miniaturization for chemical analysis and synthesis

... given at Pittcon 2001. March 4-9, 2001 in New Orleans.

1. Miniaturization for Chemical Analysis and Synthesis Andreas Manz Imperial College London
3. why minitiaturize volume of 1µL 1nL 1pL (1mm)3 (100µm)3 (10µm)3 600,000,000 600,000 600 25 / cm2 2500 / cm2 250 ,000/ cm2 17 min 10s 100ms 1.5 /min / cm2 250 /s / cm2 2,500,000 /s / cm2 # molecules (1nM solution) # volumes In array diffusion time # reactions (diffusion controlled) is a cube of
4. 10 fold miniaturization 100 x faster reactions / bioassays 100 x faster separation 1000 x smaller volume 10 x lower reagent consumption
5. human perception < 1 cm is small > 10 m is big < 100 ms is immediate > 1 min is slow factor 100: 100 ms to 1 ms: not impressive 17 h to 10 min: makes a difference 10 min to 6 s: very impressive
6. established semiconductor fabrication techniques light-source mask (from DWL) photo-resist on substrate developing, etching 3-dimensional structure bonding sealed microfluidic device microfabrication technique
7. on-line phosphate analyser E.Verpoorte, A.Manz, H.M.Widmer, B.van der Schoot, N.F. de Rooij,Transducers ‘93, Tokyo (ISBN 4-9900247-2-9), pp 939-942 (1993). m-TAS miniaturized total analysis system
8. drug discovery • first step to find new active molecules • composed of – synthesis of new compound – isolation, characterisation – bioassay • a significant effort in pharmaceutical industry, involving new technologies
9. COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY QUALITY CONTROL BIOASSAYS 100 educts A 100 educts B 10,000 products AB 10,000 assays 10,000 assays ??? 10,000 products AB
10. CHEMICAL MICROPROCESSOR SYNTAS m educt A educt B is this a hit? yes/no specific reaction specific bioassay
11. chemical reaction batch Time continuous flow Length
12. Continuous flow Batch process Volume given by time Volume is volume of the vessel Easy up-scale / down scale Up-scale / down-scale difficult [scaling laws!] Fluid handling inherently there Robotics, valve switching or manual Interfacing of components easy: volume flow rate is the only parameter Interfacing of components may need wait times / dummy loops Different reaction times needed can be achieved by difference in length / cross-section The slowest step in the sequence defines the rhythm of switching, if multiple samples have to be processed
13. Continuous flow Batch process Ratio of timing cannot be changed without changing the channel hardware Good flexibility in change of timing Not all analysis / synthesis methods are available All analysis / synthesis methods available Band broadening is critical, if different samples should travel through the system in sequence Different samples = separate batches Problem: to create a sequence of samples is a batch process!!!
14. A B C A B , A , B A B A B C , A B , C A B C A B C fluorescence detection bioassay synthesis step 1 synthesis step 2 separation separation continuous flow
15. A A A A A A A B B B B B A B , A , B A B A +B A +B solvent solvent solvent solvent solvent R E A C TO R S S E P A R A T O R S S T O R A G E
16. pressure induced flow local minimum for bandbroadening defines optimum flow rate How about a sequence of injected samples?
17. electroosmotic flow minimum for bandbroadening at maximum speed
18. pressure electroosmosis
19. pressure induced flow p e a k l e n g t h / w i d t h r a t i o i s 2 0 0 : 1 t o 2 , 0 0 0 : 1 peak length / width ratio can be very small electroosm otic flow
21. double stranded DNA separation
22. reaction with intercalating dye
23. x x x x x x x x x SYBR green x x x x x x x x x x x x x double stranded DNA SYBR green x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x SYBR green complex [fluorescing] x x x x 1) 2) 3)
24. chemical reaction • In the most simple case, a molecule A meets a molecule B and reacts to give AB • many reactions are diffusion controlled • reaction time of hours in conventional lab • reaction time of 30 min in micro well plate
25. R.Srinivasan, S.L.Firebaugh, I.M.Hsing, J.Ryley, M.P.Harold,K.F.Jensen, M.A.Schmidt [Massachusetts Institute of Technology and DuPont, Wilmington], chemical performance and high temperature characterization of micromachined chemical reactors, Transducers 97, Vol.1,p163-166 (1997) Figure 1: Schematic diagram of the microreactor [9] with Pt heaters and temperature sensors represented as electrical resistors.
26. Figure 4. Separation of several amino acids using post-column derivatization for detection. D.J.Harrison, K.Fluri,N.Chiem, T.Tang,Z.Fan University of Alberta, Edmonton,Canada Transducers’95, Proc., vol.1, pp752-755 (1995)
27. Y -shaped junction: 1:1 fluorescein-to-rhodamine B flowrate ratio (0.5 : 0.5 mL/min)
29. Mixing – Diffusion times D d t 2 2  Before laminar mixing D n d t 2 2 2  After laminar mixing n = number of branches, d = tubing diameter, D= diffusion coefficient
30. Distributive Micromixing Device: Schematic F. G. Bessoth, A. J. de Mello and A. Manz, Anal. Commun., 1999, 36, 213-215
31. 16 channels 256x faster !
32. Distributive Micromixing Chip
33. F. G. Bessoth, A. J. de Mello and A. Manz, Anal. Commun., 1999, 36, 213-215 Chip manifold volume 600 nL Observation channel 530 nL Distributive Micromixing Device
34. fused silica capillary glue glass Si glass
35. 6 ms 14 ms 38 ms 94 ms 54 ms 78 ms 0 ms
36. Fluorescein and Rhodamine B; Flow rate = 50 mL min-1; Time from point of confluence to beginning of long channel = ca. 9 ms laminar flow visualisation
37. fast fluorescence quenching 0 ms 6 ms
38. Mixing * + further downstream reaction incomplete reaction incomplete reaction complete reaction complete reaction complete
39. horseradish peroxidase assay 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 0 0.02 0.04 0.06 0.08 0.1 0.12 concentration HRP [mg/mL] chemiluminescence signal [V] assay time 30 minutes  400 ms “incubation time” 400 ms
40. NO2 NO2 CHO NO2 P(Ph)3 NO2 purple Br- 2-nitrobenzy ltriphenyl- phosphonium brom ide p-nitrobenza ldehyde colourless NaOMe NO2 Me OH colourless P(Ph)3 + + Wittig reaction N + O O Cl Cl Cl Cl O O Cl Cl Cl N Enamine Chloranil blue 2,3,5-trichlor-6-(2-piperidin -1-yl)-[1,4]- benzoquinone Synthesis of a substituted aminovinyl-p-quinone SYNTHESIS
41. N+ H H R1 R2 Cl- H H O MeOH N+ Cl- H2 O N R3 R4 R2 R1 C R1 N R2 N R4 R3 H2 O R1 N R2 N R4 R3 O R1/R2 = -CH2 (CH2 )3 CH2 - Piperidine hydrochloride + + Piperidinium cation + R3/R4 = -CH2 (CH2 )4 CH2 - Cyclohexyl isocyanide Nitrilium intermediate -Dialkylacetamide Formaldehyde N-Cyclohexyl-2-piperidin-1-yl-acetamide (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) Multicomponent Chemistries: The Ugi Reaction 0oC
42. Inlet capillaries Syringes Rheodyne injection valve Injection loop outlet capillary Micromixer chip / PTFE interface
43. Micromixer TOF-MS Injected plug (MeOH) Continuous infusion (MeOH) Secondary amine hydrochloride (1 eq) + Cyclohexylisocyanide (10 eq) Formaldehyde (10 eq) System set-up
44. Simultaneous Observation of Reactants, Intermediates, Products and By-products 20 mLmin-1 50 nL injection loop Room temperature
45. Compound Library Synthesis Continuous-Flow Dynamic control On-line analysis Real-time identification Real-time optimisation Solution-phase synthesis Well-defined On-line purification... Serial or parallel Solid-Phase Off-line analysis Workup process Off-line identification Off-line optimisation Solid-supported synthesis Physical Handling Ease of purification Parallel (split/pool) Batch Microfluidic Influence of support on chemistry Additional steps required No support No additional steps
46. Acknowledgment Coworkers and Ph.D. students Jan Eijkel Chao-Xuan Zhang Giles Sanders Michael Mitchell Fiona Bessoth Omar Naji Darwin Reyes postdocs Arun Arora Yien Kwok Gareth Jenkins Silvia Valussi Nicole Pamme Oliver Hofmann Paul Monaghan Melanie Fennah Valerie Spikmans Nils Goedeke Dimitrios Iossifidis Pierre-Alain Auroux
47. FUNDING INSTRUMENTATION SmithKline Beecham (UK) Zeneca (UK) BBSRC, UK EPSRC, UK European Commission, B Schlumberger, UK Casect, UK Agilent, D Forensic Lab, UK Asahi Kasei, Japan Lab of the Government Chemist, UK CSEM, Switzerland Amersham Pharmacia, UK Kodak, UK Glaxo Wellcome, UK Glaxo-Wellcome Heidelberg Instruments Hybaid MICROFABRICATION Alberta Microelectronics Centre, Canada Caliper Technologies, California MESA, University of Twente, The Netherlands CSEM, Switzerland