SummaryThe separation of the enantiomers of the compounds of technical toxaphene (CTTs) on heptakis(6-O-tertbutyldimethylsilyl-2,3-di-O-methyl)-13-cyclodextrin (13-TBDM) has been studied by gas chromatography with electron-capture detection (GC-ECD). Enantiomers of eight of the nine CTTs under investigation were separated on this chiral stationary phase. Separations of the enantiomers of CTTs have hitherto been achieved on
tert-butyldimethylsilylated ~-cyclodextrin (I3-BSCD).The chiral resolution values and separation factors of the CTTs on 13-TBDM have been compared with those obtained on 13-BSCD. Although several components coeluted, enantioselective determination of three CTTs was possible in an extract of seal blubber. For each CTT the first-eluting enantiomer was enantioenriched. Enantioselective accumulation of 2-endo,3-exo,5-endo,6-exo,8,8,9,10-octa-chlorobornane (B8-1412) in biota has been established for the first time.bornanes [2] most of which are chiral [3]. Because of the different behavior of enantiomers in a chiral environment, enantioselective analysis currently plays an important role in environmental chemistry [4J. First reports of the separation of CTT enantiomers were published in 1994 [5,6]; so far resolution of the enantiomers of CTTs has been achieved on tert-butyldimethylsilylated 13-cyclodextrin (13-BSCD) only [4,7]. Chiral stationary phases (CSPs) based on ~-BSCD were introduced by Blum and Aichholz [8]. On this CSP enantioseparation of seven persistent CTTs was achieved in one GC run [7]. The enantiomers of some CTTs could not, however, be separated on 13-BSCD and the lack of a confirmatory CSP for the enantioselective analysis of CTTs in environmental samples was regrettable.