This is a broad-based, general book on high performance liquid chromatography, designed to be a standard in the field. Written by contributors who work at the cutting edge of the science, this text/reference provides chromatographers, and teachers and students of analytical chemistry with comprehensive coverage of the theoretical bases for HPLC. Contributions explain terminology, thermodynamics and kinetics, detectors and derivatization, stationary phases, separations, equipment, error analysis, and advanced techniques, such as supercritical fluid chromatography and field flow fractionation.