Review of thin-layer chromatography in pesticide analysis: 2014–2016

ABSTRACT

Publications reporting techniques and applications of thin-layer chromatography (planar chromatography) for the separation, detection, qualitative and quantitative determination, and preparative isolation of pesticides and their metabolites are reviewed for the period from November 1, 2014 to November 1, 2016. Analyses are described for a variety of sample types and pesticide classes. In addition to references on residue analysis, studies such as pesticide chromatographic retention, identification and characterization of natural pesticides, metabolism, bioactivity, degradation, soil mobility, and lipophilicity are covered. The unique advantages of thin-layer chromatography in presenting results as a stored image on an open stationary phase are addressed.

GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT

KEYWORDS:

• Biopesticide
• fungicide
• herbicide
• insecticide
• pesticide
• thin-layer chromatography

Acknowledgments

The author thanks Karen F. Haduck, Lafayette College Interlibrary Loan Department, for supplying copies of most of the papers cited in this review, without which it could not have been written.