|Articles|May 1, 2000

LCGC North America

  • May 2000
  • Volume 18
  • Issue 05
  • Pages: 478–487

Starting Out Right, Part VI – The Scouting Gradient Alternative

Author(s)John W. Dolan

A scouting gradient is a separation run under a standardized set of conditions and can be used to determine the complexity of a sample and estimate the difficulty of the separation. John Dolan tells why he believes using a scouting gradient is the best way to begin method development.

LCGC 18(5), 478–487 (2000).