title: New approaches in sensitive chiral CE.
abstract: CE has shown to have a big potential for chiral separations, with advantages such as high efficiency, high resolution, and low sample and reagents consumption. Nevertheless, when UV detection is employed, CE has some drawbacks, especially the low sensitivity obtained due to the short optical path length. Notwithstanding, sensitivity improvements can be achieved when different approaches are employed, such as sample treatment strategies (off-line or on-line), in-capillary sample preconcentration techniques, and/or alternative detection systems to UV-Vis (such as fluorescence, conductimetry, electrochemiluminiscence, MS, etc.). This article reviews the most recent methodological and instrumental advances reported from June 2011 to May 2013 for enhancing the sensitivity in chiral analysis by CE. The sensitivity achieved for the enantioseparated analytes and the applications carried out using the developed methodologies are also summarized.
authors.affiliation: Department of Analytical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Biology, Environmental Sciences and Chemistry, University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sánchez-Hernández
authors.forename: Miguel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Guijarro-Diez
authors.forename: María Luisa
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Marina
authors.forename: Antonio L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Crego
mesh_terms: D019075:Electrophoresis, Capillary; D059625:Liquid-Liquid Extraction; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D052616:Solid Phase Extraction; D013237:Stereoisomerism
keywords: Chiral analysis; In-capillary sample preconcentration; Off-line/on-line sample treatment; On-column/end-column detection; Sensitivity improvement