title: Recent applications and developments of capacitively coupled contactless conductivity detection (CE-C4D) in capillary electrophoresis.
abstract: Capacitively coupled contactless conductivity detection (C4D) has emerged as a powerful technique for the detection of compounds lacking any distinct chromophores or fluorophores. This review provides an update of the most recent application in CE-C4D for pharmaceutical, biomedical and food covering the period from January 2012 to January 2014. The present review is an update of two previous review papers covering the years 2000-2010 (Biomedical Chromatography 2010; 24: 1038-1044 and Biomedical Chromatography 2012; 26: 990-1000). Representative examples illustrate the applicability of CE-C4D in the fields of pharmaceutical, biomedical and food. Finally, general conclusions and perspectives are provided.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Science, Chemistry Department, University of Khartoum, PO Box 321, Khartoum, 11115, Sudan.
authors.forename: Abdalla A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Elbashir
authors.forename: Hassan Y
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Aboul-Enein
mesh_terms: D004553:Electric Conductivity; D019075:Electrophoresis, Capillary
keywords: biomedical analysis; capacitively coupled contactless conducuctivity; capillary electrophoresis; pharmaceutical analysis