Describes the role of chromatography in the development of new drugs. Features chapters on the analysis of natural and recombinant pharmaceutical products. Covers new techniques such as capillary electrophoresis and a number of hyphenated techniques that combine liquid chromatography or gas chromatography with mass spectrometry. Describes such applications as impurity analysis, chiral separations, metabolic studies, robotics, and support of biotechnology products. Also describes trace and ultratrace analyses in a variety of matrices.