%0 Journal Article %T Evaluation of a simple hyphenated system for flow injection solid-phase pre-concentration and capillary electrophoresis %A Assun£¿£¿o %A Nilson A. %A Miranda %A Carlos E. S. %A Lan£¿as %A Fernando M. %A Rosias %A Maria Fernanda G. G. %A Carrilho %A Emanuel %J Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society %D 2008 %I Sociedade Brasileira de Qu¨ªmica, SBQ %R 10.1590/S0103-50532008000600017 %X in this work, the development and evaluation of a hyphenated flow injection-capillary electrophoresis system with on-line pre-concentration is described. preliminary tests were performed to investigate the influence of flow rates over the analytical signals. results revealed losses in terms of sensitivity of the fia-ce system when compared to the conventional ce system. to overcome signal decrease and to make the system more efficient, a lower flow rate was set and an anionic resin column was added to the flow manifold in order to pre-concentrate the analyte. the pre-concentration fia-ce system presented a sensitivity improvement of about 660% and there was only a small increase of 8% in total peak dispersion. these results have confirmed the great potential of the proposed system for many analytical tasks especially for low concentration samples. %K instrumentation %K automation %K flow injection analysis %K solid-phase extraction. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0103-50532008000600017&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en