LCGC Europe-04-01-2019

Click the title above to open the LCGC Europe April 2019 regular issue, Vol 32, No 04, in an interactive PDF format.

Our annual review of new liquid chromatography (LC) columns and accessories, introduced at Pittcon and other events.

How long does it take to re-equilibrate reversed-phase stationary phases following gradient elution, especially when starting with a highly aqueous eluent?

This instalment describes high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), mass spectrometry (MS), and related products introduced at Pittcon 2019 and during the year prior. It reviews new HPLC and MS systems, modules, chromatography data systems (CDS), and other related software and summarizes their significant features and user benefits. A brief description of instrumentation trends and the current market is also included.

Lipidomics is one of the youngest branches of “omics” research. Maria Fedorova from Leipzig University, in Leipzig, Germany, discusses the latest trends and challenges in lipidomics research and highlights how innovative bioinformatics solutions are addressing data handling issues in this evolving field.

The 5th International Workshop on Electrochemistry–Mass Spectrometry (ElCheMS5) will be held 11–12 June 2019 at the University of Münster, Germany, and is hosted by the group of Uwe Karst and Martin Vogel.

The Chromatography Society’s (ChromSoc) annual Spring Symposium “Separation Science: Driving Pharmaceutical Development and Manufacture” will take place on 9 May 2019 in Sunderland, UK.

The “must know” details of which all electron ionization (EI) gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) users should be aware.