Applications of capillary electrophoresis with capacitively coupled contactless conductivity detection (CE-(CD)-D-4) in pharmaceutical and biological analysis

Conductivity detection, which is universal in capillary electrophoresis (CE), has received considerable attention, since the introduction of the axial capacitively coupled contactless detector (CD)-D-4 in 1998. This detector is made of two electrodes which are placed cylindrically around the CE capillary and connected to the AC oscillator. The distance between the electrodes is the detection gap. In this review, applications of CE and MCE with (CD)-D-4 in pharmaceutical and biological analysis are presented. Copyright (C) 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.