54 February / March 2016
Meeting Preview: Advances in Microcolumn and Related Separation Technologies
The first meeting of The Chromatographic Society’s Diamond Jubilee celebration year will be held on Tuesday 22nd March and will focus on ‘Advances in Microcolumn and Related Separation Technologies’. The meeting venue is the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Savoy Place, London which was formerly the Institute of Electrical Engineers. This is an important venue for the Society as it was the location for the Society’s first ever meeting held on the 30th May – 1st June 1956. The meeting was organised by the GC discussion group (GCDG) who were the forerunner to The Chromatographic Society. The meeting was a great success with over four hundred chromatographers from thirteen different countries in attendance. At that time, gas chromatography was one of the newest separation techniques around (having been pioneered by Fritz Prior and Archer Martin in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s) making for a very vibrant and exciting meeting. The meeting was organised by chromatographic pioneers including the late Dennis Desty who worked at BP Sunbury and held under the auspices of the Hydrocarbon Chemistry Panel of the Hydrocarbon Research Group of the Institute of Petroleum. As the petroleum industry were the main advocates for GC at that time, the GCDG were administered by the Institute of Petroleum until 1972 when it became an independent body leading eventually to the formation of The Chromatographic Society.
On this occasion in 2016, we would like to celebrate our inaugural meeting by reflecting on the latest advances in all fields employing microcolumn technology, alongside other recent important chromatographic developments. We have an excellent line-up of speakers for this meeting, many (if not all) you will recognise. The full meeting programme can be found in Table 1.
The first area to be discussed is liquid chromatography and the scientific meeting content will be opened by Professor Peter Schoenmakers of the University of Amsterdam. Peter (who is a recipient of our Silver Jubilee and Martin medals) is at the cutting edge of LC and GC academic research and is heavily involved with the academic-industry collaboration TI-Coast in the Netherlands which investigates many branches of analytical science. As a result of this, Peter can bring an important perspective on research in academia and its application in industry. Peter’s research on 3D chromatography is particularly exciting and he will touch on this during his presentation. The next speaker in the session is one of the UK’s most recognised and important separation scientists - Professor David McCalley of UWE, and one the Society has recognised through our Jubilee medal. David is well known for his fundamental work on HILIC and fundamental separation mechanisms and he will discuss his recent work comparing the performance of many of the latest separation materials. The final speaker in the session is Professor Ian Wilson of Imperial College. Ian is a former President of the Society and is also the recipient of the Society’s 2016 Martin medal. Ian’s work now focuses on a variety of complex separation types including metabalonomics and will share some of his state-of-the-art research with us at this meeting.
The next session will be presented by our Gold meeting sponsors. The session will include presentations by Guy Wilson of Waters on
their UPC2 technology which is one of the key recent developments
by the company. Additionally, Dr Raymond Wong of Shimadzu will be discussing the Nexera UC SFC instrument and its application to method development. The final presentation in this session will be from Agilent/Crawford Scientific. Alongside the sponsor presentations, there will be an exhibition in the IET library highlighting the latest separation science products and related technologies. Lunch and coffee breaks will also be held in this area.
The first session after lunch will focus on gas chromatography and includes a very strong set of speakers. The first speaker in the session is the world-renowned Professor Pat Sandra from the University of Gent. Pat is a previous Martin Medal winner and has an extensive background in GC. He will discuss some of the most recent automation developments regarding sample preparation and injection for capillary GC. Professor Sandra will be followed by Tom Lynch of BP (himself a Jubilee medal recipient and former Chair of the RSC Separation Science Group) discussing GC column technology. The last speaker of the session will be Professor Kevin Van Geem, also of the University of Gent who will discuss multidimensional GC – an approach which is becoming more prevalent for the analysis of complex sample types.
After a short break, the final session will discuss other separation approaches. Professor Frederic Lynen (again of the University of Gent!) will discuss his group’s recent work in the field of capillary chromatography. This technique was the focus of much research in the 1990s which did not progress well due to column fragility and issues with stationary phase retaining frits. It will be interesting to hear from him regarding his groups work in the field and how they are overcoming some of these historical challenges. The next presentation from Professor Jean-Luc Veuthey from the University
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