Selection of the HPLC Method in Chemical Analysis

Dr. Serban C. Moldoveanu held several teaching positions at the University of Bucharest, Romania, until 1983, when he immigrated to the United States. There, he continued teaching at the university level for several years before focusing primarily on industrial research. He served as Senior Principal Scientist at R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and retired at the end of 2023. His research has centered on various aspects of chromatography, including method development for the analysis of natural products using GC/MS, HPLC, and LC/MS/MS. He has also investigated the pyrolysis of a variety of polymers and organic compounds. Dr. Moldoveanu has published more than 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals, 8 books with Elsevier, approximately 22 patents/patent applications, and several book chapters. He was honored with the Tobacco Science Research Conference Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012 and currently serves as an editor for three chemistry journals.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.

• 1. Start of the Implementation of a New HPLC Method2. Short Overviews of Analytical Techniques Not Containing an Independent Separation Step3. Short Overviews of the Main Analytical Techniques Containing a Separation Step4. Basic Information Regarding the HPLC Techniques5. Properties of Analytes and Matrices Determining HPLC Selection6. General Aspects Regarding the HPLC Analytical Column7. RP-HPLC Analytical Columns8. Polar Analytical Columns9. Stationary Phases and Columns for Ion Exchange, Ion-Moderated, and Ligand Exchange Chromatography10. Stationary Phases and Columns for Chiral Chromatography11. Stationary Phases and Columns for Size Exclusion12. Stationary Phases and Columns for Immunoaffinity Type Separations13. Solvents, Buffers, and Additives Used in the Mobile Phase14. Gradient Elution15. The Practice of HPLC