Highly overlapping analytes are usually insufficiently separated using standard planar chromatographic methods. Here we developed and tested a self-modeling chemometric algorithm for spectroscopic resolution of these overlapping analytes. This algorithm operates on a series of data arrays that represent fluorescence decay profiles that have been recorded on a 2D grid-work overlaying the planar chromatographic surface. It globally fits these decay profiles to spectroscopic and chromatographic
Parameters, including fluorescence lifetimes, 2D peak positions, widths, and relative amplitudes. A benefit of this method is that these parameters in turn can provide information about the number and identity of highly overlapped analytes present in a segment of the 2D chromatogram of an unresolved chemical mixture. A series of synthetic data sets is presented that portrait a set of binary fluorophores with respective lifetimes of 10 and 25nanoseconds and whose peak positions progressively overlap in space.
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