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US3686087A
US3686087A US56969A US3686087DA US3686087A US 3686087 A US3686087 A US 3686087A US 56969 A US56969 A US 56969A US 3686087D A US3686087D A US 3686087DA US 3686087 A US3686087 A US 3686087A
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  • the present invention refers to a method for separating ionized substances generally referred to as A+X, where A+ denotes the equivalent of a positive ion and X- denotes the equivalent of a negative ion, at least one of the ion equivalents comprising ions the mobilities of which differ from each other the method consisting of a separation of the last mentioned ions based on he fact that these ions migrate with different velocity if disposed within an electrical filed so as to fomi different consecutive zones in said field, the separation being facilitated by introducing so called spacers, the purpose of which is to obtain a distance between the different ions migrating in the electrical field.
  • the above described method is known per se. It could for instance be performed by moistening a filter paper having a width of a couple of centimeters and a length of 20 cm. in such a way that sodium chloride is supplied to one end of the paper and sodium ascorbate having the same molarity is the sodium chloride is supplied to the other end of the paper.
  • the end of the paper which is moistened with sodium chloride is disposed in an electrode vessel, the anode vessel, which vessel contains sodium chloride and the end of the paper that is moistened with sodium ascorbate is disposed in a second electrode vessel, the cathode vessel, which contains sodium ascorbate.
  • the boundary between the two solutions will then be located approximately at centre of the paper i.e. cut. from each end.
  • the anode vessel contains the pole and the cathode the pole. If a voltage is supplied to the poles, the sodium ions will migrate towards the cathode vessel.
  • the chloride ions will migrate towards the anode vessel.
  • the chloride ions will be followed by the ascorbate ions which also migrate towards the anode vessel.
  • the mobility of the chloride ions is higher than that of the ascorbate ions which means that since the ions having the higher mobility will migrate in front of the ions with the lower mobility the boundary between the different ions will be sharp.
  • the fast ions will very rapidly migrate back into the zone containing the faster ions due to the higher electrical field existing in the zone comprising the slower ions.
  • a slow ion that moves into the zone containing faster ions will migrate more slowly there due to the lower electrical field in the zone containing the faster ions.
  • concentration of the fast ions will not vary during the experiment.
  • the concentration of the slower ions will be lower than that of the fast ions. This concentration is de- Patented Aug. 22, 1972 pendent upon the concentration of the fast ions and the different mobilities of the ions comprised in the system.
  • the chloride ions will lead the migration towards the anode.
  • the chloride ions are followed by the mixture of ions and the mixture will in turn be followed by the ascorbate ions, the terminating ions. During the process the fastest ions in the mixture will form a zone immediately after and in contact with the chloride ions.
  • the concentration of these ions will be somewhat lower than the concentration of the leading ions, the chloride ions.
  • the length of this zone will be determined by the number of ions available. If only an infinitesimal amount of the ion is available, the zone will theoretically be infinitesimally thin.
  • the other substances in the mixture will form zones having lower concentrations. The slowest ion in the mixture will migrate immediately in front of and in contact with the ascorbate ions.
  • spacers In the above described separation method it is known per se to separate consecutive zones by means of added ions, so called spacers. Thus experiments have been carried out in which single ions have been added to either rather complicated natural mixtures of ions (e.g. beet root juice) or uncomplicated mixtures of metal ions.
  • a spacer has for instance been disposed between zones of potassium and sodium ions, three different spacers have further been disposed between sodium and lithium ions.
  • the number of spacers might, however, be increased, e.g. in such a Way that ten spacers are disposed between each zone, i.e. ten times n-l spacers are required.
  • the total amount of spacer ions should be about the same in both experiments.
  • the above discussed spacer could also be used when one is interested in obtaining narrow zones of the spacer between consecutive zones of the sample in order to facilitate the detection of the boundaries between the sample zones.
  • the spacer is then added in a small chemical quantity.
  • the spacer When the spacer is used for this purpose it could be defined as a marker.
  • the spacer gradient By using a mixture of a great number of ions having different mobilities something that could be called a spacer gradient is obtained. As the conductivity in the spacer gradient is highest in the front, i.e. close to the chloride ions, and then continuously decreases towards the ascorbate ions, the spacer gradient could also be defined as a conductivity gradient.
  • the velocity of a charged particle in an electrical field having unity strength (1 volt/cm.) is called the mobility of the particle.
  • the value of the mobility is a function of the charge of the particle and the resistance obtained when the particle is transferred within the medium. This resistance is substantially proportional to the weight of the particle. Ion mixtures comprising a complete spectrum of mobilities could be obtained in different ways.
  • a type of ions that satisfy these requirements can be obtained from mixtures of polyethylene glycol by providing the polyethylene glycol molecules with one or more charges. One or both of the OH-groups at the end of the glycol molecules are made to react with a charged substance. The charged part of this substance can be bound to the glycol by means of an ether bond or an ester bond. Ester bonds are easily formed, e.g. by transformation of the glycol with succinic acid anhydride.
  • a stable negative charge can also be obtained by oxidation of a glycolic OH-group to a carboxyl group. In such reactions, however, reactive side products might be formed (e.g. aldehyde or peroxide groups). These should be removed, e.g. by reduction.
  • Ether bonds can be formed by reacting a halogen compound with sodium alcoholates from glycols.
  • the halogen compound can either be a halogen substituted acid or a halogen substituted amine.
  • Another type of reaction which also leads to the formation of an ether bond is the reaction between an alcohol or an alcoholate with cyclic compounds, e.g. sultone, lactide or lactone.
  • Ester bonds can be formed by reacting an acid (e.g. sulphuric acid, phosphoric acid) or a halogen substituted acid (e.g. chlorosulphonic acid, phosphorous oxychloride) with glycol.
  • an acid e.g. sulphuric acid, phosphoric acid
  • a halogen substituted acid e.g. chlorosulphonic acid, phosphorous oxychloride
  • acylating agent an anhydride of a dibasic acid can also be used.
  • polypropylene glycol could be used instead of polyethylene glycol. Because of their low solubilities and high melting points only polypropylene glycols having a low degree of polymerization can be used. Copolymers of ethyleneoxide and small amounts of propyleneoxide give rise to polyglycols having good solubility in water. Mixtures of polyethylene glycol and copolymers with different concentrations of polypropylene groups give a great variety of molecular weights. Such mixtures form an excellent initial material for making spacer mixtures.
  • Sodium glycolate could for instance be reacted with sodium salts of chloroacetic acid, Z-chloro-propionic acid, 3-chloro-propionic acid, bromo-ethanesulfonic acid and propane sultone.
  • Another method of increasing the number of different ions in a mixture consists therein that different parts of the synthesis mixture are deuterated to different degrees.
  • the differently deuterated parts of the mixture will together comprise a great number of different ions.
  • polyethylene glycol other molecules might be used as the uncharged parts in mixtures of ions having the same charge.
  • polyvinyl alcohol with different degrees of polymerization polyvinyl acetate and other polyvinyl alcohol esters having different degrees of polymerization and saponification, polyacrylamide and other vinylpolymers, soluble in water, can be used.
  • Further oligoand polysaccharides of different kinds can be used. All the above mentioned polymers, however, are not so suitable for this purpose, since they give rise to solutions which have a too high viscosity from the electrophoretic point of view.
  • Ions having different mobilities can be made from one and the same uncharged molecule by providing this with a different number of charges.
  • An oligo-saccharide can be provided with carboxymethyl groups by a reaction with chloroacetic acid or with sulphopropyl groups by a reaction with propane sultone.
  • Polyvinyl alcohol could be substituted in a similar way. The same number of substituents could be added at different parts of the uncharged polymer and thus a number of ions having different mobilities will be obtained.
  • a simple method for producing ions having different charge is to let a compound containing one or more hydroxyl groups react with polyphosphoric acid.
  • polyphosphoric esters having polyphosphoric chains of different length are formed.
  • This type of esters could be rapidly hydrolysed at high pH-values. They are, however, sufficiently stable at pH-values below 9 to be used in experiments lasting for a few hours.
  • polyfunctional molecules could be provided with both positive and negative groups.
  • EXAMPLE 1 300 g. polyethylene glycol, molecular weight 300 23 g. sodium ml. toluene 102 g. propane sultone.
  • Polyethylene glycol and toluene are mixed in a 1-liter three-necked flask, provided with cooler, stirrer and heating jacket. of the sodium is added and dissolved while stirring and heating. The rest of the sodium is dissolved in the same way in three portions.
  • Propane sultone is added in portions of 10-20 g. Between each addition the propane sultone is allowed to react completely. After the last addition the flask is heated during /2 hour in order to obtain an abundant reflux. The reaction product is then cooled. Water is added in small portions. The reaction product is transferred to an Erlenmeyer flask and an equal volume of water is added. The toluene phase is sucked away. Toluene could further be removed by evaporation in vacuum.
  • EXAMPLE 2 100 g. polyethylene glycol, molecular weight 400 75 g. polyethylene glycol, molecular weight 300 50 g. polyethylene glycol, molecular weight 200 35 g. sodium 100 m1. toluene 210 g. propane sultone, dissolved in the smallest possible amount of toluene.
  • Example 1 The synthesis is analogous to that of Example 1. After adding the last portion of propane sultone the reaction product is heated during 3 hours with an abundant reflux. The reaction product is then cooled and kept at room temperature for 15 hours. Water is added as in Example 1.
  • EXAMPLE 3 100 g. polyethylene glycol, molecular weight 400 75 g. polyethylene glycol, molecular weight 300 50 g. polyethylene glycol, molecular weight 200 35 g. sodium 100 ml. toluene 35 g. butyrolactone g. propane sultone dissolved in the smallest possible amount of toluene.
  • Example 2 The synthesis is performed as in Example 2. The butyro lactone is added dropwise to the reaction mixture. The propane sultone solution is added in the same way.
  • EXAMPLE 4 6 g. triethylene glycol, technical quality 5 g. polyphosphoric acid.
  • the glycol and the phosphoric acid are mixed in a 25 ml. flask with a magnetic stirrer. The mixture is kept at a temperature of 80-90 C. for 2 hours and then diluted with ice water to a volume of 100 ml. The pH-value is adjusted to pH 7.2 with solid tris(hydroxymethyD'amino methane.
  • the composition of the obtained spacer ion mixtures were investigated by a two-dimensional electrophoresis technique especially worked out for this purpose.
  • a cellulose acetate strip having a width of 2-3 mm. was moistened with a solution containing chloride ions as fast ions and tris (hydroximethyl)aminornethane forming the counter-ions.
  • the strip was placed on a glass plate which via an anode wick was brought into contact with the anode solution (trischloride).
  • the free end of the strip was placed at a distance of 3 cm. from the cathode wick.
  • In the space between the strip and the cathode wick was placed a piece of acetate cellulose material having a fibrous structure.
  • the diluted ion mixture to be investigated was applied on this piece.
  • the solution further contained a small amount of a strongly negatively charged blue dye stuff.
  • the test volumes did not exceed 50 ,u.l.
  • trisglycinate at pH 8.5 was used as a cathode solution.
  • glycine has its carboxyle group completely ionized (one negative charge).
  • About 90% of the glycine molecules have their amino groups protonated (one positive charge). 10% of the amino groups are uncharged. The average charge is thus 0.1 negative charge.
  • the molecular weight of glycine is 75.
  • the glycine will then migrate as if it had an ion weight of 750.
  • the electrophoresis was run until the blue dye stuff had reached a point a few cm.
  • the electrophoretic separations to be described below were all carried out by using a technique similar to that used in the first electrophoretic two-dimensional procedure.
  • the cellulose acetate strip however, had a width of 12-14 mm.
  • Cathodic buffer 0.5 M tris glycerine pH 8.5
  • Sample a mixture consisting of 20 ,ul. beet root juice
  • the electrophoresis was run at 1000 v. (4-2 ma.) for 45 minutes and then at 1500 v. for 60-75 minutes. The experiment was run until the Tetra boundary had reached a point a few centimeters from the anode wick. A control experiment was run simultaneously with only 20 l. beet root juice.
  • the strip from the control experiment showed a number of red-violet and yellow zones close to each other. About 0.5-1 cm. in front of these zones a yellow zone was located somewhat closer to the anode.
  • EXAMPLE 7 15 g. polyethylene glycol, mol. weight 300 10 g. succinic acid anhydride.
  • the glycol and the succinic acid anhydride are mixed in a 50 ml. flatbottomed flask. The mixture is stirred at -100 C. for 2 hours. The chilled reaction product is then diluted to 200 ml. with ice water. The pH-value is adjusted to 7.2 with solid tris(hydroximethyl)aminomethane.
  • EXAMPLE 8 10 g. polyethylene glycol, mol. weight 200 5 g. succinic acid anhydride.
  • the glycol and the succinic acid anhydride are mixed in a 50 ml. flatbottomed flask. The mixture is then stirred at a temperature of 90-95 C. for 2 hours. The chilled reaction product is then diluted with ice water to 200 ml. The pH-value is adjusted to pH 7.2 with solid tris (hydroximethyl) aminomethane.
  • EXAMPLE 9 Anodic buffer: 0.2 molar tris chloride, pH 7.2
  • Cathodic buffer 10% solution of calcium lactobionate.
  • the electrophoresis was carried out on a glass plate covered with parallel strips of cellulose layers. Each strip measured 1.2 x 40 cm. and the distance between the strips was 1 cm. The major part of each strip is moistened with the anodic buffer from the anodic side. The sample is added to a part of the strip which is not moistened and is situated close to the cathodic end of the strip.
  • Sample and spacer 20,11. of a mixture consisting of equal parts of beet root juice and (a) the reaction product in accordance with Example 7, (b) the reaction product in accordance with Example 8, (0) water was applied. After 3 hours of electrophoresis at a voltage of 1000-2000 v. the fastest coloured zones had migrated 25 cm.
  • the substances are mixed for 40 min. at a temperature of 40 C. 32 g. of polyethylene glycol, having a mol. weight of 400 is added.
  • the mixture is kept at 70 C. for 160 min. while stirring.
  • the mixture is then diluted to 100 ml. with ice water and neutralized to pH 7.2 with solid tris(hydroximethyl)aminomethane.
  • a method for separating ionized substances generally referred to as A+X-, where A+ denotes the equivalent of a positive ion and X- denotes the equivalent of a negative ion, at least one of the ion equivalents comprising ions the mobilities of which differ from each other, the method consisting in a separation of the last mentioned ions based on the fact that these ions migrate with different velocity if disposed within an electrical field so as to form different consecutive zones in said field, the separation being facilitated by the introduction of so called spacers, the purpose of which is to obtain a distance between the different ions migrating in the electrical field, characterized in, that as spacers there is used a mixture of a great number of substances, the mobilities of which differ, the mobility difference between consecutive ions being small and substantially equal.

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