Preparative supercritical fluid chromatography in high throughput purification

ANYL 371

Jun Zheng, sally.zheng@abbott.com, Jill Hochlowski, Philip A. Searle, Jeff Pan, Stevan W. Djuric, Jeffrey A. Olson, and David P. Blanchard. Abbott Laboratories, 100 Abbott Park, Abbott Park, IL 60064
Supercritical fluid chromatography became a powerful complementary purification method to HPLC for the alternative separation mechanisms it provides to RP-HPLC, in addition to the advantages of faster speed, cost efficiency, and environmental friendliness. These advantages are especially beneficial for a high throughput purification lab. A commercially available prep-SFC system was customized with an open bed fraction collector and in-house developed software, which allowed the collection of a large number of fractions for one injection and data transfer to LIMS software. Aerosol formation was minimized by “dribbler tube” design and excellent recovery was obtained. The compounds that were not resolved in prep-HPLC were well resolved in prep-SFC. Compounds with poor solubility in MeOH/DMSO were successfully purified by prep-SFC with DCM as injection solvent. Based on the success of prep-SFC, various novel stationary phases were also investigated to obtain better resolutions for complicated library purifications.