“…Vacancy chromatography, which is a special case of system peaks where the sample contains only the weak solvent, was described much earlier, in gas chromatography (2). The occurrence of system peaks has been explained by 0003-2700/90/0362-0923$02.50/0 © 1990 American Chemical Society solvent displacement, solvophobic interactions in the mobile phase, preferential evaporation of one component of the mixed mobile phase during storage (3), preferential solvation (4), intramolecular hydrogen bonding, or hydrophobic interactions (5). The origin and properties of system peaks have been reviewed recently by Levin and Grushka (6,7).…”