Abstract
Chemical fingerprinting is a means of providing a chemical profile or signature that represents the components that are present in a sample and describes a range of methods where the primary aim is to provide a unique graphical representation of the sample by identifying the chemical elements within a matrix in comparison to similar matrices. Chemical fingerprinting may provide the characterization, quantification, differentiation, and the identification of complex mixtures based on their chemical composition and is particularly important in such fields as pharmaceuticals, natural products, food, forensic, and environmental sciences and will become the ideal requirement for fields of study, such as, metabolomics: Accordingly, techniques that purport to acquiring chemical fingerprinting information require high levels of reproducibility and accuracy.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Hyphenated and Alternative Methods of Detection in Chromatography |
| Publisher | CRC Press |
| Pages | 251-285 |
| Number of pages | 35 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781420008487 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780849390777 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2011 |
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