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High-performance liquid chromatography - Advances and perspectives, Vol. 5
Journal of Chromatography, 412 (1989) 344 Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., Amsterdam CHROM.
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Book Review
High-performance
liquid chromatography -Advances and perspectives, Vol. 5, edited by Cs. Horvath, Academic Press, San Diego, New York, London, 331 pp., price US$ 75.00, ISBN o-12-312205-8.
The fifth volume of this excellent series contains three articles. The first, by Unger et al., surveys bonded silica phases for biopolymers. They give extensive tables of commercially available phases, some 12 pages long, and a list of suppliers contains 35 addresses. Thus the reader is offered a thorough reference work listing also 300 references, of which a high proportion are from this journal. The second review is on high-performance affinity chromatography, by Bergold, Hanggi, Muller and Carr. There is, of course, much in the introduction which concerns affinity chromatography in general and not only the high-performance mode. In Part II the individual studies are surveyed, including the literature up to 1987. Part III, dealing with fundamental aspects, is again more general, for example the plate height equation on page 139 is surely not limited to high-performance affinity, nor is the split-peak phenomenon specific for affinity (page 155). Part VII, entitled “The Future” starts with the phrase: “We believe that the future for HPAC is very bright”, and one can only agree with the authors. The final chapter, by Frenz and Horvath, deals with high-performance displacement chromatography, a field in which the authors have done pioneering work. It is extremely well written, especially the historical aspects, and is a must for everyone who is doing preparative chromatography, especially in biotechnology. There should be more reviews by the Editor of the series!
-
Printed
in The Netherlands
21 464
Book Review
High-performance
liquid chromatography -Advances and perspectives, Vol. 5, edited by Cs. Horvath, Academic Press, San Diego, New York, London, 331 pp., price US$ 75.00, ISBN o-12-312205-8.
The fifth volume of this excellent series contains three articles. The first, by Unger et al., surveys bonded silica phases for biopolymers. They give extensive tables of commercially available phases, some 12 pages long, and a list of suppliers contains 35 addresses. Thus the reader is offered a thorough reference work listing also 300 references, of which a high proportion are from this journal. The second review is on high-performance affinity chromatography, by Bergold, Hanggi, Muller and Carr. There is, of course, much in the introduction which concerns affinity chromatography in general and not only the high-performance mode. In Part II the individual studies are surveyed, including the literature up to 1987. Part III, dealing with fundamental aspects, is again more general, for example the plate height equation on page 139 is surely not limited to high-performance affinity, nor is the split-peak phenomenon specific for affinity (page 155). Part VII, entitled “The Future” starts with the phrase: “We believe that the future for HPAC is very bright”, and one can only agree with the authors. The final chapter, by Frenz and Horvath, deals with high-performance displacement chromatography, a field in which the authors have done pioneering work. It is extremely well written, especially the historical aspects, and is a must for everyone who is doing preparative chromatography, especially in biotechnology. There should be more reviews by the Editor of the series!