Application Notes

Glyphosate (GP) is a non-selective, postemergence herbicide widely used for weed and vegetative control.

Pyrolysis GC?MS is a valuable tool for the material scientist. It is used principally for qualitative identification of polymers and their breakdown products. This application note displays how this technique can also be used for quantitative determination of polymer compositions by comparing peak area ratios of monomers and/or primary pyrolysis products.

Viruses are packets of infectious nucleic acid (either DNA or RNA) surrounded by a protective coat consisting of a large number of protein subunits.

Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) measures the change in the weight of a sample as a function of temperature.

Capillary PLOT columns can be a simpler alternative to packed column setups for propylene analysis. Here we demonstrate a single column setup that provides fast baseline resolution of propylene impurities.

The determination of PCBs, as well as other environmental contaminants, in fish tissue requires extensive sample cleanup prior to analysis by gas chromatography with an electron capture detector (GC-ECD).

Spice and fragrance essential oil raw materials frankincense (Boswellia carterii) from India and Somalia, sandalwood (Santalum album) from India and Indonesia, and corn mint (Mentha haplocalyx) from the United States were analyzed for on-site analytical profiling and confirmation of quality and purity of therapeutic grade essential oils from raw materials.

ISOLUTE EPH columns have been developed to fractionate pentane or hexane based soil extracts into aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbon fractions (C8–C40 aliphatics, C10–C22 aromatics).

The Agilent 1290 Infinity LC has significant capabilities for a wide range of HPLC and UHPLC applications.

The stevia plant and its extracts have long been used as sweeteners in Asia and Latin America. Two steviol glycosides present in plant tissue, stevioside, and rebaudioside A, are largely responsible for the sweet flavor (1).

Separation of polar compounds by conventional reverse phase chromatography can be challenging due to their poor retention. Other HPLC approaches include normal phase chromatography (NPC) and its variation, hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC).

Modern analytical applications often demand definitive tandem MS results on ever more complex samples utilizing fast separation techniques.

Over the past several years column manufacturers have been introducing columns packed with smaller particle sizes – sub-2 µm and 3 µm – to take advantage of the improvements that such small particle size columns offer.

Hamilton Company is best known for manufacturing precision fluid measuring products, including syringes for HPLC and GC.

Since the gas flow required for the separation step in gas chromatography is frequently lower that that required to optimize the detection, nitrogen is used as a make-up gas to increase the gas flow for detection.

N-methyl carbamates (NMCs) are widely used as pesticides and have been reported in the environment and food.

The characteristic composition of ionic liquids (an organic cation or anion and a counterion, in either organic or inorganic form) exhibits unique properties, such as extremely low vapor pressure, excellent thermal stability, electrical conductivity, high polarity, and miscibility with various types of solvents.

The combined benefits are demonstrated by a separation of impurities found in a sample of octyl-dimethyl-4-aminobenzoate.

Genotoxic impurities in pharmaceutical products have come under increasing regulatory scrutiny, with exposure limits <1.5 μg/day typically being reported for most products.

In this study, data was collected to evaluate carryover of target analytes in subsequent blanks following high concentration samples.

The procedure involves a rapid and efficient pretreatment with SampliQ QuEChERS kits. The homogenized liver sample was initially extracted in a buffered aqueous/1% acetic acid acetonitrile system with an extraction and partitioning step after the addition of salts.

Recent technological advances in macromolecular crystallography led to focus on the study of more and more sophisticated biological systems, such as protein-protein complexes.

The procedure involves a rapid and efficient pretreatment by SampliQ QuEChERS kits. The homogenized liver sample was initially extracted in a buffered aqueous, 5% formic acid acetonitrile system.

Greater peak capacity and resolution can be easily obtained for gradient analysis of complex samples by using sub-2 µm particles in longer column lengths.

The GC–MS analysis of volatile organics in drinking water according to United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) Method 524.2 offers a number of analytical challenges, ranging from water handling to very low target compound concentrations.

Excellent reversed-phase separations using a protein-based column, CHIRAL-AGP, with volatile LC–MS compatible buffer systems have been obtained for a range of basic solutes.

In this article, the authors describe a pyrolysis technique that is based on the injection of polymer emulsions or solutions using a high-temperature PTV system.

Cyanide, an environmental contaminant, can cause serious health effects including goiters, hypothyroidism and some neuromuscular diseases. Cyanide wastewater sources include the plating and mining industries, burning of coal and plastics and effluent from publicly owned treatment works (POTW).

Most recently formulated pesticides are smaller in molecular weight and designed to break down rapidly in the environment.

The term ionic liquid refers to organic salts with relatively low melting points (below 100 °C) that usually consist of an organic cation or anion and a counterion, in either organic or inorganic form. Ionic liquids exhibit unique characteristics such as extremely low vapour pressure, excellent thermal stability, electrical conductivity, a high degree of polarity and miscibility with various types of solvents. Ionic liquids have been used as catalysts and solvents in organic chemistry and electrochemistry and as mobile phase modifiers or functionalized stationary phases in separation science.1–3