High-performance liquid chromatographic analysis of dinitrobenzene isomers

Summary An efficient, reproducible and rapid high-performance liquid chromatographic method, in normal phase mode, for the analysis of the three dinitrobenzene isomers is described. The method affords good linearity for each isomer in the range 10–160 g ml^–1. The total analysis time is only 10 minutes, and the method shows an accuracy of ±1.25% with a coefficient of variation from 0.30% to 2.85% for different levels of the dinitrobenzene isomers.