ch. 1. Overview of the field of high performance liquid chromatography in phytochemical analysis and the structure of the book / Monika Waksmundzka-Hajnos and Joseph Sherma -- ch. 2. Herbal drugs and the role of chromatographic methods in their analysis / Ioanna Chinou -- ch. 3. Plant products in nutrition and dietary supplements : quality control / Grazyna Zgorka -- ch. 4. HPLC in chemosystematics / Renate Spitaler and Christian Zidorn -- ch. 5. Phytochemistry, phytopharmacology, and the biological role of plant metabolites / Krystyna Skalicka-Wozniak, Michal L. Hanos, and Kazimierz Glowniak -- ch. 6. Sample preparation of plant material / Anna Oniszczuk and Anna Hawryl -- ch. 7. Stationary phases and columns in analysis of primary and secondary metabolites / Fred Rabel -- ch. 8. Separation of nonionic analytes : reversed- and normal-phase HPLC / Miroslaw Hawryl and Wojciech Markowski -- ch. 9. Separation of ionic analytes : reversed-phase, ion-pair, ion-exchange, and ion-exclusion HPLC / Monika Waksmundzka-Hajnos and Lukasz Ciesla -- ch. 10. Gradient elution and computer-assisted method development / Miroslaw Hawryl -- ch. 11. LC-MS as a method of identification and quantification of plant metabolites / Gunther Stecher. [et al.] -- ch. 12. LC-NMR and related techniques for the rapid identification of plant metabolites / Jean-Luc Wolfender -- ch. 13. Photodiode array (PDA) and other detection methods in HPLC of plant metabolites / Wojciech Markowski and Monika Waksmundzka-Hajnos -- ch. 14. Quantitative analysis--method validation--quality control / Pierre Masson -- ch. 15. Confirmation of chirality of some natural products by the HPLC method / Beata Polak -- ch. 16. HPLC of carbohydrates / Angelika Koch, Simla Basar, and Rita Richter -- ch. 17. HPLC of plant lipids / Marek Golebiowski. [et al.] -- ch. 18. HPLC analysis of amino acids, peptides, and proteins / Giuseppe Mennella, Antonietta D'Alessandro, and Gianluca Francese --

ch. 19. Application of HPLC in the analysis of phenols, phenolic acids, and tannins / Tuulia Hyotylainen and Maarit Kivilompolo -- ch. 20. Application of HPLC in coumarin analyses / Alev Tosun and Petr Tomek -- ch. 21. HPLC of flavonoids / Monika Waksmundzka-Hajnos. [et al.] -- ch. 22. HPLC of lignans / Annika I. Smeds -- ch. 23. HPLC of mono- and sesquiterpenes / Angelika Koch, Simla Basar, and Rita Richter -- ch. 24. HPLC analysis of diterpenes / Michal L. Hajnos -- ch. 25. High performance liquid chromatography of triterpenes (Including saponins) / Wieslaw Oleszek and Anna Stochmal -- ch. 26. HPLC of carotenoids / Lukasz Ciesla -- ch. 27. HPLC of steroids / Laurence Dinan, Juraj Harmatha, and Rene Lafont -- ch. 28. HPLC of iridoids / Rilka Taskova, Tetsuo Kokubun, and Kalina Alipieva -- Chapter 29. HPLC of indole alkaloids / Anna Petruczynik -- ch. 30. HPLC of isoquinoline alkaloids / Laszlo Kursinszki. [et al.] -- ch. 31. HPLC of tropane alkaloids / Tomasz Mroczek -- ch. 32. HPLC of alkaloids from the other biosynthetic groups / Jolanta Flieger -- ch. 33. HPLC analysis of polyacetylenes / Lars P. Christensen and Kathrine B. Christensen -- ch. 34. HPLC of quinonoid phytochemicals / Subhalakshmi Ghosh, Madhushree Das Sarma, and Banasri Hazra.