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Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
Dear Editors,
please
find
attached
a copy of
our
manuscri
pt “Using
Chemom
etric Resolution Methods For Fast Analysis Of
Some Phenolics In Olive Oil” to be considered
for publication on the special issue of Analytical and Bioanalytical
Chemistry titled “Analytical Sciences in Italy” (Editor: prof. Aldo
Roda).
This manuscript presents an application of chemometric curve
resolution methods for the a posteriori deconvolution of coeluted
chromatographic peaks resulting from the HPLC-DAD analysis of the
phenolic fraction in virgin olive oil samples. In particular, the
possibility of dealing with incomplete chromatographic resolution
through the use of mathematical processing of the signal allowed the
use of fast gradients and the choice of a rapid extracting procedure. In
terms of the achieved resolution, it was possible to separate up to 7
components in the chromatographic profile, even in the presence of
spectral fingerprints which were rather similar among one another.
The reduction of the analysis time and, correspondingly, in the amount
of solvents used are outcomes that move towards the direction of
greener procedures in analytical chemistry, thus representing a very
promising perspective. Moreover, these results are easily generalizable
to similar systems were a perfect chromatographic separation of the
peaks can’t be achieved and were coelution stems from the complexity
of the matrix or from the quest for reduced analytical times.
In submitting the manuscript, I confirm on behalf of all the authors that
the research proposed is original and that it hasn’t been presented
elsewhere.
Best regards,
Federico Marini
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USING CHEMOMETRIC RESOLUTION METHODS FOR FAST ANALYSIS
OF SOME PHENOLICS IN OLIVE OIL
Riccardo Nescatelli, Remo Bucci, Antonio L. Magrì, Andrea D. Magrì, Federico
8 4 Marini* 910 5 Dept. of Chemistry, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, P.le Aldo Moro 5, I-00185
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OF SOME PHENOLICS IN OLIVE OIL
Riccardo Nescatelli, Remo Bucci, Antonio L. Magrì, Andrea D. Magrì, Federico
Marini*
Dept. of Chemistry, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, P.le Aldo Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy.
*e-mail: [email protected]
Abstract
Phenolic compounds are related to the stability of the oil, but also to its biological properties. The
phenolic compounds of virgin olive oils are currently a subject of great interest, due to their
antioxidant action, their health effects and how they affect the organoleptic characteristics of food . In
this study, the possibility of using a chemometrics, and in particular multivariate curve resolution, for
the a posteriori separation of the pure component signals from coeluting chromatographic peaks in the
analysis of the neutral polyphenolic fraction of olive oil was shown.
In particular, two groups of coeluting peaks were identified in the chromatogram and MCR-ALS in the
multi-set configuration was used to recover from the signals the elution and spectral profiles of the
pure components. Results were validated by comparison with a complete chromatographic separation
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3 of the substances
giving rise to the two
cluster of peaks:
comparison of the
spectral profiles
showed a good
consistency,
Additionally, when
considering the
relative amount of the
different components in the analyzed samples, results were quite promising as in almost all the cases
errors lower than 5% were obtained.
Keywords: Multivariate Curve Resolution (MCR-ALS); HPLC-DAD; chemometrics; coelution;
polyphenols; olive oil
Introduction
The phenolic fraction of olive oil is a complex mixture of compounds with different chemical
structures. The literature on these compounds has increased exponentially
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over the last ten years for various reasons: the phenolic compounds are related to the
stability of the oil, but also to its biological properties. To date, there is greater
interest in this feature: indeed, many compounds have been studied thoroughly with
the aim to
8 4 establish a relationship between their dietary intake and the risk of various 910 5 degenerative diseases. In this respect, the studies agree in identifying a beneficial role
11 6 to human health associated with the consumption of these compounds. The 1213 7 composition of the polyphenolic fraction is very heterogeneous, with at least 36 1415 8 phenolic compounds identified, which can be grouped according to their structural
16 9 characteristics in the following classes: alcohols, phenols, secoiridoids, phenolic acids, 515253545556575859
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5 2 6 3 71718 10 hydroxy-isocromans, flavonoids and lignans [1]. The quality of oil differs in terms of 19
20 11 the qualitative and quantitative composition of the phenolic fraction. The average
21 12 concentration of phenolic compounds is 100-300 mg/kg [1]. There are differences in 2223 13 composition and concentration due to many factors. First, the olive cultivar and the 24
25 14 region in which fruits grow, as it was shown that olive oils of different quality but
26 15 from the same geographical area have similar phenolic profiles [2]. Secondly, 2728 16 agricultural techniques also influence the concentration of some compounds which, 29
30 17 for instance, is affected by the level of irrigation [3]. The phenolic compounds of
31 18 virgin olive oils are currently a subject of great interest, due to their antioxidant action, 3233 19 their health effects and how they affect the organoleptic characteristics of food [4]. 34
35 20 Besides their antioxidant properties, polyphenols have other features that make them
36 21 important to our health. Indeed, they lower blood cholesterol levels; slow down tumor 3738 22 growth; strengthen the immune system; inhibit certain cancer-causing chemicals; 3940 23 inhibit cyclooxygenase and lipoxygenase enzymes; inhibit platelet aggregation;
41 24 inhibit the peroxidation of LDL; carry out anti-allergic and anti-inflammatory 42
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46 27 polyphenolic fraction of olive oil is becoming more and more important, to the point 4748 28 that in recent years an increasing number of methods have been proposed in the 4950 29 literature [12-15]. However, most of these methods require rather long analysis time,
often using more than two solvents and anyway do not allow a complete resolution
of all compounds under consideration. In this respect, also taking the lead from an
earlier work by our group on the separation and quantification of phenolic acids
[16], the aim of this study was to investigate the possibility of using chemometric
resolution methods to improve the analysis of some compounds present in the
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46 27 4748 28 4950 29 polyphenolic fraction of olive oils. Indeed, the introduction of appropriate
chemometric techniques to resolve coeluting peaks has resulted in the possibility of
using faster gradients, simpler extractions and also, in the case of hyphenated
chromatographic techniques, the combination with a less selective (but also less
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spectroscopy as
the UV-Visible. In
these cases, the
coupling with
chemometric
techniques allows
to resolve signals
of analytes that
coelute (even in
the presence of
significant
baseline
contribution)
through a
mathematical
analysis a
posteriori that
does not require a
perfect separation
of the peaks
already at the level
of instrumental
analysis. This feature translates into considerable savings in time and cost of
analysis. Therefore, this research has investigated the possibility of applying this
concept, i.e. the mathematical resolution of coeluted hyphenated chromatographic
peaks to the analysis of the content of some polyphenols in samples of extra virgin
olive oil. In particular, we assessed the possibility of using a rather fast gradient for
the HPLC-DAD analysis of some relevant polyphenolic fractions, making up for the
co-elution of different groups of peaks with the application of chemometric methods
for resolution of the signal.
Materials and methods
Samples
Thirteen extra virgin olive oils from Sabina (Italy) were analyzed in this study. Each
sample was collected directly from the oil mill just after pressing and then stored in
dark brown glass bottles at 4C until used. Each sample was analyzed in replicate.
Extraction of phenolic compounds from virgin olive oils
A great number of procedures for the isolation of the phenolic fraction of VOO
utilizing two basic extraction techniques, LLE or SPE, have been published in the
literature. In this study, LLE was chosen to isolate the phenolic fraction of oil, as
being less selective, allows to extract more analytes in less time. In particular, the
protocol was optimized to use less solvents to extract most of the polar phenolic
compounds excluding phenolic acids.
Five grams of oil were dissolved in 6 mL of n-hexane. The presence of n-hexane
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5 2 6 3 7Extraction of
phenolic
compounds was performed by adding 5 mL of CH3OH:H2O 80:20 (v/v), and mixture
was shaken for 3 min. After that, the two phases were
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separated by centrifugation at 3000 rpm for 3min and the
hydroalcoholic phase was transferred to a balloon. This step
was repeated three times and the hydroalcoholic extracts were
collected and evaporated to dryness by a rotary evaporator;
the
8 4 temperature was always controlled (<40 °C) to avoid the deterioration of phenols. The 910 5 residue was dissolved with 3 mL of CH3OH. The extracts were then filtered
through a
11 6 13-mm PTFE 0.45 µm membrane filter from Waters (Waters, Milford, MA) and 20 1213 7 µL were injected into the liquid chromatograph for HPLC-DAD analysis. 1415 8
16 9 HPLC-DAD analysis 1718 10 Methanol extracts prepared according to what described in Section 2.2 were then 19
20 11 analyzed by HPLC-DAD on a Thermo Quest Spectrasystem LC (Thermo Fisher
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21 12 Scientific, Waltham, MA) equipped with a P4000 pump, a UV6000 UV–Vis diode 2223 13 array detector, and a SN4000 interface to be operated via a personal computer. 24
25 14 Instrument software ChromQuest 5.0 (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA) was
26 15 used for data acquisition. Water/methanol mixture was used as the mobile phase, flow
2728 16 rate was 1 mL/min, and the column was kept at 25ºC. The column was an Eclipse xdb 29
30 17 C18 (5 µm particle, 0.46 mm i.d., 15 cm length; Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara,
31 18 CA). As the scope of the study was to take advantage of the potential of chemometric
3233 19 a posteriori resolution methods, the gradient chosen was faster than those proposed in 34
35 20 the literature, allowing the analysis of the polyphenolic fraction in less than 45 mins.
36 21 Moreover, MeOH was preferred to acetonitrile, being cheaper and less toxic. In detail,
3738 22 the initial composition of the mobile phase was 80% water/20% methanol and this 3940 23 ratio was maintained for 5 min; after that, the amount of methanol was linearly
41 24 increased to 100% in 30 min, and this percentage was maintained for additional 10 4243 25 min. The chromatograms were registered from 258 to 360 nm at 2 nm intervals using 44
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46 27 Use of this gradient resulted in coeluting peaks that were resolved by chemometric 4748 28 curve resolution methods. In a further stage of the study, to validate the results of 4950 29 chemometric analysis, the same groups of peaks that appeared as coeluted using the
gradient reported above, were separated chromatographically.
In order to do so, the corresponding eluting fractions were
collected when coming out from the detector and stored. After
preconcentration, they were then injected in the HPLC
apparatus and separated using a different gradient:
water:acetonitrile 90:10 was chosen as the initial mobile
phase and this ratio was kept constant for 5 minutes;
successively, the amount
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Chemometric analysis
Whenever an hyphenated technique is used for the analysis, the experimental
outcome of each measurement is a data matrix, having one elution and one spectral
dimensions; accordingly, when more than one sample is analyzed, the resulting data
structure is a three dimensional (three-way) array. In principle, this kind of data
could be someway reduced to lower dimensional data arrays and analyzed by
standard chemometric techniques; however, there are some relevant theoretical
advantages in the use of the full landscape when performing the calibration stage:
this is the socalled “second-order advantage” [17], that stems from the fact that
second-order tensors (data matrices) are used to describe experimentally each
sample. Simply stated, second-order advantage means that calibration can be done in
the presence of unknown interferences, calibration samples may be pure, and
identification/confirmation of compound identity through the pure response
detection profile is possible.
In these framework, multi-set Multivariate Curve Resoultion (MCR) was used in this
study.
Multivariate Curve Resolution [18-20]
The hypothesis of MCR is that the overall chromatographic landscape for a sample
can be decomposed into the contribution of the elution profile and the spectral
fingerprint of individual components. This means that, ideally, if two analytes are
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landscape
resulting in
overlapping
signals can be
separated into the
individual
contribution for
the two chemical species. In mathematical terms, if X is the 2D signal measured on a
sample, it is decomposed in the invidual component elution and spectral matrices, C
and S, respectively, according to:
X=CST (1)
What is relevant is that the search for the pure contributions is normally done on a
data-driven basis, meaning that it is not necessary (even if when possible it can help)
to know in advance the number of species giving rise to overlapping bands and their
individual spectra. As a consequence, in non-ideal cases more components than the
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expected chemical rank can be added to the model to account for
baseline effect or the presence of unknown interferents.
When more than one sample is measured, since the method works on matrix
8 4 decomposition, an unfolding step is necessary: operationally this means that the 910 5 individual landscapes corresponding to the different samples are aligned one after
the
11 6 other, providing that they share the same spectral dimension: this corresponds to the
1213 7 hypothesis that the same component are present in all the samples but allows for the 1415 8 elution profiles to be different not only in terms of analyte concentration but also of
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the 1718 10 same nomenclature as before, if Xi is the chromatographic landscape
measured on the 19 th
20 11 i sample, then the decomposition is performed according to:
21 12 Xi=CiST (2) 2223 13 S being the matrix
composed of the spectral loadings that are common to all samples
24 th
25 14 and Ci being the elution profiles estimated for the i sample.
26 15 Algebraically, chemical meaningfulness of the solution is achieved by imposing
2728 16 mathematical constraints on the algorithm used to compute the components: non-29
30 17 negativity of concentration and spectral profiles and unimodality of chromatographic
31 18 peaks are just the most common that can be implemented. 3233 19 34
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5 2 6 3 738 22 Natick, MA) environment. In particular, MCR-ALS computations were performed 3940 23 using the MCR toolbox developed by the chemometric group of the University of
41 24 Barcelona (freely downloadable at http://www.mcrals.info) [21]. 4243 25 4445 26 3. Results and discussion
46 27 As anticipated, the aim of this study was to show the potential of chemometric 4748 28 resolution methods to improve the quality of the HPLC-DAD analysis of some 4950 29 phenolics in extra virgin olive oil samples. To this purpose, HPLC analysis using the
conditions reported in the methodological section was carried
out on each sample and the corresponding chromatograms
were recorded in the wavelength range 258-360 nm. In Figure
1, the profiles recorded at three wavelengths chosen as
representative of the different absorption of phenolic
substances (258, 280 and 320 nm) are reported. It is evident
from the Figure that the choice of a fast gradient using
methanol as modifier
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resolution methods were then used to a posteriori separate the coeluted signals into
their single component profiles. In particular, as an example of the potential of curve
resolution methods for the identification and separation of the contributions from
individual coeluting components, the two clusters of peaks between around 20 and
25 minutes were considered.
It can be seen in Figure 1 that there is a not negligible contribution of the baseline to
the chromatographic signals and that this contribution is wavelength dependent,
being more pronounced at the lower and less significant at the higher wavelengths.
Therefore, prior to operate multivariate curve resolution on the two selected
retention time windows, the 2D HPLD-DAD landscapes from each sample were
baseline corrected using the penalized asymmetric least squares approach proposed
by Eilers [22]. Figure 2 shows the effect of baseline correction on the
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baseline was
completely
removed at all
wavelengths.
Starting from these
corrected data,
MCR was
operated
separately on the
two
chromatographic
windows 19.99-
22.65 min and
23.00-25.21 min.
MCR on the first cluster of peaks
The first chromatographic window considered in this study comprised the retention
time interval between 19.99 and 22.65 min. In this region, samples present highly
overlapping peaks as shown in Figure 3a, where the signals recorded at 280 nm for
the analyzed oils are reported. On the other hand, as multiple wavelengths were
recorded during the chromatographic runs, for each sample the signal takes the form
of a 2D landscape as the one reported in Figure 3b. Accordingly, the experimental
data corresponding to the chromatographic landscapes in this retention time window
recorded for all samples were organized into an array of dimension 26 (number of
runs) x 161 (number of retention time points) x 52 (number of wavelengths). This
array was the basis of the following chemometric analysis.
In a first stage, Multivariate Curve Resolution analysis was carried out on the single
data matrices corresponding to the chromatographic landscapes measured on
individual samples. For each sub-matrix, initialization of the ALS algorithm was
performed using the purest spectra extracted by the SIMPLISMA algorithm [23],
while Principal Component Analysis and Evolving Factor Analysis [24] were used to
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estimate the overall number of components and the local
rank , i.e. how many species are present in the different
portions of the retention time window. Then, MCR-ALS
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constraint on both spectra and
8 4 concentration profiles and the unimodality constraint on concentration profiles only. 910 5 Comparison of the optimal resolved profiles for the different sub-matrices showed
a
11 6 good consistency and suggested that 7 could be the optimal number of components. 1213 7 Therefore, based on this considerations in a second stage the analysis was repeated on 1415 8 the complete data set.
16 9 In order to be analyzed by MCR in a multi-set arrangement, the 3-way 1718 10 chromatographic data were unfolded in a column-wise augmented fashion, by putting 19
20 11 sub-matrices on one another keeping the spectral dimension constant. Accordingly,
21 12 the resulting augmented matrix had dimensions 4186 (number of retention time points
2223 13 x number of runs) x 52 (number of wavelengths). In this case, to have an initial 24
25 14 estimate of the spectral profiles to be used in the ALS optimization, the average of the
26 15 spectral profiles obtained on the individual sub-matrices in the previous stage of the
2728 16 analysis was used. Then multi-set MCR was run on the augmented matrix using non-29
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31 18 concentration only, and incorporating the information on local rank obtained by 3233 19 Evolving Factor Analysis. 34
35 20 Eventually, the cluster of coeluted peaks was resolved into the contribution of 7
36 21 components, whose spectra are reported in Figure 4b. It can be seen in the Figure that
3738 22 there is a very close similarity among the spectra, as expected, considering the 3940 23 structural similarity of the phenolic compounds and the low selectivity of UV
41 24 spectroscopy. Anyway, even with a so close similarity, it was possible to obtain a 4243 25 very good resolution of the chromatographic peaks in this retention time window, as 4445 26 evidenced in Figure 4a, where the concentration
profiles of the 7 resolved components
46 27 for one of the analyzed samples is reported. 4748 28 As all the components were unknown to us (we are at present trying to identify at 4950 29 least some using HPLC-MS), chemical validation of the results was done by
comparing the outcomes of curve resolution with those
obtained by chromatographic resolution of the coeluted
cluster, achieved by changing the experimental conditions
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shown for one of the samples chosen as example. It can be
seen that, as estimated by MCR-ALS, the cluster was made of
the contribution of 7
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comparison of the
spectral profiles
obtained by
chemometric
resolution and
those after
chromatographic
separation
confirmed the
consistency of the
results. As far as
the quantitative
analysis is
concerned, as no
standard was
available only
relative
concentrations
could be
estimated, i.e. only
the relative
amount of each
analyte from
sample to sample
and not its absolute quantity. Also under this respect, very good results were obtained
as the integrated area of the peaks obtained by MCR were in very good agreement
with the areas of the corresponding peaks after chromatographic resolution (relative
errors being in almost all cases less than 5%).
MCR for the second cluster of peaks
The data coming from the HPLC-DAD analysis of the second cluster of peaks were
treated analogously. In this case, a data cube of dimension 26 (runs)x133(retention
times)x52(wavelengths) was processed. Also in this case, analysis was at first
performed on the individual sub-matrices to have hints about the number of
components in each chromatographic run and the local rank, using EFA.
Successively, the 3-way data cube was unfolded in a column-wise fashion and the
resulting augmented data matrix was processed using multi-set MCR-ALS.
Investigation of the results obtained on the individual sub-matrices suggested that 8
components could be optimal for the chemometric resolution and, as in the previous
case, the algorithm was initialized using the averages of the optimal spectral profiles
obtained in the analysis of the single 2D landscapes. Non-negativity (spectra and
concentrations), unimodality (concentration) and local rank were used as constraints
for the ALS algorithm. The final results are reported in Figure 6.
As it was for the other cluster of coeluting peaks, it can be observed that even if the
spectral profiles were very similar (Figure 6b), it was possible to achieve a good
resolution of the peaks (an example is reported in Figure 6a, for one of the samples).
Also in this case, in the absence of standards and lacking the knowledge about the
identity of the coeluted compounds, validation of the obtained results was achieved
by comparison with the outcomes of complete chromatographic separation under
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experimental
conditions. A very
good consistency
between the chemometrically resolved spectral profiles and those recorded on the
chromatographically separated analytes was found. Moreover, as observed for the
other group of peaks, the error in the quantification of the relative amount of the
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analytes in the different samples was almost always less than 5 %, thus
confirming the goodness of the multivariate resolution approach.
8 4 Conclusions 910 5 In this study, the possibility of using a chemometrics, and in particular multivariate
11 6 curve resolution, for the a posteriori separation of the pure component signals from 1213 7 coeluting chromatographic peaks in the analysis of the neutral polyphenolic fraction 1415 8 of olive oil was shown.
16 9 In particular, two groups of coeluting peaks were identified in the chromatogram and
1718 10 MCR-ALS in the multi-set configuration was used to recover from the signals the 19
20 11 elution and spectral profiles of the pure components. A good resolution was obtained
21 12 in both cases, even if the spectroscopic fingerprints of the analytes were very
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25 14 Results were validated by comparison with a complete chromatographic separation of
26 15 the substances giving rise to the two cluster of peaks: comparison of the spectral 2728 16 profiles showed a good consistency, Additionally, when considering the relative 29
30 17 amount of the different components in the analyzed samples, results were quite
31 18 promising as in almost all the cases errors lower than 5% were obtained. 3233 19 Based on this considerations, it is possible to conclude that the use of chemometric 34
35 20 curve resolution methods can help and improve chromatographic analysis, by
36 21 allowing the a posteriori separation of the pure signals from coeluting compounds. 3738 22 This can result in the possibility of using fast gradients and cheaper and/or more less 3940 23 harmful solvents (towards a “greener” analytical chemistry) without losing in
41 24 accuracy, and with a corresponding saving of time and money. 4243 25 4445 26 References
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Figure 1 - Raw chromatographic profiles of the analyzed oil samples at three selected
wavelengths: 258 nm, 280 nm and 320 nm.
Figure 2 – Effect of baseline correction using penalized asymmetric least squares on
the chromatographic signals reported in Figure 1.
Figure 3 – (a) Chromatographic profiles of the analyzed samples in the retention time
window corresponding to the first cluster of coeluted peaks (signal recorded at 280
nm); (b) 2D elution-spectral landscape of one sample, chosen as example, in the
same chromatographic window.
Figure 4 – ààResults of MCR-ALS analysis on the first cluster of coeluted peaks. (a)
Elution profiles of the 7 components identified as significant for one of the analyzed
samples chosen as example; (b) spectral profiles of the 7 resolved components.
Figure 5 – Chromatographic separation of the components coeluting in the first
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analysis on the
second cluster of
coeluted peaks. (a)
Elution profiles of
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identified as
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of the analyzed
samples chosen as
example; (b)
spectral profiles of
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