Analytical Sciences

Tube Radial Distribution Phenomenon with a Two-phase Separation Solution of a Fluorocarbon and Hydrocarbon Organic Solvent Mixture in a Capillary Tube and Metal Compounds Separation

Koichi KITAGUCHI,* Naoya HANAMURA,* Masaharu MURATA,** Masahiko HASHIMOTO,* and Kazuhiko TSUKAGOSHI*,***

*Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Doshisha University, Kyotanabe 610-0321, Japan
**Department of Advanced Medical Initiatives, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
***Tube Radial Distribution Phenomenon Recearch Center, Doshisha University, Kyotanabe 610-0321, Japan

A fluorocarbon and hydrocarbon organic solvent mixture is known as a temperature-induced phase-separation solution. When a mixed solution of tetradecafluorohexane as a fluorocarbon organic solvent and hexane as a hydrocarbon organic solvent (e.g., 71:29 volume ratio) was delivered in a capillary tube that was controlled at 10°C, the tube radial distribution phenomenon (TRDP) of the solvents was clearly observed through fluorescence images of the dye, perylene, dissolved in the mixed solution. The homogeneous mixed solution (single phase) changed to a heterogeneous solution (two phases) with inner tetradecafluorohexane and outer hexane phases in the tube under laminar flow conditions, generating the dynamic liquid–liquid interface. We also tried to apply TRDP to a separation technique for metal compounds. A model analyte mixture, copper(II) and hematin, was separated through the capillary tube, and detected with a chemiluminescence detector in this order within 4 min.

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