SFC Columns
Normal-phase alternative selectivity with reversed-phase ease and reliability
Accessing the power of normal-phase chromatography with the ease and reliability of reversed-phase chromatography is critical for separation scientists like you doing Supercritical Fluid Chromatography (SFC) applications.
With the Torus, Trefoil, and Viridis SFC Column chemistries and Waters SFC instrumentation, now your lab can achieve normal-phase alternative selectivity with reversed-phase ease and reliability - all while ensuring ease of scalability, column-to-column consistency, and reduced method development times. With these high-quality achiral and chiral SFC column chemistries, your lab can address difficult achiral and chiral separations, deliver novel selectivity and robustness, and achieve unequaled speed and unparalleled confidence.
SFC Columns
Specifications
Overview
- High-quality, consistent, and reproducible columns
- Handle achiral and chiral separations with unequaled speed and unparalleled confidence
- Use for a wider range of compounds in a single sample
- Highest efficiency and quality control (QC)-ready robustness
- Scale from analytical to achiral SFC preparative chromatography
- Rugged SFC preparative columns available in patented Optimum Bed Density (OBD) technology for excellent column lifetimes
Recommended Use: For use in challenging achiral and chiral separations with unparalleled confidence and unequaled speed.
Torus Column Characteristics
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General use achiral column yielding added compound retention and novel selectivity -
Best choice for applications with both acidic and basic compounds
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Scalable and available in analytical and preparative column dimensions
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Enhanced performance compared to conventional 2-EP (2-ethylpyridine)
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Designed to be orthogonal selectivity compared to the Torus 2-PIC columns
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Provides superior peak shape for strong bases
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Delivers complimentary selectivity to the 2-PIC stationary phase
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Scalable and available in analytical and preparative column dimensions
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Provides more selectivity choices with its high-density diol surface
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Delivers similar chromatography performance compared to traditional, unbonded silica phases
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Achieve method robustness when utilized with additives
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Scalable and available in analytical and preparative column dimensions
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Superior choice for separating neutral compounds and hydrophobic compounds
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Provides an orthogonal selectivity to the 2-PIC stationary phase
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Suitable for achiral SFC method development applications
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Scalable and available in analytical and preparative column dimensions
Trefoil Column Characteristics
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Provides a broad spectrum of chiral selectivity
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Polysaccaride-based and designed for chiral compound separations
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Separate enantiomers, stereoisomers, metabolites, degradants, and impurities with greater resolution and speed
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Ideal for fast method development applications
Viridis Column Characteristics
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Suited for the analysis of glycerides
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Effective for use in pharmaceutical, food, and chemical applications
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Scalable and available in analytical and preparative column dimensions
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Widely used as high-quality solution for achiral SFC separations
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Good retention, peak shape, and selectivity
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Scalable and available in analytical and preparative column dimensions
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Heightened interaction with polar compound functional groups compared to Silica 2-EP
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Accommodates increased mass loads
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Good retention, peak shape, and selectivity
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Available in analytical and preparative column dimensions
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Good retention, improved peak shape, and unique selectivity
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Accommodates increased mass loads
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Scalable and available in analytical and preparative column dimensions
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Extensive interaction with polar groups such as phospholipids
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Unique selectivity and improved peak shape for bases
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Scalable and available in analytical and preparative column dimensions
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Good retention of weak bases
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Provides alternate elution orders for acidic and neutral compounds
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Scalable and available in analytical and preparative column dimensions
Address the challenges of achiral separations
Simplify SFC method development challenges with Torus Columns. Designed for achiral SFC separations, Torus Columns offer a wide range of selectivity, excellent peak shape, and are suited for method transfer and method scale-up. Torus Columns are offered in both 1.7 and 5 μm chemistries in both analytical and preparative column formats.
The Torus phases are based on two-stage functionalization of ethylene bridged hybrid (BEH) particles. The initial bonding provides a hydrophilic surface that controls the retention characteristics of the sorbent. This bonding, along with mobile phase additives, minimizes unwanted surface interactions that can lead to retention and selectivity changes over time. The second step of the functionalization is responsible for the individual selectivity and peak shape characteristics of each of the Torus chemistries, resulting in a series of stationary phases with broad ranging selectivities.
Transfer normal-phase methods to SFC chiral methods
Many legacy normal-phase chiral methods have undesirable characteristics, including long run times and the use of chlorinated solvents with tetrahydrofuran (THF) or hexane, which can be expensive to purchase and dispose of. Now, your lab can easily transfer your older SFC methods to the ACQUITY UPC2 System with Trefoil Columns. With simple redevelopment, your lab can obtain new cost-effective methods using inexpensive and non-toxic compressed liquid CO2 as the primary mobile phase. Your lab can then couple those new methods to mass spectrometers to achieve more detailed information.
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