News All the news from January 2007 Zosimus Zosimus complains about the lack of innovation in chromatography and stresses the importance of getting back in the lab to do the "real work". Market Trends & Analysis Glenn Cudiamat provides a report on separation instrumentation demand in the Asia-Pacific region. Extraction of Pharmaceuticals from Environmental Water Samples Matthew Cleeve, Lee Williams and Helen Lodder Simplified Method Development with a Single Polymeric SPE Sorbent Shahana Huq and Art Dixon Chiral Method Development Brian Freer Demonstration of Chiral Separation Behaviour and a Scale-up Process Silvia Marten Q&A Chris Loran, product group director, LC, LC-MS and consumables at Thermo Fisher Scientific in San Jose, California, USA talks to The Column about Ultrafast HPLC systems.
Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) coupled with headspace solid-phase microextraction )HS-SPME) links cocoa variety to chocolate aroma and flavor profiles.
Emma Macturk from LECO Corporation explains which forensic applications benefit from GC×GC’s greater peak capacity, and when the additional separation power may only provide limited benefits.
Kirstine Nielsen of Aarhus University (Denmark) discusses how targeted metabolomics ratios helped build a robust bloodstain time-since-deposition tool.
Gérard Hopfgartner explains how atmospheric pressure photoionization can generate radical cations in LC–MS, unlocking EI-style spectra and NIST's spectral library.
LCGC International spoke to Akina Nara of Japan’s Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University about a new study which links a blood compound to how long a body has been dead.