An up-to-date, critical review of recent advances, covering all aspects in a simplified, user-oriented, and understandable fashion. Gives a brief historical review and compares the technique with classical static methods for obtaining thermodynamic data, emphasizing gas chromatography's accuracy and reproducibility. Covers virial coefficients, use of chemically-active mobile phases, solution properties, complexation interaction, and adsorption phenomena; also contains a critique of recently proposed models of solutions. Examines the potention for investigating kinetic phenomena and the properties of pure substances. Contains a comprehensive bibliography.

Amino acids and proteins; Carbohydrates; Synthetic polymers; Liquid column.