LCGC North America-06-01-2006

Thermo, Chata, and Cerno take top awards - Bruker Biosciences to acquire Bruker Optics - Chinese pharmaceutical company selects Thermo - DataApex and Knauer annouce cooperation.

In the second of a two-part series, Marlin K.L. Bicking continues to explain his work concerning integration errors in peaks with approximately equal sizes (small peak ratios).

Flash chromatography is a type of preparative liquid chromatography commonly used in the separation of organic compounds. When purifying organic compounds, few techniques are as easy, inexpensive, and speedy as flash chromatography. Flash chromatography has become a popular method of normal phase separation through purification.

In this month's installment of "LC Troubleshooting," John Dolan takes a look at solvent strength and sees how we can use it to make predictable changes in the peak movement for reversed-phase LC separations.

Guest authors Luke Chimuka and Ewa Cukrowska provide an in-depth look at the verious approaches to passive sampling, weighing the merits and challenges for each type.

The Stephen Dal Nogare award is one of the oldest and most prestigious awards given in chromatography. Little has been written about Stephen Dal Nogare "the man" or his contributions to scientific knowledge, including his unique contributions to separations science. This article describes his scientific career and how it has influenced the practice of chromatography.

In this column, Michael Balogh proposes some practices that you can adopt to enhance your prospects of being right when converting data to knowable information and applying it to solving problems.