Historical material antibiotics

The current success and dominance of the commercial CSP market by derivatised polysaccharide, macrocyclic antibiotic and, to a lesser extent, synthetic multiple-interaction Pirkle-type materials is such that it could be considered questionable whether or not there is a need to maintain an awareness of the capabihties of some of the earlier developed CSP. Indeed in a rather shrewd marketing move some Diacel products have been dubbed historical CSP. This suggests, at the same time, that the newer CSP represent a major advance in technology but that the older ones are well worth preserving. The latter point is especially true. No matter how successful multi-column screening approaches... 

Nonliving matter, such as blood plasma, serum, hormone solutions, foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals (e.g., antibiotics), ceramics, superconducting materials, and materials of historical documents (e.g., archaeological wood)... 

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