By
Tibor Cserháti, Dept. of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Chemical Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Description
This latest volume in the series entitled
Liquid Chromatography of Natural Pigments and Synthetic Dyes presents an overview
of the latest developments in the field while critically evaluating this method of analysis and providing comparisons of the various
liquid chromatographic separation techniques that are currently available. Natural pigments and synthetic dyes are extensively used in
various fields of everyday life including food production, textile industry, paper production, agricultural practice and research and
water science and technology. Besides their capacity for increasing the marketability of products, natural pigments have shown advantageous
biological activity as antioxidants and anticancer agents. On the negative side, synthetic pigments have a significant impact on the
environment and can cause adverse toxicological side effects. Both pigment classes exhibit considerable structural diversity. As the
stability of the pigments against hydrolysis, oxidation and other environmental and technological conditions is markedly different, the
exact determination of the pigment composition may help for the prediction of the shelf-life of products and the assessment of the influence
of technological steps on the pigment fractions resulting in more consumer friend processing methods. Furthermore, the qualitative determination
and identification of the pigments may contribute to the establishment of the provenance of the product. The unique separation capacity
of liquid chromatographic (LC) techniques makes it a method of preference for the analysis of pigments in any complicated accompanying
matrices.
Included in series
Journal of Chromatography Library
Audience:
For analytical chemists, researchers and students in the field of pigment chromatography
