Example 4
A 5 cm MODcol column (Grace) packed with C8-bonded silica (approx. bed-depth 32 cm) was used on a preparative HPLC system (Knauer HPLC pump 1800) with detection at 220 nm (Knauer smartline UV detector 2500) and an automated fraction collector (Büchi C-660). Liraglutide purified by the two-dimensional approach given above was used as a starting material (purity: 99.2%). The column was equilibrated in Buffer A and the sample was loaded on the column at a flow rate of 43 ml/min. The detailed elution protocol is given in Table 7 below.
The purity of the pooled main fraction was 99.35% as assessed by analytical RP-UHPLC with UV detection at 220 nm. The preparation did not contain any peptidic impurity at a concentration above 0.3%.