Green bioanalytical chemistry

“…analytical chemistry is an information science that need not consume more resources than are necessary to support the analysis.” Green analytical chemistry (GAC) is an increasingly popular area of research in chemical analysis that may well redefine accepted truths. A search of the ISI Web of Science database yields more than a hundred hits on the keywords ‘green analytical’. An even more remarkable trend is the appearance of two reviews [1,2] and three books [3–5] on the subject in recent years. Bioanalysis as a subdiscipline of analytical chemistry cannot ignore this trend. Analytical chemistry deals with qualitative and quantitative information...