Micellar chromatography of inorganic compounds

Micellar chromatography has been used to separate various compounds and to determine the partition coefficients of the compounds between aqueous bulk solution and a micellar pseudophase. The application of this method to inorganic analyses is less common than its application to organic analyses, albeit the former application gives fundamental aspects of the micellar partition of simple ions and promises developments of novel separation. In this review, we focus our attention on the fundamental aspects of micellar chromatography mostly in inorganic analysis of simple ions.