2 May / June 2014 Foreword
Welcome to the twenty sixth edition of Chromatography Today and my last as President of the Chromatographic Society. In the next edition’s foreword you should see the smiling face of the Society’s new President, Dr Paul Ferguson, who is no stranger to Chromatography Today being one of the main driving forces on the editorial team.
This second addition of 2014 focuses on hyphenated techniques in chromatography and not surprisingly their role in the separation and analysis of more complex species.
The first article by Fabio Augusto and co authors from the University of Campinas in Brazil looks at the determination of biomarkers in petroleum by multidimensional gas chromatography. They compare both conventional and comprehensive multidimensional gas (MDGC) chromatography showing the potential benefits of MDGC in reducing the number of compounds co eluting, thus allowing more accurate and reliable peak identification by mass spectrometry.
In the next article, Mark Woodruff from Fortis Technologies reviews UHPLC and Core Shell columns. He looks at the issues of robustness, selectivity, and the analysis and systems requirements, concluding that there is no clear winner when comparing the technologies and whilst they still have not progressed to the selectivities and scalability of conventional HPLC columns, both will continue to find uses in chromatography laboratories of today.
Next follows ‘The Chromatography Today Helpdesk’ which looks at how to choose orthogonal columns for use with LC-LC separations. As we move to tackle more and more complex separations the use of multicolumn technologies start to come into their own. The Helpdesk reviews some of the issues and provides an insight into the combinations of columns that have been used and their applications.
The forth article from Patrik Petersson and co authors from Novo Nordisk, University of Strathclyde and ACD Labs looks at the adaptation of retention models for the optimisation of peptide and protein separations. The authors describe their work to adapt and validate a commercially available software program for use in reverse phase and ion exchange separations.
Trevor Hopkins, the current Editor of Chromatography Today, contributes to this edition in the next article with a review of the 13th International Symposium on Hyphenated Techniques and the 3rd International Symposium on Hyphenated Techniques for Sample Preparation. Both the Symposia being held in Bruges during the last week of January. Trevor describes his highlights from the very successful symposia which were attended by over 306 delegates from some 32 different countries.
The next article is from Gordon Getzinger of Duke University with various co-authors from Thermo Fisher. It describes the targeted and non targeted analysis of contaminates in storm water retention
Alan Handley - President of the Chromatographic Society
ponds using LC-HRMS. It looks at the collection of ‘real samples’, their extraction, screening, target quantification and non targeted identification highlighting hyphenated technologies and online SPE with triple quad MS.
Leonard Sidisky and co workers from the Supelco Division of Sigma Aldrich, in the next paper, evaluate a new ionic liquid GC phase. The work focuses on the SLB-IL60 ionic liquid phase which has a selectivity similar to PEG or Wax phases. The article compares selectivity, thermal stability and FID column bleed.
The final article is from A. Soliven of the University of Western Australia and Tony Edge the new Chromatographic Society’s Vice President. It looks at the use of the high resolution technique of two dimensional LC. It reviews its resolving power; the equipment/valves required and provides a summary of the key applications.
We now move on to Chromatography Society matters and start with the article on Professor Wolfgang Linder, the first person to have won both the Society’s Martin and Jubilee Medals. The interview takes you through his very distinguished career, his achievements and his busy life after retirement.
Regards specific Society business, our next meeting is on ‘Advances in Clinical Analysis’ and will be held on the 19th September 2014 at the Robens Suite, 29th Floor, Guy’s Hospital Tower, St Thomas’ Street, London, SE1 9RT. This meeting is organised in conjunction with the Separation Sciences Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Our 2015 Meetings calendar is now close to completion with meetings planned on ‘Emerging Analytical Technologies’ London, April 2015, ‘Omics and BioChromatography’, May 2015, The International Reid Bioanalytical Forum held at the University of Surrey, September 2015 and ‘Advances in Gas Chromatography (V)’ October 2015
Further details on all the meetings can be found on the website.
www.chromsoc.com.
And finally as this will be my last foreword contribution, can I just say that in the ever changing world of chromatography which hopefully keeps us all in a job - Happy Separations.
Alan. Next Issue - SFC/SFE To be included call us on +44(0)1727 855574 or
info@chromatographytoday.com
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