AUTHOR=Borisov Roman , Kanateva Anastasiia , Zhilyaev Dmitry TITLE=Recent Advances in Combinations of TLC With MALDI and Other Desorption/Ionization Mass-Spectrometry Techniques JOURNAL=Frontiers in Chemistry VOLUME=Volume 9 - 2021 YEAR=2021 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/chemistry/articles/10.3389/fchem.2021.771801 DOI=10.3389/fchem.2021.771801 ISSN=2296-2646 ABSTRACT=The combination of planar chromatography with desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (MS) techniques provides chemists with unique tools for fast and simple separation of mixtures followed by detection of analytes by the most powerful analytical method. Since its introduction in the early 1990s thin-layer chromatography(TLC)/matrix-assisted mass spectrometry (MALDI) has been used for analysis of a wide range of analytes including natural and synthetic organic compounds. Nowadays new desorption/ionization approaches have been developed and applied in conjunction with planar chromatography competing with MALDI. This review covers recent developments in the combination of TLC with various desorption/ionization MS methods which were made recent several years.