Editor Luigi Mondello speaks with Professor Keith Bartle

✍ Scribed by Luigi Mondello; Keith Bartle

• Book ID: 102445787
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 295 KB
• Volume: 32
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1615-9306
• DOI: 10.1002/jssc.200990034

✦ Synopsis

bul Technical University (Ekrem Ekinci) have also been fruitful. In 1993 he founded Express Separations with Tony Clifford to exploit supercritical fluids in analysis and chemical processing.

Keith began his career in chromatography in 1958 while working as a technician in an analytical lab, and studying for a part time degree. After a Ph.D. and post-doctoral work in NMR, he returned to GC in 1968, working on the physical chemistry governing the coating and stability of capillary columns for GC. At Leeds University since 1970, GC and its applications, especially in fuels chemistry, have remained major interests, with pioneering work from 1985 in SFC both on packed and capillary columns with emphasis on FT-IR detection strategies and on the basis of retention, and then in SFE and its kinetics. In the 1980s it was realised that 2D separations were required for the more complete analysis of complex mixtures, and coupled LC-GC and later LC-GC-MS and LC-GC-AED were developed and applied in fuel, environmental and natural product chemistry. These methods were extended in the 1990s to the concept of unified chromatography, and then to comprehensive 2D GC for the analysis of pollutants in air. Most recently, the theory and practice of CEC, especially concerning column technology for pharmaceutical analysis, have received attention.