Essentials in Modern HPLC Separations

Serban C. Moldoveanu was Senior Principal Scientist at R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, USA, and retired at the end of 2023. His research activity was focused on various aspects of chromatography including method development for the analysis by GC/MS, HPLC, and LC/MS/MS of natural products and cigarette smoke. He has also performed research on pyrolysis of a variety of polymers and small molecules. He has written over 150 publications in peer reviewed journals, eleven books, and several chapter contributions. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry and of Frontiers in Chemistry. Victor David was a Professor and Head of the Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Bucharest, Romania. Recently retired, he remains Emeritus Professor at the same Department. His main field of research is separation science (theory and applications in various scientific domains). He is the author of more than 200 publications, including over 150 scientific papers in peer reviewed journals and 25 books and chapters. He is member of editorial board of Biomedical Chromatography, Molecules, Journal of Essential Oil-Bearing Plants and Revue Roumaine de Chimie.

Part 1. Basic information about HPLC1. Introductory information regarding HPLC 2. Overview of HPLC instrumentation and its use3. Parameters for the characterization of HPLC separation4. Equilibrium types in HPLC5. Intermolecular forces6. Characterization of analytes and matrices 7. Mobile phases and their properties8. Analytical HPLC columns and their characteristics

Part 2. Main types of HPLC separations 9. Reversed-phase HPLC10. Other HPLC separations performed on hydrophobic stationary phases11. Hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC)12. Other HPLC separations performed on polar stationary phases13. Ion-exchange, ion-moderated, and ligand-exchange liquid chromatography14. Chiral HPLC Separations15. Size exclusion HPLC16. Affinity, immunoaffinity, and aptamer type HPLC17. Mixed mode HPLC

Part 3. Practice of HPLC analysis18. Utilization of HPLC in chemical analysis

Part 4. Appendices