ACQUITY UPLC
Jonathan Hare - Instrumenta, Brian Howard - American Laboratory, Katja Habermueller - GIT Verlag, John Morawski - Waters Corporation, Alex Sands Instrumenta, Bob Stevenson - American Laboratory
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Technology Landscape
1960-2003
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19901990-92 Major ESI & PB advances from 19901990-91 integrators to CE introduced computers 19931993-95 - Turbochrom Introduction of first relational - Maxima database 1981 SFC introduced chromatography software 19831983-85 Millennium API & MS/MS 19931993-94 19851985-87 APcI Advances in 1995 laboratory HP 1100 1996 networking Alliance 1996 Q-Tof 1999 XTerra
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2000 ZQ Mass Detector AutoPurification 2002 Atlantis Empower CapLC 2003 Quattro Premier LCT Premier
10 min.
Early 1970s 10m Irregular micro-porous 1000-2500 psi (70-180 bar) 40,000 plates/meter
10 min.
1980s to present day 3.5 - 5m spherical micro-porous 1500-4000 psi (110-280 bar) 80,000 - 115,000 plates/meter
10 min.
Ultra Performance LC
Redefining Separation Science
Smaller Particles
80s and 90s spherical shape, smaller diameter 5m and 3m, narrow particle size distribution
Compressed Chromatography
Compromised resolution
1
5um Reversed Phase Column
2.0 mL/min
1 2
Peak 1 2
Rs -3.3
Peak
Rs -2.3
3.0 mL/min.
0.0
1 2
Time in Minutes
3.0
Smaller Particles
Future 1.7 m hybrid particle 2.1 x 100 mm up to 15,000 psi (1064 bar) 235,000 plates/meter
1 minute
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UPLCTM A new category of chromatography We can get a higher quality of information faster
0.75 0.70 0.65 0.60 0.55 0.50 0.45 0.40 AU 0.35 0.30 0.25 0.20 0.15 0.10 0.05 0.00 0.00 0.10 0.20 0.30 0.40 0.50 0.60 Minutes 0.70 0.80 0.90 1.00 1.10
Propiophenone - 0.495
Butyrophenone - 0.603
Hexanophenone - 0.798
Valerophenone - 0.704
Heptanophenone - 0.883
Future: 1.7m hybrid particle 2.1 x 50 mm 1.0 ml/min Gradient ACN/Water UV at 247 nm / 40 pts/sec Backpressure: 14,450 psi
Octanophenone - 0.961
Acetophenone - 0.370
Benzophenone - 0.646
1 minute
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Rs
N 4
System Efficiency
-1
)(
k k+1
Selectivity
Retentivity
In UPLC systems, N (efficiency) is the primary driver Selectivity and retentivity are the same as in HPLC Resolution, Rs, is proportional to the square root of N
Rs N
And, Efficiency (N), is inversely proportional to Particle Size , dp
So:
1 N dp
dp 3X, N 3X, Rs 1.7X
Therefore:
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15.00
0.050 0.040 0.030 AU 0.020 0.010 0.000 0.00 1.00 2.00 3.00 Minutes 4.00 5.00
6.00
2.1 x 50 mm columns
Potential of gradient resolution power Peak capacity is a measure of the separation power of a gradient on a particular column.
0.035 0.030 0.025 0.020 0.015 0.010 0.005 0.000 -0.005 0.00
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tg P =1+ w
Gradient Duration
w , P
tg
w
0.10 0.20 0.30 0.40 0.50 0.60
w
0.70
w
0.80 0.90
Peak Width
1.00 1.10 1.20 1.30 1.40 1.50
3.5 m
250 200 150 100 50 0
0.003 0.004 0.005 0.008 0.011 0.016 0.022 0.031 0.044 0.062 0.088 0.124 0.176 0.249 0.352 0.498 0.704 0.995 64 32 16 8
5 m
250 200 150 100 50
108
4 8
64 32 16
Peak Capacity
100
107
0
0.003 0.004 0.005 0.008 0.011 0.016 0.022 0.031 0.044 0.062 0.088 0.124 0.176 0.249 0.352 0.498 0.704 0.995 1.407 1.990 1 2
64 32 16 8 4
Flow Rate (m
L/min)
Pressure Max Peak (psi) Capacity 10852 10852 5426 3837 108 172 216 231
Pressure Max Peak (psi) Capacity 3621 1280 905 640 63 100 136 151
Pressure Max Peak (psi) Capacity 1774 627 314 222 46 76 107 121
ACQUITY UPLC Columns can provide better Peak Capacity at 1 minute, than a 5m column at 16 minutes!!
0.30 AUFS
Rs = 1.86
Rs = 2.30
2.1x100mm 4.8m
HPLC
0.30
Rs = 9.15
10.0
AUFS
Rs = 4.71
ACQUITY UPLCTM
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Time in Minutes
10.0
ACQUITY UPLCTM
10.0
0.33 AUFS
2.1x30mm 1.7m ACQUITY UPLC Scaled gradient Same resolution as HPLC, less time
ACQUITY UPLCTM
0.0 Time (min) 3.5
ACQUITY UPLCTM
10.0
0.33
Rs = 3.52
AUFS
Rs = 1.82
2.1x30mm 1.7m ACQUITY UPLC Scaled Gradient Same Resolution as HPLC, Less Time
ACQUITY UPLCTM
0.0 Time in Minutes 3.5
2.1x30mm 1.7m ACQUITY UPLC Scaled gradient, same resolution as HPLC, less time
ACQUITY UPLCTM
0.0 0.25 AUFS Time (min) 3.5
2.1x30mm 1.7m ACQUITY UPLC Scaled gradient, double flow, half the gradient time similar resolution, much less time
0.25 AUFS
Rs = 1.84
0.0 Time
1.6
0.0
Time (min)
1.6
0.06
AU
0.04
0.02
0.00 0.08
0.06
AU
0.04
0.02
0.00 0.00
2.5X increase
0.025
0.020
Ultra Performance LC
Increased speed and sensitivity with the same resolution Increased resolution and sensitivity at the same speed Maximum speed with enhanced sensitivity with sufficient resolution
Incredible Productivity
Higher throughput
Assume that an HPLC is running about 67% of the year, or 4,000 hours
UPLC 3 80,000
Ultra Performance LC
Redefining Separation Science