Biotage Selekt - Solvent Specifications

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Solvent Specifications
Solvent Specifications
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Solvent CAS No. Strength
1,2
Selectivity Class
3
UV Cutoff
(nm)
Vapor Pressure at
20°C (psi)
Vapor Pressure at
20°C (mbar)
Acetone 67-64 -1 0.56 6 (V Ia) 330 3.6 247.4
Acetonitrile 75-05-8 0.65 6 (VIb) 190 1.4 93.6
Cyclohexane 110- 82-7 0.04 0 210 1.5 103.4
Dichloromethane (DCM) 75-09-2 0.42 5 (V) 235 6.9 475.3
Ethanol 64 -17-5 0.88 2 (II) 210 1.3 90.0
Ethyl acetate 141-78- 6 0.58 6 (V Ia) 255 1.4 98.3
n-Heptane 142-82-5 0.01 0 210 0.7 47.4
n-Hexane 110-54-3 0.01 0 210 2.3 161.6
Methanol 67-56-1 0.95 2 (II) 210 1.9 129.7
2-Propanol (IPA,
isopropanol)
67-63-0 0.82 2 (II) 210 0.6 44.0
Tetrahydrofuran 109-99-9 0.57 3 (III) 220 2.5 172.4
Toluene 108-88-3 0.29 7 (VII) 286 0.4 29.1
Water 7732-18-5 1.00
*
0 190 0.3 23.4
Table 4. Solvent specifications.
1
Neue U. D. HPLC Columns Theory, Technology, and Practice, Wiley-VCH (1997).
2
Dean J. A. Lange’s Handbook of Chemistry, 15th edition, McGraw-Hill (1999).
3
Snyder L. R. and Kirkland J. J. Introduction to Modern Liquid Chromatography, Wiley (1979).
*
When water is used in reversed phase chromatography, the strength value is 0.