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HPLC column line acquired

Hichrom, UK based HPLC column manufacturer, has announced the acquisition of the Ultrasphere HPLC column consumable product line from Beckman Coulter, a US based manufacturer of biomedical testing instrument systems, tests and supplies.

The combination of the small particle size and narrow particle size distribution coupled with the significantly shorter diffusion path provided by the Kinetex core-shell particle results in a material that yields significantly increased column efficiencies and chromatographic resolution.

Pittcon has announced the recipients of ten prestigious awards recognizing the significant contributions of leaders in the fields of Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy. The awards will be presented at Pittcon 2010, February 28 to March 5, 2010.

HPLC

Joining us for this discussion are Sergio Guazzotti of Thermo Fisher Scientific; Fraser McLeod of Dionex Corporation; Helmut Schulenberg-Schell of Agilent Technologies; and Steve Watts of Hitachi High Technologies America.

GC Column Degradation

The answer to the following question was supplied by LCGC's "GC Connections" columnist John Hinshaw.

The 2009 LCGC Lifetime Achievement Award winner Harold McNair is interviewed by the 2009 LCGC Emerging Leader Award winner Kevin Schug.

Richter-Helm BioLogics has announced that it will be improving the efficiency of its downstream processing capabilities by using 2nd Generation Expanded Bed Adsorption (EBA) chromatography that has been developed by the Danish company Upfront Chromatography.

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LECO?s patented ChromaTOF software provides a one-stop software package for a fully automated instrument solution from sample introduction, data acquisition, True Signal Deconvolution (TSD) to analyte quantification and report generation.

India-based Arch Pharmalabs has entered into a strategic partnership with Orochem Technologies, to manufacture a US company?s active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) in late-stage clinical development using simulated moving bed (SMB) chromatography.

The combination of the small particle size and narrow particle size distribution coupled with the significantly shorter diffusion path provided by the Kinetex™ core-shell particle results in a material that yields significantly increased column efficiencies and chromatographic resolution. This is a significant benefit for separation scientists looking to increase efficiency and chromatographic resolution, especially for complex separations containing many compounds and very closely eluting compounds so that accurate identification and quantitation can be achieved.

Using Radiochromatography for Fast LC - Problems and Solutions Keith Hall Enhancing Radioactivity Flow Detection Günter Dietzel A Quantitative, Efficient Method for Analysis of 25-Hydroxy-Vitamin D3 and 25-Hydroxy-Vitamin D2 Using Automated Sample Preperation Allen Zhang, Robert Kane and Francois Espourteille News Protein detection in mitochondria, a device used in CSI, unearthing the cause of a Triassic global catastrophe by pyrolysis GC–MS and a company's video showcase are this issue's features. Events and Staff

Linde Gases will be installing the central gas supply systems for the Università degli Studi, Salerno, Italy and Sardegna Ricerche, Sardinia, Italy at their newly built science laboratories.

The US Food and Drug Administration?s Centre for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition has purchased nine Waters? UPLC systems that it will use to monitor the country?s domestically-produced and imported food supply.

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Extreme Leaks

In this month's "GC Connections," John Hinshaw investigates how much air enters a gas stream in the face of extreme leaks in an attempt to gauge the potential effects of carrier gas leaks on GC system performance.

Short Courses

Short Courses November 2009 and on.

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The high-throughput analysis of pesticides in raw agricultural commodities has been hindered by the slow and laborious sample preparation stages. Using traditional clean-up procedures, as many as 20 steps are required to get the sample in a convenient form for analysis, which typically limits sample throughput to eight samples per day. This study evaluates a new approach using a novel laboratory mill and pulverizer to extract various pesticide residues from different kinds of plant materials and to identify and quantify the active ingredients by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS–MS). It shows that by automating the procedure, the number of clean-up steps can be reduced significantly, which increases sample throughput over traditional approaches.