A Review of Analysis of Pesticides Using Capillary Electrophoresis

Abstract

Capillary electrophoresis is a micro volume separation technique increasingly achieving recognition for use in the separation and determination of pesticides due to its relatively short analysis time, and nano liter to picoliter sample volumes. Capillary electrophoresis is attracting considerable attention from many laboratories due to its simplicity. This overview discusses the applications of capillary electrophoresis for trace detection and determination of pesticides in pesticide formulations, environmental samples, and for chiral separations. The basic principles and improvements and their application in terms of increasing detection limits are discussed in this overview.

Keywords:

• analysis
• capillary electrophoresis
• pesticides
• environmental samples
• reviews.