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About 30 years ago MACHEREY‑NAGEL designed and introduced CHROMABOND SPE cartridges containing silica-based adsorbents.

SPE is a form of digital (step-wise) chromatography designed to extract, partition, and / or adsorb one or more components from a liquid phase (sample) onto a stationary phase (adsorbent or resin). An adsorbed substance can be removed from the adsorbent by stepwise increase of elution strength of the eluent (step gradient technique).

SPE extends a chromatographic system’s lifetime, improves qualitative and quantitative analysis, and the demand placed on an analytical instrument is considerably lessened.


Catalog No. Product Net Price
MN730063 SPE columns, CHROMABOND CN, 45 µm, 3 mL/500 mg Special offer 
Add to Cart
  • Hazardous material
  • No
  • Method
  • Solid phase extraction (SPE)
  • Brand
  • CHROMABOND
  • Phase
  • CN
  • Mode
  • Normal phase (NP)
  • Base material
  • Silica gel
  • Surface chemistry
  • Cyanopropyl (CN, nitrile) modified silica phase
  • Column type
  • SPE column
  • Hardware
  • Polypropylene (PP) columns with polyethylene (PE) filter elements
  • Column shape
  • Open tubular syringe-shaped column with Luer tip outlet
  • Column volume
  • 3 mL
  • Filling quantity
  • 500 mg
  • Column volume/adsorbent weight
  • 3 mL/500 mg
  • Recommended application(s)
  • Carbohydrates, Cyclosporins
  • Particle type
  • Fully porous particles (FPP)
  • Particle size
  • 45 µm
  • Particle shape
  • Irregular
  • Specific surface according to BET
  • 500 m²/g
  • pH stability
  • 2.0–8.0
  • Filter element material
  • Polyethylene (PE)
  • Storage temperature
  • RT
MN730053 SPE columns, CHROMABOND OH (Diol), 45 µm, 3 mL/500 mg Special offer 
Add to Cart
  • Hazardous material
  • No
  • Method
  • Solid phase extraction (SPE)
  • Brand
  • CHROMABOND
  • Phase
  • OH (Diol)
  • Mode
  • Normal phase (NP)
  • Base material
  • Silica gel
  • Surface chemistry
  • Dihydroxypropyl (Diol, OH) modification
  • Column type
  • SPE column
  • Hardware
  • Polypropylene (PP) columns with polyethylene (PE) filter elements
  • Column shape
  • Open tubular syringe-shaped column with Luer tip outlet
  • Column volume
  • 3 mL
  • Filling quantity
  • 500 mg
  • Column volume/adsorbent weight
  • 3 mL/500 mg
  • Recommended application(s)
  • Antibiotics, Prostaglandins
  • Particle type
  • Fully porous particles (FPP)
  • Particle size
  • 45 µm
  • Particle shape
  • Irregular
  • Specific surface according to BET
  • 500 m²/g
  • pH stability
  • 2.0–8.0
  • Filter element material
  • Polyethylene (PE)
  • Storage temperature
  • RT
MN730418 SPE columns, CHROMABOND OH (Diol), 45 µm, 6 mL/500 mg Special offer 
Add to Cart
  • Hazardous material
  • No
  • Method
  • Solid phase extraction (SPE)
  • Brand
  • CHROMABOND
  • Phase
  • OH (Diol)
  • Mode
  • Normal phase (NP)
  • Base material
  • Silica gel
  • Surface chemistry
  • Dihydroxypropyl (Diol, OH) modification
  • Column type
  • SPE column
  • Hardware
  • Polypropylene (PP) columns with polyethylene (PE) filter elements
  • Column shape
  • Open tubular syringe-shaped column with Luer tip outlet
  • Column volume
  • 6 mL
  • Filling quantity
  • 500 mg
  • Column volume/adsorbent weight
  • 6 mL/500 mg
  • Recommended application(s)
  • Antibiotics, Prostaglandins
  • Particle type
  • Fully porous particles (FPP)
  • Particle size
  • 45 µm
  • Particle shape
  • Irregular
  • Specific surface according to BET
  • 500 m²/g
  • pH stability
  • 2.0–8.0
  • Filter element material
  • Polyethylene (PE)
  • Storage temperature
  • RT
MN738652 CHROMABOND Multi 96 PP-reservoir-vessels, twelve 8-well-strips, volume 96x1.0 mL Special offer 
Add to Cart
  • Hazardous material
  • No
  • Method
  • Solid phase extraction (SPE), accessory
  • Brand
  • CHROMABOND
  • Hardware
  • Polypropylene (PP)
  • Recommended application(s)
  • Accessories for SPE applications (solid phase extraction - sample preparation
  • Storage temperature
  • RT
MN727421 Flash eluent reservoir, 2 L Special offer 
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  • Hazardous material
  • No
  • Method
  • Flash chromatography, accessory
  • Brand
  • CHROMABOND
  • Recommended application(s)
  • Accessories for Flash chromatography (efficient liquid column chromatographic method for preparative applications in the gram range)
  • Scope of delivery
  • 1x Flash eluent reservoir with adaptor
  • Storage temperature
  • RT
MN727420 Flash eluent reservoir, 1 L Special offer 
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  • Hazardous material
  • No
  • Method
  • Flash chromatography, accessory
  • Brand
  • CHROMABOND
  • Recommended application(s)
  • Accessories for Flash chromatography (efficient liquid column chromatographic method for preparative applications in the gram range)
  • Scope of delivery
  • 1x Flash eluent reservoir with adaptor
  • Storage temperature
  • RT
MN730223 CHROMABOND polypropylene (PP) centrifuge tubes, 50 mL, screw cap, empty Special offer 
Add to Cart
  • Hazardous material
  • No
  • Method
  • Solid phase extraction (SPE), accessory
  • Brand
  • CHROMABOND
  • Hardware
  • Polypropylene (PP)
  • Column volume
  • 50 mL
  • Storage temperature
  • RT
MN732980FE Filter elements for CHROMABOND Flash DL 4 Special offer 
Add to Cart
  • Hazardous material
  • No
  • Method
  • Flash chromatography, accessory
  • Brand
  • CHROMABOND
  • Recommended application(s)
  • Accessories for Flash chromatography (efficient liquid column chromatographic method for preparative applications in the gram range)
  • Scope of delivery
  • 250x polyethylene filter elements for CHROMABOND Flash DL 4
  • Storage temperature
  • RT
MN732981FE Filter elements for CHROMABOND Flash DL 15 Special offer 
Add to Cart
  • Hazardous material
  • No
  • Method
  • Flash chromatography, accessory
  • Brand
  • CHROMABOND
  • Recommended application(s)
  • Accessories for Flash chromatography (efficient liquid column chromatographic method for preparative applications in the gram range)
  • Scope of delivery
  • 250x polyethylene filter elements for CHROMABOND Flash DL 15
  • Storage temperature
  • RT
MN732982FE Filter elements for CHROMABOND Flash DL 25 Special offer 
Add to Cart
  • Hazardous material
  • No
  • Method
  • Flash chromatography, accessory
  • Brand
  • CHROMABOND
  • Recommended application(s)
  • Accessories for Flash chromatography (efficient liquid column chromatographic method for preparative applications in the gram range)
  • Scope of delivery
  • 250x polyethylene filter elements for CHROMABOND Flash DL 25
  • Storage temperature
  • RT

Overview

Main steps of the SPE procedure

1) Conditioning

Conditioning of the adsorbent is necessary in order to ensure reproducible interaction with the analyte. Conditioning, also called solvation, results in a wetting of the adsorbent and thus produces an environment, which is suitable for adsorption of the analyte. Nonpolar adsorbents are usually conditioned with 2–3 column volumes of a solvent, which is miscible with water (methanol, THF, 2-propanol etc.), followed by the solvent in which the analyte is dissolved (pure matrix, e.g., water, buffer). Polar adsorbents are conditioned with nonpolar solvents. After the conditioning step the adsorbent bed must not run dry, because otherwise solvation is destroyed (deconditioning).


2) Sample application (adsorption)

Sample application can be performed with positive or negative pressure with a flow rate of ~3 mL/min. Sample volumes vary from a few mL up to liters.


3) Washing

Washing of the adsorbent is usually achieved with a special wash solution; however, in some cases it may not be necessary. If the polarity difference between wash solution and eluent is very large, or if both are not miscible, drying of the adsorbent bed after washing is recommended to improve elution and recovery.


4) Elution

Elution with a suitable eluent should not be too fast. The elution speed depends on the column or cartridge dimension and the quantity of adsorbent (about 1 mL/min).


Since analytes can either be adsorbed on the SPE packing material or directly flown through while the interfering substances are retained, two general separation procedures are possible – both cases are shown in the figure below.



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