November 2000

John Hinshaw looks at various means to heat GC columns.

The authors describe two tests performed using SPE. The first involved sterol isolation and cleanup of seed oils, and the second analyzed crude seed oils.

Ron Majors highlights presentation from the 24th International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques.

This column discusses the activities of a Russian pioneer of GC and outlines the principles of some of the techniques he developed.

The authors describe reversed-phase HPLC based on hybrid particles and demonstrate the packing's retention and selectivity characteristics.

Guest author S.R. Needham describes an HPLC–tandem MS method that rapidly analyzes drugs and isobaric metabolites in complex matrices.

This month's installment illustrates some potential problems that may arise during method transfer.