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22<br />

High Osmotic Pressure<br />

<strong>Chromatography</strong><br />

Iwao Teraoka <strong>and</strong> Dean Lee<br />

Polytechnic University<br />

Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.<br />

1 INTRODUCTION<br />

High osmotic pressure chromatography (HOPC) was developed in 1995 as a tool<br />

for preparative separation <strong>of</strong> polydisperse polymers by molecular weight (MW)<br />

using analytical-size columns (1). Since then, HOPC has been applied to<br />

separation <strong>of</strong> various polymers, demonstrating a high resolution <strong>and</strong> a large<br />

processing capacity (2–10).<br />

In HOPC, a concentrated, viscous solution <strong>of</strong> polymer is injected into a<br />

column packed with porous materials. The concentration is much higher than the<br />

overlap concentration; the solution is in a semidilute range. The pore diameter<br />

must be sufficiently small to exclude most <strong>of</strong> the polymer at low concentration but<br />

not too small to exclude low-MW components at high concentrations. The<br />

injection continues typically until the whole column is filled with the solution.<br />

Upon detecting the first polymer in the eluent, solvent is injected to wash the<br />

column, <strong>and</strong> the eluent is collected by a fraction collector. The collection continues<br />

until the eluent concentration drops to a low level.<br />

Any soluble polymer can be separated by HOPC. Advantages <strong>of</strong> HOPC<br />

over conventional preparative-scale chromatography include a high processing<br />

capacity <strong>and</strong> a high resolution. The latter requires fine-tuning <strong>of</strong> the separation<br />

© 2004 by Marcel Dekker, Inc.

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