The present disclosure relates to redox active materials, such as the compound of formula (I), comprising at least one 2,5-dithio-7-azabicyclo(2.2.1)heptane unit connected to a surface thereof, as well as processes for making said redox active materials. The present disclosure relates to a method for recovering a metal, comprising reacting a metal in oxidized state with said redox active material. The present disclosure relates to uses of these redox active materials in sensors, electronic materials and for extracting metals.

A composition of matter wherein the composition comprises a siliceous substrate having silanols on the surface and a polymer selected from the group consisting essentially of a water soluble polymer, a water soluble copolymer, an alcohol soluble polymer, an alcohol soluble copolymer, and combinations of such polymers, wherein the polymer is chemically bonded to the siliceous substrate by a silane linking material having the general formula
O.sub.3/2SiQY
that is derived from an alkoxy-functional silane having the general formula
(RO).sub.3SiQX
and processes for preparing the crosslinked polymer that is chemically bonded to the surface of the siliceous substrate.

Novel porous materials comprising nanoparticles, use in chromatographic separations, processes for its preparation, and separations devices containing the chromatographic material are described by the instant invention. In particular, the disclosure describes porous inorganic/organic hybrid particles embedded with nanoparticles selected from oxides or nitrides of the following: silicon carbide, aluminum, diamond, cerium, carbon black, carbon nanotubes, zirconium, barium, cerium, cobalt, copper, europium, gadolinium, iron, nickel, samarium, silicon, silver, titanium, zinc, boron, and mixtures thereof.

The present application provides a material for efficiently removing active hydrogen-containing compounds such as alcohol compounds. The present application uses an active hydrogen-containing organic compound scavenger having a bromine content of from 38 to 78 wt % represented by the formula (1) (wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a C.sub.1-4 alkyl group, each R.sup.3 independently represents a hydrogen atom, a C.sub.1-4 alkyl group or a bromine atom, m represents at least one selected from the group consisting of 0, 1, 2 and 3, and n represents a real number of 0 or more) (wherein the isocyanate compound may be a single species or a mixture of two or more species, and in the case of a mixture, n represents an average n of the mixture).

Disclosed are methods of making a porous particle material for use as stationary media and related chromatographic separation devices utilizing the disclosed stationary media. The porous particle material has a reduced pore volume which yields improved stability and column lifetime, and additionally has a surface coating, resulting in a surface modified porous particle material that minimizes unwanted adsorption interactions with samples to be tested

The present disclosure relates to a redox active materials comprising at least one 2,5-dithio-7-azabicyclo[2.2.1]heptane unit connected to a surface thereof, as well as processes for making said redox active materials. The present disclosure relates to a method for recovering a metal, comprising reacting a metal in oxidized state with the redox active material herein disclosed. The present disclosure relates to uses of redox active materials herein disclosed in sensors, electronic materials and for extracting various metals.

The present invention relates to superficially porous particles (SPPs), also called core-shell, porous shell or fused core particles, which are state-of-the-art support materials used in the production of HPLC columns. Hydrolytically stable, highly selective superficially porous particle (SPP) hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatographic (HILIC) stationary phases having higher efficiencies and shorter retention times than analogous stationary phases on fully porous particles (FPP) is provided.

The present invention provides a novel, simple and reliable method for the separation of carbohydrate tautomers. The method comprises steps of chromatographically separating a sample using a chromatographic device. The method can be used to separate mono- and disaccharides tautomeric species including arabinose, xylose, fructose, mannose, galactose, glucose, lactose, and maltose.

The present invention has a subject of desorbing a target substance under mild elusion conditions in affinity purification using a low molecular weight ligand. In the present invention, a polar auxiliary group is introduced to a site adjacent to the low molecular weight ligand to perturb a pKa value of a functional group in the low-molecular-weight ligand, thereby ionizing the low molecular weight ligand under mild pH conditions.

The present invention provides novel chromatographic materials, e.g., for chromatographic separations, processes for its preparation and separations devices containing the chromatographic material; separations devices, chromatographic columns and kits comprising the same; and methods for the preparation thereof. The chromatographic materials of the invention are high purity chromatographic materials comprising a chromatographic surface wherein the chromatographic surface comprises a covalently-bonded surface group and one or more ionizable modifier.