05554 IUPAC Gold Book - selective elution 10.1351/goldbook.S05554 S05554 current 1 An elution procedure in which a specific eluent is used, e.g. a complexing agent that forms stable non-sorbable complexes with one or a group of the compounds to be separated, but affects the other components only to a negligible extent. eluent https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/E02040 elution https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/E02042 stable https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/S05900 Orange Book, 2nd ed., p. 92 (https://media.iupac.org/publications/analytical_compendium/) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/S05554/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/S05554/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/S05554/plain Citation: 'selective elution' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.S05554 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-07-30T19:48:47+00:00