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Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Enantiomeric Separations as an Interfacial Process in HPLC
  • Cynthia Jameson,
  • Xiaoyu Wang,
  • SOHAIL MURAD
Cynthia Jameson
University of Illinois at Chicago

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Xiaoyu Wang
Illinois Institute of Technology
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SOHAIL MURAD
Illinois Institute of Technology Armour College of Engineering
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Abstract

Since chromatographic separation is a dynamic process, with the interactions between the drug and the chiral stationary phase mediated by the solvent, no single interacting structure, such as could be found by minimizing the energy, could possibly describe and account for the ratio of residence times in the chromatographic column for the enantiomeric pair. We describe the use of explicit-solvent fully atomistic molecular dynamics simulations, permitting all the interactions between the atoms constituting the chiral stationary phase, solvent molecules and the drug molecule. This allows us to better understand the molecular dynamic chiral recognition that provides the discrimination which results in the separation of enantiomers by high performance liquid chromatography. It also provides a means of predicting, for a given set of conditions, which enantiomer elutes first and an estimate of the expected separation factor. In this review we consider the use of molecular dynamics towards this understanding and prediction.
25 Jun 2020Submitted to AIChE Journal
27 Jun 2020Submission Checks Completed
27 Jun 2020Assigned to Editor
30 Jun 2020Reviewer(s) Assigned
24 Nov 2020Editorial Decision: Accept
Mar 2021Published in AIChE Journal volume 67 issue 3. 10.1002/aic.17143