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H. TRAITLER, A. STUDER, R.E. KAISER eds): Instrumental HPTLC, Institute for Chromatography, Bad Dürkheim, FRG (1987), 81-92. Discussion of the potential and limitations of column liquid chromatography, planar chromatography and capillary gas chromatography with the emphasis on separation efficiency, sample pretreatment, detection and derivatization procedures, and speed of analysis. Mention of on-line coupling of various chromatographic techniques and some future trends.

Anal. Chim. Acta 216, 109-145 (1989). A review with 68 references on the state of the art in the contemporary practice of GC, LC, SFC and TLC, future trends and the need for further research in the above areas.

VCH Verlagsges., Weinheim - Basel - Cambridge - New York - Tokyo, 1994, 450 pages, 116 figures, 31 in color and 19 tables, 1068 literature references. See detailed review on page 41 CBS-72.

Anal. Chem. 67, 295R-313R (1995). A review with 728 references on the methodology of analysing pharmaceuticals and related compounds, including TLC applications in the field.

J. Planar Chromatogr. 10, 80-89 (1997). Review for the period of 1994-1996 of advances in the applications of TLC and HPTLC for the separation, detection, and qualitative and quantitative determination of pesticides, other agrochemicals, and related compounds. Analyses are covered for a variety of samples, such as food and environmental, and for residues of pesticides of various types, including insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides, belonging to different chemical classes. A limited number of references on formulation analysis and the use of radio-TLC for studies of pesticide metabolism are also included. A collection of representative chromatographic systems for practical separations and analyses of a variety of pesticides are presented at the end of the review: 1. Introduction; 2. Materials and techniques (Sample preparation; thin layer plates, mobile phase selection, and plate development; detection and identification of zones), 3. Applications of TLC (General analytical studies and multiclass, multiresidue procedures; organochlorine (OC) and pyrethroid insecticides; organophosphorus (OP) pesticides; carbamate insecticides; herbicides and plant growth regulators; fungicides; miscellaneous pesticides, metabolites, and other compounds of agrochemical and environmental interest), 4. Hydrophobicity, metabolism, and data transfer studies, 5. Books and earlier reviews on pesticide TLC, 6. Selected chromatographic systems for the analysis of pesticides of various classes (70 references).

Chinese J. Pharm. (Zhongguo Yaoxue Zazhi) 34 (11), 780-781 (1999). A comparison of the China Pharmacopoeia with USP, BP, and JP, involving discussion of the status and trends of present Pharmacopoeia, the possibility of international cooperation in their edition, stressing on Chinese traditional medicine and its quality standards and TLC is, in particular, emphasized in identification of traditional medicine in various pharmacopoeia.

J. Liq. Chrom. Rel. Technol. 27, 1377-1411 (2004). The review includes 117 recent references regarding modern and efficient TLC methods like: gradient elution (GE) TLC, automated multiple development (AMD), and over-pressured layer chromatography (OPLC). Detailed discussions are included about the mobile phase optimization by the “Prisma” method and other mathematical models. The analysis and quantification by photodensitometry of flavonoids, coumarins, saponins, alkaloids, and other classes of compounds include detailed experimental conditions, stationary and mobile phase, development methods and quantitative determination by densitometric procedures.