LCGC North America-01-01-2010

This month's installment of "Innovations in HPLC" discusses the use of HPLC for these recent threats to health and safety.

Hydrogen carrier gas can be an effective replacement for helium in many gas chromatography (GC) and GC–mass spectrometry (MS) applications.

This month in "GC Connections," John Hinshaw discusses issues that can arise when deciding to upgrade or replace gas chromatography technologies.

By the time readers are opening the pages of this issue, we will all have turned the calendar on 2009 and left it behind for what will hopefully be a brighter 2010. Humorist Bill Vaughan once famously said of New Year's Eve: "An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves." Given the financial year we all just experienced, my suspicion is there may be a few more people in the latter group than in the former this year. However, here at LCGC, we can't help but be optimistic about 2010.

A generic static headspace gas chromatographic (HSGC) method for determining common residual solvents in pharmaceuticals is described.

What should you do when a peak is too small or too large?

Click the title above to open the LCGC North America January 2010 regular issue, Vol 28 No 1, in an interactive PDF format.