Steve Brown

The 2017 Chromatography Forum of the Delaware Valley Dal Nogare Award will be presented Monday morning at Pittcon 2018 to Professor Robert Kennedy from the University of Michigan. The award will be presented by Mary Ellen McNally of EI DuPont de Nemours and Company.

The first presentation in this Tuesday morning session will be given by Tadeusz Gorecki of the University of Waterloo and is titled “Comprehensive Multidimensional Separations: Can They Get Better?” Gorecki will discuss both GCxGC and LCxLC separations and will present examples of both approaches.

This Wednesday afternoon session was organized by Gregory D. Smith of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields and covers the latest chromatographic, mass spectrometric, and spectroscopic methods of analyzing natural and synthetic dyes in museum textiles to determine the dye sources, technology, history, and condition of these artifacts.

This Tuesday afternoon session opens with a presentation by Joan Stevens of Agilent Technologies, titled “Multiresidue Analysis of Pesticides in Cannabis-Infused Oil and Edibles by Various Extractions and Enhanced Matrix Removal Lipid Cleanup.” Stevens will discuss a method for selectively removing lipids from cannabis-infused food products for the analysis of pesticides.

On Wednesday, January 17, Francois Huby of The Dow Chemical Company will present a talk titled “Comparative Evaluation of ‘Carbon Centric’ Gas Chromatography Detectors for Volatile Organic Compounds Analysis.” The presentation is scheduled to take place at 10:55 a.m. in Room 372 D.

The 2017 Chromatography Forum of the Delaware Valley Dal Nogare Award will be presented Monday morning at Pittcon 2017 to Professor Andras Guttman from the Csaba Horváth Laboratory of Bioseparation Sciences at the University of Debrecen in Hungary.

This Tuesday, October 11 session of the 2016 Gulf Coast Conference will be held in room 371 D of the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas.

The 2016 Chromatography Forum of the Delaware Valley Dal Nogare Award will be presented to Stephen Weber, who is a Professor of Chemistry and Clinical Translational Science at the University of Pittsburgh, on Monday morning at Pittcon 2016. The award will be presented by Mary Ellen McNally of EI DuPont de Nemours and Company. The Chromatography Forum of the Delaware Valley chooses award recipients based on their contributions to the fundamental understanding of the chromatographic process. The award was established in honor of Stephen Dal Nogare, who died in 1968 after serving for six months as president of the Chromatography Forum.

The 2015 Chromatography Forum of the Delaware Valley Dal Nogare Award will be presented to Mark R. Schure, adjunct professor of chemical engineering at the University of Delaware, on Monday morning at Pittcon 2015.

The 2010 Ralph N. Adams Award in Bioanalytical Chemistry will be presented to Catherine Fenselau, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland), on Wednesday afternoon at Pittcon 2010.

This Tuesday morning session will be presided over by Matthew Klee of Agilent Technologies (Wilmington, Delaware), who also arranged the session. Capillary gas chromatography (GC) continues to be a workhorse separations technique in the analytical laboratory.

Sunday afternoon?s plenary lecture at Pittcon 2010 will be presented by Alan G. Marshall, Robert O. Lawton Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University (Tallahassee, Florida), and Director of the Ion Cyclotron Resonance Program at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.

The James L. Waters Annual Symposium recognizes pioneers in instrumentation development and explores the origins, development, implementation, and commercialization of important scientific instrumentation. This Monday afternoon session was arrranged for by Janeth K. Pifer and Arnit Ghosh of PPG Industries (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). Pifer is slated to preside over the session.

Ion mobility spectrometry has found commercial success as a homeland security tool in the field detection of explosives, drugs, and chemical weapons. Other common uses for the technique have been in the pharmaceutical industry for cleaning validation and in the analysis of biological material. The applications to be discussed in this Wednesday morning session include the combination of IMS with MS, the characterization of carbohydrate?protein binding, protein and peptide analysis, IMS-MS analyses with elevated electric field intensities, and neutral ion pair evaporation from ionic liquid nanodroplets

The call for increased biofuel production will surely be closely followed by a need for improved methods of analysis. The six presentations in this Tuesday morning session will examine various roles of mass spectrometry in biofuels analysis and will cover topics such as biodiesel characterization, metaproteomic analysis of termite microbes relevant to biofuel development, and multiple reaction monitoring of biofuels systems metabolic pathways.

Elemental mass spectrometry mainly targets inorganic materials, determining elemental compositions of samples rather than providing structural information. This session will cover topics such as bioimaging of metals in brain tissue, the analysis of chemical warfare agent degradation products, and the separation and quantitation of antisense oligonucleotides.

The 2008 Analytical Chemistry Award for Young Investigators in Separation Science will be presented to Nelson Torto at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 11 in Room S401A of McCormick Place.

This Monday morning session was arranged by Michael E. Swartz, of Synomics Pharmaceutical Services (Wareham, Massachusetts). Unfortunately, Swartz was unable to preside over the session or deliver a presentation as planned due to a cancelled flight to Chicago. Ken Fountain of Waters Corporation (Milford, Massachusetts) filled in ably for Swartz in presiding over the session.

Sunday afternoon's plenary lecture at Pittcon 2009 was presented by George M. Whitesides, Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University. The lecture was titled "Paper Diagnostics - Using First World Science in Developing Economies."

Polymer-based columns still are widely used in size-exclusion chromatography (SEC) and ion chromatography-ion-exchange chromatography - they have always been used in these modes, even back in 1987.

Flash chromatography was first introduced by W.C. Still in 1978. The following report published in the June 2006 issue of LCGC North America provided a good overview of the technique.

According to "Column Watch" Editor Ron Majors, Type C silica is a term introduced by Dr. Joseph Pesek of San Jose State University (California).

Beginning in February, Steve Brown, LCGC technical editor of 18 years, will answer your technical questions. Each month, one question will be selected to appear in this space, so we welcome your submissions. Please send all questions to the attention of "Ask the Editor" at lcgcedit@lcgcmag.com. We look forward to hearing from you.