Capillary Electrophoresis Guidebook. Principles, Operation, and Applications

Kevin D. Altria9780896033153, 0896033155

Capillary Electrophoresis Guidebook offers both newcomers and experienced research workers hands-on guidance to performing capillary electrophoresis. It provides sufficient practical advice to permit you to develop and optimize your own separations, along with extensive troubleshooting sections to overcome practical difficulties. The book contains operating instructions for standard commercially available instruments and includes guidelines for activities such as changing capillaries, method development, quantitative procedures, optimizing sensitivity, and the validation of methods. Review chapters written by leading experts discuss micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography, capillary gel electrophoresis, advanced sampling techniques, and electrochromatography. Important application areas such as the analysis of proteins, peptides, amino acids, pharmaceuticals, chiral compounds, and nucleic acids are also treated.