A new electrogenerated chemiluminescence detectionmethod is investigated for use in detection in reversed-phase and reversed-phase ion-pair HPLC withRu(bpy)
32+in the mobile phase. In this method, different concentrations of Ru(bpy)
32+ are dissolved in themobile phase andthe HPLC column flushed with the mobile phase for 1 huntil the column is saturated withRu(bpy)
32+. Theseparated analytes along with Ru(bpy)
32+pass through anoptical-electrochemical flow cell which has a dual platinum electrode held at a potential of 1250 mV vs a Ag/AgCl reference electrode. On the surface of theelectrode,Ru(bpy)
32+ is oxidized toRu(bpy)
33+ which reactswiththe analytes to emit light. The retention times,retentionorders, detection limits, and linearity in working curvesare compared to those obtained with the conventionalpostcolumn Ru(bpy)
32+ addition method.The retentiontimes for dansyl amino acids withRu(bpy)
32+ in themobile phase are longer than those obtained with thepostcolumn addition approach. This may be caused by
-to-
interactions between the aromatic groups of thedansyl derivatives and the bipyridyl groups ofRu(bpy)
32+in the Ru(bpy)
32+-saturatedreversed-phase column. Similarly, oxalate is separated from urine and blood plasmasamples by reversed-phase ion-pair HPLC. Plasmasamples are obtained using ultrafiltration to removeproteins from whole blood. Retention times foroxalatewith the two detection techniques are identical, anddetection limits for these techniques are compared.