“…1,3,4 At present, quinine is not legally permitted to be added to drinks in China. 5 In recent years, although several methods were proposed for the determination of quinine in drinks including spectrometry, 6,7 flow injection analysis, 8 cyclic voltammetry, 9 isotachophoresis, 4 micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography, 10 and immunoassay, 11 most of which suffer from various disadvantages such as poor sensitivity, poor selectivity, time-consuming procedure, or specific requirement for an instrument, high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is still the most popular choice because of its facilitation of separation and detection. [12][13][14][15] However, the peak shapes of quinine were not satisfactory in most HPLC methods because of the interaction between residual silanol groups of stationary phase and quinine, which results in tailing peak and, thus, relatively poor sensitivity.…”