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Frontal Chromatography: History
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Continuous introduction of the sample feed, rather than a discrete injection pulse, defines frontal chromatography. As the feed enters the bed, the least-retained solute breaks through first as a sigmoidal front; more strongly retained solutes form later fronts, and the plateau concentrations and front positions report isotherms, binding capacities, and competitive adsorption [1]. In process chromatography the same frontal mode is used to pass a product while more strongly bound impurities (for example antibody aggregates) are retained, which is still frontal analysis rather than elution or displacement [2]. Conceptual boundaries exclude elution chromatography, in which a narrow feed band is developed by a weaker eluent, and displacement chromatography, in which a separate displacer forms an isotachic train. Essential features are uninterrupted feed, a stationary phase that is progressively saturated, and a breakthrough curve whose shape is governed by isotherm nonlinearity and axial dispersion [3]. Counter-current and membrane implementations retain the same frontal mass-balance structure while changing only the contacting geometry [4].

  • frontal chromatography
  • breakthrough curve
  • adsorption isotherm
  • continuous feed

 Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography • Spectroscopy • Chemistry • Physical Sciences

References

  1. Nagendra Singh; Sarangan Ravichandran; Darrell D. Norton; Sebastian D. Fugmann; Ruin Moaddel; Synthesis and characterization of a SIRT6 open tubular column: Predicting deacetylation activity using frontal chromatography. Anal. Biochem. 2013, 436, 78-83, 10.1016/j.ab.2013.01.018.
  2. Matthew T. Stone; Kristen A. Cotoni; Jayson L. Stoner; Cation exchange frontal chromatography for the removal of monoclonal antibody aggregates. J. Chromatogr. A 2019, 1599, 152-160, 10.1016/j.chroma.2019.04.020.
  3. G.A. Heeter; A.I. Liapis; Frontal chromatography of proteins. J. Chromatogr. A 1998, 796, 157-164, 10.1016/s0021-9673(97)00951-5.
  4. Sebastian Vogg; Thomas Müller-Späth; Massimo Morbidelli; Design space and robustness analysis of batch and counter-current frontal chromatography processes for the removal of antibody aggregates. J. Chromatogr. A 2020, 1619, 460943-460943, 10.1016/j.chroma.2020.460943.
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