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In this research report, an in house developed octadecyl monolithic (ODM) column has been exploited in the reversed-phase capillary electrochromatography (RP-CEC) of precolumn derivatized mono- and oligosaccharides with three different tagging agents, namely 1-naphthylamine (1-NA), 2-aminoanthracene (2-AA) and 3-amino-2,7-naphthalenedisulfonic acid (ANDSA). These three derivatizing agents, which differed in their charges, nonpolar characters and optical absorption properties, led to different RP-CEC elution patterns and UV detection signals. In fact, the limit of detection of the derivatized sugars were 50 µM for the ANDSA- and 1-NA-sugar derivatives and 35 µM for the 2-AA-sugar derivatives due to the presence of three fused aromatic rings in 2-AA versus 2 fused rings in the 1-NA and ANDSA tags. Furthermore, while the longer ANDSA-oligosaccharides eluted later than the shorter ones and the ANDSA-monosaccharides, 1-NA- and 2-AA-sugar derivatives necessitated the presence of borate ions at alkaline pH in the mobile phase to form in situ charged derivatives to facilitate their separation by RP-CEC, and the elution order was the reversal of that observed with the ANDSA-sugar derivatives; that is the mono- eluted later than the larger size oligosaccharides. In addition, plots of log t |