“…These diastereomers do possess heterogeneous retention behavior leading to significant peak broadening (Agrawal, Tang, & Brown, ; Gilar et al, ; Metelev & Agrawal, ; Thayer, McCormick, & Avdalovic, ). To date, chromatographic methods have achieved limited success for the separation and characterization of PS therapeutic oligonucleotides except for short oligonucleotides with only two to six bases (Cummins, Winniman, & Gaus, ; Gaus, Owens, Winniman, Cooper, & Cummins, ; Iyer, Guo, Yu, & Agrawal, ; Kanehara, Mizuguchi, & Makino, ; Mayr, Holzl, Eder, Buchmeiser, & Huber, ; Murakami, Tamura, Wada, & Makino, ; Patil, Mane, & Salunkhe, ; Slim & Gait, ; Stec, Zon, & Uznanski, ; Tamura, Miyoshi, Yokota, Makino, & Murakami, ; Wilk & Stec, ). NMR and other methods based on optical rotation have also not demonstrated the ability to reliably resolve these mixtures (Furrer et al, ; Griffiths, Potter, & Eperon, ; Potter, Connolly, & Eckstein, ; Yu et al, ).…”