High performance liquid chromatography books

In this book, I have tried to show the way in which high performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) has developed, somewhat slowly it has to be said, into a powerful hybrid analytical technique. 

In this chapter, high-performance liquid chromatography of oligomers and (high) polymers (polymer HPLC) will be briefly presented. As mentioned in Section 16.1, there exist several monographs, chapter in books, and review papers on this subject, for example [1-33], Most of them contain numerous examples of the HPLC separation and molecular characterization of particular macromolecular substances. Therefore, this chapter discusses almost exclusively the general principles of polymer HPLC and only few selected examples of practical applications will be mentioned for illustration. 

The analysis of food carbohydrates by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) has been dealt with and reviewed by several authors, either as books or as chapters of books or as scientific papers, most notably in the current decade (1-6). 

The analysis of chiral compounds to determine their optical purity is still not a trivial task. The analysis method has to differentiate between the two antipodes and, thus, has to involve a chiral agent. However, the development of chiral chromatography, especially HPLC (high-performance liquid chromatography), has done a significant amount to relieve this problem. The purpose of this book is to discuss large-scale synthetic reactions, but the reader is reminded that the development of chiral analytic methods may not have been a trivial undertaking in many examples. 

Christie, W.W. (1987) High-Performance Liquid Chromatography and Lipids. Pergamon Books, Oxford. 

In this book, the focus is on the use of high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) for the separation and detection of biochemical components produced from enzymatic reactions. But the purpose of the book is also to introduce HPLC and high performance capillary electrophoresis (HPCE) as methods applicable for separation and detection of a variety of components, even those not produced by enzymatic reactions. 

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