Title:Hydrophilic Interaction Liquid Chromatography for the Analysis of
Pharmaceutical Formulations
Volume: 20
Issue: 5
Author(s): Aleksandra Radoičić, Sandra Šegan*, Aleksandra Dramićanin and Dušanka Milojković-Opsenica
Affiliation:
- Institute of
Chemistry, Technology, and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade, Njegoševa 12, 11000, Belgrade, Serbia
Keywords:
Hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography, pharmaceutical application, polar compounds, polar stationary phase, hydrophilic partitioning, hydrogen bonding, electrostatic interactions.
Abstract: For a long time, Reversed-Phase Liquid Chromatography (RPLC) was the most dominant
technique for the analysis of pharmaceutical compounds, but with poor efficiency in the separation of
small polar molecules. From the efforts to solve the problem of insufficient retention of these molecules,
during the last decades, a mode of liquid chromatography named Hydrophilic Interaction Liquid
Chromatography (HILIC) has experienced vast expansion. It is based on the use of a highly hydrophilic
stationary phase along with an aqueous mobile phase with high organic modifier content. In
this review, the characteristics of stationary and mobile phases used in HILIC are described, and corresponding
separation mechanisms are discussed. An overview of recently published papers dealing
with the application of HILIC in analyzing pharmaceuticals in biological and non-biological samples
is provided. Besides, the application of HILIC systems in the determination of the physicochemical
properties of compounds is described.