PMID- 12580513 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20030728 LR - 20190720 IS - 0021-9673 (Print) IS - 0021-9673 (Linking) VI - 985 IP - 1-2 DP - 2003 Jan 24 TI - 1,3-dialkylimidazolium-based room-temperature ionic liquids as background electrolyte and coating material in aqueous capillary electrophoresis. PG - 447-54 AB - The 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium (EMIM) cation was found to have constant mobility of 4.5 x 10(-4) cm2 V(-1) s(-1) over the pH range of 3 to 11. The electroosmotic flow of bare silica capillary was reversed by the covalently bonded room-temperature ionic liquid (RTIL) coating. With run buffer of 5 mM EMIM (pH 8.5), NH4+ in human urine was separated from the K+ matrix and was detected to be 0.37 +/- 0.012%. K+, Na+, Li+, Ca2+, Mg2+ and Ba2+ were baseline separated in RTIL-coated capillary with run buffer of 10 mM EMIMOH-acetic acid at pH 5, and the concentration of the above ions in a red wine were detected to be 907, 27.9, 0, 71.0, 83.4 and 31.1 microg/ml, respectively. The RTIL-coated capillary showed stable electroosmotic flow for at least 80 h in the run buffer. FAU - Qin, Weidong AU - Qin W AD - Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119260, Singapore. FAU - Weih, Hongping AU - Weih H FAU - Li, Sam Fong Yau AU - Li SF LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - Netherlands TA - J Chromatogr A JT - Journal of chromatography. A JID - 9318488 RN - 0 (Electrolytes) RN - 0 (Imidazoles) RN - 0 (Ions) RN - 0 (Metals) RN - 0 (Quaternary Ammonium Compounds) SB - IM MH - Electrolytes/*chemistry MH - Electrophoresis, Capillary/*methods MH - Humans MH - Imidazoles/*chemistry MH - Ions MH - Metals/analysis MH - Quaternary Ammonium Compounds/urine MH - Wine/analysis EDAT- 2003/02/13 04:00 MHDA- 2003/07/29 05:00 CRDT- 2003/02/13 04:00 PHST- 2003/02/13 04:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2003/07/29 05:00 [medline] PHST- 2003/02/13 04:00 [entrez] AID - S0021-9673(02)01844-7 [pii] AID - 10.1016/s0021-9673(02)01844-7 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Chromatogr A. 2003 Jan 24;985(1-2):447-54. doi: 10.1016/s0021-9673(02)01844-7.