Vitamins: overview
This chapter offers a concise overview on conventional methods and on the latest advancements in liquid chromatography analysis of water-soluble and fat-soluble vitamins. Since there are a significant variety of biologically active forms and matrices of interest, some recent techniques, instruments and approaches have been considered due to their importance in solving complex separations of vitamin homologues as well as comprehensive profiling of organic micronutrients in biological samples. Some selected applications are proposed to enable readers to access the most recent developments and trends aimed at overcoming the most relevant difficulties in the vitamin analysis of biological samples and pharmaceutical products. As numerous papers have been published in this field, this concise overview covers some representative and original works published in the last decade.