Do you have experience with gas chromatographs and mass spectrometers, particularly in the identification and analysis of VOCs? Are you knowledgeable in the human odour spectrum and its chemical components? Have you got a laboratory with GC–MS capability?
LCGC's coverage of Pittcon 2009, day three, from Chicago.
On Wednesday afternoon, March 11, 2009, the 2009 Coblentz Society's Williams-Wright Award will be presented to Spectroscopy contributing editor Jerome Workman, Jr. for his work on molecular spectroscopy, including near-infrared, infrared, UV-vis, process analysis, and chemometrics.
The 2008 Analytical Chemistry Award for Young Investigators in Separation Science will be presented to Nelson Torto at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 11 in Room S401A of McCormick Place.
A poster session focusing on gas chromatography (GC) and the environment was held on Tuesday afternoon of Pittcon 2009 in Chicago.
We build up to Pittcon for months in advance, scheduling appointments, scripting presentations, and choosing the right pair (or pairs) of shoes ? and then before you know it, here we are at the end of the week.
LCGC's coverage of Pittcon 2009, day two, from Chicago.
Arranged and presided over by Imre Molnar of the Molnar-Institute for Applied Chromatography, Monday afternoon's "The Future of HPLC-Method Development: Quality by Design - Evaluating the Control Space of Robust HPLC Methods" focused on the role of method robustness and quality by design in maintaining the high quality of pharmaceutical and chemical products that are distributed worldwide.
The staff of LCGC handed out two awards on Monday afternoon during a press conference on the second day of Pittcon 2009 in Chicago.
This Monday morning session was arranged by Michael E. Swartz, of Synomics Pharmaceutical Services (Wareham, Massachusetts). Unfortunately, Swartz was unable to preside over the session or deliver a presentation as planned due to a cancelled flight to Chicago. Ken Fountain of Waters Corporation (Milford, Massachusetts) filled in ably for Swartz in presiding over the session.
There is always a lot of buzz about environmental issues, ways to test for toxins, and other safety measures at Pittcon. With that in mind, Monday morning's Session 410 titled, "Environmental Analysis with GC and GC-MS," was both informative and refreshing.
When John Hinshaw recommended Session 800, "LC-MS and GC-MS Analysis in Complex Matrices," a glance at the lineup told me this would be a "scientist's" session; one filled with hard science from university laboratories and private facilities around the world.
LCGC's coverage of day one at Pittcon 2009 in Chicago.
Good morning and welcome to this, the first day of LCGC's daily coverage of Pittcon 2009 from the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, Illinois.
Welcome back to Chicago and Pittcon 2009. It?s likely to be a lot colder here than it was for Pittcon 2008 in New Orleans, but there should be no shortage of interesting sessions to attend this week.
Longtime LCGC contributor Dr. Frantisek Svec will receive the prestigious Dal Nogare Award at Pittcon 2009 in Chicago during a technical session on Monday morning.
Sunday afternoon's plenary lecture at Pittcon 2009 was presented by George M. Whitesides, Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University. The lecture was titled "Paper Diagnostics - Using First World Science in Developing Economies."
Pittcon 2009 has brought us back to the windy city, where the technical sessions are sure to be anything but breezy. Sunday afternoon's session titled, "New Stationary Phases for GC and LC," is a prime example of a session that was filled with new information for separation scientists to enjoy.
NextGen Sciences has sold its electrophoresis business to Sigma-Aldrich in exchange for a cash payment and royalty payments on revenues for three years. The deal involves the acquisition of the automated gel casting unit, the a2DEoptimizer and optigels, the range of large format pre-cast gels.
Tecan and GE Healthcare have announced that the two suppliers will be working together to bring increased quality and efficiency to process development.
The new CAMAG TLC–MS Interface is a versatile instrument to extract compounds from a TLC/HPTLC plate and feed them into a mass spectrometer for substance identification or structure elucidation. The device can be connected to any brand of LC-coupled mass spectrometer.
Scientific Glass Technology has introduced the Super Clean Gas filter, which has multiple adsorbents and saturation indicators for purification of helium in GC?MS.
Waters has announced that at the end of February 2009, its Board of Directors authorized the company to repurchase up to $500 million of its outstanding common shares over the next 24 months.
Researchers at the Munich Technical University and Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority have developed a comprehensive mycotoxin screening method based on the use of an LCTech GPC ULTRA gel permeation chromatography (GPC) instrument, which is distributed in North America by Pickering Laboratories (Mountain View, California) for sample cleanup before separation and detection.
A research group from the University of Valencia (Valencia, Spain) and the University of Alicante (Alicante, Spain) used ionic liquid?based single-drop microextraction followed by gas chromatography (GC) to analyze chlorobenzenes in real water samples.
PerkinElmer (Waltham, Massachusetts) announced the development of interface software for Agilent?s (Santa Clara, California) EZChrom Elite chromatography data system to control PerkinElmer?s Clarus gas chromatographs.
Scientists from Xiamen University (Xiamen, China) employed solid-phase microextraction (SPME) with a carbon nanotube?coated fiber to analyze phenols in aqueous samples.
Metrohm AG (Herisau, Switzerland) has released a method for the determination of melamine in milk powder and other food using ion chromatography after in-line sample dialysis.
Varian, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) announced that its board of directors has elected Garry W. Rogerson, the company?s president and chief executive officer, as chairman of the board.
Researchers from the University of Murcia (Murcia, Spain) developed a sample pretreatment system based on solid-phase microextraction (SPME) followed by gas chromatography with mass spectrometry detection (GC?MS).