A three-flux approximation of the equation of radiative transfer is used to separately determine the effective specific scattering and absorption coefficients of powder mixtures from hemispherical reflectance and transmittance measurements. For a two-component mixture of lactose and paracetamol, it is demonstrated how the knowledge of the separately known scattering coefficient can be used to improve partial least-squares regression (PLS) calibrations of diffuse reflectance data pretreated by multiplicative scatter correction (MSC). Furthermore it is shown that the measured specific absorption coefficient of the investigated mixtures is not generally a linear function of the constituents concentration, a result which might be caused by the mixing procedure of the samples. With the use of the absorption coefficient, it is demonstrated that artificial neural networks are superior to PLS calibrations when modeling a nonlinear relation.
Two methods for the enantiomeric separation of chiral ephedrine alkaloids (ephedrine, methylephedrine, methylpseudoephedrine and norephedrine) by capillary zone electrophoresis in uncoated capillaries were developed. Both methods were optimized to more than 100,000 theoretical plate numbers. The first method used a neutral cyclodextrin (CD) derivative: heptakis (2,6-di-O-methyl)-beta-cyclodextrin at an acidic pH of 2.5 (20 mM phosphate buffer) at an 18 mM concentration. The second used a newly developed acidic CD derivative, the tetrakis[6-O-(4-sulfobutyl)]-beta-cyclodextrin sodium salt. The benefits of this new reagent for the chiral separation are a wide range of basic pH available for the enantiomeric resolution. It is also useful for other cases, e.g. preventing adsorption without additives.
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