Review of advances in the thin layer chromatography of pesticides: 2012–2014

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, 2012 to November 1, 2014. Analyses are described for a variety of sample types and pesticide classes. In addition to references on residue analysis, studies such as pesticide structure – retention relationships, identification and characterization of natural and synthesized pesticides, metabolism, bioactivity, degradation, soil mobility, and lipophilicity are covered.

Keywords:

• Pesticide
• pesticide metabolites
• thin layer chromatography (TLC)
• high-performance TLC (HPTLC)
• planar chromatography
• insecticide
• herbicide
• fungicide

Acknowledgments

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