“…While used extensively in gas chromatography and reversed phase HPLC [11,12], the application of the LSER method to normal phase HPLC [8,13,14,15,20,21] has been somewhat sparse, perhaps because of the more limited application range of normal phase HPLC relative to gas chromatography and reversed phase HPLC. Furthermore, because the retention mechanism of silica phases is based on adsorption, the LSER model, which is based on the cavity model of salvation [11], may not be entirely appropriate.…”