RECENT ADVANCES IN THE ANALYSIS OF POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC-HYDROCARBONS AND FULLERENES

This paper highlights advances which have occurred in the last three y ears related to the analysis of Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs ) and fullerenes by chromatographic and related techniques. The techni ques reviewed include sample preparation, supercritical fluid ''tracti on (SFE), gas chromatography, liquid chromatography, supercritical flu id chromatography, thin-layer chromatography and micellar electrokinet ic capillary chromatography. Some of the most significant advances hav e occurred in the area of sample preparation, including the increased adoption of solid-phase extraction, supercritical fluid extraction, hy phenated chromatographic methods (e.g. LC-LC, LC-GC, etc.) and the chr omatographic separation of fullerenes which did not exist on a macrosc opic scale three years ago.