The guanidino compounds guanidine, methylguanidine, guanidinoacetic acid, guanidinopropionic acid, guanidinobutyric acid and guanidinosuccinic acid were eluted and separated after pre-column derivatization with glyoxal from an HP-5 column (30 m × 0.32 mm i.d.) with film thickness 0.25 µm at an initial column temperature of 100 °C for 2 min, with ramping of 20°C/min up to 250 °C and a nitrogen f...