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The most difficult problem for an investigator in chiral separations is to determine where to start. Cost considerations, availability of equipment, and know-how play important roles in the selection process (1,3-5).

The new European headquarters of the Yokogawa Electric Corporation have officially been opened in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, at a ceremony attended by public dignitaries and senior Yokogawa management.

ASMS 2009- Day 3

LCGC's coverage of ASMS 2009, day three, from Philadelphia.

ASMS 2009- Day 2

LCGC's coverage of ASMS 2009, day two, from Philadelphia.

Fossil fuels are a limited resource, and the petroleum industry is always on the lookout for ways to extract more useful materials from crude oil. This session focuses on the use of mass spectrometry in the analysis of petroleum.

Wednesday afternoon's session titled "MS of Polymers/Materials II: HPLC and Ion Mobility Separation" is part II of Wednesday morning session, "MS of Polymers/Materials I: Structures and Properties." The second half of this session will pick up where part one left off and address additional topics involving HPLC and other applications.

Ion mobility spectrometry has found commercial success as a homeland security tool in the field detection of explosives, drugs, and chemical weapons. Other common uses for the technique have been in the pharmaceutical industry for cleaning validation and in the analysis of biological material. The applications to be discussed in this Wednesday morning session include the combination of IMS with MS, the characterization of carbohydrate?protein binding, protein and peptide analysis, IMS-MS analyses with elevated electric field intensities, and neutral ion pair evaporation from ionic liquid nanodroplets

It's hard to believe these three days have gone by so quickly, but here we are on the last day of this week's show coverage

ASMS 2009- Day 1

LCGC's coverage of ASMS, day one, from Philadelphia.

Waters Corporation (Milford, Massachusetts) announced that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has purchased a Waters ACQUITY UltraPerformance liquid chromatograph for use in training new forensic chemists at the agency's Special Testing and Research Laboratory in Dulles, Virginia.

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It is no secret that these are tumultuous times we live in. With the economic slowdown, increased dangers abroad, and the recent string of scares involving toxins in everyday foods, there is no shortage of things to worry about in today's world. At LCGC, we've always felt that our Application Notebook is a reflection of not just the recent developments in chromatography and the field of separation science in general, but the world as a whole.

The Pittsburgh Conference released the call for papers for Pittcon 2010, which will be held February 28 to March 5, 2010, at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.

Researchers from Vertox Laboratory, Defence Research and Development Establishment (Gwalior, India) used a liquid-liquid-liquid microextraction technique followed by liquid chromatography?mass spectrometry (LC?MS) to examine alkyl alkylphosphonic acids, which are important environmental markers of nerve agents.