Development of Methodology and Accessories for the Production of Restricted Access Material (RAM), using the Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis Technique (SPPS): Application in HPLC and Evaluation of the Enantioselectivity of Material.
A new restricted access material (RAM) is presented in this work. A peptide with L and D-amino acids was designed and synthesized to give the material attractive chiral sites for analytes capable of forming enantioseparation-friendly intermediate complexes. The developed peptide was cross-linked with glutaraldehyde and supported on ODS-C18 and used in reverse phase HPLC column. Thus, a material was developed that allowed not only the exclusion of macromolecules, but also the maintenance of the excellent partition characteristics found in reverse phase materials. There is also an innovation not presented in the literature, namely the resolution of complex matrix analytes through direct injection of paraben-reinforced bovine serum, showing the maintenance of reverse phase characteristics, retention and separation with optimal resolution of the analytes tested. With the same column it was also possible to separate a chiral pattern of 5-methyl-5-phenylhydantoin, demonstrating that it was possible to design a peptide with specific characteristics, allowing greater affinity of the RAM phase with the analyte of interest. Therefore, the developed material brings a new tendency to the restricted access materials, being possible to choose residues that favor material specific characteristics, bringing a new status to the RAM columns, since it allowed the direct injection of complex samples, and separation of the analytes in different arrays in a single dimension, that is, in a single column.