ONLINE MICROBORE HIGH-PERFORMANCE LIQUID-CHROMATOGRAPHY CAPILLARY GAS-CHROMATOGRAPHY FOR FOOD AND WATER ANALYSES - A REVIEW

Coupled LC-GC is a very powerful two-dimensional system and has potent ial for substantial time saving in sample preparation and sample clean -up; is far more efficient than conventional sample preparation method s. The main advantages of this coupled method are simplification of sa mple preparation by minimizing the pre-separation, efficient eliminati on of interfering components, better repeatability, and improvement of quantitation. Moreover it is possible to automate completely the enti re system. This review categorizes LC-GC publications in food and wate r analyses. (C) 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.