Bi-quadratic surface response for quantitative determination of analytes leading to partially overlapped chromatographic peaks

A simple analytic approach is described for the accurate determination of the concentration of components which give rise to partially overlapped chromatographic peaks. This method requires neither deconvolution processes nor chromatographic separation of the peaks. From the empirical point of view a bi-quadratic function has been found relating the area of an unresolved peak with the concentrations of the related analyte and of the interfering one. Such concentrations are then computed by solving the related non linear system of equations by the Newton-Raphson method. Ó 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.