Liquid chromatography historical development

B. Ardrey, Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry An Introduction (Chichester, UK Wiley, 2003) W. M. A. Niessen. Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry, 2nd ed (New York Marcel Dekker, 1999) M. S. Lee, LC/MS Applications in Drug Development (New York Wiley, 2002) J. Abian, Historical Feature The Coupling of Gas and Liquid Chromatography with Mass Spectrometry, J. Mass Spectrom. 1999, 34, 157. 

The history of liquid chromatography and the influence of its pioneers have been the subject of several learned reviews (Sakodynskii, 1970 Kirchner, 1973 Ettre and Horvath, 1975). Indeed, the manner in which scientific attitudes and the turbulent history of Europe in the early decades of this century influenced the establishment of chromatography as a science would in itself be worthy of a textbook. In a book of this nature a detailed historical narrative would not be relevant but it is instructive to put the current state of the art of liquid chromatography within a historical perspective to provide the reader with a reahsation of the explosive development of chromatographic science within the past fifteen years. 

It is the purpose of this book to review as deeply as possible the subject of micellar liquid chromatography. All the studies presented in this historical chapter are developed in dedicated chapters in the book. Most of the recent work and applications developed in the nineties were not cited in this chapter they are discussed in detail in their respective chapter. 

The major chromatographic techniques have been included. However, the book does not intend to give a comprehensive overview of the historic developments in separation science, and some classical techniques that are not in use today have not been covered. An example is paper chromatography, which was replaced by the more efficient thin layer chromatography a long time ago. Another example is column liquid-liquid partition chromatography, which more or less disappeared after the introduction of chemically bonded phases in HPLC. 

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