“…Many reports on CEC-MS have focused on the characterization of the coupling between the two techniques [155, 201±206]. CEC-MS has been used recently for several applications including analysis of samples containing, for example, peptides and amino acids [130,156,183,204], preservatives is pharmaceutical creams [127], metal ions [207], triglycerides and fatty acids [204,208], DNA [209±211], tags from combinatorial organic synthesis [212], drug candidates [213], and fatty acids and vitamins [204], among others.…”