investigation on new drug discovery.
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