Analytical chemistry in Poland

The paper presents the main achievements of analytical chemistry in Poland on the basis of papers published mainly in the last decade. The selection i s somewhat arbitrary but should show the most important directions of resea rch. The citations generally refer to papers published in regular journals. The following topics were discussed: general aspects, chemical methods and reagents, spectrophotometry, speciation studies, atomic spectrometry, elec trochemical methods, chemo- and biosensors, chromatography and related tech niques. Short reviews on the history and present status of analytical chemistry hav e been published elsewhere(1,2) and this review is intended to present the more detailed overview of the recent fields of interest, based on some sele cted publications from the nineties. Such selection is obviously to some ex tent arbitrary and this is mainly based on information sent by colleagues f rom various centres. it seemed however, necessary to indicate where appropr iate, the roots and earlier achievements.