Observations on Ion Interaction Chromatographic System: Reversed Phase Column—H 3 BO 3 /TBAOH Mobile Phase and the Effect of Temperature

New ion interaction chromatographic (IIC) system with RP column and boric acid plus tetra-n-butylammonium hydroxide (TBAOH) mobile phase was investigated. In the system: CPhenylHexyl—10 mM H3BO3/4 mM TBAOH, a large group of anions viz. F−,IO3−, Cl−, ClO2−, BrO3−, NO2−, Br−, NO3−, ClO3−, I−, HPO42−, SO42−, CrO42−, S2O32−, benzoate−, SCN−, ClO4− and phthalate2−, could be isocratically resolved. A study on the effect of temperature revealed that some ions added to ion exchange are also held in the stationary phase by the hydrophobic adsorption. The retention loss for all anions with time was observed. This effect however, was quite slow and good separations could be obtained even after the column stayed a few hundred hours in the mobile phase.