High-Performance Liquid Chromatographic Methods for the Analysis of Explosives

Development of a new SPME–HPLC–UV method for the analysis of nitro explosives on reverse phase amide column and application to analysis of aqueous samples

“…No work is reported till date for the analysis of nitroaromatics with amide column [29]. So, conditions for efficient separation of all nitroaromatic components related to solvents choice, solvents ratio, flow rate were optimized for amide column on the desorption loop of SPME-HPLC interface.…”

A fast liquid chromatography quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (LC-QToF-MS) method for the identification of organic explosives and propellants

“…Due to its ability to analyse thermally unstable compounds, such as explosives, liquid chromatography (LC) based methods offer a distinct advantage over GC related techniques. An extensive review of literature surrounding the analysis of organic explosives by LC based methods is detailed by Gaurav et al [17].…”

Recent advances in capillary electrophoresis instrumentation for the analysis of explosives

“…LODs in the order of nanograms have been achieved in IC recently. [15,16] However, compared to other techniques such as IC [8] or HPLC [17], CE shows less robustness. For example, different inorganic and organic species were recently analysed by IC, obtaining precise values; the relative standard deviation (RSD) was <2.1% considering the peak heights and n = 10 for cations and n = 8 for anions.…”

“…Due to these reasons, orthogonal techniques are usually employed to confirm the results. For example, for analyzing organic explosives used in crime, HPLC is ideally used [17] to complement CE analysis. Conversely, for the analysis of inorganic explosives or their residues (ions), CE is usually complemented with validated methods based on IC, given the reported analytical performance of this technique.…”