Abstract
The mobilities of 3,8,13,18-tetrametyl-21H,23H-porphine-2,7,12,17-tetrapropionic acid or coproporphyrin-I (CPI) and five metal-CPI complexes were measured by reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) on a octadecyl-bonded silica gel (C18 silica) with developing solvent (69:31 v/v) methanol-buffer at pH 7 (buffer ionic strength 0.270 mol L−1. 0.018 mol L−1 boric, phosphoric and acetic acid, and 0.036 mol L−1 sodium hydroxide), and 0.050 mol L−1 of NaCl, with UV detection at 374 and 458 nm.