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

The environment and possible contaminants will take center stage in a Wednesday afternoon session at the 57th annual ASMS Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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.

Monitoring Protein Deamidation by Cation-Exchange Chromatography-Dionex Application Note

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.

Chromatographic Fingerprinting of Flos Chrysanthema Indici-Dionex Application Note

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

This column reviews AIQ and discusses its impact in the regulated chromatography laboratory.

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.

High Throughput SEC of Water Soluble Polymers Using TSK-GEL SuperAW Columns-Tosoh Application Note

Separation of IgM using TSK-GEL BioAssist S -Tosoh Application Note

Malvern Instruments (Westborough, Massachusetts) has more than doubled the size of its web seminar program.

Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. (San Jose, California) announced that Japan?s National Police Agency (NPA) has purchased 51 linear ion trap mass spectrometers and 27 FT-IR spectrometers.

PerkinElmer, Inc., (Waltham, Massachusetts) has entered into a resale arrangement with LEAP Technologies Inc. (Carrboro, North Carolina).

Mobile Phase Optimization for the Analysis of an Antibody-Based Fusion Protein and Aggregates using a TSKgel Super SW3000 Size-Exclusion Column -Tosoh Application Note

High Throughput GPC Analysis of Phenolic Resin Using TSK-GEL SuperHZ Columns-Tosoh Application Note

Agilent Technologies, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) announced it has jointly developed a method to detect and identify perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) in water and soil using high-performance liquid chromatography? mass spectrometry (HPLC?MS) with the China National Environmental Monitoring Center (CNEMC).

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.

Researchers from Banyu Pharmaceutical Co. (Ibaraki, Japan) used a novel extraction method to prepare drugs in gelatin capsules for analysis by high performance liquid chromatography.

A research group from AlbaNova University Center, Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden) developed an automated method for purifying and desalting proteins before mass spectrometry analysis.

Ion Exchange Analysis of Monoclonal Antibodies on Large Pore TSK-GEL BioAssist Columns-Tosoh Application Note

A research group from NRL Marine Biotoxins, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (Berlin, Germany) developed a solid-phase extraction (SPE) method for the enrichment and clean-up of lipophilic marine biotoxins from various species of bivalve molluscs and processed shellfish products.

ACD/Labs (Toronto, Canada) announced the release of new software for target analysis of complicated LC?MS and GC?MS datasets, without the tedious and difficult manual interpretation.

Stability of TSK-GEL SuperSW3000 Columns for Analyzing Proteins by SEC-Tosoh Application Note

French scientists have developed a GC?MS method, combined with a triple partition extraction step to reduce the amounts of co-extracted fats, for the determination of pesticides in meat-based baby foods.