LCGC Asia Pacific-06-01-2012

The use of in vivo SPME offers important advantages over conventional methods according to the authors, including simplified sample clean-up, fast stabilization of unstable analytes, elimination of enzymatic degradation after extraction and reduced ion suppression for mass spectrometry analyses.

In this instalment John V. Hinshaw reviews gas chromatography instruments and accessories that were newly presented at Pittcon 2012 or were introduced to the marketplace in the preceding year.

Wyatt Technology Application Note

Polymer Standards Service GmbH Application Note

What happens when the same method gives different retention times on different instruments?

This month's "Sample Prepartion Perspectives" describes practical aspects of hollow-fibre liquid-phase microextraction in the three phase mode (HF3LPME) and also electromembrane extraction (EME), which uses an electrical potential as the driving force for the extraction.

Click the title above to open the LCGC Asia Pacific June 2012 regular issue, Vol 15, No 2, in an interactive PDF format.