calendar12 May 2014
Volume 10 Issue 8
The Column

12 May 2014 Issue

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Fred E. Regnier: The 2014 LCGC Lifetime Achievement in Chromatography winner

The 2014 Lifetime Achievement in Chromatography Award is granted to Fred E. Regnier. Here we chart his career and accomplishments.

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A novel approach to sampling saliva

Mohamed Abdel-Rehim, who is a professor of analytical chemistry at Stockholm University in Stockholm, Sweden, spoke to Bethany Degg of The Column about a novel approach to determine drug intake using saliva samples.

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UHPLC and large molecules

Analysis of benzodiazepines in urine using SPE and LC–MS

Benzodiazepines are extensively misused as a result of their hypnotic-sedative properties and relative availability, and they are often used in combination with other drugs, which can result in life-threatening conditions. This article presents a SPE and LC–MS method for the analysis of benzodiazepines in synthetic urine samples.

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Market Profile: Supercritical Fluid Chromatography

Automating the analysis of pain management drugs in urine

This article discusses the benefits of using automated dispersive solid-phase extraction (dSPE) rather than standard SPE in urine analysis.

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Market Profile: Supercritical Fluid Chromatography

Chromatography research news and company news

A new method for steroid analysis that does not require sample derivatization, new evidence linking natural gas extraction with ozone accumulation in Utah (USA), and the latest on-line highlights are featured.

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