Chromatography For The Analysis Of Lipids

Chromatography for the Analysis of Lipids focuses on the three main chromatographic techniques for analyzing lipids: thin layer (TLC), gas liquid (GLC), and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). It also covers supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC). Applications for each chromatographic technique are discussed with emphasis on their quantitative aspects and suitability for use, and variations in technique are covered in detail. Figures are used throughout the book to illustrate typical results, which shows end points that can be compared in your own laboratory. This important technical book will be an excellent workbench companion for chromatographers, food scientists, lipid chemists, analytical chemists, and others who use chromatographic techniques for lipid analysis.

This book focuses on the developments in the field of lipid analysis, providing an up-to-date review of the analytical techniques available to chemists and technologists to identify complex molecules. The requisite theoretical background will be provided for individual techniques, together with their strengths and weaknesses, and a guide to the enormous range of commercial applications. It will be an invaluable reference source to all sectors of the oils and fats industry where accurate labeling of foods, food contamination and adulteration are issues of increasing interest and concern.

Lipid Analysis: Isolation, Separation, Identification, and Structural Analysis of Lipids focuses on the methods, principles, and approaches involved in the isolation, identification, separation, and structural analysis of lipids. The publication first elaborates on the structure, chemistry and occurrence of lipids, isolation of lipids from tissues, and chromatographic and spectroscopic analysis of lipids. Discussions focus on equipping a laboratory for lipid analysis, spectroscopy, chromatographic procedures, general principles of solvent extraction procedures, structural features of lipids important in analyses, simple and complex lipids, and fatty acids. The text then examines the preparation of volatile derivatives of lipids and analysis of fatty acids and simple lipid classes. Topics include alkyl diglycerides and neutral plasmalogens, analysis of the hydrolysis products of simple lipids, preparation of large quantities of pure fatty acids, physical characterization of fatty acids, location of double bonds in fatty acid chains, and saponification of lipids. The manuscript covers the analysis and radioassay of isotopically-labelled lipids, enzymatic hydrolysis of lipids, and analysis of molecular species of lipids. The publication is a primary reference for researchers interested in lipid analysis.

Handbook of Chromatography: Analysis of Lipids provides a valuable review of state-of-the-art applications of chromatographic techniques (TLC, GC, HPLC) and other analytical techniques. Much of this volume is devoted to applications of HPLC (including supercritical fluid chromatography) in the analysis of lipids such as fatty acids, oxygenated fatty acids, enantiomeric acyl- and alkylglycerols, and lipoproteins. The handbook also provides extensive coverage of applications of combinations of various chromatographic techniques used in the analysis of ozonides, anacardic acids, glycerophospholipids, products of lipolysis, artifacts and contaminants in edible fats, acylated proteins, non-caloric lipids, lipophilic vitamins, acyl-Coenzyme A thioesters, dolichols, mycolic acids, technical fats and fat products, and liposomes. Handbook of Chromatography: Analysis of Lipids will be a useful reference for oil chemists, biochemists, fat science technologists, and other scientists involved in lipid research.

This multi-author volume provides an unprecedented in-depth coverage of the separation, identification and quantitation of simple and complex food and tissue fats and other lipids by chromatographic and mass spectrometric methods with emphasis on applications to biomedical research and clinical diagnosis. It contains a total of 13 chapters written by scientists who are internationally recognized in their specific fields. The volume covers analyses of molecular species of eicosanoids, sterols, and glycero and glycolipids in healthy and diseased human tissues and in appropriate animal models. The text complements the simpler group determinations of lipid classes commonly employed in clinical laboratories. The volume anticipates the discovery of the specific metabolism of molecular species of complex glycerolipids and provides the medical researcher and clinical investigator with the means for dealing with it.

Fatty acids and lipids: structures, extraction and fractionation into classes -- Gas chromatography: theoretical aspects and instrumentation -- Preparation of methyl ester and other derivatives -- Gas chromatographic analysis of fatty acid derivatives -- Isolation of fatty acids and identification by spectroscopic and chemical degradative techniques -- Gas chromatography--mass spectrometry and fatty acids -- Gas chromatographic analysis of molecular species of lipids -- Alternative or complementary methods for the analysis of molecular species of lipids -- Some miscellaneous separations of lipids by gas chromatography.

New Techniques and Applications in Lipid Analysis provides an informative and comprehensive reference book covering the latest and most important analytical topics in lipid chemistry. Researchers in biomedicine, food industry, food processing, product development, nutrition and dietetics, oil processing, fat substitutes, and lipid technology, as well as students in the fields of food science and nutrition, will greatly benefit from this book.