Hyphenated flow injection systems and high discrimination instruments

An overview of the state-of-the-art in flow injection analysis (FIA) coupled to instruments capable of providing either multidetection and/or multi-information is reported. The versatility of FIA endows the hyphenated instruments with analytical capabilities which increase from simple sample introduction to more complex sample handling such as automatic dilution and calibration, solvent exchange, derivatization reactions and on-line separation processes, among others. Unexplored aspects of these powerful problem solvers are also discussed.