New HILIC Materials for Separating Polar Drugs, Biologics, and Metabolites

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The effective separation and analysis of pharmaceutical compounds and their metabolites is essential to researchers that develop new, more effective, safer, and economical medicines. Novel types of biologically deriveddrug compounds (biologics) are becoming more important and prevalent as they match and sometimes exceed the importance of traditional small synthetic molecules. However, long-established high performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) techniques often do not provide a means to effectively separate these biologics, which are typically highly polar molecules. Recently, hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC) has emerged as the analytical technique of choice to analyze highly polar drugs. HILIC isperhaps the fastest growing HPLC technique, but the commercially available stationary phases may not always be able to perform all the desired/needed separations. The aim of this Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project is to show fe