“…In liquid phase chromatography, considerable effort has been devoted to the modification of stationary phases with immobilized transition metal ions, in order to exploit coordinative interactions in the separation of analytes containing heteroatoms or π‐electron systems. Transition metal ions are immobilized either by direct interaction with the stationary phase11–13 or by complexation with ligands bonded to the stationary phase 14–19. This type of chromatography, often referred to as “ligand exchange chromatography”, has been successfully demonstrated in the separation of compounds such as amines,13–17 sulfur compounds,19 phenols,18 or polycyclic aromatics 11,12…”