“…Hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC) has become very popular for the separation and determination of polar compounds such as proteins, peptides, amino acids, nucleotides, and carbohydrates. Applications of HILIC began to increase especially after 2003, and many can now be found in the literature [15,16]. The term HILIC or “aqueous normal phase chromatography” should reflect the fact that, unlike RP-HPLC, the stationary phase is polar; moreover, the mobile phase contains an excess of organic solvent, typically more than 80% ( v / v ) of acetonitrile.…”