Macro-mesoporous organosilica monoliths with bridged-ethylene and terminal-vinyl: High-density click functionalization for chromatographic separation

A novel kind of macro-mesoporous organosilica monolith, with not only bridged-ethylene groups incorporated into the skeleton but also terminal-vinyl groups protruded from the pore-wall, was prepared so that high-loaded double bonds were achieved. Via highly efficient "thiol-ene" click reaction of such high-loaded double bonds, the surface coverage of C18 groups on monolith could be 5.54 mu mol m(-2), significantly larger than that of the reported separation materials, beneficial to improvement of separation resolution, especially for peptide separation. The separation performance was evaluated using alkylbenzenes and standard peptides. Furthermore, the tryptic digests of complex sample was successfully analyzed. Because of high separation resolution of our prepared hybrid monolith, the peak capacity for 6-h gradient was achieved as 482. Coupling to LTQ Orbitrap Velos Mass Spectrometry, 22523 tryptic peptides from 4423 proteins were identified from the HeLa cells, more than that using the other long-gradient separation by the same system reported, showing great promising of such monolith for large-scale in-depth proteomic analysis. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved