The Elephant in the Room

In this fifth part of " Conversations with Michael Dong," a series on fundamentals of HPLC in pharmaceutical analysis, LCGC International’s "Perspectives in HPLC" column editor discusses how to overcome challenges with reversed-phase chromatography in drug analysis.

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In this fourth part of " Conversations with Michael Dong," a series on fundamentals of HPLC in pharmaceutical analysis, LCGC International’s "Perspectives in HPLC" column editor explains why buffers are most often used in Mobile Phase A in high-pressure liquid chromatography of pharmaceuticals.