Pharmaceutical applications practical considerations

The present chapter will review instrumental aspects for successful coupling of CE with MS, regarding interfaces, ionization sources, and analyzers. Practical considerations concerning different CE modes such as CZE, NACE, MEKC, and CEC coupled with MS will also be discussed and illustrated with a focus on recent pharmaceutical applications. Additionally, quantitative CE-MS will be presented and various methodologies used to achieve sensitive and repeatable analysis will be discussed. Finally, the final section of this chapter will give an overview on new devices (i.e., microchips), hyphenated to MS, in terms of fabrication methods, microchip designs, MS interfacing, and applications. 

SRNFs have found applications in food chemistiy, catalysis, chiral separations, petrochemical industry and pharmaceutical manufacturing. The preparation, practical considerations, and theoretical transport mechanisms of SRNFs have been critically reviewed by P. Vanezande, L.E.M. Gevers and I.F.J. Vankelecom [Chem SocRev 37 365 2008],... 

The solubilization phenomenon, which refers to the dissolution of normally insoluble or only slightly soluble compounds in water caused by the addition of surfactants, is one of the most striking effects encountered for surfactant systems. Solubilization is of considerable physico-chemical interst, such as in discussion of the structure and dynamics of micelles and of the mechanism of enzyme catalysis, and has numerous practical applications, such as in detergency, in pharmaceutical preparations and in micellar catalysis. In biology, solubilization phenomena are most significant, e.g., cholesterol solubilization in phospholipid bilayers and fat solubilization in fat digestion and transport. 

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