LCGC North America-05-01-2015

Recently, I received an inquiry from a reader regarding a problem he encountered with a routine liquid chromatography (LC) method in his clinical laboratory.

When Professor Georges Guiochon passed away last October, at the age of 83, the separation science community mourned the loss of one of the great pioneers of the field.

In this installment, John Hinshaw reviews gas chromatography (GC) instruments, columns, and accessories that were newly on display at the Pittsburgh Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, during March 2015, or were introduced to the marketplace in the preceding year.

As expected, the new products introduced in the past year in the area of chromatographic sample preparation, while somewhat limited, mirror the current development in the field.

All sample preparation adds the potential for error to the analytical protocol, so choosing less-complicated techniques will help to reduce inherent error.

A highly sensitive and selective mercuric oxide–based reduction gas detector was successfully used for parts-per-billion level gas chromatography (GC) determination of ethylene in various matrices such as in the monitoring of fruit ripening, ambient air, and industrial solvents.

Joseph Jack Kirkland, considered by many to be one of fathers of high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), is the winner of LCGC's 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award.

The LC/GC Checker app is designed to provide four approaches to check an LC or GC instrument's performance.

Click the title above to open the LCGC North America May 2015 regular issue, Vol 33 No 5, in an interactive PDF format.