Review Article

DEVELOPMENT OF FUSED-CORE SILICA HPLC COLUMNS AND THEIR RECENT

PHARMACEUTICAL AND BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS: A REVIEW

RUWIDA KAMOUR
1
*, AMAL AMMAR
1
, MOHAMED EL-ATTUG
1
, TARIQ ALMOG
1

1
Department of Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Tripoli, Tripoli, Libya.
Email: [email protected]
Received: 22 Jun 2013, Revised and Accepted: 03 Aug 2013
ABSTRACT
In many analytical procedures fast and reliable analysis technique is required. The development of HPLC stationary phases were in line with these
goals. To achieve these goals of fast and efficient analysis, work was focused on reducing particle size of packing materials. Therefore, the
development of superficially porous silica particles provided a new approach with overwhelming operating results to insure fast and reliable
analysis at decreased system back pressure values.
This work presents features and development aspects of fused core technology. Also it describes their chromatographic properties in comparison
with monolithic and sub-2 m particle columns. In addition, there is a discussion of its applicability to be used with conventional HPLC instruments.
Finally, it outlines some of its recent applications in biological and pharmaceutical field.
Keywords: High pressure liquid chromatography, Core-shell particle columns, Sub-2 m particle columns, Monolithic columns, Back pressure.

INTRODUCTION
HPLC methods have been used for the analysis of many products for
various purposes. The advantages of HPLC allowed the possibility of
analysing wide variety of compounds. A specific analytical procedure
is usually designed to match a certain goal such as selectivity,
sensitivity, LOD, quick analysis time and reproducibility which are
basically accustomed by the properties of the compound being
analyzed. Therefore, a single method for a particular compound
should be of high sensitivity and selectivity and short analysis time.
The packing materials of HPLC columns are the key function of the
separation technique. Therefore, researchers have been pushed to
use new column technologies to compromise the demand for high
sample throughput with fast analysis. Recently, there have been
many silica stationary phases developed and commercially available
such as non-porous, porous, superficially porous and monolithic
silica. These columns are widely applied for analysis of
pharmaceutical and biological samples [1].
The porosity of the packing material has a direct relation with the
pressure of the elution system, the size of molecules separated as
well as speed of analysis. Lately, approaches of HPLC technologies
have interested in increasing the speed of analysis [2, 3, 4]. This
approach should be run in balance with low back pressure and
maximum column efficiencies.
The development of fused-core silica technology has brought
advantages over monolithic and sub-2 m particle columns. Their
principle work aims to speed analysis time preserving column
efficiency with comparatively low back pressure [5, 6].
This review is driven in an attempt to provide an overview about
different facts related to fused-core silica columns regarding the
development of this technology and their chromatographic features
compared to conventional and monolithic columns. Also there will
be a review of their application in the field of pharmaceutical and
biological analysis.
Structure and development
The fused-core particle technology, also named superficially porous
or shell particles, was first developed by Jack Kirkland where it was
intended to achieve faster separation with higher sample
throughput with maintaining column reliability [7, 8].
Commercially, there are 3 new brands of shell particles available;
Poroshell (Agilant, Little River, DE, USA), Halo (Advanced Material
Technology, DE, USA), and Kinetex (Phenomenex, Torrance, CA,
USA) [9, 10, 11, 12]. Poroshell have particle size of 5 m and shell
thickness of 0.25 m. It was reported that they have 50% larger peak
capacity than Zorbax column which packed with fully porous silica
of same average particle size and of same silica material as that of
the shell of the Poroshell [12].
The Advanced Material Technology has made this approach
commercially available which is known as HALO HPLC column
which consists of 2.7 m particles are manufactured by fusing small
silica particles as a porous layer (0.5m in thickness) onto 1.7 m
solid silica particle . The porous layer has 9 nm pores, Fig. 1. These
columns are available as different bonded reversed phase chemistry
[13]. The steps of forming the solid core and adhering the porous
shell into it are described in details by Kirkland [14]. The particle
size distribution of the packed particles is very narrow which results
in narrow diffusion path length and thus sharper peaks, Fig. 2. The
porous layer designed to permit faster penetration of the mobile
phase and therefore faster separation with modest loss in column
efficiency and at low back pressure [15, 16].

Fig. 1: graphical illustration of the structure of the fused-core
partile. HALO particle from Advanced Materials Technology

Fig. 2: Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) photo of HALO particles.
It can be seen clearly the very narrow size distribution of particles
in addition to the porous layer of particles.
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The kinetex was first made commercially available in 2009. They
have particle size average of 2.5 m (close to that of Halo) however;
they demonstrated better efficiency than Halo-packed columns [11,
17]. Gratti and his colleagues [18] conducted a study to compare the
physical properties of these three packing materials in relation to
chromatographic column performances. They studied the
differences between Kinetex and Halo as well. The latter two were
found to have five different physical properties that have lead to
differences in their performances.
Separation using a column packed with such particles occurs in less
than one minute for low molecular weight analytes generating
approximately 300 bar column pressure [5]. This approach,
superficially porous silica columns, is also applicable for separating
macromolecules at higher velocities. In Kirkland and colleagues
study [14], the resulted very fast separation (< 2min) showed good
resolution; sharp narrow peaks and low system back pressure
suggesting excellent kinetic properties for a gradient flow-HPLC
system.
In 2010, Kirkland and co-authors [19] described a newly designed
Halo particle packed columns with 160A mesopore size compared
to classical 90A. These columns were released by Advanced
Material technology as Halo-ES peptide which was designed
particularly for rapid separation of peptides and some small
proteins. Gritti and Guiochon [20] tested the kinetic properties of
these columns compared to standard Halo 90A by using protein
insulin, -lipoprotein in addition to other small molecules like uracil
and toluene (MW < 150). They found a substantial decrease in
transfer resistance which owed to the larger pour size of the porous
shell. These improvements were noticed for large molecules but not
markedly seen for small molecules even though the increase in
mesopore size was accompanied by increase in the fraction of the
surface area of the particles of the Halo-ES.
Chromatographic properties of fused-core silica columns
The high efficiency of superficially porous particles has made it one
of considerable interests for fast and reliable HPLC separation.
One of the features of this technology is the very fast elution times
which are attributed to the fused/solid core of the particles and thin
porous layer. This structure creates shorter elution baths and
permits faster permeation of un-retained molecules compared to
fully porous particles [21, 22].
An experiment carried out by DeStefano and co-authors [9] were a
comparison of performance of fused-core column with sub-2 m
particle column. It was found that these columns perform at high
efficiencies that are comparable to that of sub-2 m particle columns
but with much lower back pressure, Fig. 3. In addition, they
demonstrated a very fast separation of mixtures of pesticides in less
than one minute, Fig. 4, and explosives (less than 4min). Also the
study approved that these columns reduced plate height up to 1.2
compared to 2 for totally porous silica columns with lowest pressure
value patterns as mobile phase velocity increased.

Fig. 3: low pressure values at high flow rate velocities provided
by fused-core columns compared to other particle sizes [9].

Fig. 4: Isocratic separation of pesticides using fused-core silica
columns in less than one minute [9].
Studies have suggested that columns packed with silica beads of
very narrow particle size distribution would have higher efficiencies
[23, 24], Fig. 5. By comparing effect of increased mobile phase
velocity on efficiency of column, fused-core showed a better stability
of homogenous packed bed. These features of fused core particles
resulted in ability to operate at higher flow rates with lower back
pressure.

Fig. 5: Particle size distribution of 2.7m particles (very narrow
distribution) compared to 3 m totally porous particles [9].
Another feature of fused core that it has improvement in mass
transfer at even higher mobile phase velocities which seems to be an
appealing approach for fast separation of large molecular weight
compounds [25, 26].
Regarding sample capacity, for some analytes fused-core columns
showed to be as highly stable as totally porous silica columns in
terms of peak symmetry as concentration of analyte increased. This
indicates stability of fused-core columns in situations where minor
and major analytes are targeted for analysis [9].
Under pressure, fused-core columns showed to have a remarkable
stability over extensive use in terms of retention times, theoretical
plates, reproducibility, peak tailing and resolution. This again can be
contributed to by the very narrow particle size distribution of fused-
core silica particles [27, 7].
Porous, monolithic and fused-core A comparison
The approach of using small porous particles (sub-2 m) provides
fast and efficient separation over conventional 3-5 m particles [28,
29]. However, these efficiencies are countered by increased column
back pressure [2].
Monolithic columns are bi-porous in structure, large macropores for
high flow rates and small mesopores for high surface area to
increase efficiency. There are two types of monolithic columns: silica
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monoliths for separating small molecules and polymer monoliths for
large molecules [30]. In packed columns, mechanism of mass
transfer is diffusion while in monoliths molecules transferred by
convective flow which enables increased separation speed [31].
Monolithic columns were first introduced to achieve separation on
conventional LC at high flow rates [32] where these properties are
due to high porosity and small skeleton size of these columns.
Monolithic columns have disadvantages such as limited availability
of stationary phases in industry and its unsatisfactory retention [33].
Fused-core columns, on the other hand, have many advantages such
as fast elution, excellent mass transfer kinetics, and better
performance at high mobile phase velocities [9, 27]. Another feature
is the narrow particle size distribution which makes column with
remarkable ruggedness [7].
A study carried out by Gritti et al. [34] to compare adsorption
isotherm of some low-molecular weight compounds on RP-HPLC
using a monolithic and classical packed column. The findings
indicated closeness of adsorption energies using the two columns.
However, adsorption capacities of the monolithic column were
slightly better than packed column. This can be explained by the fact
that accessibility surface area of monolithic column is greater than
that of the packed column which is related to the high connectivity
between large macropores and mesopores of the monolithic column
structures.
Similarly, Kirkland and co-authors [7, 9] suggested that fused-core
particles revealed comparable efficiencies to that of sub-2 m
porous particles but with modest back pressure which may be
accounted for by narrow particle size distribution and higher
density of fused-core particles. Moreover, decreased diffusion path
for analytes may lead to reduction in hindrance to mass transfer
permitting use of higher flow rates with minimum loss in efficiency
[35].
Abrahim et al. [33] compared efficiency of fused-core to that of sub-2
m particles column in terms of retention, selectivity and loading
capacity. Also they used impurities profiling to assess fast separation
without loss of efficiency. The retention time results of fused-core
were comparable to those of the sub-2 m particles. These
similarities were previously reported by Cunliffe and Maloney [6].
For selectivity, fused-core column noted to have comparable
selectivity but with favourable values over sub-2 m particles.
Sample capacity for fused-core column, however, was 25% lower
than that of sub-2 m particles but cannot be considered significant
for such analytical applications. Efficiency in terms of retention
factor and theoretical plate heights were lower in case of 1.7 m
particles compared to fused-core columns suggesting that sub-2 m
particles have better efficiency. This study also pointed out that
fused-core had 55% lower back pressure than that produced by 1.8
m porous silica column of same length. In addition, better
resolution for tested compounds and their impurities was achieved
on fused-core column.
Dioszegi and Raynie [36] have extensively studied a comparison of
kinetic properties of monolithic and fused-core capillary C18
columns using Heptanophone as the test compound. Although
results were comparable for both columns, the results for monolithic
column were better than the fused-core column for <100,000 plates.
Fused-core for conventional HPLC
Conventional instruments with 400bar pressure limits can be used
for fast separation using fused-core columns at high mobile phase
velocities [9]. Some references assured that fused-core columns
have substantial advantage of using with conventional LC but with
minor modifications of column parts or accessories (like connecting
tubes, detector cell and needle seat capillary) [37, 38]. They operate
at approximately half back pressure making it possible to use with
conventional HPLC where 2 m porous inlet frit can be used which is
used for conventional 3-5 m particles. This in turn reduces problem
of plugging which arises with sub-2 m particles column especially
for pharmaceutical samples with complex matrix [33].
Wei Song et al. [39] compared fused-core and conventional
analytical C18 column at the same operating conditions. The fused-
core column showed a reduction in separation times and up to 3-
folds increase in efficiency compared to the conventional column.
Also back-pressure of the HPLC system using fused-core did not
exceed 3400psi making it a possible approach for standard HPLC
systems. Although UPLC using sub-2 m particles can improve
traditional HPLC methods for pharmaceutical analysis [40, 41, 42],
UPHPLC new instruments are needed to handle pressure exceeding
6000psi. This means UPHPLC are limited and new alternatives are
needed for use with current traditional HPLC systems.
Salisbury [43] studies the possibility of using fused-core columns as
an alternative to sub-2 m particle columns for conventional HPLC
and at its pressure limits. This study was carried out in an attempt to
assess robustness, reproducibility, resolution on extensive use of a
fused-core column (500 injections). It was found that fused-core
particles achieved 80% of efficiency compared to sub-2 m particles
with half observed back pressure. The method proved to be robust
by measuring the reproducibility of results over 500 injections. They
found that %RSD for retention times, theoretical plates, peak
asymmetry and resolution were observed to be less than 1%.
Consequently, these findings assume the capability of these particles
to concur the commercial needs of pharmaceutical applications.
Recent applications for pharmaceutical analysis
The advantages provided by fused-core technology have made it an
attempting approach for high-speed pharmaceutical analysis as well
as biological and environmental applications.
Alexander and Ma [44] Described the applicability of fused-core
columns for 2-D LC for pharmaceutical analysis of similarly co-
eluted samples. The samples were separated by using two
independent flow rates, gradient profiles and mobile phase
compositions. The technique showed to be very simple and elegant.
However, the appropriate sensitivity of the method was limited by
base-line noise.
Alexander et al., [45] studied the possibility of using the fused-core
column with conventional HPLC. The method approved to
progressively decrease Extra-column dispersion ECD with
simultaneous decrease in extra-column volume ECV.
DeGrsse et al., [15]

developed a fast method for analyzing shellfish
toxins using fused-core column technology. Resolution was
enhanced and reproducible retention times and peak areas were
obtained. Faster elution times suggest the possibility for using this
method for routine paralytic shellfish toxins PST monitoring.
Wagner and colleagues [46] studied particle size, pore size, shell
thickness of fused-core to obtain optimum parameters for
biomacromolecules separation. Particles with this porous shell
structures showed to have better mass transfer kinetics compared to
conventional porous particles.
Yang and co-authors [47] developed a method for DNA analysis by
LC-MS. The method run time was in less than 1 min with good
efficiency and reproducibility along with good sensitivity (low LOD
values).
Suleman et al. [48] developed a stability indicating HPLC method for
routine analysis of -artemether and lumefantrine combination anti-
malarial products. They used fused-core/reversed-phase amide
stationary phase with an isocratic mobile phase
(acetonitrile/phosphate buffer, pH 3). The method was fast (run
time of 4 min), accurate and precise making it suitable method for
quality control of these compounds in the presence of their related
degradation products.
The availability of shell particle columns in different chemistries
such as C8, C18, RP amide and HILIC has encouraged researchers to
utilize it for many analytical procedures. Table.1, lists some
pharmaceutical applications which are fast, economic and
reproducible.

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Table 1: Some pharmaceutical and biological applications of fused-core columns
API MP column FR detection Ref
Antibiotics + antifungal Potassium phosphate buffer, pH=3 , Acetonitrile HALO RP-Amide 2mL/min UV 230 nm AMT note
-blockers Ammonium formate, pH=3 , Acetonitrile HALO 2.7 m 3 mL/min UV 254 nm AMT note
Cephalosporines Phosphate buffer (pH=2.7 ) and Methanol HALO ES-CN 2 mL/min UV 254 nm AMT note
Lipids Methanol/water/acetic acid
Acetone/tetrahydrofuran/
Halo C8 gradient CAD Dionex note
posaconazole methanol/water/ammonium hydroxide Halo C18 Gradient MS/MS Ref. [49]
Proteomics Formic acid in water/ ACN Halo C18 different MS AMT note

CONCLUSION
HPLC approaches would usually target fast, economic and reliable
technology. These requirements are fulfilled by the features of fused
core technology. These columns have approved through many
studies that are capable of performing very fast, inexpensive and
efficient analysis.
As they are available in different chemistries, these technologies can
be applied for different compounds of low or high molecular
weights. Moreover, the moderate back pressure generated at high
mobile phase velocities made it possible to use with conventional
HPLC systems. Therefore, all the above mentioned properties have
made this technology an appealing approach for routine biological
and pharmaceutical applications.
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