This review describes the role of wood extractives, especially fatty and resin acids, in papermaking, as well as the importance of their removal from process waters. One of the main aims is also to illustrate versatile analysis methods for this purpose and highlight recent developments in corresponding applications. Most of the current methods require timeconsuming and laborious sample pretreat...

In a previous communication [l] we reported a procedure for the serum determination of midazolam using gas chromatography (GC) with a nitrogenselective detector. GC with nitrogen-selective detection resulted in a selective procedure for the direct determination of midaxolam with a sensitivity of 50 ng/ml. We present, in this paper, a procedure for the direct determination of midazolam and its m...

The use of antibodies in HPLC columns for on-line immunoextraction combined with reversed-phase liquid chromatography (RPLC) is of growing interest in environmental and agricultural analysis. This technique is typically performed by using a small RPLC precolumn to capture and concentrate analytes as they elute from the immunoextraction column; however, there is little information on the conditi...

The selectivity tuning of two columns coupled in series is investigated in chiral high-performance liquid chromatography. Two columns with reversal enantioselectivities [(R,R) Whelk-O 1 and (S,S) Whelk-O 1] are coupled in series via a T connector. Selectivity of such a column series is tuned by varying the mobile phase flows in the individual columns. The flow ratio necessary for the required s...

Article history: In this study, we established Received 11 October 2008 Accepted 25 October 2008 Available online 5 November 2008

The retention behaviour of four active compounds from Sophora Flavescens Ait using three ionic liquids as mobile phase modifiers was examined. The effect of the pH and the amount of ionic liquid modifier on the retention of these compounds was determined in methanol/water (v/v) as the mobile phase containing different ionic liquids ranging in concentration from 0.1 mmol/L to 3.0 mmol/L. The ion...

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High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is the most versatile of the chromatographic techniques because it is applicable to a wide variety of analytes. Unfortunately, liquid mobile phases have relatively low diffusivities. A novel approach is presented for increasing the diffusivity of a liquid mobile phase. The method advocated in this study is the first process that has been described b...

We demonstrate the integration of a droplet-based microfluidic device with high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) in a monolithic format. Sequential operations of separation, compartmentalisation and concentration counter were conducted on a monolithic chip. This describes the use of droplet-based microfluidics for the preservation of chromatographic separations, and its potential applic...

The paper focuses on the analysis and detection of electroactive compounds using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) combined with electrochemical detection (EC). The fabrication and utilization of electrochemically treated carbon fiber microelectrodes (CFMs) as highly sensitive amperometric detectors in HPLC are described. The applied pretreatment procedure is beneficial for analytic...