Analytical applications of the electrochemiluminescence of tris(2,2'-bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) coupled to capillary/microchip electrophoresis: a review

Ming Su; Wei Wei; Songqin Liu

doi:10.1016/j.aca.2011.07.016

Analytical applications of the electrochemiluminescence of tris(2,2'-bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) coupled to capillary/microchip electrophoresis: a review

Anal Chim Acta. 2011 Oct 17;704(1-2):16-32. doi: 10.1016/j.aca.2011.07.016. Epub 2011 Jul 20.

Authors

Ming Su¹, Wei Wei, Songqin Liu

Affiliation

¹ School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, PR China.

PMID: 21907018
DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2011.07.016

Abstract

A comprehensive review on the development of analytical methods, by coupling electrochemiluminescence (ECL) detection with capillary electrophoresis (CE) and microchip electrophoresis (ME), is presented. After the description of the basic mechanism of ECL, the addition mode of luminescence reagent in CE-ECL system has been discussed. The analytical applications of the CE-ECL technique in terms of different analytes are also given. Due to the importance of ME as a separation method for the present and future, the ME detection methods based on ECL are considered in a relatively detailed way. Finally, possible trends for CE/ME-ECL in the near future are discussed.